I really dislike protagonist centred morality, where all the Good People like the MC and all Bad People dislike them. The problem is that "dislike" and "abuse" are easy to conflict internally, and while I know that abuse is imposing your will on others and dislike is simply wishing somebody wasn't involved in something... I doubt my MC does. Kerani might be a fairly brilliant tactician, but she can have a very fine tuned danger sense that means anybody who dislikes her tends to be on her bad list.
The situation is: Kerani is surrounded by people who see her in fairly mixed ways, from her abusive father to her extremely supportive siblings/friends. She herself blends caste lines in ways that are technically illegal, but she gets away with it because she's a noble.
Right now I've introduced her betrothed (arranged marriage) and I don't want him to be super-de-duper supportive because he wants a wife who stays behind the scenes, while Kerani very much is not that. But at the same time I don't want to make him completely against her because she has saved his life before and he knows how valuable she is.
My plot is already pretty full and I'm not terribly fond of adding in a self discovery angle (yet) where she realizes people can have mixed opinions of her and still be safe, but if that's absolutely required I'll toss another ball to juggle.
So basically what I'm asking is— how does one go about avoiding a protagonist-centric morality, when the protagonist themselves is very likely to fall into "you're either with me or against me" logic?
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