I'm thinking now of a series of chapters, what for I'm not sure, but a series of chapters focusing on sacrifice. I caught up to critikal roll yesterday, the series, and I thought it was so interesting that I went and looked at scenes from the campaign and saw a really beautiful scene of sacrifice from Travis, the actor and player of scanlan.
The way matt mercer portrayed the scene, and the way the characters reacted, knowing the real life implications, made me envision a story that's very up beat, a story that turns the OP character trope on its head. I said a few years back I wanted to write about the 5 stages of grief, and i think this would be the perfect way to implement it. With a character so strong, he breezes through all trials ahead of him, until he reaches an unbeatable opponent, and a member of his party has to make the greatest sacrifice.
The next chapter would be completely silent. There would be no dialog from the characters, only descriptions of the aftermath and their emotions, as well what it means to sacrifice, with the narrator giving a different interpretation depending on what character is being focused. With this character now gone, and the heros arrogance nowhere to be seen, he'd lose, and lose, and suffer more. Until finally finding his calling, his purpose he never got to partake in.
