Writefag thread

it's been awhile can we have one of this?

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I write Gravity Falls and Star vs. Stuff.

I haven't written anything in weeks. I literally just opened up Word.

Awesome! I was hoping one of these would come up. I just started working on a fan script for a Bayformers Beast Wars movie. I wanna know if it's too "cruel" or "meanspirited" to kill off the young bright eyed innocent Cheetor in the final battle scene. He's the only Maximal I don't really have a full arc for and I'd like to subvert the war story trope where the young newbie is the sole survivor.

I'm sorta trying to write a Doctor Doom Novel, in its own seperate continuity. It's purely a "passion project", as I do it to relax after studying/doing chores around my house/etc.

What's it about? That's what my script essentially is: just a little relaxation/escapism. I'm probably not going to even bother formatting it properly.

What does writing have to do with Sup Forums?

Supergirl is interested

Despite what artists may say, comic's and cartoons have writing in them.

it's like a fanfiction thread

I'm trying to write something that fills in some gaps on Earth-3, specifically timetravel gaps, but it's not going all that well.

And it feels like my English keeps getting worse all the time, which doesn't help...

I've got a novel I'm working on, I started at the beginning of the year and I've committed myself to slamming out at least a thousand words every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I've gotten roughly 16 chapters down out of a planned 34 (I spent all of last fall and winter outlining the entire book) and I'm shooting to have the whole thing wrapped up by fall so I can ship my manuscript out to publishers/agents while going back to college. It's basically a cyberpunk vigilante thriller heavily inspired by the aesthetics of synthwave (mostly perturbator) and 80's action/scifi/horror movies in general. I put the first three chapters up on 8ch's /cyber/ board.

There's a few other projects I have that I've since shelved, including an alternate-history satire, an old-school superhero comic, and even a play.

Well where else is it going to go?

>Doctor Doom novel

Color me interested, user. Care to give a short synopsis if there is one.

>I spent all of last fall and winter outlining the entire book
What exactly do you put in your outline?

A proper "solo book" starring Doom. It starts with him as King of Latveria, dealing with all sorts of things (a traitor in the government, Mephisto, external politics, etc), and his backstory is slowly revealed through flashbacks.

I'm still making the basic structure, so I've not written anything, just writting down notes, setting up a timeline and whatnot.

Certain concepts I've played with:

>Giving Latveria some identity: Roman occupied, then Conquered by the Visigoths and later assimilated into the Byzantine Empire. Their Old Gods are the Eternals.

>Kristoff is his bastard from Valeria. He ends up killing her, when he finds out she's been keeping Kristoff a secret from him, and intends to use him to create a scandal. Humiliates her before he chokes her.

>Killgrave is a Latverian James Bond, working for Doom.

>Von Doom isn't his actual name, but rather an assumed one, which he took in an order to built a legend around himself. I got the inspiration from Black Sails' Captain Flint.

>Still a vain bastard, but not really an evil guy. Petty, jealous, a tad xenophobic, sexist and very nationalistic, but not Unthinkable levels. Something around Byrne's or Hickman's Doom, with a dash of the current one.

>No huge scarring, just a small one above his eye.

>Dreadknight becomes Latveria's "champion", but he's an emotional mess.

>He and the rest of the F4 are friends at college, but after the accident, he becomes more distant.

>Reed heads an Aperture/HALO-esque Science Company. Goes through the FF Origin Rocket, and destroyes the lives of Sue, Ben and Johnny.

>Vic has two main romantic interests: Wanda and Morgana Le Fay.

I've got some other stuff, but those are some rough examples. I'm treating it more as a comic book in the form of a novel.

PS: Honestly, I just wanna put this sculpt in a story.

>Well where else is it going to go?
/lit/?

Posted already, but if I had to give a synopsis, it'd be:

It's basically a cross between Shakespeare's themes and the Ancient Greek Tragedies. An obviously flawed character tries to reach a even grander status, and even though he does, he wrestles with his choices and his humanity.

I have a very certain depiction of Doom in my mind, which some may not like, as it has more "real-world" negative qualities, but is ultimately a truly noble person. He wants the best, but not for everyone, and certainly not before himself.

hey thats really good

Neat. But, uh,
>ultimately a truly noble person
Who humiliates and murders a woman? Tell me humiliates isn't code for rape.

