I have personally played characters who probably could be seen as villains since I first started RPing, which technically was not that long ago. I think the trick is to not make them over the top. I feel like I did a great job in GW2 as I made my character a lovable villain. She had enemies, but also a good chunk of friends, even though the only reason she made friends was to use them when she needed. She did things because she loved chaos and though she had huge plans, some that were definitely not ever achievable (such as destroying all of a particular race in the world), but she kept busy by destroying the bond between allies, friends, and just causing trouble in general.
Most of the time it was not her direct actions that did this, but hiring people to do things which allowed her to stay mostly behind the scenes. This made it easier for other people to take the fall if they were ever caught. Of course it did not always go as planned so I made her a bit of a comical character as well as to give her an escape route when her plans didn't go as well...planned. To sum it up, she was an awful person, but she was still human and had emotions just like anyone else would. I personally have not found a way to port her over to FF, but hopefully I will be able to figure that out one day.Â
I guess what I am trying to say that is that its definitely possible to have a main as a villain. I think most people may think that a villain has to show no emotions or never sometimes feel remorseful for some of their actions, but that does not necessarily have to be true. Magneto from the X-Men has been mostly portrayed as a villain, but really he is just trying to save himself and others like him from being annihilated by following a more militant "kill or be killed" logic. Sephiroth is another good villain. He was a pretty stand up guy then he found out all this stuff and lost it. I think a good villain can have emotions, they have probably loved and lost just like we all have, they have just choose a very negative way of living their lives.
Most of the time it was not her direct actions that did this, but hiring people to do things which allowed her to stay mostly behind the scenes. This made it easier for other people to take the fall if they were ever caught. Of course it did not always go as planned so I made her a bit of a comical character as well as to give her an escape route when her plans didn't go as well...planned. To sum it up, she was an awful person, but she was still human and had emotions just like anyone else would. I personally have not found a way to port her over to FF, but hopefully I will be able to figure that out one day.Â
I guess what I am trying to say that is that its definitely possible to have a main as a villain. I think most people may think that a villain has to show no emotions or never sometimes feel remorseful for some of their actions, but that does not necessarily have to be true. Magneto from the X-Men has been mostly portrayed as a villain, but really he is just trying to save himself and others like him from being annihilated by following a more militant "kill or be killed" logic. Sephiroth is another good villain. He was a pretty stand up guy then he found out all this stuff and lost it. I think a good villain can have emotions, they have probably loved and lost just like we all have, they have just choose a very negative way of living their lives.
