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There's a post going around tumblr from prokopetz about the three types of protagonists, as follows:

1. Pursues reasonable goals with unreasonable methods

2. Has sensible plans, but tremendously fucks up the execution

3. Relentlessly competent in pursuit of goals that are objectively deranged

and every time it goes by I want to do it as "Tag your OT3". So, here (feel free to fight me on these):

Eliot is 1. Hardison is 2. Parker is 3.

Luke is 1. Han is 2. Leia is 3.
Rey is 1. Finn is 2. Poe is 3.

McCoy is 1. Kirk is 2. Spock is 3.

Joe is 1. Methos is 2. MacLeod is 3.

Sybil is 1. Vimes is 2. Vetinari is 3.

Cable is 1. Vanessa is 2. Deadpool is 3.

Mercy of Kalr is 1. Seivarden is 2. Breq is 3.

Ray is 1. Ray is 2. Ben is 3.

Thomas is 1. Peter is 2. Bev is 3.

Harrow is 1. Gideon is 2. Ianthe is 3.

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I think this is where it becomes relevant that these are types of *protagonist* and I don't really think canon!JGY counts as that. :P

Also, sometimes the difference between 1 and 3 is just your private opinion of the goals, but I would also put him at 3 if I had to, though, if only because "relentlessly competent" is kind of overriding. Also he is deliberately set up as a foil/counterpart of NHS in the book, and NHS is definitely the embodiment of 3.

(I might actually swap Nie Mingjue and Lan Xichen, too, but again I think it's tougher when they aren't actually protagonists in canon - we don't really see them in the roles that define these well.)