WRITING OBSTACLE

Think of three words that describe your main antagonist's personality the best.

Write a paragraph about how each of them applies to the character. You may have more than one antagonist, but try to choose the primary one.

3 words HF

Superiority Complex: This applies to HF because his upbringing has always brought him shame. He was born from a prostitute and had to endure the abusive treatment of others because he was always the servant and slave of others. His childhood experiences filled him with the strong fear of being inferior to others, of being taken advantage of, and this phobia has consumed him his entire life so much so that he created a superiority complex to convince others and primarily, to convince himself. But even when he finally stood in positions of power in the kingdom, that fear never left. Even as he stood over others and the pedestal he built for himself, it was never enough for him to feel strong enough. Never strong enough to see himself as the man he became because he still sees himself as that same weak boy who was forced to withstand his masters, forced to bare humiliation in silence, the son of a prostitute. He believed that becoming a King would free him, but while he only thought of “physical” freedom, his true enslavement was in his mind.


Ambitious: This applies to HF because being born in the circumstances he was didn’t cut off the wild aspirations of his heart. Many which if others were to hear or know of, they would ridiculize a dream so far from his reality. But the reason they happened as he desired so deeply was because he captured and swallowed any opportunity to reach it, no matter how expensive the cost would be. Whether the cost was his sanity or rivers of blood, what mattered to him was to become what he believed would set him free. His dreams to take the kingdom under his name and destroy the enemy kingdom, his birth kingdom, was the dreams he dedicated his entire life to. Throughtout his journey, HF was given chances to leave his ambition, to pursue the real meaning of life, to find the freedom he needed, but it didn’t come in the forms his mind had initially painted, so they were ditched at the cost of blood. Debts he never paid full.


Manipulative: This applies to HF because obtaining things and places in life in honest ways makes the outcome uncertain, for him. He believes that waiting for the healthy flow of life is risking and delaying too much, if he can maneuver things at his will for himself, why not do that instead? HF uses his close connection to the King to obtain his wants, taking from the eternal gratitude this one has towards HF for saving his life from a close assassination attempt. HF takes the foolishness of a woman, with a specific trait he looked for, to get a child with that trait for his own personal use (making that child into a “weapon” he’ll crucially need). Does favors to inject gratitude into others towards him, to make them fall into a deep debt with him and therefore obey to any want of his.

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