writing
"There's no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"
-Maya Angelou
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Ok then I don't wanna see any cishet characters anymore. BO-RING!!!! To put a twist onnit you could always have a protagonist with a weird found family, and have them get killed. People would cry, I think.
By burning hatred mixing ugly style with lust...........
Ideally I think that if there is a "villain"/antagonist, they should have wronged the protagonist in a really achingly specific way. It should be extremely personal.
The antagonist banged the MC's dad and was gone in the morning when dad woke up.
Too late, the Witcher series did that
Though largely people hated that arc and celebrated when the unhinged villain brutally murdered Ciri's found family in front of her
Happens in Legend of the Condor Heroes, too.
More proof that The Witcher as an IP is a net negative...
As a fan of the games. I can't argue with you (sad lol). I love the idea and shit but fuck most of the story is annoying AF.
But beyond snark that twists the premise in a gay and fandom-bent direction, the premise can be deconstucted itself: why does this conception of storytelling require a protagonist to be wronged by an antagonist who then must be stopped? Why does narrative only center around violent conflict? Has the burger reich so perverted our sensibilities? Is there no room for rumination on the internal lives of characters, the social links between them? The processing of grief? The trials of organising, perhaps? Existential dread? Does the ghost of Joϟϟeph Kkkampbell haunt us so?