I spent today designing my villain for the first novel. He's really just an element of a larger force, of course--the first book can't exactly reveal the full scale of the conflict--but that doesn't keep him from being pretty bad.
He's insane. He's an artist. He's brilliant and diabolical. He's possessed.
Altogether, I'm enjoying this artist side of him. There's something about aesthetic detachment--especially as I've studied James Joyce--that just seems pernicious in that it separates what is beautiful from what is moral. So he is the grand designer, artist, and orchestrator of the destruction of the world. Chaos and annihilation have their own brand of beauty, a darker shade of black and fire.
He does it because he enjoys it. It doesn't help that he's a demigod.
Playing around with multiple personalities is fun, too. You can never tell which side of him you're talking to--especially when the sides of him that aren't him are trying to manipulate you on several levels. This kind of thing is going to be fun to mess with.
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