That's really cool! It reminds me a little of Glass Town, a fantasy world that the Bronte sisters created and maintained basically through their entire lives.
One of the things I do for fun is just to write little vignettes about comic characters from Bystanders' perspectives.
One of the things I do for fun is just to write little vignettes about comic characters from Bystanders' perspectives.
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I’d love to hear your rant on the three act format, as it feels linked to the main character syndrome so many of us have bad. It’s not how life is or people are & I suspect it’s only to easy to write because it’s so much of what I’ve read. It feels fake in and of itself.
Usually, heroes have to earn the title.
Even with special births, it's viewed as an obligation to live up to. Not a privilege to enjoy.
Although, by making a character a protagonist, the framing is that we should be empathizing with a character. One of my biggest issues with "Killers of the Flower Moon" is how they framed a villain as the protagonist.
It ties back to the MC Syndrome because many people feel they're Special so their actions are justified.
We become Chosen Ones for our own reasons and use stories as justification.
Too Often, they didn't have to DO anything to be Chosen. They didn't have to demonstrate Competence, or Virtue. They just had to Exist, or Be in the Right Place at the Right time. Or be Picked by a higher power, because Reasons. (Often Because "Fate")
Too often, the Chosen One isn't Chosen, but Born. They are "chosen" because they were the son of god. They were born because of midichlorians. They were bitten by a radioactive spider.
No Choice in it. Just accident of birth.
But that's neither here nor there.)
All of it is so contradictory to the idea of personal agency. ("If you're poor it's your fault!")
A lot of our stories encourage this. We're very reliant on "Fate" and "The Chosen One", both of which are tropes I LOATHE!
That's a trope practically as old as stories themselves. "That inferior groups Heathen Gods helped them!"
(It's a big reason Ancient Aliens was so popular.)
It's very Eurocentric.