Thanks user! I've got a few more ideas, but they're even less developed than those. I still want to commit to a certain "truth" though, as far as the Cosmics are concerned. Hierarchy, nature of them, all that jazz. I've also got a Galactus revision I'd like to tackle in it.

PS: I found that sculpt randomly, but the guy who made it has put an insane amount of detail and lore into it. Search for "Caleb Nefzen" for more.

I've actually floated some ideas around with friends about our own take on an Earth-3/Crime Syndicate world. This was some of the stuff we came up with:

>Owlman is a master criminal and assassin whose only motivation is to cause terror in Gotham City. His archnemesis is detective Jack Napier, a witty, happy-go-lucky policeman and ace toxicologist who invented a non-lethal gas that causes criminals to incapacitate themselves via uncontrollable laughing.

>Ultraman is the last of the kryptonians are a race of warriors and conquerors whose radioactive planet material gives them super-powers, which are negated via sunlight. To get around his weakness, he uses a suit of kryptonian battle armor, which is infused with kyrptonite but also blocks out the effects of the sun. His opponent is billionare tech genius Alexander Luthor, also known as Overman, a superhero whose powers come from his own solar-powered set of armor.

>Highfather is a stern, dominating authoritarian who believes that free will is the cause of all suffering and evil in the universe. Thus, he seeks the anti-life equation, which he and his new gods believe to be the only way of creating a perfect world. Opposing him is Darkseid, the psychotic lord of chaos and misrule, who believes that all life must be free of any moral or ethical restrictions, and that "utopia" is an orgiastic universe of raw indulgence, passion, and hedonism. He seeks the "hyper-life equation" which he believes will mathematically erase any element of civilization in a person and revert them to their most bestial, basic urges.

>The Deep King is very much a tragic figure, lord of the barbaric undersea Atlanteans. Born half-man, half-atlantean, he was rejected as a freak and exiled to the sea. Possessed with unimaginable resentment and hatred to the surface world, he consistently schemes to end all life on the surface. Stopping him is White Ray, the Sup Forums-/tg/ mutual creation, a hero of pure heart and honest goodwill.

literally everything. The outline covers virtually every plot detail so I don't have to worry about writer's block. and I know what I'm doing. It's actually over 140 pages long.

I've been writing the first act of a spec script about supervillains and an app that sets them jobs.

Getting some space, but going back to it eventually.

I know that fucking feel. I have til Sunday to write a story to submit to a fetish pornfic writing competition and I just threw out my first draft for being complete crap.

I want to write a fight between two Dragonball characters but I have no idea how to approach it, for example how to not fall into common fanfiction cancer traps. Also power levels, etc.
And who the fuck would be interested in reading such a story, anyway?

Noble might have been the wrong word. Maybe "good-natured". Good intentions, sometimes baaad execution.

Heavens no, it's verbal. Basically Valeria has been using her magic and whatnot to enter the political scene of Latveria, and intends to use Kristoff as leverage to make Doom abandon the throne and turn the country into a complete Democratic one (in Doom's regime there is a voted-in government to ease the transition, but he has the final word).

She lords over that she was the one who took his virginity, truly understands him, all that jazz. And then Doom gives her the classic "DOOM does not mourn the insects he steps on" speech, albeit with a few alterations.

It all stems from me not liking Super x Normal ships that much. A guy who can move planets shouldn't be fucking a judge, but another powerful heroine.

Which is why I never liked the whole "I always loved Valeria" bit. To me, telling her that she was nothing more than a forgotten character in the grand epic that is his life, would be more appropriate for a man like himself.

Which is why my main Doom OTPs are Morgana and Wanda. One's definitely a bad influence, while the other could mellow him out a bit.

Ah, okay. I've been tainted by reading too much George RR Martin.

That's... not a bad idea. I think I'll try it.

Basically it means writing your story twice, first in outline form where you try to cover the plot as specifically as possible, and then actually formally writing it out. It means taking more time on the first part, but saving a ton of time on the second.

And it les you kinda write in a compartmentalized fashion and focus on whichever part you want to at any given time.

Those are some pretty nice ideas. I've been trying to work with characters who haven't had any major appearances, because I'm not too interested in writing more syndicate stuff. Some I've come up with so far:

>Booster Gold is a former college football player who had a comparatively bright future ahead of him until a rival of his framed him in a betting scandal. The outdrawn legal process and defamation drove Booster to steal a time travel machine in order to go back to the past to live out his dreams of fame and glory like he thought he deserved to. He's not entirely sure if that was the right choice, but is enjoying it.

