The older I get, the more I like for plots to be complex like that, rather than the basic plot of save the world/the city/your life (fanfiction is ruining me for other forms of fiction, I'm telling you). Also, the more I like domestic fic (Maybe domestic fic isn't the right word for it, because I actually include fics where their lives have a high amount of excitement in them, but it's not a crisis, it's just Tuesday, if that makes sense). Not sure if they're related.

I think that in addition to them being reaction plots, a lot of the plots take a certain amount of attachment to the characters from the beginning, because otherwise a lot of readers are going to go "well this is boring, nothing's happening."

I think Narnia was intended as a chosen ones plot, since the prophecy was played straight.