NotaNuffian
This does spark joy.
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Not talking about Makoto from School Days because he was officially the viewer's proxy until he did scumbag shit near the end that cause him to get a nice boat.
Not referring to Subaru (Re:Zero) and Grid (Overgeared) because their initial shittiness is hitting way close to home and they do get better over time.
And obviously not referring to sympathetic villain protags like Fang Yuan (Daoist Gu) and Griffin because he live in a society slightly different from ours and GRIFFIN DID NOTHING WRONG.
Back to what I wanted to say, what I am referring to is an MC that no one (except for a few with loose screws) likes from the start of the story till the very end. He will kick dogs, murder children and rape every men, women and child and yet, there are still readers rooting for the guy because they think of him as a badass.
Slaughterer Hero comes as one with a chick that he rescued ended up becoming his assistant in fucking the world up because he is bored of the isekai and wants to murder for fun.
In the above case and in JP and CN, mindbreaking side characters via stockholm syndrome, a ton of copium plus storybreaking hypnosis, drugs and BS magic help the MC to live in the world that probably wants him dead ASAP. Those are morally and legally wrong.
I get that it is fun, imagine performing such acts are fun and maybe for the authors who wrote these, it is their own escapism.
Bare in mind, I am talking about scumbag MCs who have zero to little sympathetic pasts or actions throughout the entire work. No act of kindness, no abused history, just a normal-ish person who is an cunt just cause.
Now for those who read the entirety (thank you) and still bother to type out a reply (once again, thank you) , how do you even begin to write such main character and also, why?
Not referring to Subaru (Re:Zero) and Grid (Overgeared) because their initial shittiness is hitting way close to home and they do get better over time.
And obviously not referring to sympathetic villain protags like Fang Yuan (Daoist Gu) and Griffin because he live in a society slightly different from ours and GRIFFIN DID NOTHING WRONG.
Back to what I wanted to say, what I am referring to is an MC that no one (except for a few with loose screws) likes from the start of the story till the very end. He will kick dogs, murder children and rape every men, women and child and yet, there are still readers rooting for the guy because they think of him as a badass.
Slaughterer Hero comes as one with a chick that he rescued ended up becoming his assistant in fucking the world up because he is bored of the isekai and wants to murder for fun.
In the above case and in JP and CN, mindbreaking side characters via stockholm syndrome, a ton of copium plus storybreaking hypnosis, drugs and BS magic help the MC to live in the world that probably wants him dead ASAP. Those are morally and legally wrong.
I get that it is fun, imagine performing such acts are fun and maybe for the authors who wrote these, it is their own escapism.
Bare in mind, I am talking about scumbag MCs who have zero to little sympathetic pasts or actions throughout the entire work. No act of kindness, no abused history, just a normal-ish person who is an cunt just cause.
Now for those who read the entirety (thank you) and still bother to type out a reply (once again, thank you) , how do you even begin to write such main character and also, why?