Screw Your Hero, What Does The Sidekick Think?

POV Part Two (read Part One here)

Just a few words to clarify the notion of psychic distance in fiction.  It’s been noted by readers of this essay’s first part that psychic distance can come into play when fashioning the relationship between characters, as it relates to selecting a POV.  Anomander Rake was elevated by pushing him as far away as possible, keeping him mysterious and remote, and by ensuring that the POV characters viewed him with fear, awe, or some other extreme emotion.  And th...