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The Illusion of Danger

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Tasmin21:
With an immortal character, you simply have to find something else that is their cause for continuing.  Most people function every day to survive.  If you don't HAVE to do that, why do you keep going?  I have a main character in an as-yet unstarted novel who is an angel.  His main concern isn't surviving day to day, or having enough to eat.  His main concern is trying to FIND his purpose, when he thinks God has abandoned him, his kind, and the human race in general.  He's on a search for faith.  That can be just as compelling as a fight for survival.

WonderandAwe:
There is a lot more ways of doing damage to a character than just physical.  For example imagine what spending time in a concentration can do to one's mind?  Or watching generations of loved ones die can change a person.  Would they go mad with grief or would they distance themselves from society?  What is one life to a person who has watch Rome rise and fall?  Also, what happens when they lose a limb or get locked in a box that is dumped in the bottom of the ocean?

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