Ban Frok. A completely absurd man. Yet… he was the first person who came to mind when I considered who to recruit as a subordinate while playing the villain—at least temporarily—at the academy.
And the reason was simple.
He embodied everything I imagined a charismatic villain could be.
He was cheerful in his own unhinged way. Playful without being weak. And most importantly—he was strong. Very strong. The kind of person who lived by a personal code and never wavered from it.
In the original novel, Ban didn't get much screen time. He was too eccentric, too tonally inconsistent with the story's usual atmosphere. But seeing him now, alive and breathing and wielding cabbage like divine punishment…?
I couldn't take my eyes off him.
He had potential. Not as a hero. Not even as a true villain.
But as a wildcard. A force of nature.
Still… seeing him in person was very different from reading about him in the novel.
