“ARAGORN: What do you fear, my lady?
EOWYN: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.
ARAGORN: You are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate.”
–Fran Walsh + Philippa Boyens + Stephen Sinclair + Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
i think if you write fiction in the first person perspective your narrator should be ‘unlikeable,’ openly unhinged, and not normal. ‘likeable’ characters go third person.