What villains have you come up with, fellow writers?

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Just curious. I actually find my villains to be my most interesting characters, even if they can be... well, evil. Well, here are some of mine.

Klaus Krieger: An eyepatch-wearing, genetically-perfect, highly intellgent sociopath, Klaus Krieger is a wunderkind that has used his remarkable manipulative prowess to work his way to the seat of Chief Scientist of the Prometheus Corporation's Anthro Division. At the age of twenty nine, he is already a candidate for a Nobel Prize and a rock star in the redesigning community. He is incredibly charming, brutally handsome, and genuinely friendly... it's just what he intends to do with his pet project, Catharsis, that has even the United States government scared to death. He intends to use his project as a means of social engineering, and turn the dystopian world he inhabits into a utopia. Noble, yes, but his methods (which include driving an eighteen year old heiress he had an affair with to commit suicide in order to cover his ass, blackmail, extortion to fund Catharsis, and general playing of mind games) leave something to be desired. On the other hand, he is such a Magnificent Bastard that you want him on your side... but he'd still do a number on your psyche for fun.

Ray Windsor: A quintessential yuppie, Ray lives to satisfy his own cravings. He's also an anthropophagus, an avid consumer of human flesh and a member of a centuries-old secret society of such folks. He's a truly nasty son of a b***h, seeing EVERYONE around him as little more than the next course, and treating his fellow anthropophagi like crap; pieces of work that they are, they pale in comparison to his audacious depravity and vulgarity. Growing bored with his current appetite of organs, he and his henchmen decide to hunt and eat live humans. And take video of it. Unlike Klaus Krieger, he lacks the charm and wit; everything that comes out of his bloody mouth is either a stream of obscenities or a snide comment directed toward a target of his hair-trigger aggression. What a scumbag.

Opal Kincaid: Opal is one scary teenager. Modelled after thrill-killer Alyssa Bustamente, Opal is so profoundly sociopathic that the concept of goodness and morality are beyond her comprehension. The courts can't do anything about her, just lock her up and hope she doesn't get out. But she can. By the age of fourteen, she was institutionalized for murdering up to fifty people... that we know of. Why does she kill? Because she can. No really... she literally does this crap for no reason whatsoever. And there is nothing you can do to stop her. Just... pray.

Buck the F_ck: Redneck Buck the F_ck, modelled after Ed Gein, is disgusting, both inside and out. At 6'10, two-thousand pounds, he doesn't give much attention to good first impressions. That pales in comparsion to his daily acts of kidnapping, raping, skinning and drinking. Yuck.

I must say - you draw your characters out well. I can actually visualize who'd be playing them in a movie.

Klaus Krieger - Ryan Gosling (or Jude Law, Jake Gyllenhaal or Joseph Gordon-Levitt).

Ray Windsor - Tom Cruise.

Opal Kincaid - The girl who played in the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Buck The F*ck - That big German or Russian guy with the white hair who seems to get only bad guy parts.

Because my story is based on a mix of mythologies, I like to use evil deities as villians within the mythos of the story itself.

Nurgle: God of war, slaughter, brutality, hostility, domination; worshipped by ogres, goblins, and trolls.
Balor: God of war, hate, chaos, disease, rot, prejudice, hunger, hatred, and tyranny by anarchy (the strong thrive and the weak perish); worshipped by Formorians and halfbeasts
Eris: Goddess of trickery, minipulation, discord, chaos, mischief; worshipped by all shapeshifters.
Surtr: God of fire, death, destruction, cruelty, pain, suffering; worshipped by fire giants.
The Asura: Gods of wealth, greed, tyranny, order, oppression, vanity, pride, pleasure by cruelty; worshipped by rakshasha and dark elven tyrants and some aristocrats
Apep: God of darkness, stealth, deciet, lies, serpents, fear; worshipped by no known creatures yet but theorized to be served by a secret cult.
The Nephelim: Gods of light, youth, beauty, the sun, refered to as gods of love, virtue, and all things holy by their followers, but no more than monsters who fool ignorant people into worshipping them.
Orcus: God of death, undeath, pain, suffering, dispair, fear, madness, revenge, age, decay; worshipped by drauger and liches.
Cthulhu: An ancient being that is argued across the nine worlds to have been real or just a myth. God of water, madness, insanity, corruption. Worshipped by mythological cults made up of madmen, psychopaths, criminals, and strange, mythological, formless aliens called Shoggoths.
Chronos: God of tyranny, sin, blasphemy, greed, hatred, madness, pride, corruption, extremacy, forbidden knowledge, twisted magic, oppression, criminal acts, murder, temptation; has no true worshippers across the nine worlds, but has become the greatest of all overlords of tartarus.

