Is it me, or do certain character traits feel like cheat skills
Things like being Smart, or having Willpower, or Ambition or some other positive quality that gives a protagonist protagonist status. Oftentimes I'll find myself reading a book, and it'll come across as if those characteristics are treated the same way as a Skill in brackets with a (Unique) next to it. If it's their defining trait then everyone else will lack it, or it'll let them do things no one else can with the only reasoning being that no one else just wanted it hard enough and even more often it feels *unearned*. Some random guy having an unbreakable will, like they got It in the super power lottery that happened with the inciting event that's only kicking in now rather than a trait that would paint someone as borderline demented in a time of peace.