Challenge (of a sort): Overused tropes meme!

[lowkey]

So, I was having a chat with my good friend danchekker (who is now on DreamWidth, guys! You should all go friend her up!), and we started to talk about how we each always write "the same story."

So, I thought it be awesome if people turned a critical eye to their own writing, and in as humorous a way as possible, described their most overused tropes. Here are mine!



One person listens to another person tell a two-fold story about the past: a happy opening, with a shocking turn that hints at the innate unfairness and violence of the world. The speaker always delivers this speech while talking in a faraway voice and while not making eye contact. At a later point, this story is either literally or metaphorically important to events that transpire.

APPARENTLY THIS IS WHAT I THINK MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS ARE

BASICALLY, I WRITE LIKE LIGHTNING SPEAKS

ALL OF MY CONVERSATIONS ARE BETWEEN LIGHTNING AND HOPE, AND LIGHTNING IS SAYING "Lightning can't protect, it can only destroy."

FFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS


Furthermore, all of my characters are constantly struggling with self-destructive tendencies ("aren't we all?", I justify to myself), and ALSO my most dramatic deaths have the dying cough up blood.

Lastly, I'm finding it a little difficult to find FF characters' voices in longer dialogues. Cause, uh, in the game they really don't talk in more than a few sentences at a time, nor do they have meaningful discussions about feelings that don't descend into platitudes. THIS IS WEIRD



And how that I've said all this, I can't unsee it. aaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Comments

[mako_lies]

YESSS that's always been one of the best parts about Vaan's character for me. For all that he's not perfect, or smart, or any of those things, he always keeps trying to be better than he is, and never stops expecting the same from everyone else.

[lowkey]

Also worth mentioning is his acceptance/forgiveness of Basch. Vaan isn't many things, but he's a good person, and he has a potential that he never lets go to waste.

[mako_lies]

Yes. Vaan is just such a good persona all the time. Even if his vision is a little clouded, he always tries to do what he thinks is right and fair.

[lowkey]

And it needs to be pointed out that his version of "right and fair" isn't extreme, not like many of the other characters in the game (coughAshecoughVaynecough).

[nal_rene]

Oh yes. Vaan is one of Square's better characters that just gets hated on all the time by the fandom because he's not perfect, because he's ordinary.