Active vs Reactive protagonists (Patreon)

Was half-joking in another thread on FB about how my protagonists all go off and write my books for me. And then I later on kept thinking of it and realised that the difficulty in writing some of my series is based off how active / reactive my protagnists are.

If had to to scale them, the protagonists from active to leas active are John, Daniel, Wu Ying and Henry. And I'm not sure of Wu Ying & Daniel, those two probably could switch around easily.

John is the easiest to write plots for. He's ALWAYS picking fights. He can't not do it. 

Henry is the hardest by far. He was envisioned as a 20 year old slacker, someone who 'settled' because he didn't see the point. That changes when he gets magic, but he's still at heart a slacker. He'd rather stay at home, do magic all day and research magic rather than go out and change the world. So, plots are harder to do because they have to come from outside and kick his ass into moving.

Anyway, just a thought. I think I'll have to review this thought whenever I write a new plot just because it will help me decide what happens to some extent.