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Aka corruption arc, but we don't mind :)
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characters who have to redeem themselves. Except “redemption” isn’t what they expected. They begged for forgiveness and now their every action is monitored. They have to let everyone know that they messed up— they can’t go anywhere without the whispers and dark stares following them.
Once proud, they now walk with head bowed and never never make eye contact. They’ve leaned that much. They have scars where everyone can see, purposefully placed there as a reminder of what happens when they mess up. It doesn’t matter how much they swear they’ve changed, the blows come all the same. Casual now— just backhanded slaps and grabbing and quick orders to shut up—
they’ve learned their lesson. They don’t want redemption.
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Prompt #217
Supervillain slowly circled Hero's bound figure.
"Poor little Hero. All alone and no one to turn to. Abandoned by your team, kicked out of the agency..." Supervillain leaned in, the corner of their lip curled back in a wolfish smile. Hero's eyes widened. "What's your next mo--"
Hero surged up and kissed them.
Quick. Warm. Chaste.
Supervillain stumbled back, ears burning. "W-what..." They clapped both hands over their mouth, exclaiming muffled, "What are you doing?"
Hero cocked their head. "You leaned in. Weren't we leading up to the 'join me and I'll give you unimaginable power' speech anyway? I'm just speeding it up a little."
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The villain had never seen the hero like this. Twitchy. Vulnerable. Volatile. Wide-eyed and not quite present.
Of course, after the media outpour, after the merciless backlash, after the mess that had went down between them and their agency, the villain had expected some form of pain on the hero's face, but not...this. Some look like they'd gone through a revelation that had ruined their life.
They got the compulsion to take advantage.
"I always knew they would do something like this," they murmured pitifully. They brushed slow, careful fingers under their chin. "But not to someone like you. Never you. You were always so... good."
The hero's eyes snapped up, suddenly cognizant.
The villain flinched back from the rage they saw, and just as quickly it flickered out in the hero's face and they were back to sadly staring.
A moment passed.
The hero said nothing, so the villain continued.
"Would you like to exact revenge?" they asked, gentler this time. "I could help."
The hero looked up again, wide-eyed, but this time interested.
The villain slowly raised their hand, careful not to spook, and touched their fingers to the hero's cheek. "They hurt you," said the villain. "You. I think that warrants some retaliation." They dropped their hand and the hero didn't follow it. The villain wasn't sure if they were cognizant of anything at all.
"Do you know the details?"
"Of what happened? No."
Silently, the hero tilted their head to the side.
"I don't want to take advantage of you," the villain told them gently. "I just believe your rage has been suppressed and smothered and doused for far too long. It's unhealthy, you know—"
"They threw me away," the hero said flatly. "Like rubbish. Because I found things." They tilted their head to the other side. "They sent people to me afterwards. Tried to get me to kill myself. When that didn't work they sent a hero."
The villain buffered as they processed this information. Of course they knew the higher ups at the agency liked doing terrible things, but...
"Just them?"
"Not just them. And not just the people."
The villain opened their mouth, considered their next words. But they were not sure what would give another seething head tilt and what would give the weakness they'd prefer.
"Not just them," the villain repeated quietly. They eyed the hero's stray hairs, the blood and dirt and cuts on their face. All their time in this job they'd never seemed to fit a place like this; a gloomy room, a star-lit sky, tall, looming, spindle-shaped trees. They raised a careful hand to tuck hair behind the hero's ear. "What would you like to do?"
"A lot of things."
The villain trailed slow fingers down the line of the hero's jaw. Slightly, so slightly they could've imagined it, the hero leaned into their touch. Their chest swelled . "Bad things?"
They placed their fingers over the hero's throat to feel the inevitable swallow. "Yes."
"You'd be justified. All these years of overwork, crawling into your bed each thankless night, this constant persistence that you had to do better." The villain stepped close as the hero's expression twisted in pain. "I'd justify that. I think, anyone who isn't an idiot would justify that. Think about it." They cupped the hero's face with both hands, voice down to a whisper. "Think of what you could do to them with my help."
Something in the hero's eyes cleared. They leaned a fraction of an inch back, all the fog in their eyes disappearing.
The villain started to draw their hands back.
The hero caught their wrists in a vice-like grip. They were present. Their stare was fierce. "No. Not just revenge," they said. "I want them to feel helpless. Do you know how much I've contributed to their strategies? Their technological advancement? And yet they don't give me any weapon that's not years old. I want them wishing they could've been better, that this could've been prevented." They shook their head just slightly, and the hair the villain had carefully tucked back came loose to frame their face.
