villains are hard to design. making them ugly is dangerous, depending on what traits you choose to frame as monstrous or undesirable, you could very well end up saying something fatphobic, racist, anti-semitic, etc
but if you make a hot villain then people will get thirsty and demand redemptions and refuse to acknowledge their evil actions, no matter how despicable
Solution: Full body armor and masks. You don’t see people shipping themselves with Sauron!
…………..you think?
…………..don’t look up Sauron on AO3
Someone clearly never heard of the silmarillion fandom
“write the exciting parts you WANT to write then work backwards!” is probably good writing advice for people with good working brains and not caveman idiots who will go “ooh fun part done me not want write no more” aka ME