So I read yesterdayās chapter of The Wolf Bride and the whole Morgan reveal I thought was very interesting.
So if you didnāt read the last chapter here a SPOILER ALERT!
Ok so, it turns out Morgan is a warewolf too, which was kinda expected but it was still an interesting twist. She was left in the woods and adopted by a man who hated warewolves. When she was a child warewolves attacked her home and killed her mother so she swore to fight them or find a cure for them. So now, she realized she is what she hated for years. And I thought, wow, thatās an interesting character arc. And suddenly Morgan became the most interesting character in the book. And I kinda wish MC was this interesting.
And I realized, the problem with the recent books is the fact that we almost always get a clean slate MC. A character that has no background, no story, no clear motivations. And that is the most uninteresting character ever. And I hate that. Like, this is the biggest problem with The Wolf Bride, who is my character? What are her motivations? What is she leaving behind if she chooses to live with the wolves? What does she want? Her only motivations and dilemmas are...should she chose Morgan or Bastien? Like, there are other things to think about, lady.
You have to have a character that has clear goals and motivations for the book to work. Or, if your MC is a clean slate character she should have a reason for that, like in Endless summer, MC didnāt exist before the island. And I know this is not a recent problem, most of us hated MC having no life and no personal story other than her friendsā. But characters like the MC from A Courtesan of Rome are so much more interesting, her home and family have been taken away from her and now she wants revenge. Or even the MC from MTFL, she lost her mother and was a cheerleader to feel closer to her, but throughout the book she realizes, well, she doesnāt really enjoy cheerleading and itās time for her to pursue her own dreams. So it can be something minor, but still something that makes the MC interesting and actually gives them an arc.
I understand that pb wants the mcs to be as relatable as possible, God forbid we actually donāt have something in common with a character weāre playing in a fictional book! But that way the other characters are so much more interesting and the MC is just there for the ride, instead of being the one moving the story forward.
So yeah...tired of these Clean Slate MCs. Please give us something better PB!
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