Can you do more attractive morally grey villains who can kick your ass? I’m OBSESSED with them.

gingerly-writing:

okay so these potentially veered a lot towards very dark grey, but I hope they work anyway!

The villain sat back in their chair with a sigh. “It’s a little early in the day for killing heroes, dear. Why do you have to test me so?”
Gagged and bound, the hero could only writhe indignantly.
The villain nudged them with the toe of their boot, a not-so-subtle demand to shut up. The next warning, the hero knew from experience, would come against their throat. They quietened.
The villain smiled. “There, now isn’t that better? Now, I’m going to give you thirty seconds to explain why you thought it was appropriate to try and escape. Convince me, and maybe I won’t flay the skin off your pretty hide.”

The center of her attention was a whirlpool, quicksand, the heart of a black hole. All-encompassing and without hope for escape. The most dangerous place in the universe.
The hero met her gaze, and swallowed. There was no escape. Everyone knew that.
The only question was, how long would he survive?

“You mustn’t play at murder, dear, it simply isn’t civilised.”
The thief watched them warily, blood dripping from their knife. Not just any blood, the villain’s blood. “I know what you did,” the thief rasped, “to them. To the hero. They- you- god. I can’t let that stand. No one with any honour, any humanity, could let that stand.”
“Oh, how terribly noble of you! Unexpected, but then again, I did always hypothesize that there was a heart under there somewhere. I suppose that’s one of two questions answers.”
The thief licked their lips. “What’s…what’s the other question?”
The villain grinned. “Did you ever truly believe you had a hope of beating me? I broke the hero, and now I’m going to break you.”

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