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Anonymous asked: I'm writing a story where the villain grows close to the main character/his current target. All the other characters are between trusting and finding something off about him cause they trust the main character who sees nothing wrong. Do you have any advice about how I can make the villain come off as subtly creepy without tipping off the main character and about how I can reveal how horrifying he's supposed to be later? When I think of his true intentions reveal it's not really scary or momentous and I want to create a sense of dread but I'm not sure how to do that.

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As far as subtlety in making the villain come off creepy, I think it's all about finding things that appear creepy outside of a particular context. For example, imagine one of the friends pulls up to the MC's house and sees the villain standing in front of her window, peering in. Super creepy! Of course the friend will tell the MC about this, and the MC will probably say, "I'm sure there was a good reason..." and when they mention it to the villain later, the villain says, "Oh! I was walking by and I saw an unusual caterpillar crawling up the inside of the window frame." Now the thing that looked so creepy has a believable explanation. However, it's not so reasonable that it couldn't still be an excuse... It provides just enough wiggle room for it to go either way. And you can have some fun playing with the reader's expectations, too, because maybe a few days later, the villain pulls out their phone and shows the MC and the friends pictures of the unusual caterpillar. Now anyone who doubted the villain feels silly, but it doesn't mean they weren't peeping through the character's window. You could even have a time when the same friend (or maybe a different one who knows about the "caterpillar incident") shows up and sees the villain peeping through the window again. They say, "Another unusual caterpillar?" (their tone laced with suspicion), and the villain chuckles nervously and says, "No, ants this time. I need to let MC know they've got a little infestation." For anyone with a healthy skepticism, that's going to be too much... the caterpillar you can begrudgingly dismiss, but now... ants??? But, you can see how easy it would be for the MC to dismiss it because they trust this person. They will see no reason not to believe they were looking at ants this time. Especially if the villain elaborates... "I noticed a trail of ants when I was looking at the caterpillar last week, so walking by today, I thought I'd see if they were still there and let you know if they were." Sounds plausible enough to the MC, but the friend won't be so sure.

And, obviously I'm not suggesting you use this particular scenario, but hopefully you can see how you can use plausible deniability to make the trusting MC believe the villain where the friends (and potentially the reader) see that there's more going on.

As far as revealing the extent of the horror later, I think you'll want to use the rising suspicions and fears of the friends to create that build-up of dread, and then when the MC realizes (if that's part of the reveal), it's sort of like a domino effect where every single red flag their friends warned them about suddenly pop into their head as the red flag it always was rather than whatever plausible excuse they believed at the time.

Have fun with your story!

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[jacobsullivan]

closed starter for @altanonder Jamie & Atlan at the Gym. 🏋🏻

What the fuck had been going on in this town while he'd been away? Twenty two months and the whole place had gone to shit, and everyone in it had lost their fucking minds. Jamie was convinced. Everyone had gone insane, and staying here was probably going to drive him insane, too, but he couldn't leave now. Not with such an imminent threat of danger looming. Some psychotic bitch on a money hungry power trip playing mind games with the lot of them like they were a real life Saw movie.

He played that night on repeat like a masochist, tore up by turmoil and anxiety. How was he supposed to help them? Protect the town, the coven, his family? A mess of a man who was still half a boy in his heart.

It's time to grow up, Jamie. He could hear his sisters, all taking turns to, say. You're not Peter Pan.

"Hey."

The greeting came all of a sudden, as the pair of friends lifted weights at the local gym. It was good for Jamie to get out of his house for anything that didn't involve a drink, but his thoughts raced non stop when he let all the lights stay on upstairs.

"What do you - uh.." What do you think we should do about the psycho killer running around town? Jamie already knew Altan didn't have the answer to that. Just like no one on the council seemed to either. "..did you hear about the masquerade party?"

[leoandreeda]

Me, a delusional: 40yo Zoro puts 2 swords in his mouth out of sheer willpower and people confuse those with demon fangs

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Spooky season is almost there...who you gonna call?

[mothisbad]

random creepypasta doodles ive posted everywhere except for here lol

[rhys-ravenfeather]

I had a vision.

[earthwindandraen]

"You don't seem too confident in that, fella," Rae Elle teased, but she leaned back on her heels, nodding. She wasn't going to tease him too heavily, though. He looked like he'd had a rough go of it. She remembered he was one of the ones that got kidnapped, and he was a nice enough guy. She assumed, at least. Everybody knew the reputations dentists had. But he didn't seem like a sadist, just a heavily injured guy. "So, very important question," she started with a small smile, "chocolate or strawberry?" Then, she paused before adding. "And, again, I can go get you a doctor if you're needing one, you know."

Devrim thought it was logical to reason that if he hadn't touched his jello today, or any other day that he'd been in the hospital, that he didn't like it. Yet, insistently, nurses continued to bring him jello. Was it punishment? Did they secretly hate him? Even before his cousin's outburst? He was beginning to think so. The only person to offer him an alternative didn't even looked like she worked here. He started to agree to the icecream, but then recalled what that guy who'd popped in his room earlier had said about poisoning. Devrim gave the women at his door a long stare. She didn't look like someone who'd poison anyone, but he didn't suppose killers intentionally walked around looking like killers. At least, not the good ones.

"S-sure." If someone wanted him dead he was dead. After the vampire blood he'd taken to speed up his healing process he'd technically become a member of the un-dead, which didn't seem like a bad gig when it came with super durability. "I'd love an ice cream."

[attyrocious]

like hiring a horse to dogsit

[boatsailing]

Even the dawn doesn't want to be near bro

Also, EJ looks like an Owl

[e3rt]

“Staying for dinner?”

[mcnotok]

[dxrkl1ght]

CW: Panic attack, musophobia, and scratches!!

everything's okay...

Part 5/5

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DCA! Serial Killer AU by @ayyy-imma-ninja & @moonlit-dreamers

This comic is not canon to the AU!! This is just made for fun :)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There was a serial killer on the loose, and everyone called them The Clapping Ass Man because he would slowly clap as he approached victims to scare them. And then the internet stepped and added the ass part. The killer did not like this and tried to change it, but the name was set. The name also lead to many people looking for The Clapping Ass Man to “get some of that juicy booty” (dream quote). This disturbed the killer so much that he just stopped killing.

[incorrectbatfam]

Rating mental breakdown spots in Gotham

Gotham subways: 5/10. Can blast emo music through your headphones. Train occasionally stalls. Other passengers too burned out to notice you. 

Gotham U: 10/10. You're likely not the only one. School mascot hands out free tissues. 

Batburger: 8/10. Semi-public depending on seating. Tears make the fries soggy. Line cooks are wrestling in the background. 

Crime Alley: 0/10. People think you're drunk. You're a prime mugging target. Kids laugh at you.

Sewers: -2/10. Smells bad. 50% chance of Croc attack. 

Iceberg Lounge: 3/10. Judgy rich snobs. Bathroom full of people doing coke. Drinks too expensive to drown yourself in. 

Wayne Gala: 4/10. Also judgy rich people. Must dress formally. Can't stick your head in chocolate fountain. Dick Grayson will become your therapist whether you like it or not. 

[fantauno]

in 2024……