I'm a fan of the slow, saturatingly evil type. Â The slow burn that drags everyone else along with them.
Real evil isn't mustache twiddling. Â It's making people make bad choices, over and OVER until they start reaching for the bad choices FIRST and the 'good' ones second. It's the vizier, it's the quiet, too wise wizard in the corner.
It's the charismatic warlord that starts as a bandit and ends up an emperor. (Ghengis Khan anyone? Â Current record holder for human genocide? Killed about 10% of the entire human population that existed during his lifetime (according to low estimates)? And yet there's a statue of this guy out n the steppes.)
A person who leads or guides so well and so seamlessly that everyone THINKS it's a good idea to go along, for good or ill (Spoilers: for Ill)
Real evil's making everyone else envy you having those bad options available and wanting to reach for those bad options as well. Â Real evil is also envy of evil.
Well done evil, not a one off villain of the week, means not tipping your hand that you're a bomb that's leaking nerve gas micro-litre by micro-litre. Â It means you marshal and hunt the weak and the spiritually poor and you -plunder- them as human resources.
Which is problematic in RP play. Â The Long Game takes time. The best of it you'll see in RP is a microcosm of Bad News rolling in and getting people behind thinking that Bad Things Might Just Work Out Well.
And people mistake you for the good guy until it's way, way too late, or never STOP seeing you as the good guy, which makes it all the more bizzare.
Because humans are -terrible things-.
But it can be -rull- fun.
Real evil isn't mustache twiddling. Â It's making people make bad choices, over and OVER until they start reaching for the bad choices FIRST and the 'good' ones second. It's the vizier, it's the quiet, too wise wizard in the corner.
It's the charismatic warlord that starts as a bandit and ends up an emperor. (Ghengis Khan anyone? Â Current record holder for human genocide? Killed about 10% of the entire human population that existed during his lifetime (according to low estimates)? And yet there's a statue of this guy out n the steppes.)
A person who leads or guides so well and so seamlessly that everyone THINKS it's a good idea to go along, for good or ill (Spoilers: for Ill)
Real evil's making everyone else envy you having those bad options available and wanting to reach for those bad options as well. Â Real evil is also envy of evil.
Well done evil, not a one off villain of the week, means not tipping your hand that you're a bomb that's leaking nerve gas micro-litre by micro-litre. Â It means you marshal and hunt the weak and the spiritually poor and you -plunder- them as human resources.
Which is problematic in RP play. Â The Long Game takes time. The best of it you'll see in RP is a microcosm of Bad News rolling in and getting people behind thinking that Bad Things Might Just Work Out Well.
And people mistake you for the good guy until it's way, way too late, or never STOP seeing you as the good guy, which makes it all the more bizzare.
Because humans are -terrible things-.
But it can be -rull- fun.
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