• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Some people in real life make their sexuality their entire persona.

    Those people exist.

    Why shouldn’t they be allowed to be a protagonist?

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      1 year ago

      Because in a story you generally don’t want your characters to be as vapid as a puddle of water, like people who make one trait their entire personality.

      Having a character with a varied personality makes it easier for people to view them as an actual person, rather than just a narrative tool, which makes them take the characters struggles more seriously.

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      1 year ago

      The other person said it better than I ever could.

      But also: they can be a protagonist. It’s just that these movies are usually pretty shit.