"I want them wailing for help," the hero said. They let go of the villain's wrists and touched their palms to their cheeks instead. "I want the city bending at my whims," they breathed, stepping close, "like I bent for theirs. I want them to resent me. I want them to fear me. I want them scared when night time comes, because they fear I'll pop out and steal them. Then they'll see. Then they'll see how great I am. How great I always was. How I was their fault."
For the first time the hero looked like they belonged in this gloom, like the night sky was rising behind them; a lethal backdrop. The trees behind them seemed to rise up, pitch-black silhouettes. A bloody, dirty face, angry, wide eyes, horrible words spewing out their mouth—oh, the villain didn't know how they never saw it.
They looked like they meant every word. The villain was aware of every inch of them, suddenly alight with fury, with potential, with the need to ruin and desecrate.
The hero pulled them closer, until they were breathing each other's air, and the villain wanted to see their mouth dripping with blood that didn't belong to either of them. Such wild teeth they had. Such a cruel tongue. Such eyes, such hands, such looks. "I want them," the hero said, "to forever regret me. I want to grow like festering mold in their memory. I want to be a parasite in their history."
"You're wonderful," the villain whispered dazedly.
The hero snapped out of whatever had overcome them. They let go of the villain's face and moved back.
The villain snapped out of their stupour, straightening. Back they looked, and the hero had returned to looking like a fawn, all traces of that destructive sadism gone. The villain clenched their fist to collect themselves, bit the tip of their tongue.
"It'll be a pleasure to help you exact your revenge," said the villain. They thought of new ways to take advantage of the hero. Thought, distantly, how they could amplify their terrible side. "But you have to trust me."
"That'll be work."
"I will have to trust you, too," they said. "And—don't wear these colours." They traced the collar of the hero's ruined shirt. "I've always thought black looked much better on you."
The hero looked at the villain. "Your colour."
The villain tugged lightly on their collar. Looked back at them. "My colour." They righted it and brushed off lint that wasn't there from their shoulder. "Now, to work."
The hero followed.
In ten months they brought despair to the city.
In twelve the hero had made the villain theirs.
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I love fictional relationships where they make eachother so much worse yes I am talking about 12 and Clara
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How would you recommend writing a corruption arc? Like when you watch the protagonist get eviler what happens to the plot? Bc if the protagonist joins the antagonist then there’s no more opposition right?
It depends what you want the ending to be/what the story is about. AKA, what IS the plot? What is the larger point of your story? What does your protagonist want?/what is their driving motivation?
Plot = goal + conflict
Plot = goal; conflict; climax; resolution
Your protagonist should have a good reason driving their corruption arc. People don't change just because.
The protagonist could join the antagonist at the end as a final mark of their absolute corruption. If the story was about how a person can become corrupted, then that would be the end because you have told the story you set out to tell.
However, the arc can also be part of a larger story, in which case that is not the end. A character arc is not the same as a plot. They often line up because that's a satisying story structure, with the character arc completing right before the climax of the story, but they don't have to.
if you wanted the story to continue, then the opposition would simply switch. E.g, it might be the protagonist's previous allies who now provide the obstacle to the protagonist’s goals. It might be that being on the antagonist's side resolves one conflict but leads to others. For example, the protagonist might ultimately decide that they don't want to share power with anyone, so they try a dark side coup. Whatever. This will be specific to the story.
What if joining the dark side doesn't give them what they want, though they thought it would? How would a darker protagonist strive to achieve their goal then? They've already sacrificed their morals and so much, they can't turn back now, right?
What if the protagonist got everything they wanted through succumbing to their flaws/corruption, but it is those same flaws that now threaten what they most want?
In many cases, a corruption arc/negative arc directly leads to the character's death/downfall. That's the tragedy. Or they get what they want...at massive cost/sacrifice of something else and must contend with that.
Either way, the key point here is that character arc and plot arc are not the same thing. Figure out what your protagonist wants. Everything else, including the arc, stems from that.
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At first, Luigi is hopeful. He sits in his (admittedly comfortable) cell with his head held high. He looks out the window and imagines what his brother will do when he finally comes for him. There’s no question that Bowser will get the beating of a lifetime, of course, but Luigi still wonders how the showdown will go. He occupies his mind by imagining it all.
After 4 days, Luigi starts to get worried. He and his brother had never taken this long to rescue Peach when she’d gotten captured. Bowser must have realized this too for he soon takes the time to actually speak to Luigi.
“Your brother busy or something?”, he jokes. It gets a chuckle out of Luigi. Only a small one.
