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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-01-08 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #3292 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3292 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2016-01-09 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine with morally ambiguous and sympathetic villains. The problem, for me, is when you minimize or justify the moral wrongness of what the characters have done. That's the line that I want to maintain, and the tricky thing to do - to keep in mind that, even if characters are ambiguous and sympathetic, it does not lessen the villainous things they do. And that moral judgment is, I think, where a lot of people seem to veer off the reservation.
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[personal profile] a_potato 2016-01-09 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's an excellent point.

I think the mistake people make is in linking goodness to strict moral purity and badness to strict moral impurity. Good people do immoral things, and bad people do moral things, and I think you really have to recognize and believe that in order to do well when it comes to writing a sympathetic villain.