Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20141207154400/@comment-24993958-20141218231432

LiveandSound wrote: -Ok, ok, first of all, it's a horrriiibblleee idea to make a flat, Vanilla Protagonist in a show. Those types of protagonists work in videogames, but not in shows or anything similar. In the end, you can easily end up making your protagonist uninteresting and boring, which is bad, especially since being the protagonist, he needs focus. Making a Vanilla Protagonist in a show, is a bad idea. Especially making the protagonist like a minor character. ….weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllll that’s not…entirely true…

Similar to the whole…player inserting his personality in the character thing, it CAN be pulled off, to a certain extent, with book protagonists, either by concentrating a demographic or target audience into a character or by using a completely flat character but make him a fantasy.

The latter, you can notice in a lot of old fairytails feature a prince/princess…he/she’s a walking Mary Sue…strong, beautiful, smart and lucky, stuff always goes their way and they win every fight. Now these things have survived because, character wise, they had none. No description of their personalities, no description on how they look, no nothing…and like fish to a bait most people have inserted themselves into those characters and have spread the stories word for word to the point they survived up to the age of information we live in…and now kids get to learn about the origins of the self insert fanfics…oh joy…