Altria-san

The Art of VILLAINY ~ Making Realistic Villains for your Fiction ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "People will do far more to Avoid Pain than they will to Seek Pleasure." -- CIA Profiler Gavin DeBecker on Human Nature True Predators ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I craft a villain, I go out of my way to make darned sure that my fictional villains are as realistic as the villains we face in real life. I begin by giving them ordinary human Issues. Within every villain (fictional and non-fictional) there's a human issue at core that drives them to BE villains in the first place. Even mass murderers have reasons (however twisted) for doing what they do. NO villain

Ode to my sanity, to understanding right from wrong. The voices all around sing a lovely song. They whisper sweet destruction, the falling of them all. I close my eyes in wonder, in wonder of the small. The small, tiny insects, crawling up my spine. They tickle, make me giggle, and scratch in tiny lines. I like the lines. The scarlet drops of reprieve. I like the voices lullaby. "It's time for you to leave" I enjoy this place of nothing, this place where I am not. Not sad, not cold, not lonely, Not caught. Caught, in not lovely, NOT lovely, jackets. That wrap me up so tight. I can't feel the bindings anymore, can't smell the cotton in

It started when you were sixteen. You were finally able to drive, and drive you did. Right into a telephone pole. You were not a model child. Your parents considered you to be a heathen, and you were fine with that. You weren’t the best, not at all, but all that mattered was that you had fun. You were awesome, and you wanted to show the world that. So, one day, you set off into the mountains, looking for adventure. The air was chilly and your spirits were high as you made the trek upwards. The mountain was abandoned, and there had been rumors that those who left never returned. Did you care? Nah, not really. You’d brought chips