1.) Tell a bit about a main protagonist and a main antagonist? If your story doesn’t really have “good guys and bad guys”, tell about two characters with opposing viewpoints!
Most of my characters have gray moralities, and the ones that don’t are spoilers. This is a hard one.
This is a good question for AS’s Dark AU, but idk I don’t think that’s interesting enough. Plus Piers’ dark self is bland when you get down to it.
Ehh fuck it let’s do Icarus (mnemoir character) and Aeris (backup mnemoir character) because let’s get real who’s going to see this.
Icarus’ perspective on life in general is bleak at best. He’s bottom of the food chain material, grew up in a less that great environment, and proceeded to not know what to do with his life the moment he left. So he essentially joined his society’s version of the army. He has too many insecurities to really list at once, and his attitude towards the world is filled with hostility and pessimism, because nothing has ever gotten much better for him his entire life, and nothing ever will. (All considered, Icarus has other reasons for joining the ranks of the mercenaries aside from throwing his life away. Probably.)
On the other hand, Aeris is a girl who grew up with studious parents, but was raised in relative comfort. She wanted something? She would work to get there, but it was very easily attainable. Her upbringing wasn’t a struggle of survival. She had room to grow and dream. Aeris is a girl of fantasies, dreaming of fame and glamor and how amazing she WILL be one day. She has no doubt in her mind that with absolute optimism, she will be a shining, extravagent star of her fantasies one day.
Compared with Icarus’ grounded view of reality, their way of viewing the world as a whole contrasts greatly.