How does your protagonist achieve peace?

[Eldoria]

Peace in Fiction​

Achieving peace has become a cliché motivation in mainstream fiction. For example, in isekai fiction, the protagonist defeating the demon king is considered a quick way to achieve world peace. In superhero fiction... the demon king is replaced by a supervillain.

Some dark protagonists go even more extreme. For example, for Yagami Light, peace means a world without evil and to achieve it, he tries to become a false god (kira) who passes judgment on anyone he considers to be a criminal or his opponent.

Eren Yeager goes even more extreme, genociding over half the world's population to maintain peace for the Eldians.

Leluoch vi Britania is even willing to become a 'martyr villain' for the sake of world peace.

Every protagonist may have their own version of peace about who are worth protecting, who are threats, and how to achieve peace. My questions are:

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Spoiler: Me...

Peace for FMC is a world without tyranny. She lives in a world where the law is dead. The people are merely playthings of the rulers. For her, the silenced people are worthy of protection.

Before becoming a mother, my FMC believed that peace could only be achieved by enforcing the law of blood through the organized and public execution of systemic criminals (tyrants). She executed every tyrant and always left a bloody message as a stern warning.

After becoming a mother, FMC chose domestic peace. She lives in a remote valley with her little daughter. Now, she just wants to protect her daughter's smile and avoids violence unless necessary.

 

[Corty]

What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?

Nobody is bothering him with stuff; he is able to enjoy doing nothing and spend his time with his wives.

Who are worth protecting?

His family.

Who are threats/anemies?

There were a lot, but eventually everyone got curbstomped. Empire, monsters, apocalyptic dragon beast.

How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Removing every danger from the field.

(This was true for Steel & Mana; it's different for other books.)

 

[Kurayami]

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
   • Energy drinks and lots of them.
2. Who are worth protecting?
   • Energy drinks and a certain wyvern girl.
3. Who are threats/enemies?
   • Energy drinks.
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?
   • Energy drinks.

 

[Juia_Darkcrest]

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
   
   Being able to start a family again and have afternoon naps.
   
   
2. Who are worth protecting?

Innocents, people he has grown close to

3. Who are threats/enemies?

Pirates, Aliens, gangs, his own body

4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

When he can reunite families, start his own, and can just sit back and just 'be' for a day without worrying about some calamity

 

[MakBow]

1. It doesn't exist to him
2. Whoever he wants to
3. Depends on if he can do it or not, his own ideals
4. When he gets a harem of at least 8 women

 

[c37]

Peace in Fiction​

Achieving peace has become a cliché motivation in mainstream fiction. For example, in isekai fiction, the protagonist defeating the demon king is considered a quick way to achieve world peace. In superhero fiction... the demon king is replaced by a supervillain.

Some dark protagonists go even more extreme. For example, for Yagami Light, peace means a world without evil and to achieve it, he tries to become a false god (kira) who passes judgment on anyone he considers to be a criminal or his opponent.

Eren Yeager goes even more extreme, genociding over half the world's population to maintain peace for the Eldians.

Leluoch vi Britania is even willing to become a 'martyr villain' for the sake of world peace.

Every protagonist may have their own version of peace about who are worth protecting, who are threats, and how to achieve peace. My questions are:

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Spoiler: Me...

Peace for FMC is a world without tyranny. She lives in a world where the law is dead. The people are merely playthings of the rulers. For her, the silenced people are worthy of protection.

Before becoming a mother, my FMC believed that peace could only be achieved by enforcing the law of blood through the organized and public execution of systemic criminals (tyrants). She executed every tyrant and always left a bloody message as a stern warning.

After becoming a mother, FMC chose domestic peace. She lives in a remote valley with her young daughter. Now, she just wants to protect her daughter's smile and avoids violence unless necessary.

1. Right now its just winning bets.
2. His two friends.
3. Everyone else.
4. By betting and winning, and sometimes stealing.

 

[Rhaps]

This is for Charlotte:

What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
>When the sky have no stars, when the light of civilization outshine the night sky.

Who are worth protecting?
>Humanity

Who are threats/enemies?
>Those who deny humanity's freedom

How does your protagonist achieve peace?
>A hostile take over of the world, placing herself as the ruler of humanity.

And for Lea:

What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
>A mundane life that she long for, but she can't achieve it when her target of vengeance still walks.

Who are worth protecting?
>Herself, she is a selfish person

Who are threats/enemies?
>Aliens

How does your protagonist achieve peace?
>She doesn't know now, but she will find a way.

 

[Fairemont]

In The Secret Lives of Magical Girls, these questions would be relevant to the main character, Zhou Xiuting.

1.What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?

Peace is stability. The enemy, or threat, for the world is a constant thing, and cannot truly be defeated. Therefore, achieving a state of stability in which the threat does not overwhelm the world's defense is considered peace for the Xiuting.

