Roles

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In movies and books there are characters.
These characters have positions in the fictional world they live in.
Their roles vary in importance.
For example, there is the lead.
They are the most important character and are usually stupid and selfish.
Stupid in the sense that they can never solve their own problems.

That's where the love interest comes in.
They are usually about as imbecile as the lead, so they never notice the definitive flaws the character holds in them.
They are also dull in the sense of how they fall for the lead.
As in, they fall headfirst and for obvious reasons, like how the lead listens to them, how they're good looking (although the love interest would never admit that to others or themselves, for admitting that would be the equivalent of seeing how vain they truly are, in turn realizing what a bore they seem to be aside the flashy colors painting their uneventful lives).

Next is the emotional one.
They stop fights and give emotive monologues.
They're no good to the plot although they'll never know that, no matter how much care for others is in their hearts.
They enhance the language and wrap up the story like a grand, twinkling present, never truly knowing how their story goes.

Finally there is the advice giving character.
They are insightful and speak with care to everyone they know, not talking about themselves seriously, mentioning their own opinions just to help.
They do everything in the hopes of helping, and they help in the hopes of finding themselves.

Normal stories follow this format, some even dumb it down, surprisingly enough.
Those authors are idiots in their whole being.
Idiots who make stories and adventures so focused around only a couple of people, as if the whole world runs around them and them only.

But the world, the world is so much more vast and complex, so much more beautiful than two, half assed characters, made to be loving and nice in words others speak but never actually exhibiting the conflict needed to grow as people and be strong.

This is not a normal story.

This is a story about people who suffer and feel emotions and live in a world that is ours, it is intricate and confusing, but wonderous nonetheless.
A story about the lesser characters, the advice giving ones, the emotional ones, the comic reliefs, and more.

This is a story about life, horrible and difficult, enormous and lonely, depressing and enlightening, but beautiful no matter what.

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