In "Cruel Tribute,” which character’s actions most advance the development of the plot?

Theseus’s choices move the main events forward: he goes to Crete as one of the youths sent as tribute, then enters the Labyrinth and confronts the Minotaur. His actions lead to the story’s central conflict and its resolution. Ariadne helps him, but Theseus most directly advances the plot.

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