Talk:Author Authority/@comment-5265497-20141031215352/@comment-5265497-20141104052039

When it comes to writing a story, the alternate reality standpoint should be the default standard for deconstructing the story. Inside the story, the writer doesn't even exist unless he actively becomes an inherent element of it. And usually, the protagonist is the only subtle hint of the author emerging in the story with an exaggeration of his real life experiences, the themes he uncovered, and his desires with an eclectic conduit for expression. That's usually the author avatar, but he imposes limits upon his character so he can have the greatest thematic freedom expression... because omnipotent and nigh-omnipotent characters are usually caricatures of perfection that absolutely no one can actually relate to. So usually, the character would identify with the author quite easily. The author usually doesn't try to look at himself as a god, but as an expressionist, an artist, a cameraman, etc.

In addition, the characters who had to struggle in life, worked the hardest, and trained through hell to become badasses like mercenaries, monks, vigilantes, martial arts masters, G.I. Joe, Batman, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, and last but not least, Chuck Norris are usually universally perceived to be the coolest characters (if I am correct, you have a certain appreciation for mercenaries). Everybody has that freedom of expression to write about what they want to be, and you seem to desire eternal comfort and bliss so thaat's what you express through your creations.

And the preset template of a flawed and cruel universe is what motivates their character to want to change it in some way to make his reality a better habitat to live. If everything is already perfect, then is stagnation really an enviable choice. I mean, your character has the absolute power and ultimate freedom to make a change in his entire reality for the better, quite effortlessly I might add, but he willingly chooses isolation; however, your expression of his personality and dispassionate disposition allows the reader to understand he doesn't feel the need to undertake that challenge and would rather have his reality conform to that flawed preset template that all authors subconsciously live by.