Do you ever find yourself in your villains?

[GumshoeComix]

god no, i write my villains as things that scare me
Although i get it's fine for villains to be relatable I wouldn't want to relate to my own

[Aeneas1]

Well, as far as my villains are concerned, probably. All my characters are me, to some extent. There’s a speech Ragnar gives which contains SOME of my opinions.

[Headypigeon4180]

I sometimes act out the dialogue i'm planning. If people see me I then look really weird but then I say it's for a play and they go oh ok. XD

[AmysGames]

I write a lot of villains who aren't necessarily evil, so yeah, I do sometimes. I think the villains from my current comic are more relatable than most, since most of their "evil" actions are the result of an outside force influencing them.

[Katzalcoatl]

I'm a complicated person with lots of issues. So yes .

Plus it doesn't help that my main theme are villainess.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Depends:

• sometimes I write villains based off of personal encounters that I found hurtful (though I also sometimes try to make them anti-hero side characters with a conflict arc so I don't look too salty XD). I don't tend to relate to these villains, but I'd like to think I still have a good grasp on their inner workings
• sometimes I write villains based on bad stuff I've felt tempted to do. E.g. one villain I have planned is a game-dev who underpays the people helping with her game because she's afraid of not having enough funds to finish her whole series. Clearly I'd relate to these villains
• sometimes I write villains based off of bad things I hear other people having experience with, and trying to understand how someone who does that stuff would tick. I may extrapolate their mindsets from either #1 or #2, and the amount I relate to these villains depend on which source I extrapolate more from XD

[SpookyLocker]

I think villains are good from their perspectives so in theory no matter what we do we always end up being a villain to someone else. Very grey matter lol, I think the best villains are relatable because at the end of the day we're human, and we don't always make the right choices. people make different ones for different reasons. the hero could've easily been in their place.

[Lensing]

100% the same for me

[oldmanjohnny66]

One of the most notable villains I ever encountered was a cop killer.Me and my buddy had just gotten busted for breaking into our old elementary school.Turns out around the same time three cops got killed in a shootout.Guess what,we were in the same bull pen with one of the killers! He was a huge guy,a brother,and we were all trying to melt into the walls to get away from this guy! His jail greens were hanging half off his ass and he kept pacing back and forth mumbling to himself.You could see right away that he was someone to avoid! Turns out he got natural life in prison,he will rot in there for what he and his brothers and mom did.Talk about the Ma Barker Gang! (Later on I had to go in front of the judge again and was happy to learn that my hanging judge had herself got thrown in jail for bribery!!! I got off so lucky with that one! Don't do drugs, don't get drunk and you might just survive

[Leyelle]

Oh definitely (don't hate yourself though) my villains have a lot in common with me because I think taking my own struggles and blowing them a bit out of proportion is what allows me to understand their mindsets and write them believably.

For instance, one of my villains in "Damsel in the Red Dress" has a tendency to take his frustration out on other people whenever he's really stressed and just wants to be mean or aggressive. This is a bad habit of mine, but since my villain doesn't control it, he's just a jerk.

Another wants to keep everything under control, to the point where they harm others, but this stems from them living in an unstable condition where they felt like they could only rely on themselves, and this also is based in myself. But blown out of proportion, that means them cutting off anyone they don't consider useful to them or others, or a waste of time and energy.

[kyupol]

Sometimes... when the villains "make sense"...

[mohdadeebace]

SOMETIMES DARIUS BURNS THE WORLD AROUND HIM JUST TO MAKE IT MORE HELL FOR SOME. I CAN REALLY RELATE TO THAT....

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[Cucito]

I think outside of complete insane villains like Joker or Griffith most of us forget that villains are just human, they have wants, needs, and emotions sometimes their means of achieving their goal isn't "justified" and I think one of the best depictions of this villain is Gauro from One Punch Man, wants to be strong and protect the underdogs but takes out anyone in the process.

[Lensing]

Maybe we are all the villain in someone´s story

[ljchisholm]

My villian is nothing like me or anybody! Thankfully he doesn't last very long (but his influence does D:). Do sub to HERON if you like Sci fi action!

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[TheSequence]

trust me not only my own novel I read any novel written by anyone I'll find myself relating to the villain and rooting for them for all the wrong reasons

[Lensing]

I understand that and kind of feel like that too.
I tried to write some stories with heroes and villains and when I finished
them I lost the interest to draw them because I hated the heroes or
they were so blank and uninspiring that I didn´t want to draw them.
I changed my writing style to bad people doing doing bad things and
I love it

[skidiggy]

Ooh, awesome question. It depends on the villain, but I can say that I could hear my own voice coming from villains every now and again. Sometimes, a villain comes from unfortunate circumstances and faces adversity, only to turn to nefarious means to get what they want. Under the same conditions, I might have thought about such solutions on impulse, but would seldom (if ever) choose to go about solving my problems that way.

Case in point, one of my villains is an experienced, skilled contributor in their career field. He's been the best there is at what he does for ages. In comes the scrappy underdog protagonist to upset the villain's plans, uproot their normalcy, and possibly take over their "rightful position" in the hierarchy. In life, I've been both the "experienced veteran" and the "scrappy underdog," so I could empathize with either party involved. The difference is, I would never hurt the incumbent or newcomer to secure victory. I just don't have it in me to deliberately hurt people. The villain does, because I wrote him that way.

I hope that helps!

[Leyelle]

Definitely. one of the main villains in "Crystal Blue" hates the fact that he was considered inherently evil by other phants since birth and ostracized. Whil I didn't turn evil because of this, I've definitely been ostracized my entire life, and so i can relate to him when I write him

[TheKillingAlice]

Not all of them or all the time, but sometimes, Villains will give opinions that I may have held or would hold, but wouldn't dare speak, because common sense makes me rationally put them down. Like, one situation in which a villain says that everyone has got 99 problems, he can't be the one to take care of them all. It's a monarchy in the story and he wants to become Emperor, putting him in a position that would force him to care about all of those problems and the protagonist calls him out on the fact that he would not be a good Emperor. Both of these opinions I would agree with, depending on the situation and the mindset. He then goes on to state that it doesn't matter if he's good or bad; the seat of the Emperor is hereditary and it's his bloodright to be on the throne. "Who could stand to disagree?" - because that would mean that every kingdom or empire would have to revise their leaders if that was to happen.
I'm not someone who likes being quoted with the lines of their characters, because it simply doesn't mean I would say any of the things in my book, no matter what it is, even the things said by the glorious protagonists of the novels. But that's one example where I can neither agree nor disagree with either of them myself.