#misunderstood villains

[foxx-queen]

as much as I get why lucanis is positioned as the one needed to kill ghilan'nain as the mage killer etc, I can't help but feel like it should've been davrin

like. there's something about the dalish elf with andruil's vallaslin, a grey warden, a monster hunter, hunting down the mother of all monsters, who creates monstrosities with the blight, who was once andruil's beloved.

ghilan'nain created the halla. she still cares for the halla, despite what she's become, despite being unable to create them anymore. davrin cared for the halla under his uncle's tutelage. assan cares for and nurses a sick and dying halla. assan, who's name means arrow in elven, when andruil's weapon was a bow, who's hunting instincts give way to something more protective.

davrin was taught the way of the three trees. it was created by andruil. andruil, the goddess of the hunt, also known as the goddess of sacrifice. davrin feels like a weapon sharpened to make that final sacrifice against the blight, a tool that once drove andruil mad, and has twisted ghilan'nain into something unrecognisable. andruil, blood and force, who loved a mortal for her creations and raised her to godhood.

would ghilan'nain see andruil in him? would that offer something more to her character than just oh she's evil?

the dalish tell a legend of ghilan'nain and a hunter who bested her. maybe it was a prophecy instead.

[sunderwight]

I love how the general consensus in Scum Villain ABO fics is that whatever Shen Jiu's secondary gender was, he was lying about it.

Omega? Obviously he's going to cover that up. Potential weakness! Probably related to past traumatic experiences! No one can know! He's going to pretend to be either a Beta or an Alpha instead.

Alpha? Hates it and everyone else and has no interest in playing the type. Hides it less because of how other people might respond and more because he's having some kind of complicated dysphoria about it.

Beta? I've never see it but I bet he'd disguise that as well. He's totally an Alpha, don't ask questions, fuck off and don't violate the mile-wide personal space bubble.

Whatever Shen Jiu is, we all know he'd be wildly uncomfortable with it.

[each-uisge-enthusiast]

the modern villainisation of demeter will never cease to enrage me bc it wasn’t ENOUGH to just take a story of a girl being torn from her home from everyone who loved her and dragged away to be forced into marriage and twist and corrupt it until it was a romance story about female empowerment that wasn’t ENOUGH they HAD to take the original hero of the story the mother who went to every length to find her daughter again to bring her home and demonise her character until she was this horrific overbearing unloving mother. overprotective controlling without love. they turn the story of her grief at her YOUNG daughter being torn from her without her knowledge into the story of a misunderstood bad boy and a horrible cruel mother who won’t give him a chance and i really find it sickening. it’s ironic, that the ever misogynist age of hellenistic greece, has a better grasp of how disgusting and horrifying this situation was that a modern, self proclaimed ‘feminist’ era.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

a traumatized character whose trauma turned them into a villain who hurts innocent people the way they were hurt vs. a traumatized character whose trauma turned them into a hero who will do anything and everything to make sure no one goes through what they went through

[one-real-wrimonkey]

One of my favourite things about the Book of Bill release is that for years I’ve seen people call Ford a fool for trusting Bill or believing a word he said.

“He’s a manipulator, he’s a con man, you can’t trust a word he says. He’ll say anything to get you on side.”

And now parts of the fan base are like *gasp* tragic backstory. Misunderstood baby, deserved a happy ending.

It’s like cinema.

[bebx]

mentally unstable blorbo — who has been deemed a danger to himself and society and has been wounded, wronged, hurt, abandoned, given up on ever since his youth until his trauma turned him into a "cold-blooded monster" in the eyes of others — panicking and going "I'm sorry I bit you. please don't abandon me. please don't give up on me. I can be good. I promise I can be good" with his eyes (because he'd never say any of these aloud, but he cannot hide the fear in his eyes the moment he realizes he hurts that one person who's saving him from himself and is refusing to give up on him despite what everyone else says). I will never be normal about this

[afandomhopper]

Non-BL K-Novels & Webtoons with Popular BL Pairings (MC Focus)

K-NOVELS

Omniscient Reader (Line Webtoon) [2018]

중독: Yu Junghyuk/Kim Dokja

그분독자: Secretive Plotter/Kim Dokja

Lout of the Count’s Family (Tappytoon) [2018]

