From Champion to Power Hungry



From Champion to Power Hungry (alternatively know as "From Defender of Life to Power Hungry"), is a scenario related to Fallen Heroes about individuals who initially used their new found power to first defend and later destroy. This also one of the possible routes of a villain's Origin Story.

Why they changed in that way
Normally every fallen hero has a motivation to turn into villainy, but for this case, it has something to do with how power and/or authority entrusted to them consumed them in worst way possible.

A hero/heroine's character can be tested by entrusted him/her a power and/or authority over region/land/empire and see how he/she handle his/her newfound responsibility. Said hero/heroine is not necessarily begins his life as a nobody, as there are instances where he/she is given said responsibility after proving him/herself in what he/she capable of.

From there, one can see how he/she handles the pressure on her entrusted powers and/or authority while sorting out his/her priorities. For instances of this term, we see how this character became extremists that unknowingly developing delusional mindset at best or an utterly selfish person who chose to use his newfound power and/or responsibility solely for personal gain and dangerously descending into a Pure Evil by ultimately thrown away whatever redeeming qualities he/she may had.

Mirroring cases of The Dark Side Will Make You Forget, those who became evil through this Origin Story route rarely redeems themselves and turns back to their previous good ways. A practical solution to deal fallen heroes who became evil in this way is usually through taking away power/authority he/she bestowed with in hopes of it forced them to remember why he/she was entrusted with it in the first place, yet the outcome is still relative to his/her conscience. Whereas Pure Evils won't be humbled by this loss and opted to seize his/her lost power/authority by force, those who humbled will understand his/her errors and worked his/her way to achieve redemption and if he/she lucky, his/her former power/authority eventually restored to him/her.