How interesting! I have gateway characters, too. I think of them as my avatars in a fandom, because they are always the characters I feel the most kinship with, and I see events of canon from their perspective. Is that how your gateway characters work?
Essentially yes. Most often then thing that tips me over into writing is something happening with the gateway character that isn't addressed fully enough emotionally to my satisfaction. Almost always it's preceded by months if not years of me mentally viewing the canon through their eyes, settling into their skin as it were. So yes I tend to view the show from their perspective.
It is almost never the character that the canon has laid out as the main pov character incidentally, perhaps because if there is going to be things addressed emotionally it's far more likely the main character will get a more complete showing there than the secondary ones.
Oh, me too. I want to jump in if the emotional notes aren't hit enough - or if I feel the need to explain why they were hit in a way that I don't think makes sense without help.
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It is almost never the character that the canon has laid out as the main pov character incidentally, perhaps because if there is going to be things addressed emotionally it's far more likely the main character will get a more complete showing there than the secondary ones.
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