After an entire week has passed, Luigi stops responding to his captor entirely. It’s a real shame. The two had been having nice conversations. Bowser is a nice guy behind his tough façade. The constant kidnapping thing he has going on isn’t ideal, but at least he’s not cruel.
Once Luigi goes silent, Bowser starts bringing him more and more of his meals personally. He smiles kindly when Luigi finally takes a bite after an entire hour of refusing and it’s the only thing that awakens Luigi from his depressive state, if only slightly. Bowser keeps talking throughout these interactions, even if his captive won’t respond.
After two weeks, as Luigi sits on his little bed, slowly sipping at his soup, he finally cracks. His sobs come so suddenly, they surprise even him. The man barely even registers Bowser kneeling in front of him. He perhaps says something but Luigi can’t hear him. He’s too busy sobbing pathetically onto his meal.
He’s not sure how he finds himself in the koopa’s arms, sobs shaking him violently. He’s not sure who was the one to even go in for the hug, if Bowser pulled him down to the floor or if he himself leaped towards him in a panic. Either way, Luigi shakes and clings to the king in desperation.
Bowser lets him out of his cell not long after.
After 3 weeks, Luigi begins throwing things in fits of intense anger. Even though Bowser has allowed him to leave his cell and wander the castle, he doesn’t. Luigi mostly just stays in his room. If before he was depressed, now he was angry. He snaps at any servant that dares approach, he punches walls and screams into his pillow. Bowser is the only one to not get angry. When servants glare as he throws the meals they brought, when nearby guards yell as they restrain him, Bowser is calm and kind. That fact just makes Luigi all the more furious.
“Get out!” Luigi weakly throws a chair. Bowser stays still. “Why won’t you leave?!” Bowser stays still. Luigi lets out a scream of frustration and tears at his pillow. “Just get rid of me! Just hurt me already!” Bowser doesn’t. He just stays still, an unreadable expression on his face.
When Luigi tires himself out he falls to the floor and cries. He finds Bowser there to hold him once more. “Why aren’t you mad at me?”, Luigi chokes out through his tears. Bowser doesn’t respond.
After a month, Luigi finally starts going out. He walks in the gardens (quaint as they may be compared to those in the mushroom kingdom) and almost feels like himself again. He helps out in the kitchens and feels joy fill his being once more. When he’s introduced to Jr, he takes to him immediately and the two bond quickly. Luigi notices that he isn’t guarded anymore and when he’s by the palace gates, he’s not looked at with suspicion. The message is clear and the opportunity is there. Luigi doesn’t take it.
“Why don’t you leave?”, Bowser asks him one day. The two are sat in the royal library and Luigi is caught off guard by the question. Their conversation had been cheerful and lighthearted up until that point, about nothing in particular. It takes a moment for Luigi to answer but he finally responds with “Why would I?”
“Don’t you have friends you miss?”
“I don’t want to think about them…”
He thinks about Daisy, about his friends in the toad villages. He can’t bring himself to imagine going back to them, to a life outside of Bowser’s kingdom.
“Besides, where would I even go? Back to him?”
The way Luigi hisses the phrase out is enough to keep Bowser quiet. The koopa stares at nothing yet his attention is clearly still on Luigi.
“You’re the one who took care of me at my lowest. Not him.”
Luigi takes his hand with his own, shaking nervously.
“I don’t want to go back. I want to stay with you.”
The silence between the two stretches on endlessly.
“You wouldn’t abandon me, would you?”
Bowser looks away, his face red, but when Luigi feels him squeeze his hand, he knows he has his answer.
After 2 months, Luigi gives up on the idea of the mushroom kingdom ever coming to a peace with the Koopa Kingdom, at least not in his lifetime. Luigi finds the prejudices he believed about the residents of this kingdom to be nothing but a fabrication. Luigi can’t even recall why the two kingdoms hate each other so much. He only knows that things have always been this way and that’s how they’re destined to remain. Bowser speaks to him about his recent revelations about the unending conflict, about his failed attempts to find peace with Princess Peach. The distrust runs too deep, it seems.
“Is that why you kidnapped me then? Were you upset you had failed again?”, Luigi finds himself asking.
“Not really. But I’ve always kidnapped someone, right? It’s what I do, even if I’ve stopped being sure why.”, Bowser’s eyes were far away. “I guess I just wanted someone new to take.”, he chuckles.
Luigi finds himself smiling and laughing alongside him. “I’m glad you did.”, he speaks. Despite all that’s happened, despite being abandoned by his brother, Luigi can’t help but thank fate for bringing him to Bowser. He’s found someone who’s good for him, someone who cares for him, warts and all.
