Thread:The real cal howard/@comment-31165326-20190112061447/@comment-31165326-20190112082328

The real cal howard wrote: Yeah, tell me more about your main characters. Well... I used to have way more, with them having a whole 5 kids, but then I realized 3 of 5 had no purpose to existing so I goofed them.

But, the basic idea is that Xander is a normal guy. I once heard YouTube Channel "Just Write" say that a story is like an essay, where you present your idea in the form of a thesis, with an antithesis in mind, represented by hero and villain, not necessarily respectively. At the end of the story, you form synthesis, where you form a conclusion based on both sides. In this sense, Xander is the guy reading the essay with the antithesis, as the protagonist.

Again, I do not want to provide spoilers, but, Xander, as a normal person, carries ideas which I, as an abnormal person, do not carry.

.... This metaphor doesn't work when the contents are something I want to keep a padlock on due to the story being based on two plot twists.