/lit/ - Literature

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This is part of a much larger story. For context, it is a city that has been under siege for many years, so this is near the end of one of the books. So the idea is one last all-out attack so that the city does not go quietly into that good night, so to speak. I'm trying to make this better because I hate it right now.

Question: how hacky is it to resurrect a dead character twenty years after his death? I mean my writing is incredibly hacky anyway, and it's not really writing, it's kinda hard to explain, but it is writing. It's just something else beforehand.

But basically there's a girl kinda like Alia from Dune, having these visions of her dead father who sacrificed himself to kill a main villain a long time ago, she never met him. I killed him off wanting some kind of "new era' in the story but I've since regretted it because his son just isn't as good, I just don't connect with him as much as I did. So I've been focusing more on his daughter, because I need that "default character." I am considering bringing him back but it's a problem for two reasons. One, it's weird cause it breaks up the cycle where the children take over the focus of the story from their parents who die. So basically, the son would have no reason to live anymore. He wouldn't belong in the story, in some ways. I introduced his long-lost cousin in a lame attempt of bringing in a more likeable character to focus on but that went nowhere, so I am worried the same thing would happen. Maybe the father's story really is concluded. I just feel this deep sadness that he is dead, it felt like such a badass epic end for him at the time yet now I regret it. Same with his wife, she was a good character and actually somewhat multi-dimensional unlike most of the side characters, and I let her die as well.

So it's kinda a complicated thing. I would say the tech level and supernatural level in this universe is pretty close to dune, except it all takes place on one giant planet. I could bring out the Clarkian "ancient tech is magic" bullshit as an excuse to resurrect him, it would make a good "quest" for the daughter. But like I said, there is nothing supernatural except the family's abilities which are just there to explain their plot armor.

Autistic mess of a post, sorry. Just mind dumping.