최케: Choi Han/Cale Henituse

알케: Alberu Crossman/Cale Henituse

My S-Class Hunters (Line Webtoon) [2018]

윻윶: Han Yuhyun/Han Yujin

현윶: Sung Hyunjae/Han Yujin

Return of the Blossoming Blade (Line Webtoon) [2019]

백청: Baek Cheon/Cheongmyeong

당청: Tang Bo/Cheongmyeong

The Greatest Estate Developer* (Line Webtoon) [2019]

하비로이: Javier Asrahan/Kim Suho

I Woke Up as the Villain (Tapas) [2019]

TBA: Kim Dojin/Choi Yuseong

When the Third Wheel Strikes Back (Line Webtoon) [2020]

세드예서: Cedric Riester/Jung Yeseo

지브예서: Jibril Diop/Jung Yeseo

Debut or Die (Tapas) [2021]

앟문: Seon Ahyeon/Park Moondae

큰문: Lee Sejin (Keun)/Park Moondae

윶문: Cha Eugene/Park Moondae

랩문: Kim Raebin/Park Moondae

엋문: Cheongryeo/Park Moondae

Beacon of Light in the Dark Sea [2022]

해량무현: Shin Haeryang/Park Moohyun

재희무현: Kim Jaehee/Park Moohyun

The Hunter of the Other World is Being Misunderstood [2023]

창호기려: Kang Changho/Kim Kiryeo

하성기려: Jeong Haseong/Kim Kiryeo

Black Badger [2023]

Pending…

Got Dropped Into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work [2024]

샇룻: Baek Saheon/Kim Soleum

솔샇: Kim Soleum/Baek Saheon

잫솔: Lee Jaheon/Kim Soleum

블솔: Braun/Kim Soleum

WEBTOONS

Tower of God [2010]

쿤밤: Khun Aguero Agnes/The 25th Bam

Lookism [2014]

재열형석: Hong Jaeyeol/Park Hyungseok

No Home [2018]

은영해준: Baek Eunyoung/Goh Haejoon

Garbage Time [2019]

준상: Seong Junsu/Ki Sangho

뱅상: Park Byungchan/Ki Sangho

종상: Choi Jongsu/Ki Sangho

Special Civil Servant** [2024]

이든마루: Seonwoo Eden/Han Maru

*note: the MC has a canon relationship with another character.

**note: the MC has canon feelings for another character.

[bonefall]

Clear Sky threw his son in front of a fox?!

YES!! He SHOVED him in front of a fox! It's in fury from the fact Thunder refused to kill Frost. This entire section is VERY poorly paced and glances over it in two paragraphs, so most people don't fully register it.

Clear Sky dragged Thunder down off the stump and shoves him at it, blaming him for bringing the fox to camp with his loud disobedience.

He then leaves Thunder to fight this fox on his own. Leaf and Falling Feather jump in to help him of their own accord. Clear Sky then tries to praise him for being strong and Thunder tells him to shove off for the first and last time.

It's not the last baby of his he knowingly and consciously endangers to prove a point. In Moth Flight's Vision, he refuses to allow Acorn Fur to get medical help for Tiny Branch's fox-inflicted injuries until his condition worsened, bellowing, "SkyClan does NOT ask for help unless there's no choice." AND didn't allow her to complete her training after he caused Micah's death.

Clear Sky is a serial child abuser. He is willfully neglectful, emotionally abusive, and physically violent.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm sorry I let down my guard.

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[kj-beastboy]

HAII lulu here first (srry i js spammed ur account i needed to show my luv) ALSO IM SO INLOVE WITH UR ART OMG, ur art lit brought me back to the fandom again ugh the way u draw wifey flug js hits so hard and ur colors rlly blow me away if i could have ur art as my wallpaper on everything i would (im already doing teehee) ALSO agh srry for any gore on my account i didnt realize u didnt like it! ill make 2 versions so u can see a blurred gore version

I NOTICED, HIII I'm a bit late but!!

