You know I literally just came out from marathoning and finishing up W - Two Worlds in 2 days and then I saw this topic LMAO. To quote the "protagonist" of the "webtoon" that hates his creator for putting him through so many traumas and wants to kill him times and times again: "Why do I even see you as a creator? You are just like me, you are nothing."
Yes, I can see why we creators can think of ourselves as gods, but in my opinion, I like to think of myself more as a "rule" for the world that I created within the story. It is the rules that operates the world, how the world is set up, created. I breathed life into the character and gave them a mission to achieve in their live, but I don't have a fixed plan for how they would accomplish that mission. I could make up a scenario and throw my character into it and set up how I want the scenario to end, but I don't tell the character how to finish that scenario up. The characters, their personality and their background are what guide me to see how they finish the scenario up, not me.
And sure LMFAO I'm one of those type that like to put their main character through shet to make them stronger, everyone does that. But am I doing this just to toy with them? No, not really, at least not usually. Nobody likes a story that throws unfortunate events at a character without any explanation, if you do that just for shock value, then it becomes cheap.
P/S: I went on a deep conversation there, my apology. This sort of topic just piques my interest so much LMFAO
