Necessary
Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Wanting and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wanting" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily
Both words in one sentence
- In Dragon Bones, the hero, Ward, takes the escaped Beautiful Slave Girl Bastilla with him on his own escape (which was only necessary because he refused to deliver her to those wanting to re-enslave her), after having tended to her wounded feet beforehand.
Source: The Not-Love Interest -
On the flipside, the oblivion side can be the sympathetic side too, especially if the villain in question is a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds wanting to destroy the world to end the cycle of suffering caused by the evil side by any means necessary.
Source: Evil Versus Oblivion - Sync the Tempest from Tales of the Abyss is quite a depraved character, wanting the destruction of the world and all, without much care of the others and wouldn't think twice to break a character's emotion whenever necessary.
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