song links: [michael myers resplendent] [heel turn 2]
both are from the pov from someone who is not a villain being forced to villainy against their will. they're both about reaching a breaking point. Heel Turn 2 is about getting beat down by villains enough that you cant take it anymore and do anything you need to to survive, and Michael Myers is about being painted as a villain so consistently, so relentlessly that you reach a point where you're so tired on a deep essential level from fighting against it that to continue trying to show those who hate you that you aren't evil would eviscerate your soul. so you give in. you stop trying to not be what you aren't. you start to fight back.
fighting back confirms their view of you, that they were right to call you a villain, but what else can you do? you have no choice anymore but to fight.
your self respect kept you trying to appeal to their better judgement for years. you stayed good under pressure, but now the pressure has won. they aren't willing to see you as not a villain, and nothing you do will change that. so you stop trying to be anything but what you are, regardless of how it looks. you fight not to be seen as good, but for them to not have any power over you anymore. you fight against them, you become what they thought you were before. cut off your hair. burn the whole house down.
they thought you were evil before? just wait. they thought you were unhinged before? just fucking wait. you thought i was trying to kill you when i was trying to be what you wanted from me.
now you get to see what it actually looks like when i try to kill you.
you'll say im trying to kill you because im the villainous caricature you painted of me, because i am fundamentally evil, but even as i emerge from the flaming wreckage where your house once stood, i am not what you see me as. you don't see what you've done to me to force me to this point. you don't know what its been like.
i am a villain because you have made me one. the villainy came from within you, not me. this is your own doing. congratulations
