For many readers and authors the idea of a story means a series of events that are put in motion to introduce a sence of heightened imagination so the reader can invison the story in motion.
But for a story it can proceed from two distinct forms of characters depending on how it revolves around said characters, this the focus of this chapter wher i will go into detail on the concept of a character being either passive or proactive in their advancement of the story.
A story in itself revolves around key characters but those said characters can move towards the story either as I said passively or proactively, this can be determined by their difference of their individual necessity to proceed the story in that way.
As an example of comparing a passive character and an proactive character will be presented by a short story.
'Mark entered into the football club room to the saddened faces of his teammates, he looked around and then asked to the group "why are you guys just laying here while you guys could be practicing"
The group collectively look towards mark with looks of curiosity or weak annoyance before a member of the group Timmy responds "whats the point Mark, the other school clubs have reserved the field and we don't even have a full team so how could we even play" as he finished the group returned to their individual emotions.
Mark becomes stunned for a second before responding with "so what, even if we can't practice on the field we can still practice elsewhere and we don't need a full team to practice" as he says this he leaves the room to go practice alone.
From this example it should be easy to determine who is proactive or passive but in this scenario mark's approach further progression possibly leading to more possibilities of a story gaining progression, while timmy acts as a passive character due his actions and statment giving off an result of neutral progression in a simple explanation a story is usual proceeded by the inclusion of an proactive character.
In most storys the main character either starts as a proactive character or starts as a passive character who becomes proactive, this mainly to drive the story forward and to Introduce more characters.
Once the main character is introduced any additional character can be proactive, passive or neither where the become classed as irrelevant to the progression of a story.
An example of an irrelevant character would be a character who is mention but doesn't progress the story in any like introducing a high offical of a town but not making them appear or have any grip on the progression of the story.
Just know its possible for a character or plot device to be of two aspects for example of an irrelevant character being a passive character as well, but this statment can't be used to pair an proactive character trait with being irrelevant as well since once they effect the story in some way they become proactive losing their irrelevancy in the story.