There is a certain type of male character that I despise so much.. unless they were written in very specific ways.
It's the insufferably self-centered, entitled, cruel, self-pitying, theatrically flamboyant male characters who we are supposed to like and feel sympathetic to them because they suffered oh so much.
Basically: Emet-Selch, Lestat de Lioncourt, and all their shitty clones.
Extra fucking annoying if they're constantly smug while being 'wise' or having 'good intentions', ew.
Which is funny because this is basically my villain OC, except I actually love the evil cunt and i'm even sympathetic towards him. It helps that he avoids all the super annoying traits i despise in these kinds of characters.
Turns out, you can come to love a type of character you'd normally hate simply by writing that character yourself.
