#упрт

It would be such a subversion (in a fanfic) if someone uses the Ring in desperation, and makes complex plans to have other people able and willing kill him once he succumbs, and so on.
And then it turns out the Ring is totally benign and it was all misinformation from Sauron and worst-case assumptions by everyone else.
Now the protag has to use the power of the Ring for good (and for stopping Sauron) while desperately evading the failsafes they themselves set up to stop them if they did that!
(c)