In my world, there is an army responsible for horrendous acts for nearly 100 years. In my initial story, things tend to be very lighthearted and upbeat with some darker undertones. But occasionally (not in my book but in my writing process) I continue world building by switching between the perspective of my current mc and their father, two different people who are living two very different lives. My mc is damaged, traumatized, and FUBAR, but still wears a happy smile on a simple goal to build a family like the one who took them in and be a bright spot for anyone going through bad times in my world. Their adoptive dad on the otherhand started off as a kind hearted person, the offspring of two heinous titans in the pirate world but ended up in the care of a pirate that practiced more humanitarian acts. His entire life became dedicated to helping, providing aid, building a family to reach further goals among his cause. Until he witnessed one nation being victim of a one sided 100 year war. The nation where he adopted my mc, where he settled down for years in a place he knew needed him, where he made incredible sacrifices in order to end a genocide in a dying nation at the cost of cutting themselves off from the outside world and blocking all outsider interference.

Now finally, I’m at a point of plotting ahead what I plan to do with the otherside of the war, the ones who united together several different armies around my world to desecrate one strip of land for resources, profit, and a prejudiced agenda. Now I don’t like to be too dark, but in my prequel plot it isn’t hidden the atrocities this offensive force has committed. Imprisoning innocent civilians, segregation, torture, public humiliation and abuse, sexual abuse, targeting of children, young woman, and pregnant women, blatant child predatory behavior, outwardly disrespecting the culture and religion of this land, as well as extending similar treatment to aid workers and mutual parties, as well as history of abusing their own soliders.

During the turning point of the genocide, there is a storm so powerful it floods the dying nation indirectly saving them, but drowning thousands of offensive force soldiers. But there are still prisoners taken who were able to evade drowning or were outside of the nation at the time of the flooding. Now they are all held prisoner in a world where my mc’s father is trying to end capital punishment as a common practice around my world. He is not a political leader rather acting as a form of informal diplomat who also gained authority as one of the leading providers of usable water in my world. At one point he is in communication with a pharma and tech company ready to begin human testing trials. Ideally they hoped to seek out a struggling nation of people who don’t have the media or regulations to avoid being the victims of these inhumane trials. My mc’s father tries to reason with them but ends up bartering with all the prisoners of the former offensive force soldiers and the majority of their political party for their crimes against humanity and all living things. These trials would expose them to harmful drugs and chemicals, keep them in a harsh environment, care little about the lasting effects or their well being, purposefully infect large groups with dangerous diseases to attempt to find cures as well as testing biological weaponry.

Would you say this decision feels believable and falls under the moral ideology of his character as I’ve described him so far?