Sacrifice. I can eventually swoon over that biggest bastard if they broke themselves for the one they harmed. Especially if it’s masterfully writer to be a process and not just done with one move.
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Sacrifice. I can eventually swoon over the biggest bastard if they broke themselves for the one they harmed. Especially if it’s masterfully written to be a long process of pain and not just done with one move.
Yess an excellent example of a good redemption arc.
what redeems a character to me is when they realised their wrongdoings and put in effort to change, imo?
Agreed. For me the character coming to terms with what they've done and any harm it caused is key. I don't think terrible things need to happen to them to atone per se, but their *understanding* is necessary. And acting differently, not just brushing it off of course, or being immediately forgiven.
Exactly, u can torture a bad person as much as u want but that wont immediately "redeem" them.. they need to know that theyre a bad person and change for the better
Depends somehow
Sometimes I just couldn't accept a character redemption like
He kills your family, he kills your best friend, he destroys your kingdom, he chains you all because of the premise he loves you and then something happens and he regrets. TRULY REGRET IT. He feels remorse and everything and did everything he can to change himself.
I can sympathize and understand but I can never truly accept it.
Yeah I agree with that. There's limits to what can be forgiven or redeemed.
Author's love to put immoral or bad characters through redemption arcs, so it made me wonder. What redeems a character for you? Sometimes you want them to feel what they put someone through. Sometimes you want them to understand what they did and genuinely repent, it doesn't matter if they themselves go through the hardships they might have caused. Obviously this goes on a case by case basis, but man, sometimes they just torture the characters they're trying to redeem. For me, simply making me have sympathy isn't really redeeming a character. Giving them a bad past and ignoring the whole redemption (having the MC just forgive them) isn't preferable either though. Just a little musing on the subject.