>Garth Ranzz is the son of a poor couple on the failed farming colony Winath, a barren wasteland without much to offer. He decides to leave his home planet it in order to find something worth living for, but the death of industry mongul J.R Brande throws the failed United Planet alliance into another war that leaves him stranded on Earth with a bunch of other superpowered kids (Rokk, Imra, Querl and others). They decide to steal stuff and wreak havoc on the planet and its citizens in order to survive and take revenge on "the system" that caused all of the shit they are going through.

>Mekt Ranzz left Winath a few years before his brother and fell in with a clique of idealist who had decided to make the universe a better place. It doesn't work out and Garth probably kills him at some point.

>Querl Dox is the great great grandson of The Giver, an alien with an immense intellect who set out to spread knowledge and peace all through the universe. Querl isn't like that, and after serving as Brande's assistant/slave worker for several years he finds himself stuck on Earth with Ranzz et.al. as the war breaks out. Absolutely brilliant, knows that they will all die sooner rather than later, addicted to pain meds and very mentally absent.

Is there a Name for Jack Kirby's sci-fi stuff like the New Gods and whatever stuff he did for Marvel?

I have no idea. It's a genre I've always wanted to write, but I keep just reverting to Star Wars/Trek big space ships and mostly normal people.

I've got a character chart already done and the bare bones of the story is done, however at the moment I am looking for a program to help me panel my comic pages.

If any user could tell me what would be a good program, that'd be great.

The year is 1962
Peter Parker stops the crook in the hallway and his uncle's life is sparred, and the responsibility speech falls on deaf ears. The young man becomes a muscle for hire for any goon who pays well enough around New York. Work then inadvertently begins to leak into his personal life, much to his dismay.

This picture always reminds me of this super cringe Mega Man fanfic I read close to 15 years ago about Mega Man fighting in a second Viet Nam War. Like, it opens with him fucking a girl in college and then he gets drafted to go to Nam where he just uses an M-16 and shit. Other than occasional references to Wily and mettools, as well as calling the protagonist Mega Man, there's nothing MM related in the fucking thing.
It's guided and shaped my fanfiction writing to this day. I constantly strive to never write something like it.

I'm working on the second book in a five-book fantasy series. It's about a powerful barbarian demigoddess whose bloodline makes her the only person able to stop a hyperpowered Roman Empire from conquering the entire cosmos. It's set in a fantastical version of Dark Ages Europe where all myths and legends are true.

When I'm done with that I'm going to start on another novel idea I have, this one a realistic novel about a coed at an Ivy League school who encounters terrible people and decides to start murdering them.

Been working on two stories, one heavily inspired by my love for Green Lantern & Doctor Fate (kind of a dual hybrid), the other a Metal Hurlant inspired cyberpunk story about a 60's style supercomputer god and his followers. I'm also in the process of writing a bronze age inspired team-up fan fic called "Captain America & Howard The Duck See America"

Hey guys. I've been writing for a /coc/ Rage Racer comic for a bit now. Slowly, yes, but surely. It seems that only a few are willing to help me out over there, so I was wondering if you would humor a look through babby's first comic strip. Or would you rather see it when it's "complete"?


I know the guy whose making the BQ comic is using Clip Studio Paint. It has tools for paneling plus a "batch" feature to keep all your pages together.

Postem

w-what about my fanfiction user

Alright cool.

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I'm basically making a full comic of this guy's origin story

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Maybe a sort of Swords and Sorcery?

Fuck. I want to read this.

A two sided war story set between union of republican states modeled after the Second French Republic against a(n) semi-absolute monarchy, empire modeled from the Japanese Empire in our 1950s w/ magic added in.

Then drafting up-stuff for a mecha thing.

I'll get back writing immediately!
after exams that is.

But in the story I just want it to focus on Marvel heroes in the year 1962, forward. So a characters first issue of publication is when they'd first hit the scene in universe.

I refuse to believe you're that guy. He looked like he was thirty back in like 2000/1.

>oldfags
>on my neo-Sup Forums

no im not. im talking about the spider-man one in the original post

It's whatever.

