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nashvillethotchicken · 1 year

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I am deeply enjoying neverafter so far but I do wonder if the point about agency in storytelling would be more poignant if the pcs weren't all the main characters of their respective fairy tales/nursery rhymes/ fables

#neverafter spoilers #like the grandmother from little red exists to be eaten. the cricket exists to die and forgive.#the baba yaga even says as much: the stepmother exists to make Cinderella look good.#what doe sit mean to have agency when you are a literal prop #main characters can at least have other traits. side characters get little to nothing #like i do think the only one who has some legit grievance with agency is rosamund and even then... i think the way its handled leaves some-#thing to be desired. i feel like that with all the princesses. like a lot of princesses in fairy tales do have some agency that others dont #buts thats for another post.#and you can argue that the pcs interactions with others strip thwm of agency and 3dness.#take aesop for example. brennans simplistic view of aesop morals and the need to make things fun makes aesop 2d in a way that tim isnt #in relating these characters to the pcs they become flatter in a sense.

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