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Oct 10, 2024 at 8:46pm
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Re: October 11 - Antagonist Profile
Such good points!

I have yet to write a book with a proper major antagonist, but I appreciate media with larger-than-life, charismatic antagonists. It's always fascinating to see how viewers receive them. *Laugh*

Before this, I've mostly written protagonists that get in their own way and "antagonists" who end up becoming deuteragonists, but with this project, I for once have a more level-headed MC, which means I went hard on antagonists.

This year's project, by my count, has around five "antagonists"/antagonistic forces that complicate my MC's life.

*Bullet* [condition/state] "Amnesia" (not malevolent, but conflict-creating, especially at the start)
*Bullet* [disease] TB-adjacent illness (ticking clock on MC's life)
*Bullet* [person] MC's mother (more a thematic than active antagonist; not a bad person, just a complex one)
*Bullet* [person] REDACTED (Primary antagonist/foil for MC, identity not revealed until climax)
*Bullet* [being] God of REDACTED (bound to MC; not allowed to directly kill him but very much wants him dead for at least half of the book)


All of the above elements either make the MC's driving goal harder to achieve or put a ticking clock on it, which has been really fun.

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in good sentences."
- Sylvia Plath


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