Sometimes these gods take on villianous roles.

Seth: God of chaos, especially when it opposes it's self, destuction, night, spite, war, scorn, monsters, deformity, storms, mockery, the abyss. Seth isn't really evil. He's just a god who enjoys being a bastard to others, especially those he deems ignorant, pretentious, and anyone who he believes focuses too much on outer appearences and materialism. In truth, he pretty much does as he wants. He really is no threat to anyone. Infact, he is of great benefit for he keeps Tartarus contained by keeping it's inhabbitance at war with eachother. His own realm is also used as a prison for the truely dangerous. But he does dispise the human race for their ignorance and plans on teaching them a lesson by stealing away all superficial beauty, that they hold most dear.

Loki: God of chaos, change, trickory, Magic, sorcery, magicians, darkness, the mind, transformation, outcasts, vengeance, ruination, justice through deciet. Loki is one of the most commonly mentioned deities in the story. Though he is never truly worshipped, many seek to learn his wisdom. Although he is one of the four gods who run the benevolent organization, The Shadows. Loki's main role in the nine worlds is preserving all things by creating change when, where, why, and how it is needed for the better. So he employs trickory and mischief as a means. Few truely understand him, and so many mistake his work as villiany. But in truth, he just knows something we don't.

Arawn: God of death, darkness, the afterlife, vengeance, endurance, pain and suffering (as in those who endure both), undeath, justice, anger. Arawn is a dark god who's realm was once the land where the tartarusians were created. This scared, lifeless land is no more than a hellscape. He made his home by the gaping mouth of the abyss Hades threw these monsters in, silently waiting for any to come out so he may slaughter them as they did to the inhabbitance. Arawn is patron to those who suffer under others. Many call upon this unforgiving deity for justice. But his mind is clouded by anger and revenge, leaving him impulsive and unwise about the better course of action.

Ares: God of war, offense, conquest, strength, pride, sport, athletics, weaponry, combat, warriors. Ares is the picture of a warrior, strong, powerful, proud, confident, but sometimes egotistical, arrogant, and lacking in intellect or wisdom. Ares is known for his physical prowess. He hits hard with punishing blows. He's unnaturally enduring and resillient, but what he has in brawn, he lacks in brains. Ares isn't the smartest or wisest god. Infact, he's easily tricked. He's arrogant and narccesistic, and often picks fights. He has become Loki's sworn rival for all eternity for his brutish attitude. Ares misses the pagan era, when he and his family were once worshipped in fame. He blames Loki, justly because Loki has had a part in ending the pagan era. And so his bruised ego at times forces him by impulse into proving his strength by taking on great heros, dangerous monsters, powerful deities, or villianous evil. For his recklessness, he at times opposes heroes on their journeys, lead by his own arrogant pride.

In ways of mortal villians, I have these so far.

Katrina; Demigoddess of Ignorance: A demigoddess of the evil organization called The Radiants. Her powers are built around mind control and minipulation, earning her title of Demigoddess of ignorance. She's a vaine, arrogant girl who enjoys minipulating others and tearing them apart. She's no more than a lier who enjoys using her beauty, innocence, and feminine wiles to minipulate others just to hurt them. But in truth, she is that times ten. A true devotee to the Radiants just as her sworn enemy, Demius; Demigod of Desire, is devoted to The Shadows. She can easily take over the mind of any mere mortal, but for some reason, she can't touch Demius' mind. Anytime she does, she's overcome by visions.

