Cipiteca396
🌺🌑🐉🪶 Anxiety Overdrive
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The closest thing to a Villainess story I've actually read is probably Riku the Right Wing. I've also read a few I think that deviated strongly and changed genre? It's so hard to remember stories I've finished, lol.
Outside of that, my impression was that it was either the distaff counter to the revenge fiction(where the protagonist is betrayed and sent back in time to get revenge) or a 'unique' deconstruction of the otome genre. Why is the dumb generic heroine so lovable and desirable? Because they're the protagonist. Making the villainess the protagonist fighting against the undefeatable heroine was supposed to be a way to eliminate plot armor and change the situation... You were supposed to destroy the cliché, not join them!
Outside of that, my impression was that it was either the distaff counter to the revenge fiction(where the protagonist is betrayed and sent back in time to get revenge) or a 'unique' deconstruction of the otome genre. Why is the dumb generic heroine so lovable and desirable? Because they're the protagonist. Making the villainess the protagonist fighting against the undefeatable heroine was supposed to be a way to eliminate plot armor and change the situation... You were supposed to destroy the cliché, not join them!