Why Fantasy Is the Perfect Genre for Exploring Human Nature

Hello, dear readers,

I couldn’t wait to talk about this topic because this is truly my area of expertise. It’s literally the foundation of my writing style. Not just the fantasy genre itself, but the deep exploration of characters’ minds and psychology.

That’s why you’ll often, almost always, see me writing in first-person POV, because for me it’s important to stay inside the character’s head the entire time, like a tiny dictator, exploring everything happening inside them. Pressing the buttons and observing the reaction.

The reason I started writing this way was actually because I needed to create coping mechanisms for the moments when the world became too overwhelming for me.

What do I mean by that?

Let’s start with the fact that, like most artists, I’m an extremely sensitive person and I experience everything very deeply. Sometimes the people around me were harsh, unreasonable, or hurt me intentionally or unintentionally.

So in order to forgive and move forward, I naturally developed the habit of deeply analyzing people. Why do they do the things they do? How does their past shape the way they behave now?

And very often, I realized that people didn’t really have a problem with me; they had problems within themselves. And somehow, understanding that made it easier for me to understand their behavior.

And that came with another bonus: I learned how to write psychologically deep characters. And that brings me to why fantasy is the perfect genre for exploring human nature.

First, because you can apply all of that analysis. And second, because fantasy allows you to push situations to maximum intensity and hyperbole.

I can throw someone into a coliseum, into a political fight for the throne, into war. I can raise the stakes with dragons, fae, and magic. I can make the world more dangerous, more complicated, more brutal… and then watch how that character reacts under those conditions.

In other words:

How much can a person endure under certain circumstances?

And that’s exactly what makes fantasy such an interesting genre to me. It offers endless possibilities for exploring human nature, deeply and from completely different angles.

And maybe that’s exactly why I wrote The Puppet King the way I did.

Because behind the magic, the politics, and the dangerous fantasy world, there was always one more important question for me:

What happens to a person when they are pushed to the edge?

And how much of themselves can they lose… before they stop being themselves entirely?

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