No. This might be Motive Decay, but it doesn't have to be — does it?
There is a fine line between recklessness and courage — Paul McCartney
I was under the impression (going from the title) that this is when a character continues to engage morally duplicitous activity for a noble goal even though the noble goal has already been achieved and there's no actual reason to do it anymore.
Now, if this is just about stealing specifically, yeah, that's dumb and not really a tropeworthy distinction for a split.
See you in the discussion pages.
Honestly, even if we want to keep this one, it should be sent back to YKTTW to get a title and description less focused on theft.
I think Some Guy has the key- there's a good intention brought in, at various times in the story, and then fulfilled and then the bad actions continue. That causes a different chain of events in the plot, it indicates the motive being used for a different purpose in the story telling (it's used a couple of times to backtrack over and add depth rather than a plot instigator) and that's worth splitting for.
I was kind of looking for non-theft responses, but couldn't think of any; it should cover anything where the pattern is: character has antisocial behavior of some kind, said behavior is justified, then when the justification goes away, the author would rather not change the character.
re:Cut.
There was already three examples and a simple straightforward description. I have no problem with the page itself other than the issue of whether it was worth splitting from Motive Decay. Being split by particular motive or action does seems to miss the point. Any thoughts?
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