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  • $\begingroup$ Questions about the decisions and motivations of your characters aren't worldbuilding questions. We aren't here to build your characters or write your story for you. Also please keep in mind that we have a strict one question per post policy. $\endgroup$ Commented 2 days ago
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry, Chao, I'm going to have to side with sphennings on this. The key question for most fiction isn't "does it make sense" but "can you make it make sense?" Most decent fiction is about people who do something that others don't think should be possible. Sometimes that's surviving a fight, sometimes it's avoiding capture, sometimes it's delivering the news. Under these circumstances, your protagonist probably wouldn't be considered a journalist so much as a spy. $\endgroup$ Commented yesterday
  • $\begingroup$ Sure you need someone to say "look at how auhoritarian all the other countries are, not like us" the more authoritarina your country the more you want to make other countries look more authoritarian. $\endgroup$ Commented 6 hours ago