"Are you kidding me?! You destroyed my village, killed my master, my sensei, hurt my friends." (Naruto)
"Then tell me... what is your goal?"
"I'LL KILL YOU... then create peace in the shinobi world."
"How noble of you. What about MY family, MY friends, MY village? They were destroyed by Konoha! Is it fair that only you can preach about peace and justice?!"
Write POV based on your character's voice. Let your character's soul guide you as you narrate what your character is doing 'right now' in their world.
If readers say, "protagonist 'should' have done this or that..." Congratulations! You've created an authentic character that even readers found unsettling and irritating.
I stopped reading shoujo not because of the cliche tropes. It's just that... I hate it when the FMC gets taken by a random guy even though the fictional premise uses "family" labels: mother-daughter, father-daughter, brother-sister, and the like. I may be childish, but when reading fiction, I treat the FMC as my daughter. My feeling of my daughter being taken by someone else is too uneasy.

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