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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
For my part, I love the grit, the murkiness and the moral turmoil. I've had thirty years or so of almost nothing but clean-cut, heroic, upstanding, nausea-inducing protagonists and I'll happily do without them for the next three decades. Not that I begrudge "the other side" their fluffy bunny rabbits stuffed with fragrant rose petals, but I certainly hope the pendulum doesn't begin to swing the other way any time soon.
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i like characters that get in there and get their hands dirty. but at the end of the day there's still some (albeit battered) goodness at their core.
i've said in another thread i simply can't stomach the 'innocent farm boy hero with magic trinket' so prevalent in epic fantasy. i just don't believe it on the basis of sheer logic. i also don't believe said character would remain 'good' after their journey, they'd have some serious issues.
since GRRM is often mentioned, i would consider somebody like jon snow a complex, yet fundamentally good, character. same for the starks. rough around their edges, willing to get dirty when need be, but fundamentally good. i suppose i was too hasty in my previous post.
i guess i generally just don't like my heroes to go below chaotic neutral/neutral good. like batman
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