We love to hate them. We hate that we love them. Walter White cooks meth and we root for him anyway. Tyler Durden blows things up and somehow becomes a whole generation's blueprint for "living authentically." What is wrong with us?
Nothing, actually. According to author and narrative expert Chevahn Brown, our obsession with morally gray characters says less about our own ethics and more about what makes a story feel human in the first place. Plots twist, worlds burn, timelines fracture, but it's the people at the center, their contradictions, their choices, their inconvenient truths, that keep us leaning in.
In this talk, Chevahn breaks down why "likability" is the wrong question to be asking about a character, and why the messy, self protective, ambitious, wounded ones are often the characters we trust the most.
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