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Wow, thank you Supersonic! That insight . . . just wow. Thank you so much.
Your story sounds fabulous.
You actually helped me beyond my initial question. A lot of what you said I will be referring back to when I start on my next book. It deals a lot with what your talking about, about first being dark but then metaphorically seeing the light and trying to atone for horrendous deeds.
With this book the death of my MC mother is really the antagonists faulty. My MC just blames herself. (I really feel like I should have put that in my first post. Sorry about that you guys)
I wanted the death of her mother to be the catalysts that makes her do things she wouldn't normally do, like tourture the bad guys. But their deaths, even though they are bad, haunt her. But that also plays into my running theory that because of what they are when they kill each other parts of them stick with the person that killed them.
The 'anchor', if what I'm feeling is right, will be her sister. She's like the one good thing in my MC life that she feels hasn't been completely destroyed. (she also has to save her sister from the bad guys so thats a good driving force) She also feels like she has to be good for her sister. I think that will help.
Thank you again, your insight was fabulous. And your story sounds really, really good. I hope that goes well for you. I'd be very willing to take a peak and tell you what I think :) But I'm sure you already have many brilliant minds on it already :)