/lit/ - Literature

>>22662834
>>22662874
The funniest part of this take is that you're trying to frame this character like another stronk womyn badass power fantasy and I'm explicitly writing her to be the opposite. She is physically strong, yes, but she is not empowered by that strength. Her role and her training was not something she chose and ends up only burdening her. Not in a "it's such a burden to be the hero" sense but in that it pulls her into the events of the greater story in which she rarely leaves mentally or physically unscathed. Nor is she strong in the stoic, determined sense. Much of her journey as a character is going to be about addressing the complexes that leave her vulnerable to manipulation. If you want to criticize her trope, call me a hack for invoking be low-hanging fruit of a doe-eyed sacrifice for the altar of character drama. But a mary sue, she is not.

>>22648284
No. I'm too invested in babygirl's hero's journey and once I've emotionally and physically martyred her for 3 books worth of story arcs, I think she'll deserve to throw her sword into the ocean, settle down, and get pregnant.
Funny enough though, I didn't set out to have any romance or sex in the story. I billed it to my friends doing the alpha reading as "less horny aSoIaF", but most of them either gently suggested that many of the character dynamics I'd set up were ripe for that and not addressing it would be an elephant in the room. I did some cooking and ended up with some relationship arcs and character dynamics that I feel fit perfectly with my set themes and make the overall story more interesting than if they hadn't been there.
That just goes for the outline, though. I'm still working on figuring out a way to write these romance scenes out without giving myself Vietnam flashbacks to how cringey Paolini's romance arcs were in Inheritance.