Zen The Goblin: A goblin who wears a magic amulet that gives him a genius IQ (goblins are often unintelligent). He was a dangerous criminal who used a sort of magic drug that could force his victims into a violent and bloodthirsty rage. An elementalist with power over earth, rock, and stone, he was once a notorious member of the evil organization, The Randiants. But eventually, his plans to capture a powerful artefact from a temple backfired after he was captured by a young hero of The Shadows, Demius. Years later, he escapes imprisonment after his magic amulet was taken from him. He returned to his homeworld and began leading a goblin mob. He challenged Demius to a duel and taunted him into returning his amulet so Demius can have an honorable victory agianst the goblin. But after loosing, Zen escapes. Later, he kidnapps a girl from Demius' old squad from her newly found vampire clan and held her for ransom in exchange for him to become a vampire. But he kidnapps the head vampire (clan leader) and the girl and escape. He becomes Head vampire and therefore gaining power over the clan. So he now quests for conquest with his army of vampirs, goblins, and vampiric goblins agianst both The Shadows for imprisoning him and The Radiants for leaving him to Rot in prison. He takes on a mad scientist archetype at first. But after his ecape, he becomes more of a criminal mastermind.

Sandra The Angel: A member of The Radiants and an enchandress. Also called "The Threat of Love" by Demius, Sandra is a witch who uses her arcane magic to fool men into thinking their in love with her. In truth, she's enslaving their minds. Ofcourse, this spell does not work on Demigods. When she tried casting it on Demius, she felt the presence of a dark entity dormant inside of him that psychically assaulted her. The spell though had the opposite effect on him. Demius instead went into a violent rage and formed wings of burning red fire as he flew over to strike her. She managed to capture him and force him into opening the gateway into the world ruled by the anciant demigoddess Azania.

Azania; Queen of Oblivian: According to Shadow history, she was there a thousand years ago when both Radiants and Shadows first began. She was the main enemy of the legendary demigod and prophet; Varego The Blessed. She traveled the nine worlds, looking for the keys to ressurrecting the evil Nephilim. Once she did, Varego challenged her to a dual. Because he couldn't kill her, he banished her to a distant planet where she took over.

Tyreke The Paladin: A paladin in The Radiants and sworn enemy and rival of Demius from childhood. The two both joined their respective sides at the same time. But outside the war between them, they hate eachother. Tyreke is a bully and a jerk as a kid, but a criminal as a young adult. He thinks of himself as superior to anyone outside of The Radiants, especially Demius. He believes he's handsome, cool, and an athletic allstar. But in truth, he's a brute. He was once the student of Zen; The Goblin til he was thrown in jail. After that, Tyreke served Katrina as his superior. To her, he's just another pawn. To him, she's the girl of his dreams. He's always been picking fights with Demius, but never did he win.

Forlorn The Ancient: An old necromancer who's long been dead for centuries. The Radiants revived him by feeding his lifeless corpse the life energy of ten innocent people. Long ago, he created an army of undead to take over Earth. But was stopped when a wizard and his apprentice, Zaragon, sacrificed their lives to stop him. Forlorn once agian called upon the wretched deity of the undead, Orcus, and spawned his army, lead by a legendary undead dragon sent by Orcus. Zaragon was then revived by The Shadows. But not in full life, but as a lich. His body was undead, reanimated by death energy than life. Zaragon befriended Demius and joined him in The Shadows, embracing his new found necromantic powers by becoming a necromancer. Demius recovered a magical sword forged by Arawn himself called the deathblade. He used the dark magic in it to call upon a creature of death energy and steal called the metal death dragon. The metal death dragon was capable of destroying Forlorn's army of undead and even the dragon that sustiened them with infinite death energy. Zaragon faced Forlon for the final time. Since he couldn't return the life energy he stole back to the people he took it from, Zaragon felt it just to return the old necromancer back to death. So he drained Forlorn of all life, leaving behind a pile of decaying bones. Zaragon, though, found the life energy in him return him to half life, leaving him in a stable body of flesh and tissue. He had all the correct organs. But still his heart wouldn't beat and his blood wouldn't flow. But Zaragon accepted his new life as a lich, necromancer, and shadow, joining Demius' fight agianst the Radiants.

War Boss Grond: An Oni reaver (warrior of dark magic) and crime mob boss on Yokai Najashima. Grond managed to unite the oni, tengu, and kappa agianst the Obake. All three races imprisoned the Kirin, guardians of the island nation of Yokai Najashima. Once then, they waged war on the Obake, but would have succeeded if Demius wasn't able to not only inspire and lead the Obake to battle, unite them with the yuki oona, enemy of the oni, but also ree the Kirin.

