There inside the shelf was a collection of objects. A mask, that was decorated in an almost tribal fashion. A Staff, of which was gnarled and twisted with a series of orbs that still hovered around it intact, and what could only be described as a red crystal heart the size of a ponies head. alongside it was a book, perfectly kept within its prison. I conjured a portal and transfered the statuefied starswirl and the rest of the rooms contents back into base before exiting, it could be investigated later, when I came back, but I wanted out of this creepy place, and to check out the library on the first floor before I left.
That's when I noticed that the pile of molted snakeskin had moved. Starswirls words came back to my mind. A basilisk could survive to reach ages far beyond the range of a thousand six hundred, and this journal, no doubt, had been written right before the fall of Nightmare Moon. What had his assistant, no murderer, done over that time? Judging from the ponies petrified in stone around the large chamber, I was about to find out.
I shut my eyes, instead focusing on seeing through the eyes of my puppets as I called them to me, all the while slipping the mask I had intended for Rarity over another puppets head. A metallic framwork with a bandaged underside covering up the wooden puppet before it transfused itself with three glowing blue lights over its tan color scheme. Nox, villain from wakfu. Tragic loss of family over his obsession with the elia cube. Master of the time magic of the Xelors, and particularly skilled in draining magic from others in his attempts to fix his own clock.
My vision shifted to Aku, Undisputed being whos origin comes from a source of absolute evil, united a massive portion of the galaxy under his rule by crushing his opposition, resulting in only small revolts and gang operations as opposed to intergalactic warfare that would've be inevitable in the future had he not united the nations under one empire. He made the difficult choices for his good and ill and suffered through the consequences.
Then there was the support of the group, GLaDOS, also known as Caroline, who was experimented on against her will and turned into the robotic monotonous device that had been too smart for her own good. They attached intelligence dampening spheres to try and slow her down but it only ended up getting all the scientists killed in the end while she had full accessibility to Aperture science. All of this was as a large singular line slowly rose up, beginning to fold, then the two serpent eyes opened. I flinched, even through the gaze of another those all but flaming yellow eyes were terrifying slits. I dare not open my own eyes, instead relying on the fact that GLaDOS was made of metal, and unaffected, and that Aku was immune to such an effort. Nox, however, I had to advert his gaze. Already a plan was in motion, and I would just have to stall the giant snake long enough for it to start working.
I'd have to hope this Lumiere was a conversationalist. I spoke up loudly, addressing the giant literal snake in the room, "You Must be Starswirl the bearded's killer." I stated, a cold clarity I didn't know I had in me, taking over my voice, my own eyes still shut tight as the basilisk took notice of me and my puppets.
"And what, are you....?" The snake hissed, slithering out of its pile of shed skin, its' forked tongue lashing out and in, no doubt tasting the air, he slithered out and around, surrounding us, "Sssomething equine? No, the scent of pony isn't on you..."
"I am no pony, yes it's true," I agreed, my voice barely not cracking into disgust, but instead taking the voice of a cold poet, "But you are no snake, that I know. Lumiere."
"How did you..." the snake looked momentarily surprised, before it realized, "Ah, you read the booksss, no?"
My tone was level as I watched small blue dots of light land on the snakes back from behind, mere insects in size, but their true purpose much more potent as a result, "Yes, I even read up to the point where you murdered your master. Why?"
I asked her, and she just chuckled, it was ghastly to listen to, her response was enraging, however, "Why because of three reasonsss."
The response of his was delayed, and I waited to hear them but nearly didn't have time to respond as the snake lunged forward, fangs bared, and my shields rose, A dozen cards that hid me from view and scattered, his sight of me lost as I vanished into one of my creations. My dolls scattered in opposite directions, Aku taking the form of a giant honey badger as Nox continued his preparations. It was going to take a lot of energy that I didn't have in order to stop something as large of this, more energy than that I had. But it wasn't going to be my energy that fueled the effort.
I exited from my card, standing on top of it as it slowed down in the air, "And those reasons are?" I asked, a disgruntled edge entering my voice, and the snake whipped its head fast enough around that I was surprised it didn't get whiplash.
"Firssst," The snake awnsered, lunging for me again, and missing as I vanished behind another hand worth of cards and scattered, "The Massster is alwayssss succeeded by their apprentice."
"And that means murdering them to you?" I remarked sarcastically adding in, "Didn't seem like that at all."
