![]() She's working out hard and training in Krav maga to become as powerd as possible. From the very beginning she's jealous of Jessica's powers and wants to have her own, and she's totally obsessed with it. There's Trish in the Netflix Jessica Jones series. In a supporting character the authenticity is easier to trade off. It might also save the difficulties of researching and writing the psychology of a hero-complex - these are the people who work as nurses so they can inject things into babies and then "save" them, so there might be a trade-off between keeping an authentic voice of someone with the complex and sanitising it down to a character that anyone would want to spend time with. Something to consider might be turning this story into a side-plot for something else and making the main character into a supporting character - as that might give the breathing space needed to keep a surprise going without it being at the expense of closeness to character. Which I guess pushes toward 1st-P, and the plot twist ends up as a rug-pull. And one whose unreliability is at an extreme (and might be at risk of becoming inauthentic). I'm not saying it can't be done - but that it's likely to involve an unreliable narrator. In film we don't see the characters' thoughts so a rug-pull can work, but in writing it tends to open a need to deceive the reader about the character's thoughts. The examples on wikipedia and that I can think of are nearly all either children's stories or movies (which nowadays is the same thing) and I guess it might be because of (as the OP I think highlights) the need for the POV to be authentic. What the OP is after also seems different from the Han Solo type story arc where someone starts off pretending to be a hero and then makes a profound realisation that "true is better than false". So, my question is, what approach seems the best to you? Did you ever come across a similar concept? Do you think this kind of story needs a specific POV?ĭo you draw any distinction between false heroes and false protagonists?įalse protagonist is for characters who are (misleadingly) built up as the heroįalse hero is for a character who comes in at the end and claims they were the hero of the storyįor a heroism addition there's Kick-Ass (2010), but he isn't a false protagonist he's the hero of a story about pretending to be a hero. Using multiple perspectives has the same problem as the first option since the fake protag's story would still need to mostly be told through his eyes. Writing in 1st person would make the second half extremely difficult to pull off. Framing the whole thing straight would mean a weak, cliched beginning. But without it, I'm not sure how the novel should treat this character. If you know a story with a theme like that, I'd certainly appreciate it as a point of reference. I have a general idea of how I'd like to do it, but I don't know how to frame the POV. I wanted my character to play the role of a false protagonist. There were a whole lot of stories where a similar character played a role of a villain/fallen hero (who can be possibly redeemed)/side character. I've been looking for stories with this theme, but couldn't find anything even remotely similar. I want my new WIP to be about a character with a hero complex/heroism addiction.
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