As I am getting older and wiser as a human being and a writer, I am recognizing a lot of fictional tropes that people fall into when writing characters. In order to create picture perfect fiction, writers fall into stereotypes like the fairy tale storyline of medieval and ancient kingdoms.

For example, the princess stereotype is not merely a Disney concoction, but a revisionist historical view of females in actual history. Actual princesses did not stew around in their rooms looking pretty and trying out gowns all day, in ancient times, they were working in fields along with servants, threading cloth for clothing, and learning valuable skills from midwives and others. In other words, a Princess was not merely a trophy wife.

Even among gay fiction writers, a majority of readers and writers seem to follow this strand of storytelling despite how fictitious it really was to how society functioned. A lot of people don't think critically about how a society would function at 1/1,000th the population level. Manpower would be a commodity, so even nobles and royals would have to get dirty and work with normal trades of commoners.

If you read Greek epics, you would hear stories of Royalty and Nobles being herdsman, farmers, and other types of professions usually not associated with that level of power in society. In Chinese and Indian epics, it is the same, power does not mean laziness.

It got me thinking as I am writing a series of stories for my modern Science Fantasy Causality, based on the newly introduced character Amunet. (My idea for Causality's structure is conceptually a story of divergence and concentration, there will be a lot of side character stories to flesh out motivations, along with a main narrative.)

To recap this characters' introduction, she's an ancient African royal, drug dealer, unethical scientist, and morally ambiguous healer along with being the first Vampire. This is my interpretation of the Ancient Egyptians consort of Amun later called Ra, Egyptian God of the Sun. In Mythology her role was replaced by another female consort, Mut, in later dynasties of Egyptian history, but I think the concept of a "hidden Goddess" is very interesting.

Her early life is what I am trying to write right now as a Nubian princess, which is an interesting tale in itself.

I don't know if writing her as a real world Princess of the Ancient world is a good idea, but at least, it feels right to create a character that is not a whining beauty or a fairy tale satire.