From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
   William Vetter   wrote:   
      
   > Have you had a minor character grow so powerful that she takes over   
   > and displaces the POV character?   
      
   I have multiple PoV characters. (Can't stand it when there's supposed to   
   be one 'hero'.)   
      
   So there's several main characters, and a bunch more characters that   
   range from almost main to minor, with scenes from their viewpoints.   
      
   Like the character who is the viewpoint at the start of the Magic Earth   
   series. He's very minor and only gets a scene from his viewpoint now and   
   then (three in the first, one each in the 2nd and 3rd), but in   
   retrospect I see he serves a purpose (as opposed to writing him for that   
   purpose, I don't do that), showing something that matters.   
      
   At the start of course he introduces the evil overlord. He's a simple   
   man, impressed, while a reader might (hopefully) see more. Then there's   
   the scene where the evil overlord acts the kind man for the simple minor   
   character while the main characters - whom he has next to no contact   
   with - and of course any reader all know what the evil overlord is   
   really like. I find that kinda creepy, in a way I like. Later he meets a   
   new character which gets a whole other side-train of things going, and   
   has let me poke some fun at religions and what some other stories did   
   regarding the 'hero' thing.   
      
   Religious Nut: ", you are our prophecised   
   saviour, save us!"   
      
   : "YHBT by , get lost."   
      
   Well, that's the short version. Said main char never does short version.   
   So much so that the characters even comment on it.   
      
   Anyway. That main char gets 19 scenes from his viewpoint in the first   
   book, and still holds the highest number (30) of them all across the   
   series, shortly followed by another character who starts out with one   
   scene in the first book, and has 28 across all books. Followed by  with 26 (decreasing over time). Next are 2 characters with 25   
   scenes each across the series, one has 17 in the first book, 8 in the   
   second, and then none ever after (I didn't want her memory of something   
   she witnessed offscreen intruding, had her abducted even, but of course   
   the others went to save her, but she didn't get another viewpoint and   
   faded to minor character), the other is who the story is actually about,   
   with usually 3 or 4 scenes per book. (That's just the top 5, there's 20   
   more characters with viewpoints, ranging from 1 to 19 scenes from their   
   perspective, some of which of course only entered the series in a later   
   book.)   
      
   (Btw, if the viewpoint stays on a character in the next scene, it isn't   
   counted.)   
      
   I also notice that the number of scenes/viewpoints decreases over time.   
   61 in the first book, 49 in the second, 41, 25, 24, 38, 23 in the   
   following ones.   
      
   Things shift over time. Even more noticable in the Seasons and Elements   
   trilogy, where the first book ("Controlled by Magic") is driven by the   
   comfortable, friendly, protective leader of the Winter tribe, and the   
   second ("Controlling the Magic") is driven by the wild, unpredictable,   
   and at the same time stoic leader of the Summer tribe. (Don't know about   
   the third, got stuck.)   
      
   So, I have no 'the PoV character'. I like and want multiple tight third.   
      
   --   
   "And here I thought I was talking to a walking bedsheet. Silly me."   
                                      -- Dayta to Kian, Magic Earth VI   
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