Octavius Blisk: The villain of a Doctor Who fanfiction I wrote. Octavius Blisk is a human who possesses the Time Crystal, which gives him control over time and space but causes his body to rapidly age and wither. He uses the Time Crystal to generate a temple of sorts inside the time vortex from which he sends spirit clones throughout human history to kidnap mankind's greatest geniuses so that he can claim credit for their inventions. Each spirit clone has considerable psychic powers; they can make people see visions that are as real as reality and they are also telekinetic (in the story a spirit clone uses Force push and Force choke although those attacks aren't identified by those names). His goal is to become the most renowned man in human history.

President Fereine. She's from a lost story set in a Central American faux-democracy. She's a psychopath, but she can switch to violent emotion if she needs to. Although she's driving the country into the ground, she always finds a scapegoat. At one point, she has an elderly cabinet minister tortured and murdered for failing to carry out her plans, after which her plans turn out to be catastrophic. She leads meetings with frightening precision and wit, and very few ministers stand up to her.

Barcqu Thisbilier VI He is the young king of a fictional European-culture country in 1920. The country suffers from extreme poverty as a result of wars and regional inequality, but the royal family and their incestuous group of advisors use the army to keep dissidents down. They own yachts the size of RMS Titanic, and dozens of palaces throughout the country. Whenever there are riots, the riot leaders are executed with the king as a witness. He's a paranoid man - sadistic, lacking in charm. When a large revolt breaks out, the king starts by burning slums to the ground and having random people killed, after which they start a march on his palace.

The king manages to escape by yacht from the capital's harbour, and lives abroad in relative luxury until his death in 1990. Until the last moment, he tries to convince foreign governments to conquer 'his' country for him, as he feels he has the right to own the country.

I wrote a story called Villains, named as such as every major character in it is in one way or another a villain.

My villains are usually less tangible. Often times, they're the darker side of the heroine. Not so much in the sense that the heroine turns out to be the bad guy, but in the sense that the heroine is often tortured by their inner demons.

I'm sorry to say that none of the stories I recall completing have memorable villains. The stories are usually too short for me to really develop the antagonists.

That said, in a high proportion of my stories the antagonists don't directly come into conflict with the heroes from the get-go but instead turn on them towards the final act. I'm fond of villains who act friendly at first and only later reveal their true colors.

For the most part, my villains are more of anti-villains than your typical villains, many times my protagonist is the real villain, especially with my later stories. In my oldest stories the villains are more generic. Here is links to some stories of mine, so if don't want spoilers don't read the rest.

Oldest (Terrible) Stories
Newest (Better) Stories
http://ganondox.deviantart.com/gallery/34034339


Pg-13: The main villain is Billy, who is just a made to be the typical noob on the internet. He is unintelligent, unskilled, and immature, only having power through violence. His avatar, Valerone, is a lot more adept than he is.

The Legend of Szorbozen: The villain is the main character, Szorbozen. He is a prince who desires immortality and immortality, and cares nothing about his people. His enemy is Gelyr, a wise and noble creature of another race.

Captain Tory's Betrayal: The villain is Azardana, a demon. He is captain Tory's master and he wants a boy's soul. He is intelligent, reasonable, and somewhat honorable, though he does lie about what he wanted the boy for. After Tory refuses to give the boy's soul to Azardana and attacks him Azardana retaliates and mortally wounds Tory.

Stick Ranger Bestiary: Ok, the ultimate villain, Yarok, is just an age old demonic god being brought back from the dead and gathering a new army. The main thing here is the experimental presentation of the "story".

