Yeah, it's tougher if you aren't working with a premade set of three you can compare against each other - I didn't list either of those fandoms because I don't have OT3s for them, just pairings + giant polycule.
But I would probably put Harry in 1? I'm a few books behind at this point, and also that's one where the scale changes so much over the series that what would be a reasonable goal to current Harry would've seemed objectively deranged to Book 1 Harry.
But if I was coming up with a plot for him, the initial goals would be things like "keep my family safe", "mildly annoy my favorite frenemy", "pay my rent". The methods he uses to achieve those things are so objectively deranged - "destroy an entire race of ancient immortal evil", "put an ordinary human on a level of power alongside the Queen of Winter", "fight God" - that it kind of obscures that those aren't, generally, his goals; those are ridiculous strategies for *achieving* goals like "get a good night's sleep."
Even when he's not being epic, he has goals like "get better at finding lost object for clients" that he solves not by, idk, learning psychometry, or making some street-level connections, no, he is going to hand-build an exact scale model of Chicago out of the original materials in his basement.
no subject
But I would probably put Harry in 1? I'm a few books behind at this point, and also that's one where the scale changes so much over the series that what would be a reasonable goal to current Harry would've seemed objectively deranged to Book 1 Harry.
But if I was coming up with a plot for him, the initial goals would be things like "keep my family safe", "mildly annoy my favorite frenemy", "pay my rent". The methods he uses to achieve those things are so objectively deranged - "destroy an entire race of ancient immortal evil", "put an ordinary human on a level of power alongside the Queen of Winter", "fight God" - that it kind of obscures that those aren't, generally, his goals; those are ridiculous strategies for *achieving* goals like "get a good night's sleep."
Even when he's not being epic, he has goals like "get better at finding lost object for clients" that he solves not by, idk, learning psychometry, or making some street-level connections, no, he is going to hand-build an exact scale model of Chicago out of the original materials in his basement.