I was talking to my friend the other day, and we were talking about Alphaholes. I don't know how many of you were around for this, but in the mid-2000s the favorite type of hero was the Alphahole. He was an asshole, but he was an Alpha Male. While that term has been completely changed since then, what it meant was that he was a strong leader, who was maybe a bit bossy, didn't always explain, and sometimes he was an asshole, but he was always someone who took care of those under his protection.
After that hero had his time, we saw so many more cinnamon roll heroes, and golden retriever heroes. But as the trends move quickly, sometimes they cycle. We saw the rises of the anti-hero, the morally gray hero, the touch her and die hero...
I think it's the same but with a new name.
I love a good morally gray anti-hero.
I realize that that's kind of an oxymoron, but I hope you all know what I mean. I'll use superheroes for my analogy lol
I think heroes like Superman, who are good, but also do things for the greater good, are the kind who would sacrifice for the world, for the greater good. Even if that meant sacrificing his love. He may never love again, but he knows he did the right thing. Heroes like Batman are married to their vengeance. But heroes like Iron Man who play by their own rules and have the power to make their own rules, would maybe be more fitting. He would save his woman at the risk of his own self, as would all of the superheroes. They are always willing to put themselves on the line, but where he differs, is that he would burn the world down to save his love.
That's what some of us want. Not in real life, because really, how many of these tropes/trends/heroes just wouldn't be something we'd want in real life. But knowing someone loves you so much he would let the world burn for you, is a heady feeling. My next hero is going to be one of those darker morally gray heroes and I'm so excited to write him. Especially since I'm writing a Golden Retriever hero at the moment for Echoes of the Past.
So now I turn it over to you. What type of trope or hero do you prefer? Do you love the Touch Her And Die trope? Do you prefer a cinnamon roll hero? Tell me in the comments!
And if you want the happily ever after to never end, check out my short story set in the Fatal Instincts world, Dreams of the Future. It's a wedding bonus story for Kate and Kyle from Dark Past.
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Maid of honor Cara Nguyen wants everything to go smoothly for her best friend's wedding, yet almost immediately, the wedding turns into a fiasco. Kate and Kyle deserve to have the wedding of their dreams, and Cara wants to make it happen. How can she pull off the wedding of their dreams when the flowers are delivered to the wrong location, the groom is missing, and the lovely sunny day has become a sweltering hot mess? There’s a lot to do, and so little time to do it. She definitely doesn’t have time to get distracted by a sexy groomsman in a kilt.
Kyle Donovan is ready to marry the love of his life, but first he has to get back to the church…
Dash Helms is in the small town of Chester, California for his friend Kyle’s wedding. This should be a happy event, yet It seems everything is going haywire. A caravan of wedding guests breaks down on their way to the venue, one of the groomsmen misses his flight, and the wedding has to be moved inside. Yet the beautiful maid of honor is the only thing he can concentrate on. When Dash is asked to step in at the last minute as a replacement groomsman, of course he says yes. While the striking brunette walking down the aisle ahead of him wants nothing to do with him, even she can’t deny the sparks that fly between them.
With everything seeming to go wrong, what can go right?
In this wedding short story written for Kate and Kyle from Dark Past, the cast of the Fatal Instincts series comes together to celebrate their friends. With everyone in the same place at once, and romance in the air, can this small town handle them?