Green Hills: This has two villains, Golstaff and "Hassi"/Dazarion. Golstaff is Hassi's chief of security. He is loyal to Hassi, but other than that nothing is known about his personality as his only line of dialogue is with a worker he is interogating, and he is polite during the entire scene. Later he attempts to assassinate Bob, the protagonist and a "fighter", but the plot is foiled by Doruin, a "player" and Bob's friend. Golstaff kills Doruin, but is then slain by Bob. He is also strong and intelligent. Dazarion is a corrupted being who was made to act in the place of Hassi and other gods of this universe while they were gone, but he turned evil and imprisoned the divine beings once they returned. He is extremely powerful and intelligent, but has numerous fatal flaws. He is arrogant, pretending to be Hassi and the omnipotent and omniscient creator of the world, ruling with an iron fist. He is racist, hating the "fighters" and enslaving them. He is short tempered, flipping out when Bob insults him. At the climax he tries to manipulate Bob by taking on the guise of Doruin and promising Bob power and the chance to be with his dead friends and family again, but Bob sees past his lies and kills him. As Dazarion dies he takes Bob with hi m, killing them both.

The Baron, the Demon, and the Undertaker: This story has multiple parts, though it is unfinished. In the first part Mesoloth the demon lord is the villain, while Fred the undertaker and Baron William are the protagonists. After Mesoloth is killed Baron William becomes the main villain, and after he dies Fred reveals his darker side. Mesoloth is intelligent, powerful, and somewhat campy. His goal is simply to leach of the human's resources and rule over them as their lord, and he uses strategy to conquer. Baron William is educated, wealthy, handsome and a coward, fleeing when he first sees Mesoloth and promising his daughter's hand to whoever can kill Mesoloth. Fred isn't intelligent, good looking, or strong, but he is very pious, respecting the bodies of even the worst of criminals.

Adremulek vs. Gabon: The antagonist is Gabon, but Adremulek is equally bad. They are both extremely powerful demigods with a deep grudge between them. Gabon is cunning, tricking Adremulek time and time again and luring him into traps. Adremulek is stronger and stronger willed, actively hunting after Gabon. Both have little regard for anyone elses life, doing anything to hurt the other, and they nearly destroy the world in their conflict. They both hate eachother immensely, but Gabon is willing to put the feud aside to preserve his own life, and Adremulek would rather die than let Gabon win. In the climax I made it ambiguous whether Gabon was trying to trick Adremulek so he could finally kill him, or if he was being sincere when he offered a new beginning, but Adremulek kills Gabon in the end, deciding he couldn't forgive Gabon.

Raise and Fall: At first the villain appears to be the terrorist organization Ari al Maida, but later it's revealed that it's Jack Jefferson, Miriam's partner. Miriam is the protagonist is the side story, an agent sent to stop Ari al Maida from activating a dirty bomb. Jack was revealed to have been working with Ari al Maida and he is delusional, beliving it is his destiny to save humanity by destroying it and recreating it with Miriam. Miriam refuses to join on his plan and tries to kill Jack, but he sets off the dirty bomb anyway. At the end of the story it is revealed the Jack and Jared, the character in the main story, are one and the same. Jared is a man with temporary amnesia wandering through a nuclear winter wasteland, horrified by what he sees and remembers.

Here is the link to Villains:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o2T ... jRlas/edit

Thomas Shepard: He is the protagonist. He is an orphaned boy who was taken in by the senator John Elderwood and becomes part of Viscera's crime ring. While he is manipulative and cunning, he is easy influenced by his emotions. Overtime his will and Viscera's will diverge. At the end he kills Viscera and replaces him.

Viscera: Viscera is a masked gang leader who secretly controls the city the story takes place in. He always wears the same red, purple and black costume. He is mysterious character, always referring to the other characters by code names, and he is wise and logical. He saves Thomas from Hollows and kills Hollows himself, and is always trying to reason with Thomas, even right before their final battle. During the falling action after he is mortally wounded he is revealed to be Shepard's father after he is unmasked.

John Elderwood: John Elderwood is a senator. The only reason he is in power is because he has an arrangement with Viscera, who calls him Elder-ohn. He is immature, somewhat crazed, and not particularly intelligent, but he is skilled at delivering speeches and moving the crowd. Thomas's first assignment is to dispose of Governor Hollows, after which Elderwood becomes the new Governor. After Veronica dies Thomas seeks to take over the ring and creates a schism between Elderwood and Viscera by convincing Elderwood he doesn't need Viscera anymore, splitting the ring into two warring factions and weakening them. It is implied that Thomas kills Elderwood after the end of the story and reunites the two factions as the new Viscera.

