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To be Redeemed a Disney Villains x Reader

The Villains retreat.

Intro chapter

Well I’m sure we both know why you're here, yes? For the dastardly but enticing, supposedly evil, villains and the escapism this will provide. Things you desire. You might be thinking you know this story, that you know it so well you could predict how it begins and how it ends. It's been played so many times. The gist of them being: the villain meets you at your lowest. Poor and desolate, desperate for someone to complete your story to save you. To complete you. Or maybe they find their heart with you. I’m sure you believe that, naive as the notion is, perhaps you’re right.

But who's to say? 

…

Oh right, me. 

I’m to say: you had a tragic past and so by some rather spectacular turn of events you find yourself with a fortune and a crowd of your childhood favourite (or not so favourite) villainous characters at your door… am I right? That's what you expect isn't it. For me to give you some traumatic awful life changing tear jerker of a backstory for people to pity… until it leads to you getting super rich and falling into the arms of your not so heroic “loves”. Well shucks buttercup it ain't that kinda rodeo. I’m not gonna tear you down to build you up how I want you…

 Not when I can make you how I want you to be from the get go.

Though, that's not to say it'll be all rainbow cakes and sparkly butterflies. I just don’t want to create awful situations that you immediately get over as if they never happened. Like PTSD who? It's unrealistic in some scenarios unless you have that memory thing where it had been so stressful your mind forcefully forgets about it to protect your mental health.

Remember, I’m in control here. You're not irresistible; they won’t immediately fall at your feet when you cry. You can’t be loved by everyone. You're not all they want. What they want is revenge and justice and satisfaction. It's not as fun when you get what you want as soon as you want it, because then you want something else. And its boring. If you got everything you wanted in Life where would you be? Not here. But then again that's not to say you’d be interested in what they have on offer anyway.

Now say… How familiar are you with Total Drama? Or the Bachelor/Bachelorette? If you aren't familiar with either, don't sweat it. It's not essential knowledge for the story.

Speaking of, I should probably stop wasting your time and get to it. I’m sure I can tell this story for you. I’m also sure not one of you will believe it, it's pretty insane. That’s fine with me, buttercup. Telling it will be enough. The problem is where to start. I was thinking, well do I want to give my poor charge (that's you) a depressing backstory to “ease” into the part where you gain an inheritance, or do I want you to hit something with your car and guilt you into caring for it?  Decisions decisions… I’m kidding. I know exactly where to start this positively riveting story.

Welcome to your new home for the foreseeable future. Alfie’s (that's me in the story sorta) Farmhouse!

Oh! Wait Wait Wait Wait. Waaait. I forgot something. In these kinds of stories I'm meant to tell you a little about yourself and other stuff right? So I should probably do that before the story. My apologies. Totally my fault. (Besides when I publish this you can just skip over anything you don’t feel like reading, a bit lazy in my not so humble opinion, but fair enough you don’t have to read it all)

 All of this is just to get me(as in myself duh)into the zone for writing, as I am quite literally making this up as I go. This is so I don’t forget how to write You, my darling reader.

Btw I'm a purposely obnoxious narrator. It sneaks in every now and then so I'll apologise now. Sorry.

• I will not be referring to You as the ever classic (Y/N) (L/N) or any similar alternative as I’ve found it rather distracting.

•  This is just a personal preference. If it's not really your thing to be constantly referred to in 2nd person… I must ask: What are you doing here? And might I point out the irony of that little tidbit if you’ve in fact read this far.

• You shall also have a nondescript appearance aside from perhaps overly baggy “depressed person” clothing(insert eyeroll). Physically I will not presume to know how you look. Though it is implied that you are shorter than most of the villains.

• Feel free to tell me I suppose, but that doesn't mean I’ll include it. Too tedious you understand. More neutral clothing or even just random merch.

• Unfortunately for all’ve y'all ‘merican folk (ooh yes I did step on some toes there, that was on purpose) Ethnicity is also nondescript; but as I myself am not from America, nor am I “white”/european/Caucasian, I won’t be using the american spellings outside of the more America oriented villains for the sake of characterisation and voice.

•  If you have an issue with this feel free to kindly block me and uh forget about it yeah?

• I’m more like idk “East” Polynesian sort of? So expect sass and very dry humour and a lot of cursing. I'm literally like a 20 minute drive from the sea. Seafood and farm animals galore. Oh Steak how i love you so.

• Ohohohoh, I suppose your Sex (gender at birth or what have you) is also not mentioned because it's very much unimportant. Maybe its to be inclusive mostly its because I cant be fucked labelling shit.

• If you're a chick make some suggestions

• If you're a guy also make suggestions.

• If you’re neither because you can’t be bothered, same dude I feel ya on that. Feel free to do the same.

• If you couldn’t tell, by reading up until this point, I have ADHD(and anxiety) so if that creeps into your character it's because I don’t really know nor understand how neurotypicals (oh that's technically a label) think as I am not one. I have a tendency of hyperfocusing on nonsensical shit. If thats a problem darlin, fuck off with a smiley face.

• If you're offended by all of the swearing and cursing I won't apologise for how I cope. So suck it up buttercup or gtfo.

• The reader (that's you if you didn’t already know) is in their 20s. Congrats you got de-aged or aged up, (but if you're a minor reading this, you might wanna leave not because of any R/M rated content or anything of that nature but I just don’t want to be an influence on you). This is, as you’ve probably guessed, because I'm in my 20s.

• Also raised on a farm on the coast.

