#marcia's so funny she could be so many things so easily but she just isn't

[septimus-heap]

Back on my bullshit abt marcia and protagonist syndrome. Marcia has protagonist plot armour combined with the curse of being the protagonists mentor so she's constantly just barely surviving situations

#sep talks #septimus heap #marcia overstrand #going by trope rules marcia should be dead but instead shes just gone through like 50 different near death experiences #marcia's so funny she could be so many things so easily but she just isn't #like villain marcia wouldn't take changing much. Protagonist marcia. Dead mentor/parent figure trope marcia #you could change like 1 thing and it would fit #(protagonist marcia specifically all you'd have to do would be. Make her the protagonist. Like obviously but it's more like #with beetle or the heap brothers or whoever they r all definitely side characters and so is marcia during when the series takes place #but if u just. Shift the series back like 10-20 years? You have to change basically nothing about her life for her to be a good #main character. Which is so funny) #I love her btw if u couldn't tell #EDIT u probably wouldn't even have to shift the series back a few years bc the amount of stuff that happens to marcia in the series itself #is insane. The issue is that most of it is just the side effects of being around septimus #but then again!!!! #magyk could definitely be made marcia-centric. Flyte too if u focus more on the Shadow (tbh idk what happens in flyte) #physik actually is about septimus specifically so that's whatever #queste+syren also #darke and fyre are another 2 that could definitely focus more on marcia if u wanted them ti #fyre especially #I'm rambling and mostly talking nonsense so ignore this idk but abdjdbdhdnbd