I honestly have no idea where I'd even start making a genuinely terrible character.
They just don’t appeal to me as much as the good turned bad or bad turned good that make them problematic.
Step 1) make them racist
I did that with Indigo.
Also, that’s kind of cliche to me. And too easy. If I make a character that’s terrible I don’t wanna make them terrible because of the usual stuff.
I want a character that people love to hate.
Cannibal?
Maybe. It’s tricky I don’t want to make them inherently bad. So making them a cannibal for cultural purposes might work.
I might have an idea for just making one a right bitch in my head though and she might work…
Make them seem super classy and nice at first but you follow them around you find out that they are a horrible person who deserves to die