Talk:Aurora/@comment-1087258-20131208055815

For people saying she's meant to be the main character just because she influences the story, this is not the case. She is *a* main character, but she doesn't drive the story along anymore than Flora, Fauna and Merryweather do. In fact, they are the traditional protagonists of this story. Aurora is the catalyst of the story's events, but as she does not influence the story directly, which is what she would need to do. And no, being the source of the villain's plot isn't influencing the story directly, since Maleficent is the one influencing her to touch the spindle.

Also, even if she was originally intended to be the protagonist, doesn't mean that that doesn't change that, in the finished story, she has the least amount of screen time of the main characters, does nothing to further the story on her own, or develop as a character. This is the important part, the protagonist, being the one to whom's perspective we see the story unfold through. As we only ever have one seen where we see anything from Aurora's point of view, we can't say she fits as a protagonist. The reason Cinderella is the protagonist, while also not directly influencing the story, is because we see the story unfolding from her point of view. She's both affected by the story and the one who is telling it, even if Jaq and Gus are more active in progressing it than she is. This is not the case with Aurora, who both does nothing to further the story on her own and remains pretty much a blank slate.