Maxwell Gaunt: Maxwell Gaunt is the true identity of a serial killer known as the Grey Killer. He is raving mad, speaks informally with an accent, and kills for fun. After Thomas takes up the disguise of the Grey Killer in order to frame the assassination of the governor he is caught and imprisoned. He latter escapes and kills Veronica to get revenge on Thomas. He uses this to lure Thomas into a trap and plans to slowly kill Thomas after emotionally torturing him, but Hatchet sets Thomas free. Gaunt kills Hatchett, but Thomas avenges them and kills Gaunt soon afterward.

Veronica Blade: While she isn't an antagonist and isn't directly involved in the crime ring, she isn't really good. She is Thomas's lover, and the daughter of Hollow's treasurer. She comes off as sweet and nerdy, but she is actually manipulative, creating a fake scandal to frame Hollows. In the end she is murdered by Gaunt as revenge. Her daughter with Thomas, Elena, survives.

Patrick Hollows: He is the governor at the start of the story and Elderwood's enemy. Viscera has Thomas ruin Hollows reputation, revealing an embezzlement scandal. After Hollows leaves office Thomas is sent to finish him off. Thomas doesn't have the emotional strength to kill Hollows, who then reveals he had come into power in the same manner as Elderwood. Hollows sends his body guard to kill Thomas, but Thomas kills the guard in the ensuring fight, however he looses to Hollows. Just before Hollows can kill Thomas Viscera comes in and kills Hollows himself by strangling him.

Aaron Hatchett: Aaron Hatchett is a hitman who works for Viscera under the name Axe Handle. At first he is tough and remorseless, harassing Blade, but after Thomas scares him by pretending to be a demon he has a change of heart and promises to abandon his wicked ways. He dies while saving Thomas from Gaunt.

Bruno Dwight: Hollow's body guard. He doesn't really have developed character.









If you want I can also give some villains from my concepts, including my video game concepts.

Well, one of the heroines of the science-fantasy web series I'm writing certainly has the very real potential to become a villain; I haven't decided if she will, yet, though.

Al'Nikascha Scharaihnah Mahaiahkesch (Nika) - An 800-something year old Naschi woman (the Valichnasch are a magically-inclined extra-dimensional race of beings somewhat akin to demons or drow elves; much stronger and more agile than humans) now far out of her normal lifespan, thanks to going into an over-500-year-long state of near-death suspended animation after being magically sealed into a tomb by a powerful human mage. Before being sealed into the tomb, she wandered the human world for about a century, stirring up trouble and torturing and killing religious clergy members, scrawling heretical grafitti on the walls of the religious sites in their blood before burning the buildings to the ground. This became her past-time after being cursed and exiled from her own world for trying to fulfill what turned out to be a self-fulfilling doomsday prophecy. It was a misguided and futile revenge attempt on the Nairahli Order, the religious sect she'd previously been a high priestess of before her exile, as well as a retaliatory campaign against the humans who had harassed and persecuted her in accordance with their superstitions and legends, thinking her a witch or a demon.

She should have died in that tomb, except for 2 traits that allowed her to live on for over 5 centuries without food or water. The first trait is that she's an active carrier of a very rare second set of DNA, which allows her to consciously transform her physical body into a state almost exactly like one from a much earlier point in her species' evolution; an exponentially hardier one, much better adapted to surviving under extreme conditions. the second trait is one she was taught as a high-priestess-in-training; being able to enter a state of near-death meditation, conserving every possible ounce of energy by dropping the heart rate and breathing down to almost unbelievably long intervals of often minutes at a time.

After 500 years, she was found near-death, by Kai Shiotani, one of the heroes (another powerful human mage, and, unbeknownst to her, a descendant of the one that imprisoned her, actually; and one of the anti-heroes, more accurately) during a terrorist incident at the power plant that was inadvertently built over the site of her entombment. After the incident, he became her advocate as she recovered in the hospital, being one of the relatively few people that had a near-full grasp of both the archaic Naschi and Hronic (the language of magic) she spoke. He helped her adjust to the modern world, assisting her in learning Amanglic and catching up on human and Naschi history in the human world, as well as allowing her to work with him as a stage magician (despite having had most of her magical power stripped from her by the curse) in order to start to earn her own way in society, and to help pay off the staggering medical bills she accumulated for her recovery in the hospital.

