He's willing to use any means necessary to achieve this goal, even if it involves terrorizing and killing his own subjects that get in his way. I think the king wants to "protect" his kingdom, and by protect, I mean destroy all the lighteners that exist and exact vengeance upon them, by any means necessary, regardless of wether they actually hurt his kind or not. You don't need to be exclusively good to be good and you don't need to be exclusively evil to be evil. Him showing his soft side for The Queen and Lancer doesn't excuse anything he did and it doesn't mean he is a good person deep down, it just means he likes these two. The reason why I said that his intentions may seem noble to SOME is because certain people could think that his acts are justified just because he wants to protect his kingdom, which they are not.
He doesn't want to hurt you because hurting and being bad is fun, he is hurting you because he thinks that he is doing the right thing, even if he actually is doing the polar opposite of that. The king wants to protect his kingdom from the bad bad lighteners, that doesn't make him a good guy, and that's not a good reason for his horrendous acts, but it is a reason, which is why he isn't just a comic book villain.
And that's exactly what the King does.Įdit: What I meant with the comment is that an evil villain doesn't need to be "relatable" or "secretly good on the inside" (I don't want to hurt anybody, I just want peace or something like that) to be well-written. His intentions may seem noble to some, but evil isn't being evil for the fun of it, it's doing bad things for what you believe is good. He isn't one-dimensional, but he isn't a good guy either. He doesn't want to give you a second chance or make friends or whatever like most Toby Fox-styled villains, the suffering he endured has turned him into a bitter, spiteful individual who blindly hates anyone he thinks puts his kingdom in danger, and he won't hesitate to fool you into thinking that he, like his troops, still has hope for you, because he doesn't. According to dialogue in ch 1, he genuinely believes that you are here to imprison him and his people once again. It's likely that he judges that these methods are necessary in order for him to protect his own kingdom and prevent them all from being abandoned again. He cares for his kingdom, but his methods of caring are brutal and unhealthy: he terrorizes his own subjects into submission, he manipulates those arounds him to get his way, and often results to violence to keep his world in order. He was happy that the knight gave them a new purpose (being darkeners instead of unused toys). It's pretty obvious that he's angry at the lighteners for locking him and his people in a dark classroom for all eternity.
I don't understand why people call this character one dimensional.
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