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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree that it is a bit tropish. I tend to be more forgiving of tropes in oneshots because they only have one chapter to tell a whole story. So, the tropes are there to relay characterization to the reader quickly without devoting panels/pages to doing so. It is a balancing act though and different people have different tolerances for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for sharing such a cogent observation.

I was mostly just observing that it was relatively tropish. I understand the role that tropes play in storytelling and don't have a problem with it, as long as the author does something interesting and/or entertaining with them.

But I'd never before considered the particular need for them in oneshots, and can see it now.