Okay, I'm having an issue with deciding what to do with my antagonist in the first book of my Faerie Trilogy. She is not the only Dark Faerie in the first book, but she is the only main one that sets out to directly kill the Light Faerie (the king/queen) in that book. The main character in the story, the Faerie that protects the Light Faerie, ends up defeating her in some way, but I'm not exactly certain in what way anymore.
The main character is only 15 years old at the time of the first book and there is really nothing that would lead up to her actually killing the antagonist, unless she lost control or had no other choice. I was sort of reserving this kind of solution for the other books when she is older, however, because then she would have grown more calloused and the stakes are higher.
The idea I developed a while ago but am not so sure about now is that the main character destroys her Power. In other words, she makes the antagonist no longer a Faerie so that she is instead a Thin Blood, which is a person without wings or Power who the Dark Faeries were trying to exterminate. I originally thought that this was good and rather ironic (and it leads into something in the second book, though it isn't really necessary), but I wasn't sure if it was one of those Mary-Sue tricks to make your character get away unscathed, though personally this would be enough to traumatize me for a while
Any comments, suggestions... or help?
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