The snake of Lumiere searched for me with its gaze, hissing as Aku grappeled with it, trying to hold it down to no avail. The snake lunged, burying its fangs in the giant black imitation of a honey badger. Aku didn't care, he was a puppet that was immune to such things as poisoning, and with his ability to change shape, biting him was an even worse error. Aku filled its mouth, forcing it open as more and more flooded within it. a small torrent of poisonous liquids splashing down like a fire-hose left on as the snake was forced to eject Aku out of its mouth or suffocate.
The poison had an unexpected affect on Akus body, however, slowly his large mass was turning to stone where it touched, silently I cursed, withdrawing the doll and salvaging the mask back into my base. Now it was just me, Nox, and GLaDOS vs the giant snake, but luckily I only needed a few more moments. Blue gel splashed out of an newly opened portal, knocking the snake off its guard as suddenly its coated mid section began bouncing off everything it touched, throwing the snake off balance as it lurched sideways and threw its next bite off course that if I had been the side of a large barn, it would of missed entirely regardless.
It hissed as it adjusted itself to look at the coated part of itself, and I felt myself smirking as an message bleeped out in an familiar voice, "Hey y'all, I have a message from my scientists for if you got covered in the repulsion gel, 'do not get covered in the repulsion gel'. We aren't exactly sure what element its made of yet, but its a lively one, and it does not agree with the skeleton."
The snake hissed, looking for where the voice came from, failing to find it, it lunged towards me again. This time I vanished into a portal, and reappeared on the opposite side, as the snake crashed into a wall, sending the entire room rumbling from the force of impact. Causing several statues to tip over, and large cracks to appear on one of the walls, I was given an excellent momentary gaze over the snakes backside, which was now covered in blue mechanical dots, and I smirked, it was time. As the snake turned around and lunged I snapped my fingers. For I know, emphasis.
Nox's magic came into play as the snake was frozen in mid air. Lumieres own energy being rapidly drained to keep up the process of a psuedo time stop. With it, the snakes magic stopped stone cold, and I could now look into the eyes of the snake without being petrified. Slowly I walked up to the airborne fanged menace and bemused to myself, "You're probably wondering why you can't move, if you are wondering at all."
Elsewhere I found a mirror with a mechanical arm, and polished it, preparing it for the end of my speech, "This is a time spell, used by an inventor who is called by the shortened version of his name, Nox." I gestured to the dressed up doll who I had maintaining the spell, a massive amount of energy flooding through him from the snake and back out to the maintained spell, "The interesting thing about Nox, he became a villain from a rather tragic set of circumstances in his world that caused the indirect death of his beloved family because he was just a little too obsessed with a blue magic cube that was of his studies. He spent the remainder of his extended life trying to drain enough energy to rewind time and fix his own futures clock, but to no avail. Hundreds of years of gathering and he only rewound time by twenty minutes with all that he had collected."
The snake alternated his glance from me to Nox, as if trying to will itself to move, it didn't. I answered his unspoken question, "You're probably wondering why I am telling you this, well, time moves forward as it doesn't move backward, actions done in the past cannot be undone by the present. That includes criminal charges like murdering your teacher and employers."
The snakes eyes looked at me with contempt, and I continued, "But, I am not a man of the law, or prosecution, nor are we part of an assigned government, so you do not have to fear jail. No, but I am a man much worse to deal with as a result. I am a villain, a villain who teaches the lessons of tragedy, and as such I only have two rules. The first, is to only use villains of tragic origins. The second? Well, that makes the difference between you and me, a lesson after all is wasted upon a corpse, but judging from what you told Celestia... Being petrified isn't death, now isn't it?"
That got a look of shock out of her, and I smirked, Lumieres struggles continued, "Good thing you're a snake as well, heavens forbid I be petrifying a pony instead of a monster." I commented idly as a portal opened, with it coming a pair of mirrors modified into a giant pair of goggles that had been made with a piece of metal that was heated and bended into the proper shape. Once it was on, no matter which way she faced, she would be looking into her own gaze, and the best part about snakes? They had no eyelids to obstruct the sight.
Once it was secured, Nox released his magic, and a deafening yell filled the cavern, it was a hissed shriek of the word 'No' as the snake thrashed, its own magic turned upon itself as the drained snakes own reflected gaze petrified it. I watched with a mixture of morbid curiosity as vengeance and justice for a moment worked in tandem with each other as the snake thrashed, slowly turning into stone.
I took a moment to appreciate my handy work, before leaving. I wasn't going to risk sticking around to see if anything or more precisely anypony else showed up from that massive use of power, my mind had gone numb, now that the adrenaline had worn off, from managing all the energy Nox was acting as a conduit for, as well as plenty of other questions that had arisen since I had entered this damned castle. It was time for a rest, and perhaps dinner before I went back to planning. I left a camera in the main room, in case I needed to revisit the area for one reason or another, and left.
