villains that succeeded in their goals, (long term) but were still defeated.

[thatoneguywho-]

lately, I have been wondering how to write a villain who completed their goal and actually experienced it (not like Thanos who did succeed but was taken down only a short while later). I'm talking taking/ destroying the world with MCs acting AFTER everything happened, or villain completing goal during the story but not getting defeated for a lengthy aount of time.

I have some examples from my own villains.

Abailemjikulo(Abai): the goddess of death (the core actually), who has now appeared in many of my posts here. as one may expect from this, she is my MAIN villain. she along with other villains wish to destroy the planet, and kinda sorta succeed.


Astijerikana(Asti): Asti is, in fact, the very very very very very first villain in all of the worlds entire lore and story, so far back that she could only ever appear in a special series, yet influential enough to be an unnamed character mentioned like twice in the main story, and only under a title. her goal was to limit magical power so she could easily unite the elemental tribes, then conquer outside of the lands, then the world. and she was killed but... magical power is still limited. yes. the humans who live to ten thousand years old, murder their own for all of those years, control magic like it's nothing, become divinity, become conquerors, fight divinity, and MORE aren't even at full power. all because of an academy established so long ago that TEACHES THEM TO LIMIT THEIR OWN MAGIC. yes, Asti was a genius.


so how tf do I write people like this bro...




P.S. I got my first follower yay

 

[pmmg]

Well. You say she was killed so… in what way does she need to be written other than as dead?

 

[thatoneguywho-]

Well. You say she was killed so… in what way does she need to be written other than as dead?

'people like this' I haven't exactly stored all of my plot yet and im thinking of adding a ninth villain into the mix