So, in the mess of trying to plot out my April book, I'm getting the worried feeling that my villainess kind of holds up badly next to the other characters, who are developing nicely.
She's a Kinar, or Fae - basically powerful beings with the base ability to travel between different worlds/dimensions, but they all develop unique magical powers on top of that. I had the vague idea that, as a race, they tend to be loners who aren't quite sure where they came from, and they are seemingly immortal - they can be killed, with difficulty, but if they aren't they seem to carry on forever, as far as anyone knows. There aren't a lot of them, though.
She has two main areas of power - one, she's an appearance-shifter, as in she can make herself look like different people (not animals, though). Second, she can grant wishes - if she forms a contract with a human through wishing, she's able to do a lot of things that she usually wouldn't, like moving souls and creating bodies. That's how she grants all the wishes - she takes the person and drops them in another world, or gives them a different body and life. However, since she's rather sadistic, she enjoys screwing them over by interpreting their wishes in the most painful way possible and then sitting back and watching the 'fun'.
So, that's all I know about her so far. The main character is someone the Kinar's been messing with for about eight years, shifting her through life after life and watching her try to figure out what's happening, and her role as antagonist really comes about when someone makes a wish she can't twist, one that traps her in one world.
So... I feel like I need to give her more depth. Are there reasons she could have for being such a nasty that aren't totally cliched? I know cliches can be very good, but I don't want to go with something like 'oh, humans killed her family'. But I can't help but feel there's more I could do with her! Suggestions are much appreciated.
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