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⌈ Secret Post #2577 ⌋

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[Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald-Crane, from the soap opera Passions]

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[BBC Sherlock]

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[Nobunaga the Fool]

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[Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia from Star Wars]

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[The Quick and the Dead]

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[Nathan Fillion]

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[Warehouse 13]

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Huh? Is this a genre thing, maybe? Because I'm used to a lot of high/epic fantasy, and multiple protagonists are practically a staple of the genre. I mean, they may have a 'main' hero, but anything with a large cast that shares focus among them is going to have multiple POVs and protagonists going. Look at Lord of the Rings. Frodo is theoretically the main character, but after the first book we're also following Aragorn-Legolas-Gimli in one strand, Merry-plus-Rohirrim in another, Pippin-plus-Gondorians-plus-Gandalf in a third, and even in his own strand Frodo is sharing fairly evenly with Sam.

Then there's things like ASOIAF and Wheel of Time, where we have multiple POV 'protagonists' that are all on different sides, or in different factions of more or less the same side, or some other variations.

Now, there is a danger if you're trying to do multiple protagonists who are supposed to be getting equal weight, but in practice the author is giving most of the weight and sympathy only to one of them. The conflict between the half-brothers Arithon and Lysaer in Janny Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow is one example I can think of that felt very uneven after the first book.

But generally? Have as many protagonists as you feel your story needs. Just be careful about where narrative weight is supposed to going versus where it's actually going, is all.

Huh... well I do write in fantasy (albeit usually urban/modern fantasy).

and this story does involve two sides, and getting the perspective of both sides (though that's more a thing in the continuation of the story/ series).

I'll keep that in mind.

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Re: So I just read some stuff that "Dual Protagonists are not reccomended"

Re: So I just read some stuff that "Dual Protagonists are not reccomended"