Spiritual_Manager893

So i am writing a short eldritch horror story, think Stephen King. The plots still in the rough but I am going for a 1980s small Oregon town with the vibe of The Summer Hikaru Died. The problem is that I have this character who is the typical prim and proper girl, she came up from the south but was primarily raised in this small town. He first name is "Dolores" and he last name was "Flores" but i have now changed to "Flowers", now to me this seems a bit corny and that is not a direct I want to go down. Now I do like that symbolic use of this surname as he character does change greatly and she learns new stuff about who she is. However I also feel like there is a better way to symbolise

So the party that I run party is me (DM) an my family (Party) and they are approaching the end of their campaign, the problem is I had to scrap the final boss and 'final act'. What happen was they managed to unintentionally avoid a main quest line which led to them never seeing the horrors of this character (a malicious royal queen, who is a fallen god and effectively brainwash most of the land to loving her).

They are part of a guild that hates her and have been recruiting people to over thrown the queen. I have to much telling of how evil she is but not enough showing. This guild is essential an old royal party that she controlled then use to do her dirty work since the royal party didn'