: Re: Who should I use for my POV character? I'm in the early stages of a story with a large number of characters, a complex backstory and a long history. This is mostly because I crafted the

Why not use all three? Write it in third person and alternate chapters from different POVs. I love reading books that do that.

You could have a main character that gets the most chapters or you could make all three of your choices equal in importance, as long as they each have interesting storylines.

You sound like you've fleshed out your outlining and fictional world pretty well. For books with larger casts I feel like it works really well to have several POVs, that way you get to know more of the characters and there are lots of different relationships (rather than everyone somehow interacting with the one MC to fit into the story).

Marissa Meyer does an excellent job in The Lunar Chronicles alternating POVs. For most of the first book it was mainly one character (just a few chapters of someone else's POV if something need explaining). In her second book, she introduced another main character and the two girls got equal chapters. There were other characters whose POV was shown as well. The third book had three MCs and the fourth book had four (the love interests of the main characters got a few chapters from their POV's as well) and we were even given several chapters from the antagonist's POV.

Do whatever you feel is right for your book. If that's alternating POVs and having several main characters, awesome. If you'd rather choose one and really focus on that, cool. I think your idea is solid and sounds very interesting, definitely something I'd be interested in reading.

I'd love to see the POV of all 3 characters you mentioned. They seem diverse enough that it could work, too.

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