2. Who are worth protecting?

People. Xiuting wanted to be a magical girl when she was young because she admired the idea of protecting everyone. When she grew older, she learned that being a magical girl wasn't some ideal situation, and was actually rather harrowing. In the end, she became a magical girl anyway. So, she continues to aspire to the original goal of protecting everyone.

3. Who are threats/enemies?

The threat is The Bleed (a favorite among vampire readers). This is a looming threat from another world or dimension, which constantly seeps through the veil between to invade and corrupt the world and its denizens. The process is somewhat limited, and the deities of the world are able to direct the ingress points of The Bleed to some degree, ensuring they can achieve a stable stalemate. However, things can, and do, change.

4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

The change comes from an enigmatic and mysterious feature known as "the master", as that is how The Bleed refers to them. This Master creates new, powerful bleed entities specifically to fight the magical girls. In doing so, The Bleed threatens to break the stalemate, and furthermore, The Bleed acquires a sacred treasure which is used to transform into a magical girl.

Xiuting and he comrades achieve peace by defeating these new bleed entities, as well as The Master, bringing about the stalemate once more.

 

[onehunter]

What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist
- A free world where people are strong enough to protect themselves from the dangers they encounter

Who are worth protecting?
- Family/friends/children

Who are threats/enemies?
- Humans/monsters/unrevealed creatures

How does your protagonist achieve peace?
- He can't

 

[Th3Breadnought]

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?

I don't think he'd be able to articulate it, per se, but being fully integrated in his family, friendships, and relationships with interdependence and reciprocity- rather than feeling out of place or like a utilitarian convenience. Learning to accept that a bargain he was manipulated into wasn't a moral/value failing of his.

2. Who are worth protecting?

His family, friends, community, his crush.

3. Who are threats/enemies?

Warped self perception from trauma and negative cultural messages that push radicalization... and a vast demonic infernal empire.

4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

He refuses to let every perverse incentive pressuring and tempting him into short-cuts, selfishness, and zero sum ideology/behavior erode his desire to be a decent person. He shows up, he tries, he fumbles, he tries again. And eventually he learns how to get out of his own way and more effectively stand in the way of the antagonists.

 

[Lmae]

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
Doing his part in society to help people.
2. Who are worth protecting?
The citizens of his country.
3. Who are threats/enemies?
His godfather, his godfather's apprentice, and criminals who use their powers to hurt people.
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?
Currently he is taking advantage of a bad situation but he is still mad about it.
It is going to get worst though...

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

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1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?

Kuro (Saint Series): Unity of races.
Yuuki (OyasumiSe7en): Having a non-adventurer life.
Seth (Ballad of the School Hallways): His students are fine.
Marcel (Paulina Rex): The real heir of the emperor is crowned.

1. Who are worth protecting?

Kuro: His new world(s).
Yuuki: His harem teammates.
Seth: His students.
Marcel: His empress.

1. Who are threats/enemies?

Kuro: An 'eldritch' horror about to consume his new world(s).
Yuuki: Same eldritch horror as Kuro, but different creature.
Seth: His moral dilemma.
Marcel: Those who were out to kill his empress.

1. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Kuro: Ascends as god.
Yuuki: Tames a goddess.
Seth: Makes a personal sacrifice
Marcel: Unites all forces against the usurper.

 

[Author_Riceball]

Peace in Fiction​

Achieving peace has become a cliché motivation in mainstream fiction. For example, in isekai fiction, the protagonist defeating the demon king is considered a quick way to achieve world peace. In superhero fiction... the demon king is replaced by a supervillain.

Some dark protagonists go even more extreme. For example, for Yagami Light, peace means a world without evil and to achieve it, he tries to become a false god (kira) who passes judgment on anyone he considers to be a criminal or his opponent.

Eren Yeager goes even more extreme, genociding over half the world's population to maintain peace for the Eldians.

Leluoch vi Britania is even willing to become a 'martyr villain' for the sake of world peace.

Every protagonist may have their own version of peace about who are worth protecting, who are threats, and how to achieve peace. My questions are:

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Spoiler: Me...

Peace for FMC is a world without tyranny. She lives in a world where the law is dead. The people are merely playthings of the rulers. For her, the silenced people are worthy of protection.

Before becoming a mother, my FMC believed that peace could only be achieved by enforcing the law of blood through the organized and public execution of systemic criminals (tyrants). She executed every tyrant and always left a bloody message as a stern warning.

After becoming a mother, FMC chose domestic peace. She lives in a remote valley with her little daughter. Now, she just wants to protect her daughter's smile and avoids violence unless necessary.

Peace does not exist, it is only the silence before the storm

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

In one story, it is through violence.
In the other,

Peace in Fiction​

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?

