This is like preference and also probably never going to happen but I personally wish we would better define Y/N and M/C when it came to 'first person' story telling genres thus allowing the genres to actually set up better expectations for the reader because I find that a lot of times they're used interchangeably and what I expect but is extremely rare as I suppose it is difficult for people to write is with a Y/N is basically as featureless as a character as possible that you get to paint with your own brush as it is...you or OC. Your Name. It is you/OC as is thrust into this universe. Struggling with neutral writing I think is forgivable, I think it can be difficult to move forward with an entirely featureless protagonist as your main driver but I think through heavy action from your other characters- without it turning into those tiktok pov videos 'whats that, you said you-'- no, environmental story telling, you know just keeping the camera feeding through the senses of M/C rather than on how they react to the stimuli, its extremely possible and rich story telling materia and personally for me I am looking for stories where I do get to just be that 'lens'. I want your writing strength to be in how would character react to whatever and wherever we are- which I think maybe why those prompts have found such popularity on tumblr, other than they're fun and we're all obsessed but I think it helps fix the missing Y/N niche. I find also that unfortunately in scenarios where you have a Y/N characters who really isn't meant to be a character but a vehicle, but has started to homunculi into one, ends up being a difficult read because you now have this half character fronting the story. And my brain is battling with It to be Whole. Versus What I expect out of first person M/C plots is more like how /I/ personally experience a lot of my dreams which is that I am not /me/ I am sat in the mind of /someone/ experiencing this experience with them and I may never be able to parse who that someone is outside of the verision of me experiencing them, maybe I do in some dreams, they have whole lives I learn, but what is consistent is the experience. We are sort of for a little while a merged consciousness and I am there to be a ghost in their machine sort of situation, a jiminy cricket, along as witness or as a voice not always of morality but a guiding one non the less swaying their decisions and ultimately because of my 'ridealong' as it were either they will have a significant impact on my experience or I on theirs or quite often both. So they are still them the whole time, the main character M/C in their own story with all their personality and I'm visiting. Thus to me, while I might wrinkle my nose at some or even most of their behaviors it does not conflict with my own sense of self because I am aware I am just a passenger and sometimes depending on the narrative format I get to navigate/backseat drive us. We are both our own whole beings for the experience. Or rather as any of us our, beings in motion but you get what I mean, they are not the doll playing personhood I am shoving an ego into and fustrated with finding it doesn't fit.
