Summer Tribe Awards: Best Villain

Breaking down the Summer 2009 "Tribe Awards" presented to KTDARPG players by the votes of their fellow players, with tributes to the show that continues to inspire us!

Category: Best Villain
Winner: Manon
Runner Up: Chopper
Runner Up: Tristan

First, a bit of explanation. The term "villain" is always subject to interpretation. Sometimes the characters we perceive as villains wouldn't exactly see themselves that way, hm?

The past year, KTDARPG has had a wealth of characters that might be considered villains.

This time around, our winner is Manon (35% of votes). Manon is a girl, described this way: roughly scarred skin, dull gray eyes, withered black hair with bits falling out. Manon is also an assassin. Emotionally and physically, she feels nothing because she was an experimental subject who was never "completed." That made her perfect for Chopper's needs -- an assassin who feels nothing.

Chopper was our runner-up villain (18% of votes). As a pseudo-scientist who seems to revel in blood and guts and suffering and fear and all those good things, Chopper is a perfect leader for the Black Hand assassins. Everything is an experiment. Everything is a test. The world is Chopper's laboratory.

Tristan tied with Chopper as runner up (18% of votes) - but Tristan is one who's hard to label. Is he a villain? He may have done some villainous things, but you have to look at him closer for reasons and motivations. Tristan seems to stir up surprising strong loyalties among the people close to him. Urick, Cecily, others - Tristan is definitely charismatic. I guess his villainy is yet to be determined...if it's there. He may surprise us all!

-Chyna

Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"