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Hi everyone, I’d like some suggestions regarding one of my characters.

This particular character is reacting much more negatively with respect to a betrayal than the other characters are, and I can’t figure out why. 🙂

Basically, the other characters are upset and angry at the betrayal, but they move on to focus on other things (the betrayer is completely out of the picture at this point…mostly because he’s dead…) But this one character isn’t just angry at the betrayer, but he also reacts badly to those related to the betrayer, and is just generally more harsh about it than most of the other characters.

So, my initial plan was to have his backstory be either that he had betrayed someone, or that someone had betrayed him before the more recent betrayal.  However, that’s a backstory that could be seen a mile away.  I feel like every reader will be expecting that the reason he’s reacting so badly is because he has experienced betrayal in the past.

Is there any other backstory I can give him that would make a good twist, or at least a more interesting reason for his actions, rather than going with the simple cliche?

Tagging a few people I know here: @seekjustice @valtmy @samantha-pen @eden-anderson @ashira @selah-chelyah

If I didn’t tag you, please feel free to answer anyway.  I’d like as much advice and as many ideas as I can get. 😉