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Masterforger
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I just thought I make this thread for a little fun. It's also a great way to exercise descriptive writing.

All you have to do is describe, in detail, what pops into your mind when you hear "villain". You can describe clothing, personality, even the deeds they've done. Just think freely and have fun!

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Masterforger
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Example:
He wore a long, dark cloak, buttoned at the chest but open near the legs, to allow movement. His legs were clad in simple black pants that sported a multitude of cargo pockets, and his shirt was a long-sleeve blue top.

Not overtly sinister, but he also wore a helmet, simple and close fitting, with a large, ful-face visor, made of tinted black glass and oval in shape. A slight bulge in his left side indicated the only trace of his omnipresent machine pistol, one whose barrel had seen more men to their deaths then your average assault rifle.

iMogwai
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http://gotgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dr-evil.jpg

Because a picture can say more than a thousand words.

Anyways, I think that, at least personally, the word "villain" makes you think of comic book or movie villains rather than the regular, real life kind of criminals, since they're usually referred to with other words.

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My villain has white eyes with no pupils, sharp pointy teeth, dark green hair and has a very sinister laugh. He wears a purple lab coat and black pants. He's also quite tall and lives in a castle.

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You know, this reminds me of an exercise we used to do in English class. That gives me an idea. But shouldn't this be in the Art, Music, Writing section?

The villain is tall and handsome, with a seemingly trustworthy face and a reassuring smile. His clothing is expensive, but not extravagantly so. He always wears dark, conservative clothing, usually black three-piece suits. Sunglasses that he always wears hide blood-red demonic eyes, and daily filings hide razor-sharp teeth. One day, he gains peoples' trust; the next day, he corrupts them, turns them evil; the next day, they give him everything they have; and the last day, he disappears like a shadow into the night. If he is caught, his victims become the new villains.

This villain is immortal, but horribly so. His flesh, each organ, every limb and appendage is stitched together crudely. In some places there is fur, in others scales, and in some flesh. Each morning he awakes, and realizes that his bones are slowly turning to dust while he is still in them; that his heart ceased to beat long ago; that his eyes are slowly rotting out of his skull; each morning, he awakes, and remembers these things. And after thinking of that so many times, an idea came into his mind: what if you were to simply replace everything that went wrong? So he begins to harvest the bodies of animals and use them on his own body. He is not proud of this at first, but soon it will not matter. Someday, he will tire of scavenging animal parts. Someday, he will turn to humans as his new source of agelessness. Someday soon.

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A villain - simple as: a female you let get close enough to you to break your heart.

Masterforger
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Wow, you obviously have tonnes of writing potential, Jeffery. Not

Hypermnestra
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Wow, you obviously have tonnes of writing potential, Jeffery. Not

That was really rude. If you're going to criticize people, at least make it constructive.

The villain always wears a mask, so you cannot see his disfigured face. He wears a long black trenchcoat, black boots, and black gloves. It's safe to say his favorite color is black. He lives in a hollowed-out mountain, the peak of which is a laser gun.
I know how cliche and stupid that is, and I really do not care. That's what popped into my mind when I thought "villain". That, and Dracula.
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If you're going to criticize people, at least make it constructive.


If you're going to post something on a writing thread, you may as well use actual writing, instead of one example or another. Anyway, good work, Hypermnestra. Perhaps you'd like to write it as past-tense, rather than constant-stream, as I call it?
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