I’ve got blood, I’ve got blood on my name

[hemlocksock]

can I be redeemed?

🩸 in your comment header, list all of your characters sins that can fit the limit. show us every drop of blood on their hands! 🩸 others must confess whether they think your character has a shot at redemption.

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[unwinnable_games]

(former heroin addict now Jigsaw apprentice…

So multiple kidnappings/murders from that alone.

Don’t even mention causing the death of her mentor’s unborn child during the worst of her days.

So yeah, there’s a lot of blood on this one’s hands.

[knittingbackwards]

[He considers her over his spectacles, hums to himself thoughtfully, and after several minutes' consideration, at last says:]

Why?

[unwinnable_games]

Why?

(An eyebrow raises;)

What parts do you need to have explained to you? Or are you asking in general?

[apermanentlesson]

[ Spent years of his life hunting down the one person who could hope to bring balance to the world and end a war that had been raging for the last hundred years. Was just... kind of a menace, generally.

Took out his anger on the people around him whether they deserved it or not.

Burned down a village that one time.

Betrayed the uncle who loved him like a father (and also the Gaang) in an attempt to receive validation from his actual father who didn't care about him at all. Said some nasty things in the process.

Betrayed his father when he realized said father was actually a power-hungry monster. Encouraged a child to kill said father. Probably would have killed said father himself if it had come down to that.

Just kinda been through it, y'know? ]

[okamimommi]

[A soft whine escapes the great white wolf as she approaches the boy. If he is sitting, her large head slides up into his lap, and if he is standing she gives him the standard big dog lean as she nudges his arm.

She is ever forgiving and merciful herself, though her mercy also comes with rough karmic backlash until atonement is obtained. Just ask Susanoo and Oki.

In the end though, it's up to all the individuals out there for Zuko. He's most likely earned it from the spiritual world a long time ago. And so Amaterasu, Mother to All, has forgiven him.]

[kuukokujinjanozenko]

I wonder... what do you imagine would make someone irredeemable?

[Hope he wasn't expecting simple, straightforward answers.]

[tetrahedonist]

[ Bill scrutinizes this list with more than his typical devil-may-care attitude. ] I'm the worst possible guy to judge this case. Hilarious.

I might regret this, but I'll elaborate: you weren't in charge, and you were too young to make good choices in a vacuum! You wanted to impress your guardians, and maybe other people too! The first time you did speak up, you were publicly humiliated, maimed back into compliance and then banished from your home. If kids in general don't make good choices, kids with complex trauma make even worse ones.

If you ask me, your dad was lucky you only wanted to kill him to stop him, and not for ruining your childhood.

Defense rests.

[makeadragonwannaretire]

Hmmm…I can’t help but feel like there’s some sins missing from that list.

But of course if you don’t feel guilty about the pain you caused I guess you don’t need to be redeemed from it do you?

[constantblaze]

Sounds like you're just an idiot, honestly. But, hey, you're young. You can fuck up way more than that, if you put your mind to it.

[goldenlandwitch]

[The witch takes a long drag from her pipe, a look of contemplation on her face, as golden butterflies fly around the two of them.]

Hmm, sounds to me like a case of a teenager doing bad things for validation taken to an extreme. Regardless you seem to regret your actions and have actively worked to atone for them by bettering the world. Others either wouldn't or aren't able to do the same, so I will say this; You are completely redeemable. And compared to me at least you're a few centuries too young to even think otherwise kihihihihi!

Rape, murder, abuse, bestiality, unfaifulness, eco-terrosist, all around asshole

[sweetdives]

[constantblaze]

Yeah, lost cause. It's not the big crimes, y'know? It's being an arsehole. That's incurable.

[He would know.]

Robbed a piggly wiggly, ate a gopher

[delmarodonnell]

[shadowsran]

Were you hungry when you ate the gopher, or was it for fun?

[ The robbery part can wait a second. Priorities. ]

Ash Graven | Final Space

[sculptedash]

[Killed her parents, failed to save her sister. Got her adoptive brother and father killed.

Helped an eldritch terror break free from it's cage to consume the known universe.

Also kidnapped a small child.]

[tetrahedonist]

If jailbreaking eldritch beings is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Accidents happen, right?

literally stabbed his friend in the back, showed up in his ex's dreams for 10 years, (cont.)

[concelo]

continuing with veilguard - tore the dreams out of an entire race of people in what was essentially genocide, sacrificed people as means to an end as part of his definitely not a cult, tore thousands from their homes to join another not-cult that he ultimately abandoned, creating even more homelessness and animosity toward a race of people already violently oppressed, stabbed another friend quite literally, tricked an innocent person into a hellish soul cage of regrets, tried to perform a ritual that at best would have killed thousands of people, was okay with that because he's a specist, and apparently wrote some shitty porn.

