#draayder

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25870114

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Well obviously the big overall thing I don’t like about MtG is “the people/company who are in charge of it”, but specifically, the thing I hate is the thing I’m pretty sure most of the fandom hates, which is the way that Chandra got force-hetero’d in the novel for no reason

I feel like conflict doesn’t necessarily have to be a fight. Like, the whole variety of man vs nature, man vs society, man vs self, ect, not all of those are literal conflicts. Grappling with your own self growth can be a conflict. Arguing over ideals can be a conflict. Trying to see as much of the world as possible and dealing with the problem of humans having finite lifespans when you don’t, etc

Well, this is the tack that I’m trying to take with it. I’m looking at this from more of a Ghibli-esque angle and gunning for a more abstract “conflict”, like the types you mention, but somehow I get the feeling that others won’t see it that way and that my story will be branded “boring” for the lack of a bland, direct enemy for my protagonists to struggle against.

Specifically, they aren’t being pushed into action by a threat to world peace or an impending disaster that threatens to destroy their way of life; they simply discover an injustice that is far too vast in scale to ever affect them or anyone they’ll ever know and decide to correct it because it’s the right thing to do. They aren’t going to be rewarded for doing it, and nothing bad will happen to them if they turn around and go home. It’s literally just the right thing to do, and that’s enough for them to want to pursue it with all of their might.