I love to see that! I'm so happy I found your art too you're amazing!😭💗💕

but I never said I don't like gore, idk where that comes from! I just have huge trouble drawing blood myself bc I don't know what it looks like and I can't look at it irl as I faint... I have a lot of ideas bc I like Flug being the dominant and unhinged lunatic that he is in canon but I'm just not good at making anything dealing with dark or upsetting topics (and I'm a little scared of how people would interpret me as a person, I can't tell which of my ideas are cool and which are "too far". I'm too old to deal with this stuff online I'm just here to have fun)

I very openly don't like sexual violence and that's my hard boundary as there's even laws for fiction in my country that I have to follow, but gore is great to me and fully allowed!

I certainly adore your cannibal Flug so damn much🥴🩷 that is the kind of stuff I'd love to make too bc it's one of my fav secret headcanons...

here's some chubby Flug bc I might just love that one from you even more... but I can't decide... I need more of both...

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

hey kings quick reminder to tag dis/course and fandom/team/character neg! i have seen some very nasty things from red AND blue pov watchers today- we're all enjoying the same series, let's be considerate of each other. purgatory is hard enough when our streamers are going thru The Torments lets not bring the torments here

[sunderwight]

SV AU where, while Luo Binghe is supposed to be in the Abyss, Shen Qingqiu comes across a hellhound puppy.

Now, there is an arc in PIDW where Luo Binghe became a hellhound. But it happened like at least a century out from where they are in the timeline, after Binghe had come into his full demonic power, and involved him turning into a slavering beast that eventually become a slavering man-beast (werewolf, basically) who could only be cured by having a lot of very questionable sex with his wives. Shen Yuan wrote a rant about how yet another potentially interesting transformation arc was instead reduced to porn tropes, but it was one of several dozen such rants across many similar story arcs. Airplane barely even remembers writing it because he was having a pretty shit week and just wanted to get the chapters out.

So it doesn't really occur to either him or Shang Qinghua that finding a hellhound puppy might be suspicious. Unexpected, sure, but demons are turning up all over the place all the time, really. And it's years before Luo Binghe is even supposed to be out of the Abyss, like a century before his hellhound transformation story, and when Binghe did turn into a hellhound his two forms consisted of a fully-grown beast and a fully-grown man-beast. Not a puppy.

Of course: that hellhound puppy is definitely Luo Binghe.

He unwittingly triggered this subplot early, and because he's still a young adult, he gets stuck in a juvenile puppy form because hellhounds don't reach fully maturity until they're like fifty.

Anyway, this creates something of a pickle for Luo Binghe, because he's legitimately stuck in this form and can't figure out how to change back. This is not part of his plans. He's fleeing from Huan Hua Palace cultivators who are trying to kill him, which they might succeed at because his Heavenly Demon powers don't seem to be working.

He runs right into Shizun, who is on one of his "investigate stuff to forget the depression" field trips with Liu Qingge.

Luo Binghe is fully expecting his righteous Shizun to kill the demonic beast, and has a moment to think that at least that's better than being killed by Huan Hua, before Shizun rescues him instead.

Shen Qingqiu, meanwhile, is actually kind of excited. There was a lot of lore in PIDW about how hellhounds can actually make loyal companions if they're trained up from young enough of an age, but finding hellhound puppies would be difficult for anyone who wasn't a demonic nobleman, and most of the "trained" hellhounds just disappeared into the harem as gifts to various demon wives and were never seen or heard from again. No additional information, like the full extent of their abilities or what kind of companions they made beyond "loyal" or anything! A species of demon that could even potentially be domesticated by humans, and it was just left at that?!

Needless to say, Shen Qingqiu's not letting Huan Hua Palace kill this one. This is a rare chance for him to get a cool monster companion!

Although... such a creature might die when Luo Binghe comes to take his revenge.

Well, he'll deal with that when he has a chance. Maybe Shang Qinghua can take it to Mobei Jun or Shen Qingqiu can find another place for it before then. In the meanwhile, at least going back to Qing Jing Peak with him is better than being killed on the spot. He talks Liu Qingge into going along with it (Liu Qingge thinks he's insane but also folds like wet tissue paper), under stipulation that the hellhound's demonic energies are sealed and it gets muzzled before they bring it back with them.

Shen Qingqiu rides with it in a carriage, and feels so bad for the poor doggo looking miserable without his demon powers or even his mouth free that he secretly takes the muzzle back off while Liu Qingge isn't looking.

