#this is what i live for
Saw a post about villains who love their wives but also villains who love their husbands and that made me think of a lady villain who is big bad and terrifying and meanwhile her husband is just this pathetic man. Just a sad wet kitten of a man. He probably wears sweater vests and big glasses. And she LOVES him. That is the love of her life. A McDonald’s is on a fire because he asked for no pickles and they didn’t listen damnit. She would kill for this absolute fucking loser. The wind could knock him over but it’s okay because she’ll be there to catch him.
there’s something so compelling about stories where a character’s virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.