Good stuff here.
I typically write both villains and protags from the human standpoints that both believe they are righteous, or at least that they are operating for a righteous cause. Of course, one usually is (mostly) and one usually is not (mostly). Both sides are understandable, and the reader gets to make a choice.
In this novel, though, which literally came to me over last weekend (hence, I'm here) my Protag is the force of good -on earth- fighting the force of evil -on earth. This pendulum swings to the extreme. And the fight will be to the extinction of one or the other, which is a real problem, because if good fights evil to evil's extinction, then good is ultimately a mass murderer. No?
I'm not going for an anti-hero, here, so this is going to be a delicate walk.
What I have to do is come up with the arrival of both in the first place. And that is a very long story.
I write because I am a better person when I spend a good chunk of my time with people who only exist because I made them up." -- Leslie Budewitz
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