Will often manifest qualities of the Warrior Poet or the Stranger in a Strange Land. However, the writers still need to be careful as to how they construct this Survivor Guilt: owing to Angst Dissonance, even something as traumatic as this can still degenerate into Wangst if the character seems determined not to get over it and eventually move on, or if the character's pain is written in an unconvincing fashion. It will also provide an excuse for them to be substantially different (read: "better") in skill, abilities, or morality than the rest of the characters. Such a character is liable to manifest some profound Survivor Guilt, and the prospect of avenging their kind may develop into an obsession that acts as an Achilles' Heel. This might mean that they're the last survivor of a particular society or secret order, but for full effect they are actually the last of an entire civilization, or even biological species. If this civilization used to be important in the power balance between civilizations that still remain, it's now considered missing. A character who is a species unto themself, the Sole Survivor of some calamity that has wiped out their entire civilization.
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