#SFFChat Outro. Thanks for hosting, Steve—and I liked the questions! I'll share my Payhip, which I should really do more often. So, if you want to buy my books directly from the author, you can do it! payhip.com/NicolesCampf...

#SFFChat Oh, I almost always subvert the hero trope. I prefer a failed villain protagonist. 😅 Too good to be evil, and too grumpy to be a hero. Virgil is very much a "grand vizier" + wizard mentor, by all rights Blake *should* be the hero in my story. But, he's not. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#SFFChat The "Hero" for me embodies the themes. "Hell Is Work"'s are: Pride is no sin, work is no virtue, and no one, no God, no Devil, gets to tell you who you are. Virgil, a proud but self-loathing stubborn old goat of a workaholic is the Hero. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#SFFChat Hi! I'm Zed! A writer of satirical fantasy and the occasional gay smut. My main writing hero is Terry Pratchett. His approach of making the mundane absurbe, and still somehow conveying a deep message, is a huge inspiration. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

For now, I'd just like my books shared. Thank again for hosting!❤️ books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita... <--Signed copies with a FREE bookmark!

#SFFChat Ohhh...there are so many though! I mean...*vauge gesture towards entire fantasy genre* Just picking one off the top of my head though? Finrod Felegund, from the Silmarillion (and you know, Tolkien's Legendarium as a whole) (1/3)

#SFFChat Thanks for hosting. That graphic is a gas! Since it's on-topic: I have a series where the antagonist uses the entire world as a prop to stage a play about a hero. Want to watch? books2read.com/The-Three-Fa... itch.io/s/162068/the...

#SFFChat Q4: CW: Attempted suicide. From Sigils of Malice (Book 1) Thalia is not in a good place mentally. Alderius noticed this and saved her while she mulled over a poor decision. books2read.com/u/mvw8Pe

#SFFChat Outro I thought it was a wonderful topic! It's fun to try and stretch to answer these questions! Thank you for hosting! I'm putting the finishing touches on The Need for Dandelions! It's being published on March 31st, but ARCs will be coming soon! 🌸

#SFFChat Once upon a time, Seff agreed to be a squire, thinking that she would never have to become a hero ...

#SFFChat That one's tricky. My story is about a community of the temporally displaced -- people who've fallen through time, from across all of history and it's various cultures, and into our present. All of my characters are going to have their own idea of what makes a 'hero' because of this (1/3)

#SFFChat Q4 #HelpDesk Over the morning, various Help Deskers came in and got to work making signs. Gladyce brought sunscreen. Colbert parked a rolling cooler in front of the lockers. “Bottled water,” he answered the questioning looks.

#SFFChat Q2 A hero chooses to do the right thing even though there is a cost to doing so (maybe danger, maybe loss of social position, maybe losing the face because you've stopped to help a fellow runner).

#SFFChat Q3 Frodo.

#SFFChat Sarah Williams from Labyrinth, nuff said

#SFFChat Q0 Missed this! Hi-aye, I'm Sparrow and my first storytelling hero was my Daddy!

#SFFChat Q3. Spider-Man has always been a favourite of mine! I've watched all his films, played most of his games, read many of his comics (at least the early hundreds of them), so yeah, I really like the guy! Recently, I've been falling in love with Mirage (Dani Moonster) and Magik!

#SFFChat Q4. Well, since I mentioned the... complications surrounding the concept of "hero," this is a great snippet: #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #MileenaSuêòng

#SFFChat Q4 🤣Yeah, so. This story is about a normal, unheroic, cowardly wage-slave who has a change in perspectives that remakes him as a person, and this is the first time he makes a choice to do something that could have real consequences on a point of principle.

this is big big #Dogwood3 spoilers. but I AM A SUCKER FOR "PUSH THEM AWAY TO KEEP THEM SAFE" MELODRAMA. #SFFChat

#SFFChat Q4 From The Need for Dandelions. Galen is definitely a hero, even if he doesn't believe it himself!

#SFFChat I would define a hero as someone who went out of their way to accomplish something great for the good others.

#SFFChat Q1. There are world figures considered "heroes," some of them still alive e.g. the Twin Dragons, Taven and Daegon. Because of the wuxia inspiration, "hero"/"young hero" are concepts we see around as well. These are people who follow a code of honour to do good, to protect the realms. (1/2)

#SFFChat Q4: From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle! The awkward flirting times Catwoman was another favourite of mine, but I tend to think of her as a villain moreso

#SFFChat I'm going with Ellen Ripley. She was amazing and badass. At some point in my life I'm going to Cosplay her. I have random Alien swag around my house. I love those movies.

