#right below sal and simon i believe

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i know s!e is p much omniscient, but obvs dez & frank are the mcs/protags. is there any other character who you could see being the protag aside from them (like the story mostly told from their perspective). if not Mood, pls tell me why it Has to be dez & frank (i want plot crumbs 🌚) or if there is someone else that could be the mc tell me more about them and how the story would go if we were following them instead!

HRRRRM interesting question! i think other characters that'd take major pov…Maya, Carson and Friday in part 2, then eventually Hammond in part 3! part 2 is where i actually introduce a TON of martian characters/lore along with the promethean society so hopefully i can showcase more povs as the world expands..

and hm…i dunno why it has to be frank and dez! they actually weren't meant to be the mcs at first?? they were more or less side characters who i sort of fell into developing EXPEDITIOUSLY as the world developed alongside them- especially desmond vv' he's a whole other person now compared to who he was when se was just an idea. but maybe its cuz dez is meant to be sort of a vessel of sorts for the reader? cuz like in comparison to EVERYONE-FUCKING-ELSE he's relatively normal [<- lying]!! he's a powerless and an average kid at first glance who is forced to unfortunately confront/interact with the weirdness of Necropolis and the other characters by forces that have been in play for almost a century plot wise. in a way he's meant to be relatable? but not in any way thats obvious hopefully '''

and tbh frank is also an mc cuz before SE they were both in other wips where they were…a codependent duo of godkillers and then they were a duo of spirits traveling through the afterlife believe it or not vv' frank has always been there for dez, has always been both 'his dog' and other half, and its just really hard to imagine them being apart from each other!! and of course she's also mc cuz of her weird ass family unfortunately but..tbh i think of dez and frank as extensions of each other in a way. theyve grown more as characters writing wise throughout the past year TOGETHER and well..theyre just a package deal now for sure lol

at some point i decided the story centered around them and them alone specifically v-v if anyone else or another duo happened to be in their place, SE just wouldnt be SE i think if that makes sense :D