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If a character wants to make up for one or more terrible things they did, but their deeds were so heinous and so many in number that people reject their attempts for that reason(s), and if the character realized that their misdeeds were so many and so severe that they may never get their atonement, what form of playing with this trope would that be? I think it might be a deconstruction in that if a person’s done so many terrible things, then there’s no way for them to ever be forgiven. But then again, I also think it might be playing it for drama.
Here’s an example: Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto killed members of a nation’s military (the Iron Country samurai), attempted to kidnap Killer Bee, the relative of a village leader, and allied himself with a known criminal and later a terrorist organization. He’s committed murder, Mind Rape, attempted kidnapping, and high treason, and now post-Kaguya he’s trying to make up for all of that. If wherever he went people rejected his attempts at atonement - denying him food and lodging and generally treating him as persona non grata - and he realized people would never forgive him because of how bad his actions were and felt/thought that the sheer number and severity of all his past misdeeds were so great that he would never fully atone for them in his lifetime, what form of playing with the Atoner would that be?