HONEY BADGER DON'T CARE!
Makes me curious about the other two reasons, admittedly.
Hmmm I really wonder what her other 2 reasons were. I think one of them was to get the artifacts our 'villain' got just now, but what about reason number 3.
Was it a truly evil reason? What was she going to use those artifacts for? Will we ever get an answer to those questions?
Better yet why am I asking all these questions?
please, please PLEASE get an editor.
I don't know what happened, but the quality and clarity of the first few chapters is being washed down by all the current spelling and grammar errors. 
i know a villain you can use you can use the ring wraiths or how about sauron from what i read about him he just wanted something new and was slowley corrupted by melkor or how about the spiral king lord genome or the anti-spirals from gurrel laggan
5090769 Seems to be a constant problem, finding an editor that is. I try to do my best in the mean time, but clearly I must be missing a few things in my chapters.
Would be helpful if people actually pointed out what was wrong with it, cause just saying its wrong without any explanation is sort of useless to the author in question...
5091157 The ring wraiths were a tragic villain, admittedly. Considering they were seven humans turned into twisted monsters due to Saurons influence through the rings he crafted. Though what they would be used for, is a good question. Considering despite their so called 'immortal' outlook they were extremely pyrophobic, and a single touch of their blade could kill someone over time.
It would be hard not to accidently kill someone with such a creature. But perhaps they will show up later.
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The artifacts are going to be gone over for a bit in future chapters, of course. As for the other two reasons, well, that would be spoilers.
One of the few times that justice and vengeance coincide without conflict. I just love what you did here. Irony at it's finest!!!
Keep it up!!!!
5091806 the also the reason i chose sauron or marion before he became a dark lord was slowly twisted by Melkor until he became almost nothing like what he was before he was the smith god or something. another could be obito from naruto because he also has a sad story.
i think another tragic villain i can think of is the lich king from world of warcraft because Arthas thought he was doing the right thing.also for luna you might be able to use pitch from rise of the Guardians who is the boogy man
also the reason i call lord Genome and the Anti-spiral's tragic villians is because they both were doing evil things in order for every one to live Lord Genome for humans making sure that they are not wiped out by the anti-spirals and the Anti-spirals in order for the universe to not be destroyed by the spiral Nemesis. although i wonder what legend of zelda Villains are tragic. i mean i heard ocarina of time volga boss was a tragic villain because link found volga in the past and took care of her but when he found her in the future she was twisted in to a evil monster and was forced to kill her in his mind a child
The student always succeeds the master? God damn, that's some Sith sh*t!
also how about General Grievous from star wars from what i read from his back story he was tragic
Could Sephiroth be considered a tragic Villain? I mean, I don't know the original history I only watched him in KH but it seems that everytime he appear try to teach Cloud that he can't negate the Darkness inside him, and that could be a good lesson
NOX. FUCK. YES. I will continue reading now....
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KH isn't canon.
I guess Sephiroth COULD be considered a tragic villain. His mother was a world-destroying alien, and Sephiroth was created by Hojo to be the perfect soldier. Then Sephiroth became the perfect monster, going as far as absorbing his mother and trying to use the black materia to cast Meteor to destroy the world.
I think. That's what I got out of the story, anyways.
I'm really not buying Aku as a "tragic villain". Yeah, you can make an argument that him bloodily conquering the galaxy was a "good" thing since it meant nobody could go to war against each other... but that's not what his intent was. He conquered the galaxy because he wanted to rule it with an iron fist, which he does.
Aku's reign is peaceful, for a given value of the word, but it's not happy or prosperous. Aku's a tyrant, plain and simple. He enslaves entire races and sets them to back-breaking and completely pointless labor like making massive statues of himself (in exchange for giving them access to the water he stole from their planet, without which they obviously can't live). When a Norse warrior dared stand against him to try to defend his family and friends, Aku punished him by making him immortal, forever denying him Vallhalla, and then killing everything he loved. One of his most prized lieutenants was Demongo, who slew and then stole the essence of hundreds of heroes and brave warriors to make them his own. When a scientist makes robots that can defeat Jack in exchange for not destroying his people, Aku's first order to them is to destroy his people, for no reason other than because it amuses him to break his word and destroy things.
In short, Aku is pure, irredeemable evil, and there is literally nothing good or tragic about him; any good he does is either to allow for more evil, or entirely accidental. He'd be one of the most disturbing villains in fiction if he wasn't so hamtastic and hilarious.
