What genres/topics/character types/etc aren't explored enough in fiction?

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!EverlastingMemoirs May 16, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Long subject is long.
But go.
Because I'm curious. That is all.

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!CJFinnegan Jun 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Writers who are all foreplay and no climax

~KrysysGin May 21, 2012

Protagonist succeeds, but does not survive.

Given how obsessed literature tends to be with bittersweetness, the pyrrhic victory seems really unexplored, to a weird extent. All the 'dying heroics' seem to involve obvious or at least acknowledged self-sacrifice. There's plenty of 'dying to save you' that goes on in stories, but it never seems to require the character to appear villainous or oblivious in order to do it.

What if the protagonist did something legitimately heartbreaking or stupid that got them to the point of climax, and the only way to protect the people they hurt involves dying in a way those people will never know about? What if protecting those people is not only hurtful to them, but will leave them thinking that the protagonist has never been anything but hurtful?

The idea that this kinda thing is underdone, given how overdone 'bittersweet endings' and 'touching tragedy' are in general, is just kinda bizarre.

~Gizmoenut May 18, 2012 Student General Artist

I haven't seen the Hunger Games yet, but after watching the trailers I always thought it was unique to have a girl main character act so responsible. She accepts her fate and takes responsibility in her own hands... without becoming a sex icon like most other female protagonists nowadays.
I love when characters don't play the "poor me why do I have to go through this" game and man-up to get stuff done. It shows good growth in a character.
Sensitive male characters aren't too common, but my goodness, the ones that do get a tone of fandom XD Male action characters don't need to play tough all the time. I love to see emotion behind these guys.

~carterman May 18, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

The villain. Nobody ever looks at his journey, like how he gained power over so many demons and why he was prompted to gain such power. The only time you really explore the backstory of a villain is a) looking for a weakness to kill him b) he becomes a good guy or c) the final battle is going down and he is explaining his evil plot

~Mr-Timeshadow May 19, 2012

Good point, although the book "Soon I Will Be Invincible" alternates between two characters: a woman forced, against her will, to become a tall, deadly cyborg, and the supervillain who has failed twelve times to rule the world...so his thirteenth can't fail! Each documents their journey of innocent actions with sometimes tragic consequences. The villain's arc is illuminating because he starts the book and WANTS to stay in jail, but no -- someone else intervenes and sets him in motion.

~carterman May 19, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

sounds fascinating. maybe I should check it out....thanks for the suggestion!

~Mr-Timeshadow May 20, 2012

You're welcome. This is a first-time novelist with a strong sense of style and a sense of humor. For example, when our cyborg is flirting with one of the other heroes, his hands start to wander but then the moment is interrupted. She sighs, then decides it was for the best; he was about to find out where they placed her fusion reactor...
If you do decide to read it, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on it.

~carterman May 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Sure! I'll tell you as soon as I do (I have a ton of backlogged reading due to an extremely tedious one that I'm reading).

~Mr-Timeshadow May 20, 2012

Do you mind if I ask what tedious title that is? I'll consider avoiding it.

~carterman May 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It is called death watch (undertaker trilogy) and it isn't actually all that bad. I just read it on an ipod and it takes forever

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