/lit/ - Literature

>>20184606
The side character is supposed to be someone that's quite down and pathetic, that the protagonist interacts with variously throughout the story, though they don't have a direct PoV. The idea is that during their first real conflict in the climax the side character is seemingly killed and the protagonist disappears, but the reality is the side character transformed into the same sort of monster they're in conflict with and unknowingly devoured the protagonist. From here after reverting back the side character starts getting memories, traits, and emotional connections from the protagonist, until the eventual reveal that they consumed their friend and their persona is just based on an amalgamation of people that they ate.

But in reference to "I wouldn't buy the sequel", the idea would be not to reveal what happened to the protagonist until the sequel.