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I prefer reading/writing feel good stories, and I will actively avoid reading a story that has drama or angst, especially if it was placed in the story for no other reason than to create drama. My stories will have downs in them, but my hope is to make sure that the reader left the story feeling better than when they started.

Random Thoughts:

If you want something, you need to work for it.

One of my pet peeves in reading stories is when a character states that they want something, but then they do absolutely nothing to attempt to achieve what it is that they want. Examples of this would be Izuku Midoria from My Hero Academia, Jaune Arc from RWBY, or Ron Weasley from Harry Potter. I know, a lot of people would probably be surprised by this, but hear me out. Izuku states that he wants to be a hero, even without a quirk, and he holds onto that belief for years. Now, he's a smart kid, but what does he do to achieve this goal?

Honestly? Not much. It's like he's waiting for a miracle to fall into his lap.

Jaune Arc from RWBY states that he wants to be a hero, but until he got to Beacon he did absolutely nothing to train, to the point where he couldn't even draw his weapon without fumbling. Instead, he'd rather cheat and lie his way into what is essentially college.

Now, I know, they're stories, and they were written that way for a particular purpose. But it still irks me a little bit.

The definition of a hero.

I've read a lot of stories where the author tacks a bunch of conditions onto what a hero is. I've seen this a lot for My Hero Academia and Fate. A hero is 'this', or a hero is 'that', building it until the concept of a hero is so big that it's practically unattainable. And then something happens, and the protagonist is bitter and 'disillusioned' about becoming a hero, to the point where if they are called a hero by another person they react badly to it.

The best definition of a hero I've found is given in a quote by Stan Lee.

“Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people’s well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them — even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero”

Betrayals

I saw a lot of this in the Percy Jackson fanfiction section, and it drove me crazy. In the first chapter, every conceivable bad thing happens all at once and it drives the protagonist away and into isolation, misery, and depression. That usually includes all of his friends turning against him for some reason, their significant other cheating on them and had been for months somehow, etc. Everybody becomes stupid except the protagonist and it drives him away.

That just... Ugh! Surely there is a better way to accomplish that which you are attempting? It's so hard to read that stuff!