The SECOND Best Trope Ever Showdown: Round 2, Side A, Poll 4
Which trope is BETTER?
Decoy Protagonist
Amnesiac Dissonance
Decoy Protagonist
A story in which your initially presented protagonist ends up not being the one who the story is truly about
So you're reading a story featuring Alice, the obvious main character. Oh, she doesn't exactly have a flashing neon sign over her head that
Propaganda:
It is such a fun way to play with the expectations of the narrative, letting you have fun in a story set up for someone else, seeing how the world reacts to this shift up
Amnesiac Dissonance
A character with amnesia realizes that they used to be of a different alignment/allegiance than they've taken up post-amnesia
Amnesiac Dissonance occurs when a good or evil person suddenly remembers their past of the opposite alignment. This becomes the epitome of M
Propaganda:
I like tropes that explore a character's sense of self, and it's always interesting to have a character piece together information that they didn't even know about themselves, and in this specific scenario have to wrestle with whether who they were pre-amnesia is part of who they still are