/lit/ - Literature

>>10026232
the socialists want my saliva and will stop at nothing to obtain it

don't fucking lie to me commie scum

I have a question for you. Is a rapist character redeemable?

Basically what happens in the story I am writing is that this guy has a really powerful genetic mutation passed on in his family that sort-of lets him see the future, at plot convenient times, and some other stuff. A bit like Paul Atreides in Dune, that was the inspiration for a lot of it, but more subtle, because the mysticism in the story is never outright validated.

Anyway, he catches the equivalent of Ebola; a disease that has a 70% chance of killing him within a few hours. While he is dying, in a fever-ridden state of mind, he realizes he is going to die without reproducing. Thinking what he is doing is for the greater good, and will save thousands of lives, he tries to force himself on one of the female soldiers sleeping in the next room.

Long story short, she wakes up, knocks him out (he's incredibly weak from how sick he is) and he doesn't end up actually, y'know, getting inside her. He wakes up one of the lucky few, chained to a pipe, where he barely manages to bargain for his life and gets exiled from the bunker instead, with nothing but a rifle and some food.

What do you think? This is meant to be a "good guy" character, not even particularly ruthless; would you consider him at all a good person after this? Would him being driven mad in the mind by the disease be some excuse? The point of the entire incident is for the characters to realize he needs to have kids before his luck runs out and he dies.... or something like that. It was kinda just what happened as I wrote the story, but now I am realizing this scene might be a bit fucked up.

What do you guys think? I asked this on Reddit a long time ago and they said this guy was irredeemable.