Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories About Making Amends

In article <1040hbd$2qi5k$4@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6/26/25 10:21 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Five SFF Stories About Making Amends
 
People adopt very different strategies when it comes to making
up for mistakes.
 
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-about-making-amends/

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After some days of on-and-off thinking, the only halfway decent example
I can add is our favorite guilt-driven angst-ridden wizard, Harry Dresden.
>
I believe there are 17 novels in the series so far, and he spends most
of the middle 15 of them[1] blaming himself for just about
everything.[2] These aren't book-long angst-fests, but when they crop up
it can be annoying.
>
Tony
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[1] I kid, I kid. But it is definitely prominent in roughly 6-7 books in
the middle - starting around Dead Beat or Proven Guilty and then pretty
consistently through Ghost Story.
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[2] To be fair, a very small number of those things are indeed his fault.

Reminds me of a youtube skit about getting your "Southern Card", something
like:

Well, North Dakota's a stretch, but you've already apologized
three times for things that aren't your fault, so we're just
gonna let you in...

Not written, but Xena's whole character arc from s1e01 through s6e22
is guilt ridden expiation.
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