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I don't think your protagonist has to be ordinary to be relatable. While I haven't read the series, isn't the point of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid that the protagonist isn't the "healthy good guy h...
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2019-12-13T12:00:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:04:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
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I don't think your protagonist has to be ordinary to be relatable. - While I haven't read the series, isn't the point of [_The Diary of a Wimpy Kid_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0810993139) that the protagonist isn't the "healthy good guy hero" type? - Writer Graham Moore just won an Oscar for his screenplay adapting_The Imitation Game,_ a biography of codebreaker Alan Turing, and said that Turing was one of his heroes precisely because he was a weird outcast (who went on to do amazingly heroic things). - Greg House, the main character of the TV show _House, MD,_ is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and is the smartest guy in the room (and often the building). He's obnoxious, arrogant, and occasionally cruel, but also brilliant, funny, caring, and occasionally sensitive. - The narrator of [_Flowers for Algernon_](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0156030306) (aka _Charly_) starts out as mentally handicapped, becomes brilliant, and eventually devolves back to handicapped. The novel is told in the first person. Your readers aren't all ordinary, for good or ill, so why should all protagonists be?
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2015-02-25T14:45:45Z (over 9 years ago)
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