Through the eyes of villains?

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curious, but we see a lot of villains get their comeuppance at the end of stories. But has anyone ever written a story through the eyes of a villain during or after the story? Following their punishment and rehab/redemption? I'd love to read some of these.

Plenty Have Been Written

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Many TG stories are of that form: a villain is punished through some form of transgender and becomes redeemed/converted: "Bad Boy to Good Girl". Much of it is about someone using vigilante justice against them. Usually, when the stories are ostensibly written from their viewpoint, they're actually written from the viewpoint of a narrator riding in their head, commenting about their thoughts.

To shamelessly plug my own stories: "A Visit to Bikini Beach" is in the viewpoint of someone who committed a horrible crime. "Grandpa Takes Beth to Bikini Beach" is from the villain's viewpoint -- the villain is deluded, thinking he's doing the right thing (so often in real life). In contrast, the original story leading to those, "A Bikini Beach Summer" was from the viewpoint of the sibling of the person wrongfully accused of said horrible crime. (The hardest thing for the sibling was to even become aware of the person's predicament.)

-- Daphne Xu