The story I'm writing is called Kiki and basically all ive got at the moment is:

All of kiki's relatives have died suspiciously and have left her an island (in the will).

The island has a small village, of which all of its inhabitants have been collected up (primarily for torture) by the impersonators.

The impersonators (charactor i'm looking for any tips for) are weird "creatures" that dress thoughoughly in black and kind of look like ghouls. I need any tips/advice on how to make them utterly evil. ( or any adive in general lol :P)

will be glad of any help you can give, you can reply in here, via my email address/hotmail address: Artzcreator1@hotmail.com

or any other way possible lol :)

thanks, bex x

Generally, how a villian acts is based on their past experiences. A lot of men abuse women because they either witnessed their father abusing their mother or they were victims of abuse. Also, if a character has a certain person who they feel has "wronged" them in the past then they are likely to be more aggressive towards people who remind them of the person who "wronged" them. Here's an example of one of my killers:

Jonathan Weiss is a contract killer. He was once married, but his wife left him. She was average height, had red, curly hair, and a slender body. Weiss feels betrayed by her, especially when he learns she has re-married and is pregnant. He is motivated by revenge against her and strikes out at young woman who represent her at various stages at her life.

My expertise is killers (mainly serial) and obsessive love as well as abuse/domestic violence. Here's some good questions to answer to help you set up your villians (I'm using "he" as a generalization, same as killing--it could be torturing or whatever you wish):

1. Who is he? (age, gender, race, employment--describe as much as possible)

2. Who are his victims? (age, gender, race, employment, etc.)

3. What does he do with his victims? Anything that makes him unique from other villains?

4. What is his background/unbringing? (i.e. was he abused? Did he witness abuse? How did it effect him as an adult?)

5. What motivates him?

6. Why does he pick the victims he does? What is his ideal victim? (All villians have a type.)

7. How does he abduct his victims?

8. How does he torture/kill his victims?

9. How long has he been killing? Was there a trigger for him to start?

Here's five general types of killers:

~Visionary~

-voices or visions demanding that he kills

-psychosis

-severe break with reality, likely insane

-ex. Joseph Kallinger

~Missionary~

-eliminate certain identifiable groups from world

-perceives certain groups as less worthy of being in the world (such as prostitutes, old people, kids, and certain races)

-ex. Wayne Williams

~Hedonistic~

-pleasure is highest good

-3 types of Hedonistic

- financial gain (comfort) killer

- lust killer

- thrill killer

-ex. Cary Stayner (lust)

-ex. Edmund Emil Kemper III (lust)

-ex. David Richard Beckowitz - "Son of Sam" (lust)

~Power/Control~

-kills to recieve gratifications from control of victim

-tortures victims

-likes the begging

-ex. Donald Harvey

When it comes to help making decisions on villians, I often look back at true cases. CrimeLibrary is a great online resource (http://www.crimelibrary.com/) to look at true-life crimes and learn more about killers. With a fan fic series (that I'm turning into novels) I wrote a section on one of my webpages with some more villian creating helps (http://www.freewebs.com/reobsession/makingofapsychopath.htm)

I hope I gave you some ideas to think about. If you have any more questions and need more help, please let me know. You can reply in here or send me a PM or e-mail at BregoBeauty@gmail.com

Hope this helps! :)

They have evolved on, and inhabit, this island and have decided to start a killing rampage of the human islanders. The full story isn't complete yet lol, so tis open to any suggestions :P - even though two chapters are already written haha ^_^.

want any more info feel free to contact :)

all the best, bex xxx

Horror stories have these "supernatural" aspects to them, while thrillers are more reality based, suspense stories.

Though the second post gave you good advice.

Artzcreator –

I agree that the first person to reply definitely gave you the most help. However you should also know that, under certain circumstances or depending on how you want to set up your story, a villain doesn’t necessarily need a traumatic past or psychological reason for what they’re doing. Obviously when people go to war or start fighting/torturing another group of people different than themselves they’re not killing because they’ve got some emotional problems. Since you’ve got these strange creatures you could very easily make it a cultural thing, or offer some kind of unknown piece of information to explain their behaviour. A lot of books and movies offer one central villain that is different from the rest that provokes or leads the others in tormenting the main character for their own hidden reason.

Laeden –

Actually the genres (horror and thriller) are pretty much interchangeable these days. There are only a few loose details that differentiate them. True, most people consider thrillers to deal more with realistic elements but a number of classic horror movies are also considered thrillers because they fit the general criteria. For example; A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and The Amityville Horror. Just because a story has supernatural creations in it doesn’t mean it is instantly relegated to horror. It all depends on how she pulls off the plot. The genre itself is very broad and it would be easy for her to fit the story she’s described into it.

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