Everyone's Favorite Character

In anticipation of next week's Narrative Architecture session which includes character development, I've got a question for the group: who are your favorite protagonists? The ones that jump off the page. The ones that have you screaming when they walk into the room where you know the bad guy's laid their trap. The ones that have you cheering when they vanquish the antagonist you've spent three hundred pages begging the author to kill.

For me, it's Harry Dresden. Love me a good Dresden Files book.

And here's the deeper question I want to chew on before next week: what do you think is the single most important ingredient in a protagonist who makes you feel all that? Wants & Needs? Proactivity? Voice? Flaws? Something else entirely?

Let me know my fellow Space Authors!

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Everyone's Favorite Character

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