Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-24469175-20160504064125

Is this good for my character Harold?

Alright so he starts off as a just a typical soldier who just went through post traumatic stress disorder due to fighting in war, he eventually finds out about the recent psychos and wants to investigate, so he eventually talks to one of the psychos and the psycho tells him that they don't care they just want to kill, however he was acting way too crazed and maniacal for him to actually mean it, so Harold decides he's gonna try to find out the cause of everything that's been going and he won't stop until he finds the culprit. So he eventually runs into a terrorist and I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but the terrorist had a hostage and was about to kill a million people by bombing a building, so Harold shot the hostage and killed the terrorist afterwards, he gets hated for this, since he shot an innocent civilian and went against the law he gets kicked from the investigation and becomes a pariah to the public, however he didn't care he still decided to investigate and you can tell he isn't fucking around. For now he just someone who refuses to stop investigating, even without the approval of the law.

Later on he starts kidnapping suspects that were definitely responsible for committing crimes and then hands them over to the police, but he still goes easy on them, and remember the twins? Well they come in and make things even harder for him, they start doing horrific acts that disturb Harold, he eventually starts having horrific nightmares and everyday those images keep coming back to his head everyday, and then he runs into the twins and barely survives against them, he doesn't kill them since its against the law, but the twins left a mark on his mentality, he does get therapy and counciling but that doesn't help very much. At this point he's completly obsessed with the investigation and now hell do whatever he feels necessary in order to stop the culprit.

And it just gets so much worse, now he outright tortures and in some cases mutilates his suspects and kills almost everyone of them and, disturbingly, shows massive signs of sadism and psychopathy, making him even more depraved, in some cases he even went in and massacred every criminal he met, he eventually kills every criminal that murders, rapes, or robbery, he even tried to kill a dog when he thought the dog was attacking his nephew, it freaked out everyone. He is pretty much just becoming Michael and horrifying as it is, a part of him likes that.

I still want him to be the hero of the story and you can tell he means well, he doesn't kill any innocents and tries his hardest to be kind to his family, but the investigation is getting to him, he's growing to be extremely sadistic and maniacal that even some of the villains are freaked out by him.

Is that good? How can I still make him a hero, I don't want him to be a designated hero.