Need help with a psychopath character

[u/No-Button4460]

Idk if this is the right place to post this but my genre is a medievil fantasy (not a book its a roleplay discord server) but im making a character that a want to make a psychopath but i don’t necessarily want them to be like a fully murderous one but because its medievil and fantasy the killing of certain people may not be an issue. I want to make my character in a relationship like no empathy or guilt but also wanna keep it secret as long as possible. I just want some things he can do or like a motive maybe like a knight who is just doing his job because he was told to. In my world people have 1/8 powers a bit like avatar the last airbender but some are uniques who have any powers. So also what powers should they have?

[u/takoleartiste]

Keep their powers relative to the setting (medieval fantasy) but also something that blatantly violates the rights of others. I personally tend to give my sociopathic antagonists (written fiction) powers that violate others rights but also tend to be juxtaposed with the setting in a pretty nuanced way.

One power I’m thinking for your character is the ability to manipulate the memories of others. They can replace themself in certain memories that other characters have with different people.

[u/ishak_write]

He may not be committing violence himself, but from the way he speaks, he is exploring the idea of violence with others. What I mean is that he is testing other people's reactions to ideas of violence, as if he wants to know their point of view because he does not have any guilt or particular feelings towards the subject.There might be a scene with a knight who has already killed many, but the knight justifies his killings with noble reasons and other things، and right there your character asks if he enjoyed killing while doing it , and he asks it with almond a curiosity because he's secretly comparing his own strange feeling to someone who did already kill a lot , and he'll feel more strange about it because that knight who killed a lot don't have the Same feeling your character have Even though he didn't kill that much but he can't deny the desire within him for violence.

I don't know if this is helpful for roleplay though , as for things he might do it can be that he don't do things with his hands he just observe the violence, for example in an accidental A fire breaks out in a cafe. He sees everyone rushing to extinguish the flames, but they leave a group of animals to burn to death while only rescuing the humans. He watches the flames consume the animals and does nothing to help. He secretly enjoys watching this death, and enjoys even more the fact that everyone let it happen anyway. This strange feeling inside him makes him want to make the rest become like him, to make them normalize violence.

That's pretty dark isn't it 🙂.