Responses
Depends somehow
Sometimes I just couldn't accept a character redemption like
He kills your family, he kills your best friend, he destroys your kingdom, he chains you all because of the premise he loves you and then something happens and he regrets. TRULY REGRET IT. He feels remorse and everything and did everything he can to change himself.
I can sympathize and understand but I can never truly accept it.
Author's love to put immoral or bad characters through redemption arcs, so it made me wonder. What redeems a character for you? Sometimes you want them to feel what they put someone through. Sometimes you want them to understand what they did and genuinely repent, it doesn't matter if they themselves go through the hardships they might have caused. Obviously this goes on a case by case basis, but man, sometimes they just torture the characters they're trying to redeem. For me, simply making me have sympathy isn't really redeeming a character. Giving them a bad past and ignoring the whole redemption (having the MC just forgive them) isn't preferable either though. Just a little musing on the subject.