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Twin Trope/Cliche #1
There are so many twin tropes that appear in all kinds of media including novels, short stories, movies, fan-fictions, poems, etc. Often these tropes are over-used, cliche, and downright unrealistic. So to help the aspiring writer, we’ve decided to start putting together a short guide on twin tropes that are best avoided in one’s writing.
Trope #1: Good Twin/Bad Twin
This trope has literally been used since humans began story-telling. One great example of this trope is the Haudenosaunee Creation Story, in which Sky Woman gives birth to an evil twin and a good twin. If you want to read the story check this link out: https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/the-haudenosaunee-creation-story/
While we can absolutely understand and accept the use of such a trope in ancient, mythological stories and storytelling, the use of such a trope in writing today is not so forgivable. This trope is so overused that it has become boring and stale. Not mention it’s not very realistic; especially in the case of identical twins. Identical twins are usually extremely similar to one another in looks, tastes, interests, personalities, and style. Chances are if one twin is evil, so is the other. And if one twin is good, then other is also good.
So if you’re writing about twins, don’t use this trope! To this day we refuse to read or watch anything that involves this trope. It doesn’t interest or excite us, rather it annoys us, or just makes us laugh.
likrot’s liktober day 11 !
bad twin
october 2019
Gemini: you can run but you cant hide!
Taurus: thats where your wrong pal, *out of breath* i cant do either
#017 Evil Clones
Becoming a superhero means accepting certain occupational hazards. For instance, at some point somebody’s going to place you in some kind of ludicrously ridiculous death trap while they monologue their evil plan at you. There’s a solid chance that somebody is going to try to feed you to giant monster animals. You’ll most certainly get shot by a wide variety of different kinds of lasers. But one danger of being a superhero that many people don’t think about, and one that they certainly don’t prepare for, are evil clones.
Many people react with surprise when confronted by someone who looks exactly like them except they’re evil. Or they look mostly like them, but then have very obvious “evil” characteristics, like glowing red eyes, or scars, or chalky skin, or long emo hair. And really, I think people need to stop being surprised by this. Like, just think about it from a bad guy’s perspective for a second. Imagine if every time you tried to achieve your lifelong dream of total world domination some jerkwad in a cape showed up and stopped you from doing it. Now this guy thinks he’s so high and mighty. He calls himself one of Earth’s Highest and Mightiest Heroes. What a tool. Obviously you want to hold up a mirror to this goody-two-shoe’s face and show them that they’re not actually the greatest thing since gene-spliced bread (the bread tastes like banana.) So you steal some of his DNA, shouldn’t be too difficult, you fight him a lot, presumably he bleeds. Or you can steal his hair. Or his spit. Or a cheek swab. But probably not a cheek swab. Then you throw that DNA into a clone chamber. Those aren’t hard to come by. If you buy ‘em in bulk they’re not even that expensive. Then *BAM* you’ve got yourself an evil clone. Honestly it’s a very relatable train of thought this shouldn’t be surprising.
Now the first thing you gotta do when you become aware of your evil clone’s existence is (be extremely flattered) damage control. You need to assemble the press immediately and go on national television to inform the world that there is someone out there committing crimes while WEARING YOUR FACE. Then you have to go on to clarify that obviously they’re not literally wearing your face, they just have a face that looks like your face. Then you’ll have to field a bunch of questions from reporters asking you if you’re the evil clone. There will be a lot of questions about this. To save you some time, we’re providing you with some snappy stock responses.
“No, what, obviously I’m not the evil clone. I just called this press conference to warn you about the evil clone. Please try to keep up.”
“How do I know you’re not the evil clone, random reporter from Teen Us Beat Tiger Weekly Magazine!”
“If I was an evil clone could I do… this!” then do a super cool backflip.
Once that’s settled you need to make sure that your evil clone hasn’t had any contact with your loved ones. To do this try calling your loved ones on the phone. Normally I’d say to send a text message because this is 2017 and who talks on the phone but in this case it is imperative that you hear their voice. Evil clones can steal cellphones and send text messages. Just something to be aware of. Then you have to make sure none of your loved ones were similarly replaced by evil clones. This cannot be accomplished with even a phone call cuz guess what! (What?!) Vocal chords get copied in the cloning process too, clones have the same voices as their originals! (oh dang! never would’ve guessed.) I suggest taking a moment right now to come up with a series of codewords that only you and your loved ones know. If you’re only first reading this after you’ve discovered an evil clone and therefore haven’t taken the proper precautions in advance, then it’s probably already too late and you should just assume that all your loved ones are evil clones from now on.
