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Q&A How to write a manipulative protagonist that the audience can connect with

I've created a manipulative sort of protagonist, one who enjoys mind games, blackmail, systematically destroying people who've wronged her, that sort of thing. I personally find her very interesti...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by NoFicByHalves‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:16:39Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/27306
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar NoFicByHalves‭ · 2019-12-08T06:16:39Z (almost 5 years ago)
I've created a manipulative sort of protagonist, one who enjoys mind games, blackmail, systematically destroying people who've wronged her, that sort of thing.

I personally find her very interesting, but I'm not sure how I should write her such that an audience would connect with her - how to make a character who acts in this manner be sympathetic rather than abhorrent to the reader, and not in a fake "pet the dog" kind of manner either. How could I go about doing that?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-03-22T20:27:57Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 6