Victim/Persecutor/Rescuer

Every good work of fiction is developed around triangles. We typically think of there being a protagonist and an antagonist, but the truth of the matter is that if you only have two elements, they are in perfect equilibrium — to objects of the same size will orbit each other without disruption and behave perfectly predictably. However, if you have three objects, you get chaotic interactions. And three characters create tensions that drive the…