>>The second, I'll call Self Determination for the moment, since I think there's a better term for it, but it's not coming to mind right now.<<
That sounds like agency: a character's capacity to influence the action of a story. Without agency, a character is powerless -- and largely pointless. A major fault in many portrayals of female characters is lack of agency.
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dancing_serpent
Hmm...
Date: 2011-08-27 03:18 am (UTC)That sounds like agency: a character's capacity to influence the action of a story. Without agency, a character is powerless -- and largely pointless. A major fault in many portrayals of female characters is lack of agency.