Question about a character in my book?
I'm writing my own book. My book is about a world infected by a sinister zombie virus. Now a group of survivors is fighting for their lives, etc. I want to transform a character who was always good and helped everyone into a really bad and brutal "killer." I don't want him to get bitten or fall victim to anything. Do you have any ideas on how I can do this, or how he could become such a bad and evil person?
Thanks in advance 😊
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Ideally, you should get away from this ‘bad and evil’. I feel like you mean, but it’s very flat. It would be better if you really look at the person in the planning and think about ‘what is the character, what could the motives be?’
If you have someone who is very reluctant, who is very nice in itself and always helps but is, for example, more willingly awake and, seen from himself, more ‘hilflos’, for example, he can be manipulated when he comes together with the wrong people.
Or because he simply follows an ideology, which is supposedly helping him in this world, but which requires him to act brutally against others, for example because they are in the way of his goal.
In short, I wouldn’t work with such things as ‘good and evil’… you just have to create a uniform character and then ask ‘what brings the barrel to overflow, what makes it possible for other aspects to take control’.
For example, this can also be the fear for your own life that you can only believe to be able to save. Because you feel threatened by the others, for example.
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