Yeah, I know I’ve done a journal on this topic before.   It is still one of those things that people seem to be utterly obsessed with.   The redeemed villain.   The person that was completely evil but is now a good guy.   Yippie Skippie!  Everyone is happy in the end!   
Granted I love a shadowy past character as much as anyone.   But the character that use to steal horses and break into houses because he hated nobles for society reasons   is a far cry from someone that disembowels babies to watch them bleed to death because it’s fun.    
Was messaging someone about an RP plot I was in and that the good guys were stopping the villain and rescuing slaves.   And the person I was talking creative writing with slipped back into their villainphile ways.  Woke this morni