"Declined."

I've re-watched entirely too much Farscape the last couple weeks: it's been on PlutoTV, as well as over antenna on Comet, so if I wasn't doing anything like five hours of it could run in a row! But my use of Bastion was probably very much influenced by Scorpius, the antagonist for most of the series. I say 'antagonist' rather than villain, because while probably mainly motivated by revenge, Scorpy isn't necessarily a villain: he just has goals, and his means of reaching them run opposite the heroes. He also doesn't have the same morality, meaning he's not above using torture, duplicity, and extortion: the ends justifying his means. (Unless he was like, a quadruple agent: towards the end of the series, and in the follow-up comics, his true motives were blurred beyond obscurity.) Most of that isn't true of Bastion, of course, but he would share Scorpius's tactical sense: everything is a chess move, and he can smell weakness like blood. 

Another influence, a show I quit watching: the Walking Dead. I quit when Negan was coming in, despite Jeffery Dean Morgan being pretty cool; because I knew to establish him as a badass, he was going to kill a long-running character. But then, he would end up sticking around, the survivors would be forced to work with him, he'd join the 'team,' whatever. Basically, I knew he was going to be around probably the rest of the series, and nope. Hell with that. I get tired of "we have to work together" plots with the bad guy (even if, ahem, yeah.) and would love more of "we have to work together or we'll all die." "Then I'll see you in hell."