Yesterday a scammer on the phone tried to scam us out of around 3k euro by some silly pretense and a bait of around 250 euro supposedly they wanted to deposit on behalf of the government. Now, of course this didn't fly with me or my mom, but it would be ridiculously easy to work on the elderly and any person that was desperate enough for money to eagerly respond without stopping to think of whether something was wrong with what the scammer was saying.

The scammer prays on the weak. A vile individual, a bottom feeder that only has the gumption to rob the weak and perhaps the ones with mild dementia, or people with so much desperation they can't think straight. The scammer will get money that the weak don't have. Money the loss of which could even lead to death, one way or the other. And the scammer of course doesn't care. Because the scammer is vile.

In any case we filed a report, but as I was waiting on the phone to talk to the cop, it came to me that really, all villains are like that- and that is something that perhaps you should consider including in a villain's character design.

Note that I don't say antagonist, but villain: someone who is specifically designed for villainy.

An evil person favors the shadows, and that is for a reason: they don't feel they can win in open confrotation. They feel weak deep down, no matter how much they may rationalize their actions differently or grandstand and pretend they're powerful.

An evil person, a villain, cowtows to whoever they feel is stronger than them, until that stronger person's back is exposed for a stab, or until they're down. That's when the villain will kick.

Don't get me wrong; a villain can absolutely scheme and make designs so that their target will fall so they can kick but they won't ever do it straight up. If forced for whatever reason to be exposed as an opponent, they'll keep a safety distance, use others for their attacks, or manipulate and try to inspire pity and guilt so they are allowed off the hook.

It doesn't mind if the villain is a bottom feeder like the scammer or a top dog in the highest echelons of society. Their method is the same. Their inner motivation is also the same: they feel incompetend, unfit, and unintelligent. That's why they will use indirect ways and cheating to prove to the world they are competent, fit, and intelligent. But because they know that is fake proof, they will never rest in trying to maintain it and keep providing fake proof through that exact indirect, sly, cheating methodology.

Villains are one-trick ponies. They just manifest that trick in different ways depending on their background, upbringing, circumstances, and social reach.

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