Oh boy it's this topic again. Well, I've been focusing on keeping both my 'heroes' and 'villains' have decent motivations and flaws (I really hate black and white stories). I also like to subvert our morals a bit, focus on alien ones. For example, one of the antagonists murdered his father the King because he disapproved of his anti-mixed-species relationships, seeing as he loved someone of another species. His brother, one of the protagonists, is sided with the (now-deceased) King, as hybrid children are usually sterile, and so would probably spell doom for the future of the planet. This kinda just punches 'love triumphs above all' in the face, as if it did, then it kinda dooms the world.Then again, this is a story for the later books, as the main series I'm working on right now focuses on a revolution by animal-human hybrids in the near-future, rather than the far future. It has lots of railguns and flamethrowers. LOTS.