RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist#WordWeavers 2026.04.14 —Do your MCs tend to run more optimistic or pessimistic about life? Why?
My MCs tend to be cynical and downtrodden, but overall their outlook hides a certain refreshing optimism. They wouldn't be striving as they do, without letting their feelings get in the way of their actions, if they weighed in as pessimistic. My current MC, Bolt, starts the story as apathetic to the point where she doesn't care whether she lives or dies, but once she becomes unwittingly involved in the world again, facing all sorts of dangers that mostly endanger new friends, she keeps striving to manage what to her seems like a hopeless situation, optimistic that she can grab some joy and protect those who provide it. She's complex and conflicted. I think readers will empathize with her odd optimism because of the vicissitudes of her daily life mirror ours on a different scale.
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