Armchair psychology time.

I was just thinking how all my protagonists always seem to be these blank slates while everyone else in the story has loads of personality. Xyl basically had one setting, "cynical", and was pretty colorless beyond that. She didn't have any goal in life beyond finding Pepper, she really had nothing to motivate her to do much of anything beyond the needs of the moment. Jevan in Telaon is basically the same way, he's like a stick figure. Freddie Moon in "Public Assistance." Payoda in "Khamaira's Journey." Pascoe in "Sheperds of M15". None of them are really interesting in their own right. Everyone else around them is. The plot and the environment act on them, not the other way around. Things happen to them, not because of them.

What this may mean with regards to myself, since ostensibly the protagonist represents the author, I cannot say.