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I think character and story need to complement each other...what drives the story is exactly who the character is and why they do what they do...
When you have a "character MUST do this thing" situation, you either need to rethink the character OR...sure, the character would NEVER do something like what you need them to do...UNLESS there are these extraordinary circumstances where this truly is the logical (or emotionally correct) course of action.
It's sometimes very interesting to have a character who continually tells himself, "I would never do that," and yet when the moment of truth comes, they have feet of clay and actually do feel compelled to do that very same thing they found so abhorrent when they thought about it.
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