selfihateyouithink reblogged
psych-facts
You don’t understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own version of the world.
John Rogers (via psych-facts)
#Quote#John Rogers#Btw: abuse doesn't excuse an abuser it just can help explain them#If they're acting reluctantly based upon how they're abused that's one thing#If they've gone from that to being absolutely fucking gleefully terrible creatures (or people or any variation of the two)#Abuse is no longer anything except an excuse#(P.S. if they want to kill people and their abuser says no their abuse isn't the thing that made them terrible tbh)#Villains kiss their mothers too#Antagonists#Villains#You can undersatnd an antagonist and even sympathize/empathize#without fucking excusing them and spewing apologia everywhere about their actions#You can love a villain without acting like their villainy is nothing but choosing the wrong cause#(Part of the reason I really fucking hate SPN sometimes has to do with the fact that the antagonists are shrouded in secrecy)#(I wanted to see more of Meg's backstory more of Azazel's more of Lucifer's Michael's Crowley's Ruby's Lilith's Abaddon's)#(Alastair's Raphael's Gabriel's Hester's fucking all the fucking antagonists and villains DIE BEFORE WE KNOW ENOUGH)#(Uriel's! Eve's! Naomi's! Leviathan! Zachariah! God! John Winchester!)#(TELL ME MORE)#Reading things#Writing things#Watching things#I should remember#Supernatural#Fandom#Random