The restoration of the fractured world. Unity and order of it's people.

1. Who are worth protecting?

The good and righteous.

1. Who are threats/enemies?

Thise who would use him instead of desiring the best for him.

1. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

That's secret.

 

[Amrasil207]

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

1. Neither of my female protagonists could fathom the idea of peace. To them it's just another lull before someone pulls the rugs beneath them.
2. One side being those she cherishes, the other side thinks for herself first and then a handful she deems necessary for her survival.
3. The first one considers anyone touching so much as a singular hair of her daughter as enemy. The second's consideration would be anyone threatening her life.
4. Neither has any idea how, peace is a big question mark in their life. Ironically, the first one is more cynical, while the second one is just scared for her own life and can't show it.

 

[MC-Stories]

Peace in Fiction​

Achieving peace has become a cliché motivation in mainstream fiction. For example, in isekai fiction, the protagonist defeating the demon king is considered a quick way to achieve world peace. In superhero fiction... the demon king is replaced by a supervillain.

Some dark protagonists go even more extreme. For example, for Yagami Light, peace means a world without evil and to achieve it, he tries to become a false god (kira) who passes judgment on anyone he considers to be a criminal or his opponent.

Eren Yeager goes even more extreme, genociding over half the world's population to maintain peace for the Eldians.

Leluoch vi Britania is even willing to become a 'martyr villain' for the sake of world peace.

Every protagonist may have their own version of peace about who are worth protecting, who are threats, and how to achieve peace. My questions are:

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Spoiler: Me...

Peace for FMC is a world without tyranny. She lives in a world where the law is dead. The people are merely playthings of the rulers. For her, the silenced people are worthy of protection.

Before becoming a mother, my FMC believed that peace could only be achieved by enforcing the law of blood through the organized and public execution of systemic criminals (tyrants). She executed every tyrant and always left a bloody message as a stern warning.

After becoming a mother, FMC chose domestic peace. She lives in a remote valley with her little daughter. Now, she just wants to protect her daughter's smile and avoids violence unless necessary.

1. A world where she can love and be loved in return
2. Her new girlfriend, Alice, and feminist friend, Walter
3. Her spoiled and obviously possessive ex girlfriend, Stella
4. Get stronger and kick ass!

 

[RepresentingCaution]

 

[DismaiNaim]

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1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

1. He can't figure that out.
2. His friends, the people he cares about, the people who can't protect themselves
3. He thinks it's the enemy in the war he's fighting.
4. He doesn't.

She sat up and raised a finger. “I wanted to know, what if peace for me is my boot on your neck?”

“How’s that peace?”

“I find it peaceful.”

“It’s not peaceful for me!”

“If I can’t have my boot on your neck, I can’t have peace.” She threw up her arms in mock frustration

 

[Yubel]

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

1. A status quo that everyone can be satisfied with.
2. His family, friends, subordinates and his subjects.
3. People who try to take/rob things from him, his acquaintances. Or in some cases, even his own allies and loved ones when their interests conflict with those of his other loved ones.
4. Basically, he funds and sometimes advises the process of researching new innovations to build an environment where his people and friends can thrive in peace. As someone who has lived in the modern world and possesses decent historical knowledge, the MC believes that technological advancement is essential for a stable and secure life.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Peace in Fiction​

Every protagonist may have their own version of peace about who are worth protecting, who are threats, and how to achieve peace. My questions are:

1. What is meaning "peace" to your protagonist?
2. Who are worth protecting?
3. Who are threats/enemies?
4. How does your protagonist achieve peace?

Before ... well, their Strange Awakening, Kelly would have defined "peace" as finally finding the one woman he could settle down with and maybe raising a few kids.
Now... they really wouldn't WANT peace. The excitement of adventure, of saving lives and helping people is something they would want forever if at all possible. The "Never ending battle for truth, justice and ... all that."

For Jack Diamond ... it is that feeling you get right after you've downed your second Scotch of the night (a really good one, not some cheap off-brand stuff) after you solved a case (or just solved a problem of some sort that's been bugging you). Anyone who hasn't yet screwed him over is worth protecting, and if they're paying enough upfront, some of the people who have screwed him over are probably worth protecting, too, but maybe not COMPLTELY protecting them. One good (non-lethal) backstab deserves another... He frequently finds peace - but then the next case arrives, and with it, different enemies (and some of the same ones too).

Dane Coleman is trying to figure out all of these answers for himself - that is the nature of his story.

Nathan Daniels (True Blue) would probably define "peace" as understanding who he is and where he came from. Everyone is worth protecting, even his enemies. Peace would come when his enemies understood this and just stopped being enemies. He will never know peace, though his Legacy might find it someday.

It would take a book to detail what peace would mean for the cast of Between Worlds - some will find it, some won't...