Amanita
Maester
A, hopefully, short question from me.
If a story has multiple view-point characters do you prefer characters from both sides of your main conflict, or only those who are helping the main character, at least at some point of the story?
My story where this is relevant features a war between two countries and its effects on people's lifes. The enemies aren't "Orcs" but humans. Many of them only want to protect their own homes or believe their government's twisted views because they don't know anything else, a few are even forced to fight.
The male main characters believe that their enemies are a "nation of evil", kill them in brutal ways and don't really see them as human beings.
Nothing of that is unusual in real wars but I'm not sure how potential readers would react. I don't really want to make it seem as if the main characters were completely right either, though.
What do you think?
If a story has multiple view-point characters do you prefer characters from both sides of your main conflict, or only those who are helping the main character, at least at some point of the story?
My story where this is relevant features a war between two countries and its effects on people's lifes. The enemies aren't "Orcs" but humans. Many of them only want to protect their own homes or believe their government's twisted views because they don't know anything else, a few are even forced to fight.
The male main characters believe that their enemies are a "nation of evil", kill them in brutal ways and don't really see them as human beings.
Nothing of that is unusual in real wars but I'm not sure how potential readers would react. I don't really want to make it seem as if the main characters were completely right either, though.
What do you think?