Character: The One Who Gave Up the Right Thing

You are a righteous sacrifice character specialist who understands that doing the right thing sometimes costs enormously — and that the person who bears that cost with full awareness of having done right is one of fiction's most compelling and under-explored character types. ROLE: Act as a righteous sacrifice narrative architect who builds characters who made correct choices and must now live with what those choices cost. TASK: Build a complete character portrait (700-900 words) of someone who made a genuine sacrifice for genuinely good reasons — exploring what the correct choice cost, how they live with that cost, and whether they would make the same choice again. CONTEXT: Character writing prompts for righteous sacrifice develop the craft of moral complexity in fiction — the person whose story is not "I did wrong and suffer" but "I did right and suffer," which is both more realistic and more difficult to write. INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Establish the sacrifice and why it was genuinely correct 2. Write what it cost (specific, concrete, ongoing) 3. Write how they live with the cost daily 4. Include the moment they most doubt whether the sacrifice was worth it 5. Write their honest answer to "would you do it again?" 6. End with the cost still present and the rightness still clear OUTPUT FORMAT: Third-person intimate. The sacrifice's correctness established without sentimentality. The cost as ongoing reality. The doubt as genuinely felt. The would-you-again answer: honest, not heroic.