It’s too bad a red-capped hero slowly making his way toward Bowser’s castle has to ruin it all
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hello, customer service? my paladin just casted eldritch blast???
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Me when a character who was formerly bad grows and changes for the better and redeems themselves and becomes one of the good guys
Me when a character who was formerly good gets corrupted and worn down and becomes one of the bad guys and every fight between them and the good guys is charged with so much angst and layers because of their shared history
Redemption Arcs my beloved AND Corruption Arcs my beloved <3
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hi! :)
a writeblr introduction
helllooo & welcome to this lil account of mine! so my name is osiris and i'm relatively new to tumblr (i've tried to ease my way into the community multiple times to no avail), and as a writer i thought i'd try my hand at making some friends in the community as a way to grow and improve my writing!
about me
i'm an computer science and english student
I'm 18, and a gemini
he/him
marvel & game of thrones lover
fantasy, sci-fi, & romance writer
lover of lana del rey and autumn
some goals
use tumblr as way of sticking to a wip 👀
write more regularly and frequently
dip my toes into screenwriting & filmmaking
interact with the amazing people of this community and make friends <3
to learn how to engage in fantasy roleplay and learn how to play dungeons & dragons
writing
my current wip is a political war fantasy with sci-fi elements and it's currently in the outline stage
i would like to get better at worldbuilding and creating more expansive and fleshed out worlds like asoiaf and cosmere
i write fantasy & sci-fi but i also have a soft spot for romance, psychological thrillers, and spy stories.
one of my main goals is to write one of the most heart-wrenching, angsty corruption arcs
I've never actually had a successful NaNoWriMo...
would love to do beta reading and critiquing to help improve both of our writing!
also a sucker for any epic fantasy, dark fantasy, sci-fi, corruption or redemption arcs, stories where the villains are the main character (especially this!!!), and an ACTUAL enemies to lovers trope
if your wips feature any of these ^^^ things, then reblog this with your wip details/page because i'd love to check it out!
and with all that being said.....
i am sooo looking forward to meeting you guys! <3
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Monsters and Ghosts
Monsters & Ghosts, the monstrous siblings
The Toudens
Dungeon Meshi
Ryoko Kui
Red song lyrics (both fonts & shades): Animal by The Living Tombstone // Black background song lyrics: This is Home by Cavetown // The two dialogue bubbles, flighted birds & swallowing: Shut Hell by Yu Ito // Blue quote: Susan Ee // White background quote: Numbers 13:32, the Bible // “Burning shadows of human hands” song lyrics: Uncanny by GHOST // Brown-gold song lyrics: My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone // Orange quote: Mira Grant
Last quote below: Stephen King // Last song lyrics below: Monster from Adventure Time.
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You know what slaps? Every fucking time?
When the villain becomes the hero and the hero becomes the villain.
And not in that bullshit “oh, the good guys were really the bad guys the whole time uwu”. I mean when a real villain, a dark and cruel monster genuinely sees the error of their ways and strives to be better in tandem with a real and true hero sliding down the path of hate and evil and then, one day, they look at each other and realize they’ve swapped places.
Like, it’s the symmetry. The monster becoming human and the human becoming a monster. The villain starting to see clearly, understanding that even if there’s no forgiveness for them they have to rise above what they were and try to be better. Meanwhile the hero deludes themself further and further, isolating and growing bitter with every step until they finally snap and become the very thing they fought against.
It doesn’t get any better than that.
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Found the art meme and thought of them cuz... that's what I see i my head every time. Every. Time.
Greer is just... completely susceptible to the Disney Villain Rizz and I can't for the life of me tell if and when Cat is serious about anything and I have so much temptation to crank the villain part up to an 11
This can only end in either a Greer Corruption Arc or a Cataclysm Redepmtion Arc and I'm not holding my breath that Greer is in a good headspace to see if 'love' even works on crazy so...
2024 Greer Villain Arc?? Probably
@8um8le come get your boy, he's a bad influence
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Whump Prompt #1319
Submitted by Anon - thanks!
Possession through corruption!! A slow, agonising bleed of a foreign force into a character’s body that they try desperately to fight against.
Bonus points if the spread of corruption has physical symptoms I.e. gradually changing eye colour or skin colour, hair colour etc. and/or spreads from some sort of wound.
Bonus bonus points if other characters are around to witness this and try in vain to help, or even end up making it worse :)
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How much at fault your ocs and and your faves for their corruption on scale from Count of Monte Cristo to Jekyll and Hyde
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