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This, plus the character being fully aware of it but would still willingly sacrifice themselves anyway because it’s all they know how to do. Until, until !! the option of dying gets brutally ripped out of their grasp and now they’re left with a shattered world view with their only sense of purpose in shambles.

Even better if they end up the only person alive left, with a bonus of being kept alive because the person the character wanted to save turned around and sacrificed themself to save that character instead.

Or I guess the happier alternative is having the character meet a good bunch of friends who teach them how to be their own person and live, but who doesn’t love a good tragedy instead?

i looooove characters who are sacrificial lamb coded. characters who have never lived for themselves. characters born to be a tool, a weapon, a sacrifice, all of the above. a character raised by the heroes to save the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. a character raised by the villains to end the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. characters who are denied personhood so they can be used as tools instead. characters who never even had a chance to be people because they were shaped into something else from the moment they were born. characters who were born to die.