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Bedtime Question 1
🕑 Added 2021-05-16 08:05:33 +0000 UTCSo, I’m lying here in bed, trying to get some sleep with multiple thoughts on various stories running through my head and a thought came to me...
What do my viewers like to read or normally read ... male or female characters if they had to think about it?
I mean you could talk about men turning into women or women into men, but in general, what is the characters you tend to enjoy following more as a main character?
... I know ALL of my main cast tend to be female and that might affect the results or even if you want me to write more males ... just something I’ve thought about while ideas spin in my head xD
Comments
LurkerBelow
I think the entire genre of fantasy is skewed by an overrepresentation of bad authors writing bad male MCs. It doesn't really matter if the MC is male or female, the real problem is that the character development in many stories is just... severely lacking. Male or Female is a surface level detail. It should be a starting point for a character's perspective, not the entire character. Choosing a main character should be to provide the perspective of the story you want to show the reader. Whether they are male or female should just be a small start of the character's whole design and backstory.
Wolfclaw
First of all I do believe you got a skewed result here because wow when I voted girls have 97% but as for why I voted girls is because I've found a lot of fantasy authors when they write male mc's tend to litter their stories with one dimensional characters while when the mc is a girl I've found for whatever reason that the characters tend to be better written or at least more tolerable then the whiny male mc's or the mc's that get everything they can possibly want handed to them on a silver platter with even the secondary characters getting more chances to shine since they are not constantly being sycophantic is the secondary is male or constantly having forced romantic interest crammed into their character if they are female
