People always include women, and yes, in this case "heroes" to include any gender that you happen to think of (I'm not fond of the convention in English that the male term is the one used for a mixed group, but that's the language we have).
I'm not saying that I have a better proposal other than actively making the other characters more heroic. I'm just pointing out what I think is a flaw in yours -- you're asking for heroic characters to be more ordinary, but one of the things that makes them heroic is that they're NOT ordinary and they DON'T behave as ordinary people would (to pick two examples in video games, I suspect that most people would, if stuck in ANY of the Ages in the Myst series, curl up into a gibbering ball -- the only reason the we (as the Stranger) don't is that we're well aware that it's NOT real. Most real human beings in Chell's place would be dead, killed either by GLaDOS or Wheatley.)
People are not, I submit, going to be nearly as interested in your heroes if you make them less heroic.
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Date: 2014-06-17 12:57 pm (UTC)I'm not saying that I have a better proposal other than actively making the other characters more heroic. I'm just pointing out what I think is a flaw in yours -- you're asking for heroic characters to be more ordinary, but one of the things that makes them heroic is that they're NOT ordinary and they DON'T behave as ordinary people would (to pick two examples in video games, I suspect that most people would, if stuck in ANY of the Ages in the Myst series, curl up into a gibbering ball -- the only reason the we (as the Stranger) don't is that we're well aware that it's NOT real. Most real human beings in Chell's place would be dead, killed either by GLaDOS or Wheatley.)
People are not, I submit, going to be nearly as interested in your heroes if you make them less heroic.