Re: Can it be someone else's turn to be evil?
We actually have all kinds of evil here. Bad guys behind the mask, the obvious ones, those who use you, but we don't have one kind in our audiogames community. If you look at especially horror genres with super complex plots, like silent hill, you'll see even more bizarre kinds everywhere. Take Claudia wolf for example. She's actually not evil from the start but she's brainwshed by a bitch like Dahlia, +her separation from Alessa and her bastard father made her that way. Walter Sullivan was obsessed abou finding his own mom, and look what happened? He too was brainwashed, and even more brainwashed than Claudia. But at least these don't try to brainwash you as a player too, except in claudia's case. But then again, Claudia only brought out Heather's past and stuff. Walter is pretty straight forward. "You are just my sacrifice, and that's it."
Now what about someone who actually accompany you, not necessarily helping or using you the way that shhh guy in a hero's call does, but giving hints to this and that and may occasionally guide you. Slowly, you become influenced by that person, may even go as far as falling in love etc. But you never know until the end that you're actually manipulated all the while and brainwashed to the point of merely nothing but a tool, a bit like Zidane in ff9 who was created as a tool for Garland. But at least Zidane isn't brainwashed.
Or, taken from my own novel, there's this one organization consists of mages and armed forces, that serves as police force for a country. Then one day, the son of that organization leader secretly plot to take over that organization, injures his big brother who loves him to death, expels and sends his just and fair father into hiding. Everyone in the whole country thinks this guy is a complete evil. But then it's revealed much later that he too has been manipulated by a person who was blessed by a mage of the past to be able to die and rebirth as the same person twice, who reborn to seek vengeance upon the bloodline of those who destroyed his family and took control of the land he wanted to control. This guy who harmed and scattered his own family at one point saught after power that would make him more powerful and respected than his big bro, and he was offered that power by this mage. But little did he know that the offering had to be exchange with his freedom to be himself, as the mage takes most control of him and merges with his body, making it look like the young bro himself is the one causing chaos upon the land. Then this same mage would manipulate the guy's big brother who recovered to kill a person he loves so dearly...I'd rather not spoil the plot further lol. Just giving example of how evil concept can be done.
But then I have another example. This may not look like super dark evil or anything, but it's still kinda evil, and is taken from another novel plot of mine. So there's an entity that sees a lady talking to her tree everyday and knows that the tree too is in love with the lady. So it decides to give the tree a chance to communicate and spend time with the lady as human. It turns the tree with its power, sending him to learn a way of man in the world. The lady takes the man, who she suspects to be an amnesiac homeless in out of mercy, and teaches him everything rom how to talk to how to be a good person, and their relationship grows as they progress through the story. But little do they know, in exchange of him being human, everytime he helps someone, his power returns to the entiry who gave him that power. He presses on, spending his power little by little in happiness of being good, until one day, when it's time for the entity to take him back to where he originates...and mercilessly wipe every memory of his, leaving him once again as nothing but a tall round teek...and I'm gonna leave it at that.
I can probably come up with a few more from games or animes I play, but hey, you too can imagine as much right?
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