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Originally Posted by JSWolf
a disgruntled Russian.
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I was thinking Mafioso, but Jon's is better.
Actually,
if the man is the murderer, out to kill the "damsel in distress", his unattractive appearance could be well-chosen for the character. That will prejudice the reader against the character before they even start the book (if that is the author's goal).
But I agree, if the woman is the victim, the character as she appears here is not very sympatico.
And a (perhaps naïve) comment -- I do like the gray-scale with selected words in red. How would it look with LOVE and KILL in red? Or is that too cliché?
EDIT TO ADD---
A quote has been nagging my memory --- “The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.” -- Mark Twain