/lit/ - Literature

I've got a question for you guys. What do you like to see in your protagonists? Or what would you like more of?
As far as YA goes, I wish kids were punished more for their choices. I think most of us can look back at some terrible decisions that made us feel horrible and people that used us and deceived us, but YA does a very bad job of passing on stuff like that to a new generation.
When it concerns most books, I wish more of them had characters that had people that were outcasts for good reason, not "omg because his people are mean : (" Drizzt tier stories. I think Martin did a good job with Tyrion in that way, because he's an actual little shit, and the same could be said for Glokta from Blade Itself since he's basically a Punished Chad. But there's so little of that. Never mind actual monsters as characters that have to live within their own world, like a story from Gollum's perspective or a WoD nossie.
Lastly, it'd be nice to have some readable female protagonists. It's incredible how shit most of them are, regardless of whether it's women or men writing them. 90% of the time it's into-the-trash tier.