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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2021-03-24 12:18 pm

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There's a post going around tumblr from [tumblr.com profile] 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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[personal profile] highlander_ii 2021-03-26 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
Harry Dresden is p much all 3 at least twice per book.


MCU - Peter Parker is 2; Tony is 3; not sure who is 1... Cap?
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[personal profile] neotoma 2021-03-27 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Harry's got some very concrete goals, but his methods include "zombify famous T. rex skeleton and ride into battle", "befriend ancient locus genii", and "snark at archdemon".
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[personal profile] highlander_ii 2021-03-31 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
and he'll do things like decide he's gotta stop the BigBad - which is usually a deranged undertaking if you are a demigod, but Harry manages to be pretty competent at doing it. usually via #2 on the list up there. he does the combo plate a lot of times.
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[personal profile] highlander_ii 2021-03-31 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
these are the 2 fandoms currently eating all of my brain, so they're all i've got.

i guess in the MCU, Strange might be 1... since he's kinda 'imma magic this problem away', which is a little odd for most things. Parker jacks up plans all the time, but somehow manages to pull shit off that shouldn't work. and Tony is epic'ly on the 'deranged idea' train, pulling things out of his ass that work.


i mean - there's Suits, but they don't really fit all that much. they've got 1 & 2 covered, but they don't usually hit #3. (Louis is the embodiment of 2 half the time, but in a stupidly annoying way that makes you wanna punch the showrunner in the teeth)