A scene in a hypothetical RPG Maker game

[Portrait of the Hero, referred to hereafter as just “Hero”]: You’ve nowhere left to run, Minion! Tell me where the Dark Wizard is hiding!

[Portrait of the Minion]: I’ll tell you nothing. For my master, I fear not even death!

An animation shows the minion drinking a potion and collapsing. You can exit the scene, but if you examine the body:

[New portrait of the Minion on the floor]: Dead.

Examine again.

[Minion]: Still dead.

Successive examines.

[Minion]: Dead as a doornail.

[Minion]: Ex-living.

[Minion]: Resting for eternity.

[Minion]: Will soon draw flies.

[Minion]: I’m dead! Stop examining my body!

One more examine. The Hero kicks the body.

[Minion]: Agh! How’d you know I wasn’t dead?

[Hero]: Did you know you were talking out loud?

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Scrapyard Station: Vore

A lot of intelligent species can eat you, but not that many of them will.

 

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One reason I was unprepared for in Gushing Over Magical Girls is that I’m used to “villain protagonists” who’re basically heroic edgelords. Like the stuff that Writing Prompts blog keeps going for. This series goes down a lot better when you recognize that Baiser is supposed to be a terrible person.

(Yeah, I watched Dexter, but Dexter’s got some weird shit going on narratively that makes it hard to call him a “villain” even when he tortures people to death.)