How do I introduce my hero and villain to each other?

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So I'm writing a book, and I have both a hero and a villain with conflicting motivations, the hero wants to be the savior his mother never had, and the villain wants to kill off everyone because from a series of incidents, he believes that they're not worth saving. They both have the same origin story, just took it on in different ways. Well, the problem is that I have no idea how to introduce them to each other. Can someone help me out please?

Update:

I'm trying to do it as naturally as possible, but whatever I think of just seems way to forced.

Lynn · Accepted Answer

Maybe the hero is working in retail and the villain makes BS complaints in an attempt to get free stuff. The hero, after being yelled at and insulted, watches helplessly as the villain complains to the pansy manager, who apologizes and grovels and gives the villain the free stuff. 
 
Or, y'know, just put them in a situation that normally has multiple people. A fair. A terrorist attack. At either of their jobs/daily haunts. A class. A restaurant. They'll be doing what they do, acting how they act, and then they'll end up talking to each other or interacting. Put them in secondary roles for the scene; instead of hero/villain, you'll have bystander/victim or student/guest speaker or person in line for ride 1/ other person in line for ride 1. That could help with the "naturalness". 
 
 In any case, you know your characters better than I do. You know what they're doing and how they're acting every day. I don't even know what genre you're writing. Good luck, dude.

Anonymous · Answer

Without much context,  I can't give you any good advice. I don't know anything about the setting or what kind of story it is.

Anonymous · Answer

They meet at an orgy.

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