5942456 I'v already noticed that the author doesn't really get clean through with the whole Tragic Villain categorization. Nox I could say is one of the first real tragic villains he used. He has a similar story as Victor Frieze (Aka Mr. Freeze from Batman TAS).
As you said Aku cannot be counted among them, he wasn't misunderstood or anything, there are countless very evil things he has done, that amount to a cruelty comparable to Frieza from DBZ, who is also definitely not a Tragic Villian.
Aku was oppressive, a tyrant, enslaved races for inane work, broke the spirits of people and their dreams, as well as killing their families, turns on a promise to back stab the scientist who build the machines for him.
He had a minion who was equally evil.
And the worst of all is, he enjoyed doing all this.
He is nothing but an insanely evil villain, former might be the reason why he is so humorous and funny.
But so is the Joker in Batman, and while his origin may be somewhat tragic, he makes up in regards of cruelty in his insane world of crazy ideas that are supposed to be funny and almost certainly lead to the death of people varying between hundreds and thousands, only for him to laugh at the results.
A tragic villain is a villain for me who has a tragic origin, plus was misunderstood in his way's and actions, AFTER he became 'labeled', that means being called by a 3rd party or public, a villain.
Mr. Freeze for example, was a scientist who worked on a cure for his ill wife, that he put into cryogenic sleep capsule. He made a documentary about his progress, and one day a man named Mr. Boil with, who he worked for, came in with his personal security forces and ordered him forcefully to aboard his experiments, simply because the expenses were becoming, too high for his tastes. He claims to have disallowed him the use of HIS, that is Mr. Boils, equipment since 3 weeks already.
Mr. Freeze pleads with him that this experiment is his wife's only chance to survival, but the concern shark refuses saying that these Machines are all his and that his experiment is officially over, prompting the security to try remove his wife from the capsule.
That's were Victor snaps.
He grabs the gun of a security officer, and points it at Boil demanding to seize his command of 'murdering' his wife.
Boil, trying to seem reasonable, attempts to calm Victor, claiming they can talk this out... only to kick Victor back onto one of his tables with experimental substances on it, that promptly go up in gases and smoke as their vials break. Boil and his men are quickly leaving the place, closing the door and letting the room be consumed in smoke, with Victor calling out his wife's name, clinging onto his own life.
But he didn't die, he was changed and could no longer stand temperatures over zero degrees, as they would kill his body. He became a man forced to live in the cold, and so his personality also became colder and colder.
He build himself a full body armor to survive on higher temperatures, never again able to feel warm wind on a summer's day, or the warm hand of his wife.
He also learns of his wife's disappearance, only concluding that she must be long dead, by then.
That's why he becomes dead set on revenge, to find this Mr. Boil, this monster who did this to his wife and him, and kill him by freezing him in ice.
He doesn't care much for collateral damage, but he wouldn't kill or Freeze a child for example, someone who can't defend themselves, but his main goal was revenge on one man, with that he became obsessed with, to the point where he wanted to freeze his entire concerns building, with him in it.
Mr. Freezes story is a real tragic villain.
He was chased out of his experiment to save his wife and find a cure to one of the deadliest diseases in the world, by a power hungry concern shark, who cared more for his own money then Victor's dying wife, and despite his pleadings to give him more time, he fell on deaf ears. Left with no other choice but threatening this man who was about to kill his wife, by aborting the experiment as he explained to him, he was tricked into thinking he would show understanding if they talk this out, only to be stabbed in the back and kicked into his own experimental substances, which turned him into a man unable to live over a zero degrees, and in addition to that, his wife and the equipment he used were gone when he returned to the place.
Which left him with unlimited want for revenge.
In the end, when he fails to execute his revenge, and gets sentenced to jail, this happens:
Thus, Mr. Freezes story, is one of a real tragic villain.
Aku is nothing of that sort compared to him, and so isn't bowser. Both are power hungry warmongers, simply villians, and would fall more into the category of this Mr. Boil, then any tragic villain.
I don't know how the author got the idea of them being both tragic figures. They are both simple evil villains.
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I understand both glados and bowser and nox but not aku
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Idk either, Aku doesn't have a Tragic Backstory TM, He's literally just evil incarnate. Yeah, Uniting the universe or whatever under one empire can have good effects, But Aku didn't do that because it was the right thing to do, He did it because he wanted to own everything there was.
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Nox from Wakfu !!!! One of my most favorite Villains ever !!!!
I don't get the argument there, its still sentient therefor its a person if the argument were that its not a pony then we as humans can consider ponies to be monsters so i just don't get it