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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-09-13 03:58 pm

[ SECRET POST #2811 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2811 ⌋

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Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD

(Anonymous) 2014-09-13 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been doing out a list of some of my fictional universes lately, the ones that probably will never be written owing to being too old/big/complicated/childish/embarrassing/personal/etc. Just for a personal pet project, I've been listing them with name, genre, a little blurb/summary, and for some of them a character listing and brief faction outline.

I'm noticing that I have something of a type when it comes to central characters. Well, okay. Three types, really. There's the captive/slave/lower-level bureaucrat who starts a domino effect of small changes that snowball into massive plots, there's the outcast/disliked magic user who ends up embroiled in political turmoil, and there's the charismatic military/political leader figure trying to end a war/reign of terror/etc. (Yes, I like politics-heavy fantasy, though I dabble in space opera and the odd dystopia as well).

Out of around thirty odd universes, these three character types are central to about twenty four of them. They're not always the main main character, but they're usually among the main plot movers in most of them. Only about four of the universes have more than one of them at once and at roughly the same level of plot importance, though, and those are the really big, sprawling ones. So at least that's something. But yes, apparently I'm very predictable when it comes to central characters.

They're a bit more varied in the specifics, though. There's multiple genders, races, ages, sexual orientations, species and subplots involved. It's just the character role/type that I seem to get stuck on, for some reason.