#WordWeavers 9.16 — How are people like your antagonist viewed in your world?

Switching to another story I'm getting ready to revise for publication. 

Rolanda, the antagonist in this story is a very bad person fixated sexually on the main character's girlfriend's mother (also the MC's mother's lover). Rolanda can "spit blood," which means she could have become a healer but instead became a mercenary. The ability to "spit blood" is /acquired/ and even men can catch it. Society treats it like a contagious disease. It masculinizes those afflicted without changing their gender. Rolanda's brown-red color skin would stand-out in any crowd, if her sinister features or brawn didn't give her away. The antagonist is all kinds of bad news attitudinally, but even where she simply a healer she'd be considered "unclean" in the Hindu class sense. 

When she attacks the MC and passes on the trait, the MC's life and love implodes.

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