#2: Jan 30th 2018 at 7:33:31 PM
Sounds like an interesting setup. To answer your first question, there's only one book I can recall where the protagonist is elderly and it is Stephen King's Insomnia. It has a lot of other stuff going on it in (obviously) but the hero and most of immediate circle are elderly and there is a lot of consideration about the realities of leaving your adult years and winding towards old age.
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Walllace
drwhom
Since: Nov, 2010
#3: Feb 5th 2018 at 11:41:49 AM
Goodreads lists aging as a genre
. Also, this wiki lists Feeling Their Age as a trope.
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I'm writing a story where two diametrically opposed magical creatures are fighting; one is fleeing and the other is trying to kill him, in an eternal cycle conflict. However, I want them to both be protagonists with their own character arcs (think of the perspective changes in Game of Thrones).
It's just that I want their stories to be relatively inversions of one another, and the first protagonist I'm writing is going through a Coming of Age Story (he's maturing and learning as the story goes on). I want the other protagonist to have a sort of "inverted Coming of Age Story" story but I'm not sure if that's (a) already a genre and (b) what that would probably look like.
So my questions are:
To give more of a background on the story, the characters are the winds (not quite Zephyrus and Boreas), so they don't "die" per se but their memories and personalities eventually get "reset" every solstice. One gets stronger while the other gets weaker as time goes on until the solstice, where the progression/regression stops, and they're at their strongest or weakest at the Summer and Winter Solstices. The story starts out in midwinter and the weaker one hasn't been able to get to proper shelter. But they're well enough along for each to notice that they're changing.
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