Living or Dead

[Timben]

Chen (the main character's friend and partner) gets killed. I wanna bring him back to life. How do I do that? I thought of having him merely pass out due to the loss of blood. But I am not sure if that would be accurate. Sam, Bull, and Iris are caught in a tunnel between six Arabs who are shooting at them. I thought of having Chen come to their rescue. But again, not rightly sure. How would you approach this? And how do I explain his return to the living? And no he is not a Zombie or a clone. This is set in 1893, Egypt.

 

[Astro Pen]

I think you will have to do some back rewriting to change tracks and get to the point you want. Can you rewrite his death as a disappearance or has there been a burial and such?
Basically I guess you now want the scene he departed in to soften out to some disappeared or lost 'presumed dead'. How far away/ long ago was his death as currently written?


Of course I could suggest a Bobby Ewing style "resurrection".

 

[therapist]

Parasitic aliens/demons latched on to Chen when he desecrated a tomb, during yesterday's pyramid exploration. When their new host body died, the aliens/demons invoked the 'Bahiti Ur'—channeling a millennia's worth of stockpiled life force back into Chen.
Technically not a zombie.
Hope that helps.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Wait… are we writing your story for you? Have you taken the advice given in countless other posts and applied it?

Sorry if this comes off as harsh but you just seem to be wanting others to do your work. I mean, isn’t that the fun part? Thinking up your characters’ reactions to things?

 

[CupofJoe]

How real-world does the answer have to be?
If it is out and out fantasy, then go crazy...
If it needs to fit in to some reality that you have already established, start riffing on what it might be. Or what it could not be...
What is the time gap between the two events?
One thing I would say, is that if someone passes out from blood loss and the attending wound, that is going to take some time to heal...
Better to have them short in the head but only grazed. A scalp wound usually bleeds like crazy and having a bullet bounce a skull would easily knock someone out.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

How about you stop having characters killed?