Thread:Zookeeper567/@comment-961279-20190113180853

Part of what I am changing on pages is to simply the description of the character. Harvey Dent's description of "tritagonist turned secondary and final antagonist" is a bit complicated, but I've seen descriptions like "secondary quadragonist turned semi-reformed minor protagonist".

It's related to antagonist fussing, where people try to rigidly define exactly what kind of a character is, and they spend so much time changing it back and forth that they don't bother writing anything else about the character.

If you're building a house with bricks, you don't spend 99% of the time agonizing over one brick, trying to figure out what color it should be, or the texture, or what mortar to use, or whether to paint it afterwards, or whether it should be rotated 180 degrees from where it was yesterday, or whether it flipped over so the other side is up. And while that's being debated, the rest of the house isn't being built.

That's what people do with antagonist fussing, and that's why I'll put in a simpler description so people can focus on what makes the character a person rather than a label. 