: Re: How can I handle a powerful mentor character without killing them off? I'm writing a book series that involves people with various superpowers. One of these characters and is more or less the

@Mendez196

I want to propose another idea:
The hero and the mentor are both on the same side, same page, both capable.
But there comes a threat, a problem, that both cannot solve. Not alone, not together.
It's time. It's time to be the hero, someone has to save the day.
It's time to transcend, to get to a new state of being. The hero becomes greater than their mentor. Both tried to solve it and couldn't, it needed a change that only one was able to accomplish: the true hero.
This can all be mental, it can be a new superpower, it can be a trick. But when you understand, there will be something different.
Edit: more insight: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeartIsAnAwesomePower

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