Narrator Angst

Narrator angst occurs when an author breaches the narrative to insert a personal opinion about a character, often undeservedly. While not too frequent, you will occasionally find stories like this, where a character is described as a "damned bastard" and it's part of the narrative, not part of character dialog or thought.

Example:
 * While arguably it is a first person narrative, this borders on narrator angst:
 * One of the 'idiots', a particularly intolerant religious zealot, snarled and yelled, “I may be cursed to endure God's wrath to look like an animal, but I will never act like an animal!” ("The Colony " Chapter 9 - www.furry.org.au/chakat/Stories/TheColony-index.html)
 * "His eyes too were alit; alit with the fire of insanity as he continued his preaching that would send his "crusaders" to do what mankind had done so many times through history: commit murder in the name of God." -"Fredericke Weismann" (www.chakatsden.com/chakat//Stories/FrederikeWeismann-1.html)

Sometimes an author is heavy handed in their approach. This author clubs you over the head with his propaganda. Instead of letting the reader draw their own conclusions about the character, the narrator presents his own interpretation of how the reader is supposed to interpret the scene. Well, as long as there aren't any Christians to get in the way of their orgies, Chakat land will be at peace, I guess.

In ECLIPSE SAGA By Joe Schoder, from the Chakatheaven Yahoo group, the protagonist's "mate" slices through a bunch of random enemies with a light saber. Even though none of them ever get a chance to prove how much of a "sadistic bastard" they are, we get this paragraph: ''I gave hir a long lick starting under hir muzzle to hir neck. I don’t mind the taste of blood, but it is kind of disconcerting knowing it came from a sentient being, even if he was a deranged, sadistic bastard. ''If anything, "shi" was a sadistic bastard for destroying a lifeform that clearly was no match for "hir" Jedi might.