It can be quite fun to introduce the villain in the story. The story of Coyote and Bear uses a villain who has fallen from grace. He used to have it all and now he is the but of jokes. This villain resents his new place in the world and want to bring everyone else down.
Coyote used to be the guy who could create stars and brings things into being and now all he seemed to be able to do was run around getting into predicaments. Coyote was not generally happy and because of this he tended to go around behaving quite peculiarly. This made him difficult to deal with. He didn’t ply well with others. He looked at Rabbit and cursed her for running so fast.
“You are so week!” He said. “All you ever do is run away.” Coyote reached down and picked up flint rock chips. Coyote liked the way flint felt because it was sharp and dangerous. Coyote threw the flint with great strength at Rabbit because he thought this emphasized his point. Rabbit ran and the shards missed their mark.
Coyote looked at Woodpecker and he said, “Only an idiot would spend all day banging his beak into a tree!” Then he picked up the flint and let it fly. Woodpecker would fly to another tree and never got hit by any shards either.
Butterfly was chided for not having perspective since his head was always in a flower. Porcupine was snubbed for being a prickly mess. Coyote was filled with bad feelings for all the other animals and most of the animals didn’t pay any attention to this nasty behavior because when he threw flint, they moved fast and he never really aimed he just threw. He usually missed hitting anyone. So no one bothered much about him.
This kind of villain aims at everyone until he gets a hit. He just wants to hurt someone. Causing pain makes him feel powerful.
In the next installment we will see what happens when Coyote and Bear cross paths.
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