Manifest War: The Weapons Within

CHARACTER THOUGHTS

When deciding on how I wanted to portray Manifest War's main villain, I didn't want to go the route of him being "morally grey." This idea that he's a good guy but happens to do bad things just didn't really work with his ambitions in mind. At his core, Briddle is about as bad as you can get for a villain.

To start, I wanted Briddle to be an evil and fairly menacing villain, while also having a surprising sense of care and affection towards those closest to him. He's an arrogant scumbag that wouldn't hesitate for a second to squash someone underneath his boot, but when it comes to his own people/subordinates, he'll let quite a bit slide before taking action.

I found this rather interesting because in a lot of stories, most subordinates to the main villain would fear them and walk on eggshells around them. That isn't the case with Briddle. His followers absolutely adore him and handle his tasks out of respect/admiration, instead of out of fear and intimidation. Now that's not to say that he hasn't gone off the rails against his own before, because he absolutely has. However, there is usually a good reason for his reactions in those rare situations.

Compared to Homura's charming nature, he definitely comes off as a hot-headed asshole but that's why we have her there, to kind of "balance" his mood in a way haha.

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