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alexseanchai) wrote2015-02-03 11:01 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-02-03 11:01 pm
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I was about to make a post saying "I want (but I do not want to be the one to write) a story that" yadda yadda etc, and then I realized I was describing Percy Jackson with queer female leads. The general premise of "HERE IS THE CHOSEN ONE (but the actual utterly-ordinary hero is over thisaway)" has probably been done elsewhere, too, but I have definitely encountered it in Percy Jackson.
...to avoid (further) spoiling people who have not read the fifth Percy Jackson, I won't name the hero, but suffice to say he isn't quite as ordinary as all that. But 'utterly ordinary' isn't really the criterion I'm after here; it's more like 'ordinary but, when presented the choice of doing what is right vs doing what [is easy / one has been told to do / gets one ahead / etc], chooses to do what is right'. As distinctly opposed to Percy Jackson or Tsukino Usagi or Harry Potter, all of whom were chosen by Destiny or Prophecy or Deity or whatnot. I think the difference I'm trying to articulate may be that between Alanna of Trebond and Keladry of Mindelan?
(I need to reread Percy Jackson, but the story would still be awesomer with queer female leads.)
...to avoid (further) spoiling people who have not read the fifth Percy Jackson, I won't name the hero, but suffice to say he isn't quite as ordinary as all that. But 'utterly ordinary' isn't really the criterion I'm after here; it's more like 'ordinary but, when presented the choice of doing what is right vs doing what [is easy / one has been told to do / gets one ahead / etc], chooses to do what is right'. As distinctly opposed to Percy Jackson or Tsukino Usagi or Harry Potter, all of whom were chosen by Destiny or Prophecy or Deity or whatnot. I think the difference I'm trying to articulate may be that between Alanna of Trebond and Keladry of Mindelan?
(I need to reread Percy Jackson, but the story would still be awesomer with queer female leads.)