Luo Binghe is overwhelmed with the mixed sentiments of confusion (doesn't his shizun hate demons? is a Heavenly Demon really so especially repulsive to him?), happiness (he's going home! Shizun found him and is taking him home!), worry (Shizun please do not un-muzzle random demonic beasts just because they look sad!), and some rather embarrassing personal revelations about the appeal of being Shizun's pet. The latter situation worsens exponentially after the first time he gets good boy'd and petted for the first time.

Regardless, Shen Qingqiu does take him back to Qing Jing Peak and settles in to train and observe his new puppy. No one thinks this is precisely a good project but it is a project, and is not for instance "staring blankly into the distance while kneeling in front of a sword mound", so on balance everyone decides they'll just keep an eye on things and make sure the hellhound doesn't maul the peak lord. Lots of "just dropping in for a visits" by a rotating cast of peak lords (they have a schedule).

But the hellhound puppy is a fabulous pet! Actually, Shen Qingqiu thinks it's really remarkable how smart and readily tamed he is? Barely a few days in and he's obediently following Shizun's commands, except for "stay", which he seems to struggle with. He doesn't maul or threaten any of the disciples, only growls at Shang Qinghua sometimes and makes a few aggressive displays at Liu Qingge. The former case is just good taste, and as to the latter, well, clearly the hellhound is sensitive and intelligent, and has a more-than-rudamentary understanding of words spoken to him. He probably remembers that Liu Qingge wanted to kill him when they first met. Shen Qingqiu takes his time soothing his puppy and assuring him that he won't come to any harm, he's perfectly safe on Qing Jing Peak with Shen Qingqiu.

At least, for now.

Although actually, the more Shen Qingqiu thinks about it, the more convinced he becomes that Hellhound (sue him, he's not the best with names) would be a perfect companion for Luo Binghe once he gets out of the Abyss. The only difficulty would be in how to convince Binghe to accept him, and also how to keep his now-loyal hound from trying to defend his master when justice comes due. Shen Qingqiu figures he'll cross that bridge when he comes to it, and in the meanwhile takes some time to explain to Hellhound about his disciple, Luo Binghe, who is enduring a terrible trial in the Abyss, but who will return one day having become Emperor of the Demon Realms and could probably use a steadfast and intelligent companion who is interested in more than just his incredible amounts of power or irresistible good looks.

Luo Binghe Himself: ?!?!?!

[illiana-mystery]

Why is he so damn cute here?! 😍🤩

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I love you misunderstood villain who’s been through the worst kind of hell and wasn’t able to come out of it unscarred.

I love you villain who is well understood and just likes doing bad things for pure pleasure.

I love you villain who is loved by the fandom.

I love you villain who is hated by the fandom.

I love you villain who has to cry alone and lick their wounds in the dark because they’re too scared to let anybody see them vulnerable.

I love you villain who’s not scared to shout all their pain and trauma at the top of their lungs for the world to hear.

I love you villain who’s on their knees begging to be accepted and loved for once.

I love you villain who never bows down to anyone.

I love you villain who hides their scars like their deep, dark secrets.

I love you villain who shows their scars like trophies from the battles they won.

I love you villain who wants to create a better world, even if their way of trying to achieve the goal is different than hero’s.

I love you villain who wants to burn the world down.

I don’t do that Anti Shit in my house

[sapphicyanli]

the potential toxic rivalry yuri these two couldve went down the path to....both from low class....both have been underestimated by men....but sun ah seek revenge to the rich that had harmed them but jin joo instead trying to fix the system by becoming a judge....good god

[palettepainter]

You guys remember when Disney villains where the most god-awful, manipulative, zero morals down right evil nightmare fuel pieces of shit??

You remember the coachman from Pinocchio?? That guy who took little boys to an island he owned where they could be as reckless as they wanted, only to turn them into donkeys and sell them in labor?? Mister I make my profit off of kidnapped children Coachman?? You remember Cruella de Vill?? Remember how she stole 99 puppies? Remember how she was going to skin them for a fur coat?? The name Count Frollo ring any bells?? That one guy who excused all his heinous acts against people in lower classes by saying it was in the name of God?? Guy who condemned Quasimodo to the bell tower and tried to burn Esmerelda at the steak when she refused his lust for her??

Yeah me neither