Challenge
Write about a terrible character—a monster, a villain, the worst person you have ever known—and make that character sympathetic to readers.
“The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger."---Hayao Miyazaki. (Think Magneto in X-Men, the Ice King in Adventure Time, The Phantom in the Phantom of the Opera...) 100 coins to the best work :)
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Ice
The fire of the neighbouring age
A little far away from a tunnel
Escaping a little into one closed bay
All heated
And sweating profusely
As if chasing from a horrible night.
I lived there
Where the girl lived
Just beside the front porch
Under the mistletoe of many trees
Shrinking as one
Yet many.
I killed not one
But all
Who fell inside the hole in me-
The fish,
The creepers under the hardwood tree.
It could'nt survive the winters
Or the scratch of my scribblings on its arm
So I twisted and turned its head
Upside down
Into one neat braid
And killed it.
I am the frozen
Diminished like the monster that feeds off fear
Under your bed-
Dying with the summers of infinty
Scavenging down the dewy aisle
In a wedding gown
Completely wrecked.