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>>8736766
>>8736785
How would you pull it off without being really hacky or lame? The guy I *might* resurrect is basically Paul Atreides from Dune except looks like pic related, he dies by shoving his mortal enemy with himself into a pit of energy and dying from the burns after pulling himself out. His daughter has started having visions of him after she visited some mystic in an attempt to hone her future-sight powers, and she is making contact with the "spirit realm" that she at first thought was a load of bullshit but is now getting way into. Her brother also thinks she's full of shit but now she has this driving urge to find some ancient technology from the Progenitors (who are kinda like the Forerunners from Halo, a lot different but similar for the purposes of this) that might be able to "reconstruct" her father.

The two issues are: (1) would it really be him? Even if it had all his memories? I'm a very sentimental person and that's the part that bugs me most. and (2) his son is a decent character, but less introspective and deep than his father, more impulsive, and unlike his father he's more of a fleet commander than a pilot, so he doesn't get into the thick of the action, which is important for the main character for me. His sister does, which is why I've been focusing on her more lately, and her journey and goals are more interesting to me than "i'm gonna build a big fleet and prove myself and win the war" But if I bring back the father, I'm worried he won't have a place in the story anymore.

But yeah just any advice on how to not make it hacky. Leaving it ambiguous as to whether it's really "him" like the ghola in Dune would be interesting. I want to keep the superanturalness somewhat lowkey like in Dune.

I guess one possible interesting thing to do with the resurrection thing would be for the daughter to find the resurrection tech she's looking for, but it's one use: so her choice is, do I bring it back and let them study it and maybe figure out a way to save people from death, but also potentially ruin it, or just bring back my father once and use up perhaps the holy grail of medical tech on one person? I think that would be an interesting Last-of-Us-esque choice. Dunno how interesting that would be though.