: Re: This is a problem that doesn’t seem to have an answer My bad guy is very very very complicated. My entire story exists because for thousands of years (no one knows why) regular people from

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Everyone is always in conflict, and everyone stands at the precipice of fulfilled wishes and realizable dreams, only to step away from the edge.
She wants to never die. She already has this with her soul being protected in the necklace. There must be some benefit, some pleasure, some power that comes from living united with one's soul. This benefit can grow to motivate all types of "magical thinking" for how she might imagine she can have both immortality and live.
It could be simple, like without a soul you can't enjoy food, or music, or sex. Any of these desires, and gold-plated memories from her past, may bend her toward a path of mortality. Memories of rotten food, out of tune music, or disgusting lovers push her back toward immortality.
Eventually a human who isn't human (a halfbreed, chimera, gollum, or robot) wins her heart through some insightful cooking, singing a haunting love ballad, and giving her (perhaps unbeknownst to either of them) the necklace he found attractive and bought from the bearer. They start playing sexual dominance games involving bondage and safe (not steel) weapons.
Then cometh the end.
I went too far with one of many resolutions, but the balanced conflict is there, intrinsic in the loss of soul but not volitional existance.

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