: Re: How important are good looking people in a novel/story? I've read many books where the main protagonists are described as good looking people with Greek god looks, plenty of sex appeal, the

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The other answers do a good job of describing why characters are described as objectively attractive. I would add that, in a story written in first-person or third-person limited, any love interest of the point of view character should almost certainly be described as attractive, because they are attractive from the perspective of the point of view character. It's fairly common to have two main protagonists who end up together by the end if the book, and to tell the story from the perspective of one of the main protagonists.

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