alright so i’ve got these two characters that hate each other. long story short, they’ve known each other their whole lives and a childhood feud has turned into a devastating hatred that’s been lasting for like twenty years. the thing is, they’re both a little unstable and they kinda hold onto this everlasting conflict because that’s the only thing that’s stable in their lives, and because they do not know how to interact otherwise. they do not want to live without each other and they do not want their relationship to evolve because hate is simple and it can’t get any worse.
i would like one of them to die for the other, or protecting the other. i feel like that would feel right, at some point of their arc, for one of them to give their life to save the other.
my problem is, everything is set in a real-life setting. no adventurous quest, no impossible monster to fight (except the ones in their heads), no unbreakable spell. just real life.
does anyone have any idea on how to get them in a life or death situation that would be dramatic and heart breaking and that would result in the survival of one of them thanks to the other’s sacrifice ?
i don’t want to fall into the over used trope of the robbery gone wrong or smth but my mind has been kinda blank on the subject lately.