It's not bad, but I like the picture more, like a "what if Peter Parker got drafted?" story

I would have vietnam later on in the story

Most likely I'm just retarded, but motivations are hard. You'd think the question of "What does your protagonist want?" would be an easy one, but I keep getting stuck on generic meaningless bullshit like money or power. But money and power are a means to an end, and I got no idea what the hell that end should be.

I'm more interested in seeing other mildly bad ends for characters. This concept sounds like a more easily digested Ruins without all the over the top grim dark.

Have a batman horror story, a wolvie noir story and a OC I've been kicking around for a while. Starting in on the OC book lately trying to keep it street level, listening to a lot of that depressing jazz from like every movie set in NY in like the late 70s to early 90s (think taxi driver).

Like others it's more of a pastime. Not that I don't try to make it the best I can, I do. But who knows if I ever let any of it see the day of light.

I've been trying to get better at drawing to maybe be able to do one or two as a comic but the skill it would take is years down the road. I'd rather not delay my writing to wait for my art.

In which Steven finds his life purpose.

Well a thought exercise I've used when having difficulty nailing down a solid bit of characterization is to kind of run them through their life up to the point where the story is set. Maybe just one or two major formative moments in each of the stages of life(childhood, teen, adulthood) before the start of the story.

Is that one of those japanese designs?

Doom's armor is over detailed.Doom needs not spiky bits to be fearsome.

The ideas arn't that ground breaking, but if well developed and written, they could be very, very interesting to read.

Some funky thing about a kid living in a dreary seaside town where it's always foggy and it's only sunny during the summer. But it's flooded to the brink with tourists during that season so the inhabitants are rather pale. The Kid is just a dude stuck in a ricky dink Middle School filled to the brink with bullies and assholes, with burned out teachers more or less tolerating their bad behavior so they can maintain order. He's not a 'alpha' badass Kung-Fu fighter, nor is he a hyper sensitive whiny pussy like Steven, oh no. In fact; Marco and Steven would get torn apart by the Bully gangs in this dump, with Jackie and Connie walking arm in arms with Jake Fulcher after he practically mauls those two.

This kid is a average Joe who just tries to get by. He's nicer than most, but he's stuck in a shitty educational environment that's doing a massive disservice to the students.

Most often it should tie into some internal importance even if it's just greed or megolomania which can come about in any number of ways. And there's nothing wrong with making a greedy megalomaniac just remember that their core motivation is only one aspect of a character and it's always good to have your story challenge it in some way i.e. "How will I get money/power" which is an external challenge or "Do I really need money/power" which is internal or "How far will I go for money/power" which is a bit of both.

here, this is partially the premise of my novel, the protagonist trying to get his shit together and find something to give a damn about. He achieves it by killing people he deems to be criminals. The final chapter is one big solipsistic rant about how being judge, jury, and executioner has finally brought him happiness and meaning in his life.

>alternate-history satire
You got your own Draka, user?

Yeah. Marco, Steven, and Dipper would get torn apart in real schools, colleges, or universities. Seriously. Marco will be seen as too dorky to even consider dating, and will be perpetually stuck in the 'friendzone' while the Jackies and Whotsfaces of the world run after the football team and the frat boys, saying that he's gay to put some distance between them. Steven would be that mental retard the bullies from my school used to sling rocks at during the weekends (seriously. They'd load gravel in slings and chase after him in bikes, pricks). Dipper would be that one alien-obsessed autist everyone would make fun of, bullying him till the point he goes fucking insane and withdraws from the outside world mentally.

The one exception would be Lincoln from Loud House. But he'd just be that one nerd you kind of know in C.C. or at work. He's also a NEET, but at least he kept his sanity unlike the others.

What the fuck kind of schools did you go to?

