#deuteragonists

[bzar-bzar]

sometimes I feel crazy when it comes to shipping, like I genuinely don’t understand why you wouldn’t ship a character with the person who is most important to them, who is on their level, who has the same goals, and who has had the biggest mark on their personality. is the disconnect a fundamental difference in opinion on what makes a good relationship, or?

[farm2turntable]

Wheely Applegate stares into the abyss.

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Ohhhh, oh, you know what, when I was writing that 1k+ post earlier about YuuMori deuteragonists, I said, I know I said, that I couldn’t see how anyone else might play in that role was a lack of imagination on my part, and I was right, because I just realized: YuuMori with William as protagonist and Mycroft as deuteragonist emblemizing The System William lives in defiance of, The System that failed him, that failed so many people, that he lives to see changed and burnt down and the rot rooted out.

The system even Mycroft knows is broken as he upholds it.

And then the story can be about how to effect change and complicity and direct action.

It would be so fucking good, actually.

I actually thought about Mycroft in that role for a while before I wrote that, but all of my best ideas come to me in the middle of the night. It would probably be hellaciously weird to have a Sherlock Holmes adaptation about Moriarty with Mycroft being more prominent and important than Sherlock, but there ya go.

Not sure if I want to paste this into the original post because people already reblogged the first one. But.

[invertedaquariumperson]

do you think writers actually use the phrase deuteragonist or is it just a term used exclusively by fan wikis

[goryhorroor]

anime | deuteragonists 

[mysticdragon3art]

The Figure Friday Challenge for 09/06/2013 was "favorite trope".  One of mine, is dual protagonists (which maybe can be called deuteragonists).  You know how it goes:  They were friends, but they spend most of the story as each other's antagonists, then they team up again at the end.  It's awesome.  ^_^