#WordWeavers 10.2 — Who is your most intriguing character? Why?

Who? My overall series antagonist.

My near term writing goal is to establish the series with the main protagonist who is a fun non-conformist ascetic miracle worker (thaumaturge), but also an unfortunate trouble magnet. In all stories prior to the two meeting up (see #WordWeavers 10.1 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/111164297800442997), my antagonist is a MacGuffin, the ultimate reason why the protagonist takes steps that arguably make her life worse.

That said, the antagonist is a very sympathetic character herself, who acts for non-selfish reasons and tries to make the world better. Her reasons for destroying the last evidence of our civilization (about 500 years in our future) stem from her innocently wanting to get her autistic brother a job but being thwarted. That's a series of novels in itself! Through thaumaturgical technological means, she makes herself immortal, forever 24 years old, though not invulnerable. The aftermath of her being killed but revived is the start of another story arc (see #WordWeavers 9.1 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/110993252771253246).

Did I mention that she's evil? 

She's also kept humanity from going extinct.

By the time the protagonist makes it on the scene, most of humanity is distantly related to her. She is female, after all.

Why is she intriguing? She will make the readers think about everything they hold true. That's why.

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