The Horror Protagonist: The Character Who Sees What Others Cannot
Create a horror protagonist whose ability to perceive the horror is both gift and curse — who is right about what they're seeing in a world that insists they're wrong.
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- check_circleCreate a horror protagonist whose perceptual gift is also a social curse
- check_circleDesign the Cassandra dynamic in a horror narrative with credible institutional disbelief
- check_circleWrite the moment a horror protagonist acts on knowledge that no one else credits
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