Fannish Pet Peeve
Seriously, can we please stop with the "noble heroes are boring" crap? I would really, really like for this to happen. When did "hero" and "noble" become dirty words? What happened to boasting about our Big Damn Heroes? When did we start thinking "good" = "perfect
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I think the thing that makes the hero interesting is the struggle. It's hard to do the right thing. It's hard to be our best selves, especially when we could profit from doing the wrong thing. That's not an abstract challenge. It's one we face every day. What if we took credit for a coworker's idea, or turned in our roommate's paper from last semester as our own?
In one of my books the plot turn is almost invisible. It's a team book, three heros, two men and a woman, who have a lot of UST. And there's a point early where she realizes that the guy she's most interested in is seeing someone else, and that she has the power to screw it up for him. If she did, he'd probably turn to her. But she doesn't. Because it would be wrong. Because acting on her selfish jealousy would be bad. And from that comes the entire successful team that follows. If she'd done that, the three of them would never be able to trust each other and work together as a team that literally saves all their people.
That's a choice a lot of people face. What if they acted on those feelings of jealousy? What if they tried to "get" him?
Heroes act like heroes. And I believe that when we act like heroes we become them.
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