What makes a character relatable? Too much writing advice, particularly from woke activists, centers around using the character’s demographic and sociological traits to make them relatable. Black people, they say, need black characters to relate to. Asians need Asians. Polynesians
Note: Last edited 12/22/20. Title added 12/29/22. Ban’s armor gleamed in the sunlight as he strode forward, passing between the two tall walls of stone. He was bound for the Great Way all his kin had walked or would walk,
Kill them, O men brave and proud, it’s all we can do; They’re barbarians, wretches, inhuman blood-stew. You cannot dare spare them, the vile and the damned. Tear them and rip- not men, just beasts. Understand? That child, a murderer,