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One of my main characters would be considered an anti hero, but could easily be a villain, so here’s my take on it.

His drive comes from wanting to be accepted, for everyone to love him and think he’s the best.
He fears rejection because he is an outcast in his own family, a victim of traumatizing abuse, he hides his hurt under layers of makeup, fancy costumes, and a scathing insult for anyone he thinks is judging him.
His beliefs are also affected because of his PTSD. He once believed in his world’s deity, but forsook them when his life took a turn for the worst. He reasons that if the god he was taught about was real, they would have spared him the trauma he experienced.
He is wary of anyone he thinks is looking down on him, and as such his mentality is twisted. He cares about what others think more than anything else. He has to be the best. Anyone he deems as competition or anyone he fears thinks lowly of him, he attacks with a stream of insults and profanity.

He’s conceited, bitter, attention hungry, and believes his PTSD ‘justifies’ his sass, his attitude, and just overall him insulting everyone he comes in contact with.

But he has a heart, as twisted as it may have grown. He is hesitant to trust, and even less willing to love, but once he does love, he is loyal. He can’t help but tease, and though most people take his verbal jabs as a sign that he’s not interested in love, he wants friends just as bad as -if not more than- anyone.

In the end of the story he falls in love again, in a way he never saw coming. His friend pulls him out of the shadows, and he starts on the long road of recovery, hugs, prayers, and therapy.