>Steven Universe vs reality
>it was another day in Beach City, and Steven was in the gem shack getting ready for another adventure.
>"Hooray, I'm gonna save the day again!"
>"Yes you are, Steven." Pearl agreed, "yes you are-"
>"THIS IS THE POLICE!" A loudspeaker blared from outside the shack. "STEP AWAY FROM THE CHILD AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!"
>the police had the shack surrounded, with SWAT even prepping to storm the building just in case the Gems weren't compliant..
>Steven was nervous. "Guys, we're surrounded! What are we going to do?"
>"Oh Steven," Pearl was smug, "these are humans. All we gotta do is just fuse and they'll scatter just like in the old days."
>"Wha-" It was too late for Steven to object as the Gems walked outside of the shack and all he could do was watch through the window. The police trained their pistols, SWAT aimed their rifles, and the single Chicago based PI cocked his revolver.
>"Ready girls!" Pearl shouted.
>"Ready!"
>"Lets-"
>"GOT A GUN, GOT GUN!" They didn't get a chance to fuse as the hellstorm of bullets shredded the gems into nothing but gravel. The hammer of Justice had striked, when the dust cleared and smoke came out of the nozzels the Gems were nothing but unrecognizable slumps of rock. Save for Pearl, she was vaguely humanoid but now lacked a mouth and had a desire to scream.
>"NO! WAAAHHH!" Steven cried as the police took him to protective services.
>Steven then got to spend the rest of his life as a modern day Quasimodo. He was adopted by the McBrides who had him... 'Play' with his 'uncles' every night. Steven was savagely bullied in school for not acting his age, and his step-brother would regularly hunt him down with his gang and... Well... Let's just say Flip got a discount those nights.
>Also Greg was arrested for child abandonment, tax fraud, and possession of inappropriate pictures of minors and sent to the big house for twenty years. Onion became the president of the united states.

>Want to write
>Can never actually write anything when I actually do Word/Writer
It hurts.

A regular one. Just had a graduating class stuffed to the brink with kids from broken homes, upper middle class spawn with neglectful parents, some honest go god Psychos... And a kid who wore a fucking Nazi uniform every Friday. He was a good friend.

I mean "social satire by means of alternate history", user. The book is called "Who Killed Heinrich Himmler? A Comedy of Ideology". The premise is that a group of time-travelers went back to Weimar Germany, and through a series of targeted assassinations (including the titular killing of Himmler) alter history so that the Strasserite faction takes control of the Nazi Party, with Ernst Rohm eventually becoming the new fuhrer of Germany. World War II plays out very differently, with the Allies teaming up with Strasserite Nazi Germany to fight Stalinist Russia. As a result, Bolshevism becomes the most reviled ideology in history, the Holodomor is the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, Joseph Stalin is seen as the most evil man in contemporary history.

In the present, disaffected young men find themselves embracing the growing "alt-left" movement, which critics claim is just a new re-branding of Bolshevism. Meanwhile, decadent intellectuals across America push an agenda of national socialism, pushing apologia for Rohm's atrocities with the excuse that "it wasn't TRUE national socialism".

Essentially the point is that radical ideology in the US is mostly a fashion statement rather than a matter of genuine belief rather than an actual, genuine guiding doctrine.

Working on a few things right now actually

>my theory on how Bloodborne connects with Dark Souls
>A Friday the 13th story in the modern age using reality TV

You didn't go to a normal school.

That's not a regular school. You went to some kind of cartoon school.

>Marco Dipper and Steven would get torn apart in real schools
Steven is the only one of those three who an argument could be made of that being true.

Dipper and Marco aren't that weird or socially useless. Hell Marco is actually fairly realistic in how Mexican he is.

Also what the fuck kind of place did you go to where those guys who chased the retard didn't get the shit kicked out of them?

When writing a comic script for something with a lot of fights, how much of the choreography is in the script.

Depends on the writer and their faith in the artist.

Depends on how much you want to entrust to your artist.

>my theory on how Bloodborne connects with Dark Souls
So where do the Pthumerians fit into all of this

>A Friday the 13th story in the modern age using reality TV
So that Halloween with Busta Rhymes?

So strictly case by case depending on the artist and their patience.

Any good resources for comic script writing? Im going off stuff in the back of trades I have but that can take me only so far.

That's all I've ever used.

Oh yeah the actual idea related to this.

Before the start of the series the main character got a bracelet that gave him a magical/technological suit of armor to fight an evil invading force.

He wins and the story is about him wandering the world after fulfilling his purpose helping people and fighting evil.

In tone I want it to come off like a western or a samurai flick.

Probably ancestors of an echo from one of the six hunters that story revolves around, mind you, they are from a time before everything started to go so bad in Yharnam, most of the factions and their key players are still in double digit levels. I'm not really sure, I have less knowledge of Bloodborne than I'd like to be honest.
I don't think I saw that, no, the producer of said reality TV show knows about the legend of camp blood and Jason and sets up an emination show there to be aired live. However he fully expects Jason to appear and start killing people and when it happens his ratings go through the roof.

