#and I truly don't think a fundamentally good AND sensible man should too easily choose to go down as a cop killer in ~literary fiction~
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the more I think about this, the more I think sabor latino hot dad reluctant necromancer really deserves to kill somebody.
maybe the real problem with the real novel is that the core relationship is too healthy and also our good boy protagonist should get to kill somebody
#most of the reasons that he technically doesn't do it in prior drafts are logistical#or like. moral for 75% of the book and then logistical.#and I truly don't think a fundamentally good AND sensible man should too easily choose to go down as a cop killer in ~literary fiction~#but on the other hand. corrupt federal agent guy antagonist REALLY sucks and is doing evil wizard shit.#a lesser writer would hand wave the consequences. a better writer would have a solution. where am i on this spectrum?#“are you advocating for the murder of ICE agents?” i am saying sometimes you gotta slay an evil wizard.#this fictional evil wizard just also happens to be a corrupt ICE agent.#i pitched this to *myself* as “so Frank Castle but Latino and earlier on in his process”#but he's really somewhere between Geralt and Galahad but Latino and has a gun. pure of heart probably but. gotta kill the evil wizard.#okay i've convinced myself. time to stick a new post it note to the outline.
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