Something is fascinating about a character that is a fallen hero. Something in their past has to have changed them to such a major extent that they no longer want to be a hero, but instead go about undoing everything heroic they ever did. It's fascinating to think about.
The fallen hero is also the type that makes a really good bad guy. This person once was trusted by pretty much the whole world. Everyone loved this type of character at some point, and now suddenly they're the bad guy. The way they would interact with others, the way others would interact with them...there's a whole fascinating existence to the fallen hero. Plus being a bad guy, well they're trusted by everyone when they first go bad, and so they have potential to do so much damage. How far would a fallen hero be able to go before being discovered? How much damage would they allow themselves to do when part of them knows that they still have a part of them that cares about the people they are hurting?
Bad guys are always fascinating to explore and wonder about, but the fallen hero...there's so much that can be explored there, and so I'm working on that. I don't have a fallen hero in my novel...but there are other stories going on in my head right now that revolve solely around my fallen hero.
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Holy crud. What a concept. Kudos.
I thought there was a fallen hero aspect in one of our stories?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if there was or not. Mage wasn't really a fallen hero, he was a traitor. Technically fallen heroes are traitors, but a fallen hero is someone who has the trust of not only their friends, but pretty much the whole world, and then fall from that position. Mage wasn't really like that. Unless there was another character who was a fallen hero?
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