Okay, so I have no opinion on Katrina, never having seen Sleepy Hollow, and for all I know you may be right in her case, but I read that and I thought, "That can't be right in general; you must be able to write an interesting character who doesn't desire competence." And then I thought a little more, and I thought: Ivan Vorpatril.
And it's not exactly that Ivan doesn't desire competence, or that he desires incompetence, but you certainly can't come out and simply say that he desires competence. He has a fraught relationship with competence.
That's certainly true in Ivan's case, but there's all sorts of background information available that makes his lack of desire make sense - and no, I didn't mean that the statement had to be true for every character ever. With Katrina, we don't have enough evidence about her personality to make the judgment, but she'd be a whole lot more interesting if she did want to be competent.
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Okay, so I have no opinion on Katrina, never having seen Sleepy Hollow, and for all I know you may be right in her case, but I read that and I thought, "That can't be right in general; you must be able to write an interesting character who doesn't desire competence." And then I thought a little more, and I thought: Ivan Vorpatril.
And it's not exactly that Ivan doesn't desire competence, or that he desires incompetence, but you certainly can't come out and simply say that he desires competence. He has a fraught relationship with competence.
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