Random Leaf #1680

"And what is this anchor you mentioned?"

"Isn't it obvious? The main character is just that so powerful that even the author would have a hard time how to defeat him."

"Author, you say?"

"No, I.. I mean, someone who is of great power that the author makes won't even rival the main character."

"Go on."

"This ancor I'm talking about is something like a weakness or maybe not a weakness but something that holds the main character down from becoming too powerful or rather going off track."

"Not a weakness but a weakness, and something that keeps the main character go off track."

"As the word itself, anchor, it holds him to his believe, of some sort, and when he is about to do something beyond what seemed to be his own definition of what's right but is still right, he wavers himself. He stops and tells himself, wait this isn't right, drops his sword and rethinks for a better action. Or if he had already done it, this certain anchor will either haunt him to turn himself in or to make himself better."

"Mind telling me an example?"

"The sister of the greatest son of Britania. The code of a certain vigilante in a far off city of crime. A new way of life of a sinner atoning for his sins. The mother of a child dreaming to be a hero. The son of the same child who dreamt of becoming a hero and became one. A hero's precious friends and dearly loved ones. There are many more and these anchors can be a person, a thing, a pet, an animal, some sort of principle or code, whatever it is, this anchor holds the character in place than going outside his actual role."

"A ship's role is to travel. Carry things or people, from place to another. If that is the anchor you mean it, then, what's their purpose, this character you are mentioning?"

"That is true. The sea takes on ship to far off places and so does the story. These anchors are there, sad to say, to be taken off so the story can go on and character gets develop."

"Doesn't that just mean the characters will be placed in great turmoil and grief when these anchors are removed. What more of the anchor of the main characters?"

"The hero becomes the villain. If the anchor weight just so much and he gets freed from it. Or if he can overcome this certain event then he develops for the better. A character can have multiple anchor throughout his story."