So yeah I'm pretty simple and straight forward. love giving my critiques on peoples work and helping them improve and like it in return also. I currently have a base idea I am trying to flesh out and i figured i would join up and see if i couldn't maybe gather some inspiration/advice.
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Well basically the idea is that this guy just got out of prison. he skips parole and moves to this small town. after an awful accident he is taken in by this middle aged guy. This guy turns out to be a Sin Eater. (a Sin Eater is a little known figure in Christian mythology who literally consumes the sins of others so they have a morally clean slate. He kills them and they ascend to heaven without having to go through the church.) Anyway the Sin Eater has grown tired of his task and bestows this task on my main character. The story is my characters struggle to cope with what he is and him going through the process of saving these people.