#SFFChat Q4 From (In)Human: long before they're aware of any external threat, Sally already considers Simon her hero. Even though she thinks he's a big, scary monster.

#SFFChat Intro. Hey, all Nicole/Ashrah here, and I'm very late to this! I think I could give this honour to Rick Riordan. I REALLY enjoyed the Percy Jackson series when I was a kid, and it being Greek mythology was definitely part of it.

#SFFChat Q3 I just read the book Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters and it brought me right back to my comic shop days when I absolutely LOVED Young Avengers. I was in there every month to buy the new issue as it came out.

#SFFChat Q3 'nuff said!

#SFFChat When I was eighteen, I thought it was poignant to say that sacrifice was the difference between a good guy and a hero - like my friend who braved her crippling fear of needles to give blood after 9/11. All these years later, I still think that's pretty accurate (if a little dramatic).

#SFFChat Scribbler Johnny here, I tend to write romance fantasy, but I have plenty of others. My first completed novel's heroine is Etta, an alchemist adventurer.

#SFFChat A3: Classically, Hector Both regal and a good guy. The enemy, yes, but i would say still part of the heroic age. Comic book heroes, spider-man i feel drawn to on an aesthetic basis

#SFFChat Q3 There can be only one! Man this was my favorite movie for YEARS as a kid

#SFFChat I'm Fox. My first writing hero was Patricia C. Wrede. I first read Dealing with Dragons when I was ten, and I loved her humor, prose, and highly competent female characters. To this day, tough, smart women are a constant in my own writing.

#SFFChat A4: The one and only time i have Expert written

I've liked Spider-man for longer than I can remember and he's still going strong (tho Silk is obv. better). But I like a hero who shows some cracks. Crichton from Farscape is arguably insane, but still manages to do the right thing most of the time, and is made a hero by his ciscumstance #SFFChat

#SFFChat Q2 For me, a protagonist or main character can be any kind of person. They can do horrible things or be terribly selfish, but they still lead the story even if the audience hates them. A hero is someone who is trying to do good and who the audience is rooting for!

#SFFChat Des, writer of speculative fiction. I'm going to put Jon Stone as my childhood hero, I still have my childhood copy of "The Monster at the End of this Book," and it's almost falling apart I read it so much. I didn't follow just one author as a kid, I read a lot and everything.

A hero upholds some standard of justice, usually on the side of humanity, but any force or species can have its hero--just relative to us it is so. Protag is just whoever is the focus of the story. It could be the villain or a side character. #SFFChat

#SFFChat Q3: I'm probably going to kick myself for missing some, but definitely Nightcrawler (esp. the OG swashbuckling one--I found he got kind of one-note after they started to focus on his faith). I've got a couple of copies of his mini-series from back in the day and it's great. Mostly I

#SFFChat Q1: WIP1: Set in (mostly) reality, a hero is what we make of it, but they never fit the stereotypical definition WIP2: Heroes are mythological - no one now days considers themselves one, or that they're real. But people still do heroic acts - kindness always exists in some form

#SFFChat My Main Characters are the heroes in the given situation because they don’t stand by and watch. They take action, they never give up and they do their best to solve the problem for themselves and the others.

Morning #SFFChat, I am the Emma-ulator of Douglas Adams writing for about a hundred years after I first discovered his work at the age of 8. Everything I wrote was trying to copy his style and when I started reading Pratchett... oh the footnotes!

#SFFChat Q2: A hero, to me, is someone who does the right thing, even if it's detrimental to themselves. It can be big or small, but as long as they're trying to be a good person and better the world, that's heroic.

#SFFChat Q1 In the world of The Need for Dandelions, the term hero is used for anyone willing to risk themselves for others. While typically it would be applied to people who venture out into the world beyond the cities to fight monsters, there are plenty of everyday heroes as well.

Skin Dolls is probably the first book I've written where there is no clear hero. At it's core it is a rites of passage story. Sana has to deal with an end to one stage of her life and the loss of her friends that come with it. There is a big monster, and she does try to stand up to it, tho. #SFFChat

#SFFChat Q3. Ripley from Alien and especially Aliens.

#SFFChat Q3: Gonna go stereotypical here and say Red Hood, aka Jason Todd, and by extension the whole Batfamily. By definition RH is an anti-hero, but at the end of the day he's doing the right thing, even if it involves hitting the Joker with a crowbar along the way