There's no real standard for comic script writing just do it the way you feel comfortable. The things you really need to familiarize yourself with is how your script will be translated visually. Even though you aren't an artist you should know things about panel layout, transitions, camera techniques, etc. because the writer always maintains some degree of control over that and it'll help you with scripting. Check out Scott McCloud's books for all that stuff.

>In tone I want it to come off like a western or a samurai flick.
Oh dude you should definitely watch some old school samurai flicks and spaghetti westerns.

Well what I need is something which helps me to draw the panels, not just a template.

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Man, what kind of school did YOU go to where the retards DIDN'T get targeted by the regular bully gangs? Seriously, my school was a generic suburban dump.

Looking back on it... I did. I really fucking did. Holy shit, no wonder why everyone in my graduating class never amounted to anything. No wonder I got problems. At least my family life was great.

Because social microcosms like school reward people who are socially literate and none of those characters are retards except maybe Dipper but even he is perfectly socially capable.

user basically described my school as well.

fisk? the nazi?

Weird. Our envy your experience, user.

Yep. We weren't allowed to wear hats, bandannas, beanies, have our hoods on in class, and phones weren't allowed in class... But apparently a Nazi uniform was perfectly reasonable. I once got in trouble for wearing a hippy tye-dye headband because 'it promoted gang activity.' But the fucking Nazi shit was fine.

Probably because he wasn't wearing the armband, but still. Fucking bullshit. That's it, I'm turning my experiences into a cartoon.

Thanks user

Do we not have draw threads anymore?

Yeah.

I'd call it a cosmic epic. See, the one thing Kirby does well is that he combined the vastness of a universe, created vast and great technologies and mixed it with ideas that are consistent with myths

Thanks mods.

"Yeah" as in "we do still have art threads"

I have a question about writing fanfiction, does anyone have tips for staying in character or expanding on someone who didn't have much of a background story or personality? I've been reading a lot of marvel and dc comics lately, and there are lots of mino characters that can be fleshed out. And I'm loving what they did with the power ranger comics from boom. The original rangers didn't really have much going on either. So I wanted to see how other people write there stories.

Depends on the character. "Minor" I would say is less than ten separate appearances (so not concurrent). Over that you should stay well within the voice. Under that? I'd say respect the original intent but updating, amending isn't so bad when most people don't know the character's voice.

And even then, try to track down and read the appearances. You don't want to write something contradictory.

Yeah, the armour is a tad overly detailed, but it's mostly the throne that I feel in love with. Yeah, it's also overly detailed, but it does a good job of being an extension of Doom's character, and not just a glorified piece of furniture.

As for the ideas, yeah, the first ones are rather basic. I'm playing with some other more metaphysical concepts (see that Galactus take I mentioned), but I want to come up with a hierarchy first. Does THE God exist in my U? Is Galactus a force of Cosmic Balance, or just a delusioned survivor from the previous U? Is the Devil one being, or a bunch of Demons feeding that myth? What's the deal with the Chthons, the Shuma-Goraths, Sise-Negs and whatnot?

Plus, there's the world building aspect. Add too many Marvel characters an the whole thing becomes bloated. I've been playing with a "7 Sorcerers" concept for a while now. Basically there's a Sorcerer & Sanctum Sanctorum at each continent, with an 8th as the Sorcerer Supreme. I'm still working how to fit that in, but it's there.

How do I empathize with "bad guys"? I can wrap my head around what makes a "good," person tick, flaws and all, but not so much the villains.

Well, there are two roads:

-Give them some sappy backstory. "Oh no, Mistah J was abused by hid dad, his mom, his uncle, his dog and even his pigeon, that's why he tortures people for fun".

-Or give them noble goals, and make their evil a result of their actions, hubris, ego, etc, etc.

Although I'd say there's a clear difference between sympathizing with a villain and simply understanding his POV. Take Deathstroke for example. Yeah, he has family stuff. But he's still a giant asshole who fucks around, cheats, kills, maims, etc, etc. You can't really sympathize with him, because he's not doing it for a higher purpose. But, you can still see his POV. You get what makes him tick, and because he's not a deranged lunatic, he doesn't bother you that much. He's a bad guy, but not someone out of a B-Slasher flick. He's a... "business" man of sorts.

Aside from a couple of short stories I should been writing for publishing, I was making some RWBY fanfic, but the fanbase became so autistic I had to stop. It's a shame.
Now I'm just writing a little greentext for Little Witch Academia