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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oversquid" data-source="post: 5727896" data-attributes="member: 6684394">The problem I see with a lot of "Evil" aligned characters is that more often than not, many of the people playing them off as evil end up looking more ridiculous than evil.Not that I'm an expert, but hopefully I can push you in the right direction.So to begin, the first thing to do is to define evil. I don't think its too out of the question that both good and evil people have personal goals. But when pursuing such a goal, there are things that need to be done to get to them, yes? What makes a good person different from an evil person with the same goal is how far they are willing to go to get to them.An evil person is more likely to step on other people to get to what they want, whereas a good person would only go so far before they decide to do the right thing, and let the person in front of them be what they want to be.In short, you can perhaps say that an evil person think little of other people, whereas good people think of other people.Even then, what I said above is still much more complicated than what I just said, and could perhaps be wrong, but the more important this is to give you an idea on how evil can manifest, be it a greedy person, or a serial killer./End Defining EvilSo with Evil defined, the next step is to ask, "What happened that made the character so evil?"Could it be that they were just raised in an abusive environment, and then they reenact the abuse on the world because that's all that they ever knew?Even then, someone raised in such an environment has a moral code, even if it is controversial.For example, take Richard Kuklinski, nicknamed as "Iceman". He was a serial killer who killed 250 men, NEVER any women or children. He never cheated on his wife, and based on what little I know, never used force against his wife or children. Iceman was a professional Hitman for some Mafia families, and would kill men without question or remorse, but when he was asked by a contact of his to kill the contact's wife and children for him, Iceman instead killed the contact, for killing women and children are abominable to him. Part of that reasoning is because his father was extremely abusive, so much so that his father ended up killing one of Iceman's brothers by beating him to death. Maybe not though, but it probably shaped it in some way.What I'm trying to say is here, is that even a remorseless murderer has a moral code that they abide by in a way that would outdo even the most devout paladin, this means Chaotic Evil people too.But there are other reasons people become evil; maybe they had a good upbringing and all, but have always felt good when they got more. Maybe they tried to be good once, but that never worked out for one reason or another. Maybe something else I didn't mention...Whatever it is, you must answer the question "Why are they so evil?" And it must be good enough to justify what they became.Then once you answer that question, and made your character into whatever kind of evil machine you designed it to be, then just play it out as your character would.The most evil people have "Human" reasons for being what they are. If nothing "Human" is provided, then don't expect for us to have a "Willing suspention of disbelief".Good luck!</blockquote>

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