#like. he’s the narrative foil. the antagonist. the throug a mirror darkly.

reasonable villain enjoyers have it rough because on the one hand you have to deal with people who woobify your villain faves and sandpaper away their hard edges (and most interesting qualities) to make them soft uwu; on the other hand there’s the folks who think your villain fave is satan incarnate or act like it’s an actual moral offence to like a fictional character who does bad things

#pouring one out for my same-brain same-blorbo parse mutals bc yeah same #kent parson #like. he’s the narrative foil. the antagonist. the throug a mirror darkly.#but yeah prev tags r right->#(kind of i mean he's not really a villain)