How do you make a proper Villain? Rblr and writing in general?
HAH! YES. I love this topic, you have no idea, Villain's are supposed to be bad and evil, I don't hate Characters with a sob story but man it's getting too boring and too repetitive, villains don't always need to be redeemable.
Usually you first need to make a motive, a goal, it needs to be in the middle, it can be anything! Anything at all, like changing the world, in our perspective that's good and absolutely morally bright but twist it and make it so that the villain character's goal to change the world is not to make it a better place. It's quite literally to change the world to what they see as a better place.
Saving the Innocents/People in general! That can also be a motive and as suggested, you twist it into it's darker version, save the people? How would they save them? In my opinion they'd save the world for a better cause by killing people, thinking they're freeing the people's souls to have a better life, In whatever religion or non religion they may believe in, it could just be their twisted sense of seeing death as "peace and freedom".
Protection can also become that! Curiousity! You just need to twist it and think of the darker side to that perspective, there are stories where you slowly realize that the main character is actually the villain of the story and it is retold in their perspective because that's how writing is, it is retold in how they see their adventures, how they see the world, it's just like any person.
But In absolutely atrocious villains! I suggest @/swanofthepond's Character, Swan! He is an angel, but he has a twisted sense of Perspective and thinks that other people are inferior to him because he is as said, an angel, He collects humans like gems and collects their souls, he is irredeemable in every sense, he killed for no reason other than they found the living human irritating because they did not show the reactions he wanted to see.
He's sadistic, cunning, sociopathic, he lacks the empathy of a person because he is not human. He would never be human, but he sees humans as inferior beings, and then there's another example! @anotherhumanheart's Blanche!
I don't know much but I see them as being focused on curiosity, that's their main focal point, they're irredeemable and they are cunning, conniving, smart and just as many villains, lack the empathy of a normal average person. The organ "donation" and all is what intrigues me the most and the characterization of that blog is fascinating.
Villains are supposed to be complex, their upbringing is what made them THEM but that doesn't mean their past is an excuse to their future actions because everyone/someone have suffered the same as them but continued to live happily and becoming a better person than they could ever be.
Sometimes villains have none of those, if you wanna make a villain that's pure motive is to cause pain, then make their characterization interesting, make them live a double life, make them have no motive other than sadism but it has to be interesting ofcourse. There has to be a goal, be it simple or complex. If none at all, then you'd have to work with that.
There's also Morally grey Characters! They're a different kind of villain/antagonist, they're neither good or bad, and that's what makes them so complex and interesting. They have a goal and they will achieve that goal no matter what, they have morals but sometimes you question if they follow those morals or takes advantage of the loopholes to those morals.
If you want redeemable villains, make a character, create a tragic backstory, so tragic you feel they're redeemable enough, but I don't find them particularly interesting, too boring in my eyes.
