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⌈ Secret Post #4657 ⌋

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Re: Inspired by 4, what happy, positive types of fantasy stories do you want to read?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not totally sure what people mean by "happy, positive stories" here, because I think that you can still have, like, villains and danger and conflict in more positive stories. It's just going to be different. The amount of danger is going to be lower. The villains are more likely to be misguided or humorous, rather than deadly and serious. The tone of the piece is going to be lighter. The ending is more likely to be happy. Etc, etc, etc.

But even setting that aside, there are plot structures you can use - stuff like quests, or stories of people striving for their own personal goals and development, or romantic storylines.

Re: Inspired by 4, what happy, positive types of fantasy stories do you want to read?

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, the danger doesn't even have to be less extreme or the villains misguided and humorous. You can have high stakes in a happy, positive story. The way they're written and the attitudes the characters have are just different.

The night before facing the final battle that decides the fate of the world, the characters are hopeful and determined and focusing the fact that they're doing a good thing that will help everyone, rather than being resigned in the face of possible death and defeat the way they might be in a grimmer story. At the midpoint of the story, where the heroes have to suffer a defeat to heighten the stakes, they fail but make it out with a critical piece of information that will help them in the conflict, and the character who had to be left behind survives and is working on escaping captivity or sowing misinformation with the knowledge that eventually his friends will come for him. The character with dubious morals and allegiances doesn't turn on the heroes, or if they do, it's a bluff to help them in the final battle and is signposted so the reader/viewer can pick up on it. The overall tone is optimistic - yes, the heroes might be in a tough spot, but they have each other and will prevail in the end.