: Re: How do I write a fitting ending for an anti-hero? My protagonist is an anti-hero. He's manipulative, cunning, kills, and sacrifices others for the greater good, which is to destroy an oppressive

@Debbie451

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Determine what sins he needs to be punished for, and set up mirrors.

If it's murder: someone important to him should die.
If it's toppling a government and he sets up a new one: his new
government falls apart because the people are now revolting against
him.
If he destroys a secret society because he loathes secrecy: in some
way he has to establish a new one in order to hold the government
together.

and so on. You're going for a Twilight Zone kind of irony.

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