UltimaBahamut93
Scribe
I have four stories that I am working on, hopefully to become novels. While the worlds, magic, and genres are all different, they all have a MC who is reluctant or uninterested, or even interested for the wrong reasons, to go on the quest/adventure and it is through the struggle of the conflict and the comradery of the side characters that they grow and evolve into accepting not just vocational responsibility but moral and ethical responsibility as well. I know the reluctant hero is a staple of the traditional 'hero's journey' trope, which in of itself isn't bad by any means, I am just wondering if my stories and main characters will be too similar if they are all "reluctant heroes". I know that like most things in writing it comes down to execution. But have any of you struggled with thinking your MCs or their archetype is too similar?