I'm currently writing a fic with a complete and utter bastard myself. There's also a complete and utter bitch too... and they wuv each other... oh hush.
I think it IS freeing to write these characters. It's fun to play on the dark side and be unrepentant and unreedemable and snide and vicious and manipulative... etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Antiheroes and villains tend to be a bit more extreme anyway. And going to the extreme is one of those things that tends to be exhausting in real life but on paper... on paper it's exhilarating and there is none of the 'consequence' crap to deal with.
Or maybe we're just all closet bastards and bitches. Who the hell knows?
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Ah, the lovable and unlovable bastards
Date: 2001-10-19 01:24 pm (UTC)I think it IS freeing to write these characters. It's fun to play on the dark side and be unrepentant and unreedemable and snide and vicious and manipulative... etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Antiheroes and villains tend to be a bit more extreme anyway. And going to the extreme is one of those things that tends to be exhausting in real life but on paper... on paper it's exhilarating and there is none of the 'consequence' crap to deal with.
Or maybe we're just all closet bastards and bitches. Who the hell knows?