Simple questions: is it the hero or the villian? How far are you willing to go into bizzare realms?
I got a big catalogue of characters. The heroes are ok, but most of the villians fall into classic villian archtypes. Here's one I think would be interesting, taking out most of the long detailed parts of the thing to sum it up, leaving out any over-the-top comicbook-like aspects.
It sums up part of a tale I had about the origin of one of the three masterminds of a big group I had created. The other backstories are taken care of. I shall refer to them as the man, the madman and the murderess.
A man is part of a group of powerful people. He firmly believes that everything he is doing is for good, and helping man. Then he sees that for the most part, these are just men and women playing god. He is a very spiritual man, and feels the urge to repent, and must right the wrongs he has commited. He finds the one man who can do so: a madman going by the allias (you come up with that, I'm not giving away ALL my ideas). He believes it is fate that has lead them together. He starts by leading the other man to his own home, and it results in the madman killing the one member in the group closest to him biologicaly: his own sister. Thus begins this man's path to insanity from hs obsession to kill the "false gods", as he calls them. There are men there who are to powerful for even him and the madman to deal with, but with each member defeated, their power grows. A cold, cunning murderess going by (once again, you come up with the name) sees their journey as something she can beleive in. These three form a group called (you come up with the name), acting as puppet masters taking well-known criminals and gang leaders to perform actions against the powerful organization.
The madman and murderess seem content, but there is just one thing preventing the man from complete devotion to his mission: there is one member, one of the lowest ranking of the organization, who he has had feelings for. But he knows that this path will lead to her demise. What's more, she is the lover of the protagonist. Deciding to remove this doubt from his mind, he has his men abduct the woman, and gives her an ultimatum: join (group name) or, because she knows the location of their base, she will die. Knowing the insanity that the group will cause, she refuses. The man goes on to say that what they are doing is for the best of mankind, but he knows the madman, murderess and his other followers aren't really in it for that. He knows that the madman is more powerful than he is now at this point as well, and that the madman plans to kill him once it is done. But he knows that this is for the greater good. The false gods must die, no matter who else must perish. With this, he murders the woman he loves. He has no doubt. He has no distraction. He will complete his sacred mision, and accept his judgement once it is done. In combination with other stuff in the story, the death of his lover is to much for the protagonist. This sends the protagonist down his own path of madness, on his own descent into darkness.
the details make this sound alot better, but a thousand times more absurd as well. at least in my head.
