Thoughts
In a lot of fiction, you have a tendency for characters, especially side-characters, to be prepared to sacrifice or die for “the cause,” or
to prevent an apocalypse, or because it’s the right thing to do, or because the bad guy killed their parents. But what “the cause” is or exactly what they’re willing to sacrifice is kind of poorly defined. What I love about the characters in *Beyonders* is that even the side characters have very specific sacrifices that they have made or are going to make, to benefit very clearly defined causes. They align with the main goal, but the characters have an arc which is not the main goal.