- Courage. Courage to face the situations you put them in, courage to face enemies, courage to face up to their own weaknesses and courage to get help to try to overome those. Villains can show courage too, particularly courage in battle.
- An Open Mind. Ideally the character should already be friends with many from different groups in the world you've set your story, perhaps even be a trailblazer for improving relationships between species.
- Flexibility. Especially the flexibility to admit when they've got it wrong. From my experience, characters who do this are the ones who are flexible enough to change their minds in good enough time to get out of harm's way.
- Faithfulness. To their principles, chiefly. In the case of villains I'd expect them to show some faithfullness to their cause (though naturally they will betray all those who try to help).
- Kindness, especially in the way they treat others. Naturally this ruling doesn't applyto villains. Their idea of kindness is to flog someone slowly!
I'm deliberately not including anti-heroes here. I wanted to focus on the majority type of characters most writers will feature in their works.
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