Forum:Alignment categories

OK, so a month or two back it was being discussed how Jane and Jade should be handled in terms of their alignment categories I offered the arguement that due to Homestuck's nature with a cast of morally grey characters that our categories were out of date. In the recent Aranea discussions I mentioned that protagonist =/= hero and antagonist =/= villain and that due to Homestuck's tendency to let us "be" various characters that almost every major character, hero and villain, is both a protagonist and antagonist.

That being said I never really had a solution to offer so I just let it drop. However now the MSPA Forum decided to discuss it and all the points I have mentioned have been brought up by others with little opposition, so yeah, I don't think we can continue to sweep the issue under the carpet. So we have a few possibilities:
 * Expand the system to try to account for more variation e.g. Keep the protagonist and antagonist categories but add something like a deuteragonist category, which people on the forum are arguing is the correct definition of Aranea's position in the story.
 * Rework the system entirely e.g. Remove the protagonist and antagonist categories and replace them with something like hero, anti-hero, anti-villain and villain.
 * Dump the alignment system completely.
 * Continue to sweep the issue under the rug.

Also why are our neutral and undetermined categories combined? They are completely separate ideas, using the category by itself doesn't help people know if the character is unknown or neutral. Also I think it may have been incorrectly removed from certain characters pages because of the undetermined part (Also I think Aradia might fit in both the neutral and protagonist categories right now, but she certainly isn't undetermined). - The Light6 (talk) 17:50, September 15, 2013 (UTC)