Once you’ve repaired (repaired, get it cuz there is a pair of yous now. It’s a good thing I added this after my editor already looked this over, she never would’ve let this one through.) or at the very least once you’ve gotten a handle over the damage your evil clone has caused you need to go and confront them. If the technology used to create them was any good they might be in possession of all of your memories and they’ll probably try to use those memories against you. This is one of the things that make evil clones so much more dangerous when compared to your run of the mill costume-wearing-assassin or time-displaced-very-angry-and-very-confused pirate. Evil clones know you almost as well as you know yourself. They know the best ways to get to you and make you hurt. And they know your secret identity. Which is just the worst. Uch they probably already told a bunch of other bad guys what it is. Uch so annoying. Uch evil clones are the wooooooorst.
But that also means that you know them just as well as you know yourself. You can use their own weapons, your shared memories, against them. So that could be fun. It could also be very traumatic. Personally, I hope if I ever have an evil clone it’s just a robot duplicate or one of those clones that were made with like discount, knock-off, cloning chambers and therefore ergo thusly henceforth suffers from extreme stupidity.
For many heroes the temptation to try to bring their evil clone over to the side of good can be overwhelming. And look I totally get it, you want to believe that no matter what, even if you were to be a freak science experiment grown in a test tube in a supervillain’s lair, that there would still be some good in you. But your evil clone will also probably know that you’ll try to reform them and they might fake reform in order to infiltrate your operation and cause even more harm! Seriously, evil clones are terrible. And even if they do reform what d’you do then? You guys need some way of differentiating yourselves. You’ll have to get different haircuts. Probably one of you should get a cool hat. But then there’s bound to be an argument over which one of you gets to be the one who wears a cool hat. It’ll be a whole thing. Also your clone’ll have to go by a different name or add “-2″ to the end of his name or steal your middle name or just make up a whole new name. And you just know he’s gonna come up with something (awesome!) ridiculous like Thunderbolt Cannonberg or Missileface McFacemissile because that’s exactly what you would do and, again, he’s your exact duplicate. It’s all really complicated. Almost too complicated. Like you might just be better off not trying to get them to reform and just sending them to supervillain jail or something.
Gemini thing
So, I call to all my lovely geminis out there. When I first got into Zodiac stuff, I saw gemini and thought they were cool as hell, from the name to having twins as their sign. However, I asked if gemini were either sensitive or there were two types. From personal experience and others opinions, I settled on two types.
The Good Twin.
And
The Bad Twin.
I've meant both. I dont hate gemini or dislike them, to me personally I could care less about their sign, I judge people on character and how they treat others. I just need some feedbacks from you lovelies out there on this because im stumped!! Im friends with a good twin, and a bad twin is "friends" with my girlfriend and doesnt get the memo to leave us, K, V, N, M, and H alone. So I'll break down the relationships! P.S. These two geminis have the same birthday, but arent related at all, ironic.
The good twin, he is a close friend in my opinion, and very sweet. Hes one of those people that will do anything to help you and put up with all your drama and nonsense no matter what. He'll stick up for you, but hes pretty mellow and just gets along with people. Overall hes just a good person so there not much to say here.
The bad twin, has been rude, attacks personal things, and has no limits. Shes gone from insulting my friends and their homosexuality, to yelling in public how horrible you are because of this or that when she feels threatened. I dont know why she hates me personally, but she attacks me constantly. I disclaim now, i have never verbally or physically attacked her; she always attacks me first and I do my best to respond in self-defense. Im not perfect, but this girl is something else. She attacks me and my girlfriend for being gay, and accuses us of many things that are pure predijuce and stereotyping, because were gay. Shes honestly a horrible person, and really goes out of her way to hurt you. I dont know what shes dealing with personally, but mocking mental issues, being selectively homophobic, and accusing of stereotyping is quite shocking.
So, this is partially a rant about this girl, but my darling geminis, is this something you see? Experienced, or just a bad apple out of the better of all of you? I would love a response amd I hope this isn't offensive to any of you dears!
Good girls are found in every corner of the earth...sadly the earth is round.
-Gemini