Thread: Loveable Villains

yeah Leapord's is original... most of these have to do with a Big Bad Evil Guy having a sweetheart... lol including mine.

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Count Rafael de Magpyr grinned evilly as he watched the progress of the Food from his window. Ah, the perfect rows of pitiful little humans lining up to be drained of their blood... and the shivering demons who had to drain it in this weather.

Snow! It was beautiful. Rafael sighed as he watched the snowflakes come down. Anyone who saw his smile right at that second would see that we had a fancy for snow.

They'd be wrong. The reason he was smiling his beautiful angelic smile was because he was so happy to be inside and out of the cold, while everyone else in the castle was OUTSIDE of the castle, all working at his bidding. Beautiful.

As his dark eyes skimmed over the whitening landscape, he caught sight of a little girl staggering towards his door. That's disgusting, he thought, someone get her back in line! Though his hand lifted a few inches, about to ring for Igor, it dropped again. She wasn't part of the lines, she was just a random little girl in a white dress, almost crawling on hands and knees towards his door.

He could not see her face, shrouded by the snow and the halo of red-brown hair that swept across it. There was something about that hair, that little figure, that touched a chord in his brain... all of a sudden, memories of the little girl he had lost to disease came swooping in like a cloud of bats, attacking his consiousness and refusing to go away. Flashes of a sweet face with blue eyes and red-brown hair...

No, no, she's just a stupid little girl. Food. Arlaine was a vampire just like her father, this little girl is human... The child had reached the door, but made no move to enter. She just curled up against the strong wooden door, curled up in that little pocket out of the wind.

Rafael shook his head. No... What does she mean to me? Nothing. He closed his eyes, but he couldn't erase the image of the little girl struggling through the thickening snow, superimposed over the memory of his daughter....

What is this life? There will be other lives... other little girls... there's nothing important about her... She is but one, and there are many more...

There's no way in life that each child can be saved...

Should I be looking with regret at every grave?

He ran down the stairs, through the tapestry, across the hall, and unbarred the door... it took him a minute, because he'd never undone the door himself. Finally he got it open, and swung it inwards.

There she was, looking innocent, peaceful... and about an inch from life. He sighed, scooped her up in his arms, and carried her inside, placing her on the soft rug next to the warm fire.

"There. You're safe now."

Thamior: i liked it, but there wasn't any redeeming quality in him at all! He was just... pure evil!

i'm sorry, I tried to make it show that he wanted to erradicate evil or at least his concept of it.
By the way cora I loved your story with the Sympathetic vampire it was

thanks! hm i didn't see that... perhaps make the theif eviller... a thief could be anyone, he could have been stealing from the Evil guy, and that's why he's being "eradicated"....

[an:25f268ab4d]Wow, these are all great. I never expected a thread I'd started would actually gain some semblance of popularity (enough so to apparently start a spin-off...). Anyway, here's another one from me. I will probably be using this, or something like it, in the story I'm currently working on.[/an:25f268ab4d]

Her hands trembling, Alicia placed the seeds into the shallow holes she had dug. She then shifted dirt to cover the seeds. Once she finished, she looked down at her hands, currently covered in blood. The seeds' first taste of water came as her tears struck the earth.

Why do you weep for them?

"They died on a hopeless errand with a fool's hope. They were kind, and just. They did not deserve this end," Alicia replied as she whiped away her tears.

Then why did you kill them?

"They came here to free you. They came here to destroy the world, although they did not know it." She stood and began to work her way up the mountain.

Really? Would my freedom truly have been that horrible?

"It was before. You devastated half a continent. Have you chosen to forget that?" she asked, her voice weary. She could recall an endless line of conversations such as these.

No, I remember very clearly, and you're right. I would have destroyed the world then had you not improsined me. I thank you for that. But you, you underestimate the effectiveness of thirty thousand years of imprisonment. I am no longer the enemy you once feared.

Alicia continued climbing, paying no heed to the voice. She had vowed long ago to never listen to the tricks he'd play. The world couldn't afford the cost of her mistake.

Have you ever wondered where the dragons have gone? Alicia paused in her ascent. He had never mentioned the dragons before. They have not been destroyed, as the legends claim.

She curled her lip in disgust. "I was alive, guarding this mountain, when the dragons were destroyed in the Dragon Wars. This is no legend to me."

Did you ever try to find them when the wars ended? Did you ever leave my prison back then? They did not die, it is almost as hard to kill a dragon as it is to kill me, or you. No, they now fight the war, at the edges of this world, that I was sent here to fight.

"No matter what you say, you know you will never gain your freedom."

The noblest servant of the Goddess of Mercy you once were, Alicia. You have lost the mercy you once held so dear. How many flowers have you planted? How far does that red field stretch? It keeps growing. I can see it through your eyes. One day those flowers will cover the whole of this world, and you and this mountain which imprisons me will still be here.

Leapord: wow, this is REALLY interesting... i would LOVE to see more of this. This is actually a great opener.... meh want MORE! I'm thinking the voice is a part of Alicia.... as in, they used to be one before something happened... I dunno. This is great as a story, WONDERFUL as a story, don't really see how it's a part of the whole "loveable villain" thing.

But I like it a lot.

Tee hee.

Haha, I was wondering if it might need some background, or maybe an explanation. And actually, this would probably be close to the end of Solitaire. I was thinking it would leave a good amount of room for further stories about Alicia.

Background - Legends tell of a creature named Inkar, who is trapped in the mountain Solitaire. This creature is said to possess power beyond that of dragons, a power that belongs to whomever manages to free the creature from its mountain prison. I won't go into more detail than that, since it would kinda spoil the story. Hope that makes sense.

Edit: Oh, Alicia is supposed to be a loveable villain, or perhaps a detestable hero. Same applies to Inkar, really. You get to pick who the real villain is

huh... didn't that feeling from the excerpt but hey I wasn't familiar with the characters so *shrugs* great =^..^=

Hm, guess I need to do some editing of that. Or maybe it only makes sense if you've read the beginning. Hm.