I was reading a fantasy a while back, i think tradpubbed, where the author did not seem to understand why the poor, oppressed telepaths who can do jedi mind tricks and tamper with people's memories might be a shade unpopular with the authorities.
I've noticed that myself more than once. Plots where you have people who could do magic or psi or what-have-you who are depicted as 'so oppressed' because the authorities try to stop them from abusing the (of course) always awful-bad normals whenever they can.
None of them ever seem to show the 'people with power' as having opinions the author doesn't approve of.
I was reading a fantasy a while back, i think tradpubbed, where the author did not seem to understand why the poor, oppressed telepaths who can do jedi mind tricks and tamper with people's memories might be a shade unpopular with the authorities.
But don’t the authorities know they are the protagonists?
I've noticed that myself more than once. Plots where you have people who could do magic or psi or what-have-you who are depicted as 'so oppressed' because the authorities try to stop them from abusing the (of course) always awful-bad normals whenever they can.
None of them ever seem to show the 'people with power' as having opinions the author doesn't approve of.
Very true. It's especially popular in superhero tales. (https://writingandreflections.substack.com/p/super-philosophy-and-injustice)