#butcanbe

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

You know those ‘hero has a corruption arc and joins the bad guy’ tropes?

Now here me out: trope where it’s revealed that the hero had never actually been a hero. They were always evil, possibly even partners with the one believed to be their nemesis, and had just been hiding it as a tactic.

Also counts as reverse assassin-becoming-part-of-the-found-family-they-were-sent-to-kill,

where it’s instead you-thought-I-cared-but-me-and-my-‘rival’-are-actually-besties-and-you-mean-nothing-to-me