You know what trope I’m really diggin’ lately?
Overly intimate villains.
Give me villains that use soft, familiar pet names, calling the whumpee things like Love, Hun, Sweetheart. Give me villains that get too close, that use what would normally be soothing caresses. Cupping the cheek, gliding their thumb over quivering lips, a gentle run of fingers through sweat-damp hair, lips pressing softly against scars, bruises, or unmarked skin, perhaps to show the whumpee where they’re going to hurt next.
Give me villains that make it where the whumpee can no longer be comforted by their rescuers by these simple, soothing gestures.
Tag: writing prompts
no. 85
“You didn’t have to kill him,” the spy whispered.
Their commander smiled thinly. “Of course I did. He knew what you were.”
kiss fanfic meme
To celebrate Valentine’s day, send me a number and I’ll write a drabble based on that type of kiss.
- Cheek kiss
- Earlobe kiss
- Eskimo kiss
- Eyelid kiss
- Finger kiss
- Foot kiss
- Forehead kiss
- Hand kiss
- Hickey kiss
- Lick kiss
- Kiss on the neck
- Navel kiss
- Kiss in the rain
- Kiss in the Snow
- Kiss on the nose
- Kiss on the nape
- Kiss on the collar
- Kiss on the stomach
- Kiss on the knee
- Shoulder kiss
- Spider-man kiss
- Talking kiss
- Teaser kiss
- The whipped cream kiss
- Peck on the lips
- Wake up kiss
- The single-lip kiss
- The biting kiss
- The jawline kiss
- The love kiss
“Are you going to hurt me?”
“Yeah.” smiles the monster “I’m going to hurt you. I’m going to kill you.”
“Okay. Creepy.”
“You left me there.
“Yeah. Did you miss the memo? I’m not a nice person. Or even a tolerable one.”
Can you do more attractive morally grey villains who can kick your ass? I’m OBSESSED with them.
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.”
Prompt #1186
Back to back, fists up, capes tattered and torn. Hero and villain, enemies, forced to work together through sheer desperation.
“Don’t die on me,” the villain hissed. “You die on me, and I will not be saving this damn city by myself.”
The hero chuckled dryly. “Because you can’t do it alone, or you won’t?”
“Because what’s the point of saving this stupid hellhole if you’re not in it?”
Prompt #1172
“I am absolutely fine,” he said, bleeding out all over the floor. “100% peachy.”
Prompt #1169
“Fine then, bind me to your altar, rip my heart from my chest. Just remember,” they bared their teeth, “that if you kill me, I’ll meet your god before you do. And you won’t like what I tell them.”
Prompt #1166
“Don’t you feel it? The decay? The desperation?”
It crackles over her skin, the death throes of a dying universe. “No,” she lies. “I don’t.”