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When I was writing "The Inzeyentent", "Me, Buff Girls and The Society" and "Cleveand Rectangle" is that I was trying to create a different verision of the Non-Action Guy trope applied to the 'The One Guy" protagonist in each of my stories.
Well I realize now that I was raising the bar on this Non-Action Guy trope so high that I ended up being too hard on those respective characters.....
....and it's because I want Non-Action Guys to be taken very seriously from now on and I want them to do awesome things like getting the team together, do something good for the world, standing up to what's right, do the right thing, helping males from committing sexual assault/abuse/harassment (or from simply being falsely accused of it) and, of course, defeating the villain with his wits and intelligence, all without necessary taking a level in badass.
I guess I accomplished that (most of it) through Diarumid Honeymelon (in "Me, Buff Girls and The Society") and while I would continue this process in subsequent sequels (if any), this trope will be a less of a priority in future non-related stories for the time being.
That doesn't mean I will stop getting used to this trope in my work, it's just that these characters were enough for now and I will be developing them respectively before I could even create another one.
Writtern by Malcolm Franokuski. Visit the official website and follow him on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
When I was writing "The Inzeyentent", "Me, Buff Girls and The Society" and "Cleveand Rectangle" is that I was trying to create a different verision of the Non-Action Guy trope applied to the 'The One Guy" protagonist in each of my stories.
Well I realize now that I was raising the bar on this Non-Action Guy trope so high that I ended up being too hard on those respective characters.....
....and it's because I want Non-Action Guys to be taken very seriously from now on and I want them to do awesome things like getting the team together, do something good for the world, standing up to what's right, do the right thing, helping males from committing sexual assault/abuse/harassment (or from simply being falsely accused of it) and, of course, defeating the villain with his wits and intelligence, all without necessary taking a level in badass.
I guess I accomplished that (most of it) through Diarumid Honeymelon (in "Me, Buff Girls and The Society") and while I would continue this process in subsequent sequels (if any), this trope will be a less of a priority in future non-related stories for the time being.
That doesn't mean I will stop getting used to this trope in my work, it's just that these characters were enough for now and I will be developing them respectively before I could even create another one.
Writtern by Malcolm Franokuski. Visit the official website and follow him on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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