Experiment

So some time ago in the past 2 weeks, I've read a couple of Displaced fics where the mc becomes a villain. Idea's interesting and could have credence but most of the time the only interesting aspect was the character of the villain and their intrinsic abilities end up not lending themselves at all to actual conflict. It's almost as if the only reason the character was a villain had nothing to do with their powers or body and more on the mental side which no longer exists because of the body's new inhabitant. Now while this was the case for pretty much all of them, I did find one where it wasn't. A Four Letter Word is that fic that betrayed my expectations and also slightly disappointed them. On one hand, it actually takes a villain where they were forced to be evil or they would die and this actually extends to the mc since the body they now live in survives based on the fear and knowledge of the boogeyman. On the other, the story very much rushes past the inherent conflict this creates and goes straight into him being able to survive without having to actually torture innocent people. Which is...both understandable if that's not what the planned bulk of the story is and very disappointing since that's the part I was most interested in. It was the one thing that made becoming a villain rather than just some hero or side character fascinating, but it just disappeared. There is of course another conflict afterward since the reason it was mostly skipped was that the writer had planned for something else. It's not like the story needed what I wanted to be good, it didn't. check it out, I recommend it

Now after that short spiel on my thoughts on that, I want to extend this question, what sort of villains do you think would be interesting in Displaced? The sort of villain where their body is at war with their own beliefs and have to tackle problems constantly just to dance upon that fine line of morality without ripping themselves apart. Perhaps even just have a villain where they could actually access powers that would make them want to create conflict. That last one I tried to do with Noximillion once I started rewriting everything since he could see himself responsible for sending a bunch of innocent kids away from their family. So using the powers he knows the character possesses he would be willing to commit genocide as a fuel source to send them back to set things right, after all, if he can reverse time and teleport to completely different worlds with that fuel it's almost like it never happened at all. Now that example is a fairly specific one that requires more work than just slapping a guy in a self-destructive body, but any similar examples would be very nice.