[okamimommi]

[Amaterasu sit before him, large, in charge, and very obviously not a normal wolf. The great bronze reflector on her back that is very, very much on fire is proof of that, if the pure white coat and red divine markings weren't enough to clue Solas in.

She stares at him, thoughtful. His world is not her own. Nippon is so far away it might as well not exist to him...but...

Tell me, child...if told that every day a thousand curses are divvied out, tainting mortal and godly kind alike, would you still have done it all the same?]

Oh, where to start...?

[ricochetingbullets]

[Been killing since he was a kid and doesn't regret any of it. In fact, he enjoys it far more than he should. Tortured and killed animals all the way into his teen years. Stalked a woman (non-sexually) for years. Gave into being manipulated by someone who only wanted to use him and became his worst possible self, which sent him on his supervillain origin story. Gave in again eight years later and picked right up where he left off with killing anyone who was unfortunate enough to cross his path. Lives now solely for getting revenge on everyone that wronged him and ruined his life.

There is so, so much blood on his hands and bodies left in his wake. Does he care about anyone he's killed? Almost none of them.]

[constantblaze]

Hm.

Nah.

Her rap sheet is pretty long... and spoilers for BG3

[dreamsinred]

[ Once a serial killing cultist of the literal god of murder, Bhaal. A god who is her sole parent and father at that. She has many murders to her name, readily gave in to her Urge, and was the one who kicked off the entire Absolute Crisis to begin with.

Had she not lost her memory, she would never had turned against her uncaring father, resist the Urge that calls for blood, and attempt any sort of redemption.

The thing is, though, she doesn't think she deserves it. ]

[knittingbackwards]

The question, dear girl, is would you choose redemption?

[tetrahedonist]

[ Introduced a higher dimension's rules to his own, which sped up the collapse of his (horrible, awful, no good) society. Felt terrible about it. Went for a third dimensional encore regardless.

Bodyjacked a twelve year old and tried to set kids against each other for his own ends. Shady deals all around. Invasion of mindscapes and dreams, "mild" terrorizing.

Lied. Keeps on lying. Took advantage of a parapsychologist who sincerely cared for him, even more lying and manipulation, culminating in a thirty year grudgematch that almost destroyed a small town and probably traumatized most, if not all of its inhabitants, in ways both direct and indirect. So much kidnapping. Malicious property destruction, played trap music (at all, but also) way too loud, all the typical criminal gang stuff with an interdimensional flair.

De-atomized Time Baby and scrambled up a rich dude's faceholes, but this is a list of crimes, not community services.

Imprisoned and tortured that parapsychologist formerly mentioned for something like 48-72 hours. Threatened the other twelve year old with death. ]

Waiving my right to silence for one minor correction: trap is legitimate hip-hop and it's meant to be loud.

[borntoreign]

No, I doubt there's much redemption. Not if you couldn't even follow through on your threats.

It seems to me that you're a bit of a slow learner.

Boromir | Lord of the Rings (book canon) | OTA

[wouldhavefollowed]

[Broke his oath to protect the Ringbearer, allowed himself to be tempted by the prospect of power, and so betrayed his friends, his people and potentially the entire world to the enemy he's spent 40+ years fighting.

Broke the Fellowship. Sent Frodo and Sam to their presumed deaths, and failed to fulfil his mission in the process - the mission that he abandoned his post and his family to follow.

The narrative might think he's been redeemed in death, but he doesn't!]

[okamimommi]

[Another man who has her staring at him, weighing the sins remembered.

So many find power a temptation. Especially when times are dire. If all others have forgiven you for falling, then rising up again a true hero...will you still punish yourself, child?

Genocide, treason, civilian slaughter, imperialist war crimes. also Getting Friends Killed.

[yellowrivers]

[In her defence, a lot of the war crimes happened when she was 14. In her prosecution, she kept working for the army/government that ordered them for at least fifty more years.]

NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG IN HIS LIFE IT WAS ALL FOR THE LORD'S WORK

[claudedjudgement]

[...genocidal tyranny, legal corruption, child abuse, first-degree murder, second-degree murder, arson, sexual assault, blasphemy against the laws of sanctuary...]

The Lord is my only judge.

[...torture, more murder, stirring up racial hatred, sadism, hypocrisy, hubris...]

Regularly beats up strangers to the point of permanent injury or death. Can't protect her family.

[nogodsnoheroes]

[[Info and content warnings in journal! TL;DR - the things she's done are objectively outweighed by the things done to her, but try telling her that.]]

Killed 2/3 of his parents and shot the third one into space, then drove his world into the sun.

[drawingnear]

[He was having a really bad day.]