Can't come up with a decent villain

[Flintlock]

i can't help but think of how Mark Millar came up with a villain one of his comics

"What if Batman was a [jerk]"

Note: Millar said something faaaaaaar worse than jerk when he said that quote

[trixsterjl]

 Perhaps your already too far into your story development with your main char. With the exception of books where the char. is already defined by previous media most of the best series i have read start with chars. that have no power or no knowledge of thier powers and discover a little as they go and grow and change with the storylines. It sounds like you have a fairly well defined main char, and it sounds like you could write several books just getting the main char to where you have it at. The bad guys could pretty easily flow from the quest to gain the power he has or the need to gain it to overcome them.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Perhaps your already too far into your story development with your main char. With the exception of books where the char. is already defined by previous media most of the best series i have read start with chars. that have no power or no knowledge of thier powers and discover a little as they go and grow and change with the storylines.

That's because that's the easy way of doing things.

I applaud someone willing to try something harder.

[kingaling]

Thanks neurovore.

I'm not really the kind of person that's interested in introducing someone who doesn't have powers, giving them powers and then telling the story of them learning to use the powers.

I'm much more of "I think I'm gonna throw the reader kicking and screaming into this situation and see if they can fend for themselves." variety of writer. My character already has the power over demons, to manipulate them, to control them. But the question is, how well can he do that? The answer: not very well. I kind of think of him as someone who's been wrangling bulls for a year. Kind of a greenhorn at the doings of it, but competent and confident enough to that it will make for some interesting stories and circumstances.

[Nickeris86]

i just thought of an interesting villain archetype that you could potentially utilize in the long run of your story. the sidekick gone rough/evil.

now i don't mean that your character needs a sidekick, but if he has a best friend with no powers who is constantly reminded that he is just a squishy human stuck in the middle of all the scary stuff, its bound to cause some rifts in their friendship. especially if he finds away around his own squeamishness that turn him against the lead character. it would take a while for that to develop but well worth it in creating a driven antagonist that knows how your main character thinks and behaves emotionally. a very dangerous person no doubt.

[trboturtle]

Who said you need just one villain or a group of villains? Use a combination of antagonists. Maybe there's TWO groups after the hero, one "Light" the other one "Dark" and both willing to go through the hero to complate their objective. Maybe it's a free for all, with every supernatural and mundane insider after the rings. Maybe another supernatural, non-demon is after the rings -- say a Vampire. Or maybe one of the demons has put the word out and arranged for the hero to be taken out so it can take the ring (and control of the other demons) for himself.

Craig

[The Corvidian]

Here is another one, how about having one of the demons fall in love with him. This creature is not under his complete control, and it causes trouble to get his attention.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Here is another one, how about having one of the demons fall in love with him. This creature is not under his complete control, and it causes trouble to get his attention.

But why would anyone do a demon human enough to fall in love when interestingly alien demons are so much more fun ?