Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-68.194.169.97-20160112040149/@comment-5414218-20160112121059

Shadow at Morning wrote: I struggle to think of how one can even have a story without conflict.

Hardship makes the positives all the rarer, all the more precious, all the sweeter. To lack such is unsatisfying. Nights, darkness levels, dawn, and all that.

And the point of a story is to evoke emotions. That some choose to evoke negative or mixed emotions is merely a manifestation of what the author views as poetical, and can and should encompass the whole of human experience. Pretty much what I think on the matter.

By the way, it's been said already(many times) that the characters they allude to don't influence the character itself or their story in any way. Just because they are based on Achilles and Joan of Arc doesn't mean they will have awful deaths in the end.