: Re: How to handle a character's failure? I've been writing fan fiction for 7+ years, in an attempt to weed out the beginner mistakes and know what works. In one of my fan fictions, the main character

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You could approach the problem by making the other choice less appealing. Can't you make his crew-mates less sympathetic to the reader? Or something like this.

Alternatively:

(The latest iteration of star trek premiered last night. There was much rejoicing in our household.)

In this, the first episode, Number One mutinied and it was clearly the wrong choice. The writers made her choice work (to an extent) by:

Spelling out the childhood trauma that drove her choice and
Causing the mutiny to fail. After it failed, it became obvious that she had, after all, been right.

Maybe have Mike make that choice and fail, but then he ends up on that course again anyway because it becomes clear that it was correct. Like, they thwart his program and go to get the machinery, only to learn that they needed his mother to complete their mission.

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