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Danni figured something else out.

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Don’t worry, Kleya – everybody loves smiling villains! Also, Saisuke’s the brooding hero – we *want* contrast!

Just be sure to ham it up with the healing pacifis- er wait, you’re not vegetarian, are you?

Yes Danni, this is what that was about; but can you really get upset with her for desiring her role-playing fantasies to be about her not being a villain? Some of us prefer to fantasize about how we would or want to really act in a given situation (I guess that is why I like scenarios where both sides think they are correct).

This is not just a game, this is Kleya’s media face. She is not an actress, she only gets this one role to play for society. I think she has a right to be picky about it, and get upset when it doesn’t match what she wants.
Even if it seems a bit childish, she still has a right to it.

Checkmate Liliet! Great eye for the metagame and protecting the queen!

And this is where the different pov’s are coming back into play. To Dani the fact that everyone is playing a villain role in the group is insignificant to her, the fact that she still is in the group and still in the game are her main concerns and knows that even if some people might have issue with her playing a villain she can handle that she’s used to handling people who are upset with her for piddly things. But to Kat who at one point been branded a real life villain so vile that it makes hitler look like Gandhi by comparison. And only recently has she been able to find a way to re-enter society with a neutral reputation, to her the thought of any one thinking she might be a villan in any way is something she really wants to avoid at all costs as she already slipped down that slope once, due to events running out of her control, and it ended really badly. So now she doesn’t want to go anywhere near it again. But she can’t really explain that to Dani with out risking dani putting the pieces together and possibly making her new life even more miserable then it already is.

Heh heh… “ENDED really badly.”

No alt text today? 🙁

Whoops! Forgot. There’s one now 🙂

Danni may see Kleya’s freakout as childish, but it’s perfectly understandable when you know what she’s dealing with: she feels she can’t risk being seen as a villain, even for pretend, or else she’ll always be seen as a villain and will never be able to have any real friends or any sort of real life.
Kleya kinda needs to tell Danni enough, if not everything, so that she understands the she has real and serious issues and being a villain in the game is not something she can deal with.
The best solution for Kleya would be if her freakout caused the data for their tutorial run to be wiped so they had to do it again and Danni talks the boys (doubt there’d be any chance of convincing Bloody Mary) into being more heroic so they don’t have to be a villain team (Bloody Mary would then be the token anti-hero who gets their hands dirty doing things proper heroes can’t/aren’t allowed to do).
But if their initial run stands, it’s going to be tricky for Kat (she’d end up being an anti-villain . . . is that a thing? it should be . . . ).

Anti-villain is on TV tropes. They do exist in the exact opposite capacity of a anti-hero. They are villains you feel for and some are just barely villains while others are tragic villains. Bucky Barnes as Winter Soldier counts as an anti-villain.

I think that if the group is still a villain group, Kleya should ask them to do a backstory that maybe made her and Dani pulled into the group? Dude and Bandit are opportunists while Mary is the perfect crazy leader. So their group can totally play up the gray villain angle.

I don’t think the group could manage to be heroes anyways. Kleya forgot to take into account the fact the majority of her group likes to have fun in a destructive way. But if they do listen and the results being wiped means they could try the hero group again… It might work out. I think though it is much more advantageous to be a villain group with a sympathetic story for when they go against major hero Saisuke.

I can’t tell what angle im looking at in the first panel.

Kleya’s perspective, ish. Last page Danni was giving her a hand on the shoulder, so that’s her pulling it back. (Or possibly stumbling back slightly with the hand still up.)

I see it, thanks

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 367