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@daeus-lamb You are correct, DID isn’t a random occurrence. It usually comes after a traumatic experience, like abuse as a child. I was thinking if I did choose to give him DID it would play well into a traumatic backstory. And I know that just because his alternate personality is evil doesn’t make his character perfect. Both have their flaws and their things that make us like them. And his other personality is him, just with different brain signals that are stronger.

I have 2 great ideas I could go with this character, so good I can’t choose which way I want to go. I hate it when I have 2 ideas I love so much I cant pick which one I want to use. I’ve had to stop several books because of that. 🙁

I could go with him being a regular psychopathic serial killer who repents because of the saving grace of God, turning himself in at the end because he knows what he did was wrong (and thankfully I set this book in Canada, where they don’t have death row 😛 ). Or I could have him with DID, he doesn’t know that he is the killer, until he befriends Georgiana (my protagonist) and puts things together. At first he doesn’t want to do anything about it, until the other side of him kills another person/tries to kill Georgiana. He realizes that he is a danger to society and those he loves, and turns himself in. At the trial his lawyer tries telling him to plead insane, but he knows that he is a sinner, that it really was him doing those killings, and allows himself to be sentenced to a full sentence. He gets treatment for his mental disorders and help figuring out his past.

Both ways would end with him in jail with other serial killers and murders, telling them about the saving grace of God that will wash away ALL sins, even murders, using his story as an example.

I feel like these would be unique ways to go with my story, since in most mystery/thriller books I read the killer gets apprehended by the police, or kills himself, I have yet to read one where God saves the killer.