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Hi @steward-of-the-pen 🙂 And I’ll include @fawxofthecomics too 😀 I love this idea!!

One option is to give her a friend who doesn’t want to be Thunderstruck but feels like he/she could step up and do it if they had to. Try stressing the way that friend feels, and work in the main character’s feelings in a less obvious way. You can make it look like the friend is going to be the one who’s Thunderstruck and the main character will play an important role in supporting him/her.

It could also be fun to give the main character doubts that the Thunderstruck actually have the people’s best interest in mind, thus hinting that the Thunderstruck will be the villains. Again, you’d want to hint at someone else as the one who will be Thunderstruck.

Honestly, it would be really hard to actually make the reader believe the main character won’t be Thunderstruck, so it might be better to put a lot into her background and family, and make it clear what she will be sacrificing. This way, even though the reader might predict she’ll be chosen, they will dread it as much as she does – and the more realistic her doubts are, the more worry the reader will have about what she’ll choose to do as the story progresses, and could eventually lead to some intense internal conflict that the reader will share with the character, and even wonder more whether she’ll make the right choices.

Ok, I’ve probably said enough 😀 Again, I love the idea!!! Good luck!