• The villains are all very much way older than you so they’ll probably patronise you or deem you immature. Unless they're an animal in which case chronologically you’d be older, physically and mentally though they have that over you. (Unless its “King” PJ then you have one up on him)

• Oh I should probably mention, some of the Villains likely won’t have romance arcs/plots with you because... I don’t really like a few of them. Personal preference you understand. Though it might not seem that way, I am mostly writing this for myself. I merely thought to share it with the world, which is where you come in handy, dearest reader.

• Also be warned villains if you break out into song the darling readers boss (thats me the narrator of this shitshow) will take you out back to permanently put you on mute. Looking at Gaston, Frollo, Facilier, Ratigan, Scar, Jafar and the like. (though Dr Facilier i can stand a little more than the others). We’ve already got You to hum obnoxiously out of tune.

• Might have smut later on might not though depending how I feel or if I can find someone else to write that so I don't have to. Collab and mentions will happen obvi because I strongly dislike people who don’t acknowledge others for their aid as they deserve.

• If there is music it's more Rock and Metal oriented because that shit is my jam. Or just really loud funky stuff. Not that ooey gooey shit. I cope with loud music so “You” do too.

• I’m agnostic, which means Reader is too. I neither believe nor disbelieve in the existence or nature of God or higher beings as there is no way of truly knowing for oneself unless it is made known

•  This way of thinking might have Hades (a literal God) and Frollo (A man of Faith) annoyed but like so what? Belief in anything is a choice. If you are religious, that's fine. Or if you’re atheist that's also cool. I just don’t care, it's not my job to care about beings who may or may not look after the entirety of existence. That job sounds hard enough as is. It doesn't need me complaining about not being seen nor heard to add to the neverending list of mortal complaints; it doesn't seem fair. Then again supposedly life’s not fair.

• The Reader is going to have a wonderful (sarcastic remark) time explaining Modern concepts and technology to these absolutely positively ancient out of this world villains.

• Aside from maybe Bill Sykes, Dr. Facilier and Cruella De Vil who are relatively modern. And Hades has some kind of grasp on modern things.

• The animal villains(sidekicks/henchmen not included) will become human because this non magic sustaining world of ours doesn't allow for walking talking non human creatures to share existence with us. Basically our world forces them to be human… hn, this sounds familiar. I’ll look into it and add acknowledgements/inspirations if anything comes to mind.

• In a similar fashion to how Once’s (OUAT) “Real world” works. No magic, no talky walky nonhuman people.

• Though Iago, Diablo, Lucifer, Hayabusa, Flotsam and Jetsam, and Hiss will retain their animal forms, Iago can talk Cuz parrot. Pain and Panic, however, are children. (much to the irritation of Hades). Morph is a tiny octopus. Brutus and Nero, Roscoe and DeSoto, Felicia(Ratigan's cat).

• List of villains who will make an appearance because I like them or loved their films or have actually seen their movies (cuz there are so many I haven't seen yet). 

• Hades(Hercules)

• Dr. Facilier(Princess and The Frog)

• John Silver(Treasure Planet)

• Bill Sykes(Oliver and Company)

• Jafar(Aladdin) fun fact: my guy Jafar was basically male!Maleficent XD.

• Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty). The “evil” fairy. Like gee i wonder why she so bitter -_-

• Ratigan(The Great Mouse Detective)

• Ursula(The Little Mermaid)

• Gaston(Beauty and the Beast)... this is not because I like Gaston. I just adore the movie.

• Claude Frollo(The Hunchback of Notre Dame) I don't like him either.

• Prince “King” John(Robin Hood)

• Cruella de Vil(101 Dalmatians)

• Lady Tremaine(Cinderella)

• Madame Medusa(The Rescuers) 

• Scar(The Lion King)

• Shere Khan(The Jungle Book)

• Captain Hook(Peter Pan)not Killian Jones. I mean James Bartholomew Hook. fun fact: Hook is one of the few characters in the movie that is able to understand and speak with fairies.

• Shan Yu (Mulan) another fav film.

• Grimhilde(Snow White and The Seven Dwarves)

• Yzma(The Emperor’s New Groove) i adore this movie.

• Mother Gothel(Tangled)

• Hopper (A Bug’s Life)

• Clayton(Tarzan)

• Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke (Atlantis the lost empire)

Now that's alotta villains(these are the ones I remember best) but I know a place with 13 villas with 3 bedrooms per villa. There's also a lake, a sea view and a farm. On this property I know of. Accomadations are expensive as fuck but its worth it. Also ppl get married there, my aunty had one of her first weddings there when i was like three? I barely remember it but there are photos somewhere lol.

• If your favs don’t make an appearance you can assume i've never seen or enjoyed their movies. Such as:

• Hans(Frozen) hated it.

• King Candy(Wreck-It Ralph) strongly disliked.

• Horned King(The Black Cauldron) never seen it(just seen it 2day 11/12/23)

• Madame Mim(The Sword in The Stone) never seen it

• Honest John(Pinocchio) I’ve seen it, I just don't remember much.

• Me your boss decided to give you something to occupy your time with during the lockdown(2020 era fic, yay)

• Which is the rehabilitation or “redemption” of various villains from outta this world. Just because I can. World without magic meets a fanfiction writer.

• Relationship between me’n you is like a grandfather with his grand kid. Based on great men I know and my own granddad.

I feel I must apologise for the absolute verbosity of this introductory atrocity. Maybe I’ll edit it out. Who am I kidding? No I won’t.

I'm writing this for fun. So expect crack. And next to no romance. It's more like idk fun development nuk responsibilities… Until the lock down ends and then well integration ig?