However, after all this time, she hasn't forgotten about the prophecy, and the curse that still hangs over her, marked by a pair of tribal-style black skeletal wings tattooed across her shoulder blades in stylized, interlacing Hronic characters. She also still, out of habit and a sense of dislocation from her people and culture, practices traditional Nalakesch Ai'Schahn (her regionality and ethnicity, respectively) sword combat and still plays kiihlahn, a traditional woodwind instrument with a sound somewhere between an Armenian duduk and an Irish flute. She still, somewhere in the back of her mind, intends to try to fulfill the prophecy that she was cursed and exiled for; as it apparently directly concerns her relationship with Kai. She will eventually have to make a choice: to take a life and prevent disaster, or give in to selfish desire and herald the end of the world.

I once had an evil goldfish (actually a carp hengeyokai who preferred goldfish form) (Wayyy before American Dad or South Park) be the villain of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

Paul Wilson - College student and budding serial killer, Wilson is a text book psychopath who had grown up physically abused by an alcoholic father and neglected by an equally abused mother who used to lose herself in prescription drug addiction, he had tortured and killed animals growing up. As a young adult, Wilson had long ago learned to hide his uncontrollable rage with a mask of charm and wit, with which he can prey on the needy and vulnerable - who he considers to be disposable - to sate his wants. But his rage inside him, which he directs at women in retaliation for his mother never having had protected him from his father, had in the past used rape and physical violence as a release. But when that no longer sated his seething anger, Wilson turns to murder and mutilation.
Wilson is the primary antagonist in a short story I'm currently working on

Harley Cobb - Standing at six foot six, and weighing in at a muscular two hundred fifty pounds, Cobb is a professional criminal with a near genius level IQ. Raised in rural Texas by an overbearing father who, as an evangelical minister, had run a camp for wayward boys, where young Harley had been sent for the summers, and where he had learned from his fellow boys how to be bad. In his early adulthood, Cobb had been sent (exiled) by his father to the Pacific Northwest to attend college, after his violence and criminal behavior became to much for the old man to bare. Soon, Cobb and others were running a car theft ring. When Cobb chose to screw over the criminals providing a connection in the auto theft business, his girlfriend (who he sincerely loved) in retaliation was murdered. This was the turning point for him. After she was gone, Cobb hardened himself so no one could ever hurt him again. Depending on the story I've had Cobb appear in, he has been a bank and armored car robber, a drug trafficker, a hired gun, or a criminal fixer. He can be very sociable, considering the fact that he is hardly an attractive man, and yet is snide, arrogant, and holds those around him in contempt, regarding them to be his intellectual inferiors - a trait of underestimating enemies which is his greatest weakness.
Harley's been with me for a long time, having created him back in my college days.

Frank Graffia - Pornography dealer and mob figure, Graffia was never sure if he had been dispatched by the Seattle mob to Spokane as a promotion, or as a punishment. He is known - and feared - for his violent outbursts, but he has an appetite driven personality which is the cause of his constant problems, and is not nearly as intelligent as he believes himself to be. Because of these character flaws, he is easily wrangled into the schemes of a real sinister criminal mastermind - - Harley Cobb.
Frank Graffia was a character I had come up with in an abortive novel a friend and I were working on together. Originally, Graffia was killed off very quickly, but in a later project, I thought the guy was so interesting (to me) that I brought him back to life, and made him a major character.

Wulfdietrich - Germanic chieftain living in the mid first century A.D., Wulfdietrich had taken over leadership of his tribe following the death of his father. While his father had been a man of judgement and fairness in regard to his people, Wulfdietrich is only interested in personal aggrandizement, which he accomplishes through violence and war. Where his father had regarded his fellow tribesmen with respect as freemen, Wulfdietrich lacks no inclination at lashing out at his own people along with his retinue of warriors when the mood or perceived need seems to dictate. For him, their lives are of so little concern that he can pay off the aggrieved families with weregeld - blood money, usually cattle, in Germanic culture that was paid to settle civil disputes. He can always take more cattle in his constant raids, and his prowess, ruthlessness, and courage he and his personal following of warriors are renowned for keep most of the people cowed.
Wulfdietrich was a character I had created back in college.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer