Villain in a Fairytale

/The Golden Prince/ is a fairytale I once read when I was just a small child. The story wasn’t anything special. The story circled around the prince with golden hair. He would save the world by defeating the tyrant, his father, and the villain who made everyone’s life hard. Afterwards he’ll marry his true love and they will live happily ever after.

Nothing special, right?

But even then I couldn’t help but remember this particular fairytale.

Was is because there were no dialogue that made ‘that’ stand out?
“I didn’t become a villain because I wanted to, but because the world forced me to.”

It was the only and the last line that the villain said in the whole story. Back then I couldn’t help but think that it was an extremely cool line, but now I can’t help but think about how immature it actually sounds.

Was that why I couldn’t help but remember it even when I was still so small?

No, maybe it was because it was too hard for me to truly understand what the villain meant in his last moment.
What did he mean with he was forced to, obviously he was the villain. No one forced him to become one, even more the world he spoke of.

But now I understand what he meant. The villain was ‘different’ from the rest.

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Read the first chapter for more information.

Started: 13 September 2022 (my birthday!!!)
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