#trope inversion

[importantstudentbusinessspy-blog]

I’m so used to love triangles where it’s two Strong Brooding Dudes fighting over some sweet fragile girl… but Wolf King said: what if it’s two powerful badass ladies and one traumatized kicked-puppy boy???

yes. equality. 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

protect him at all costs. let the girls fight.

[blooms-in-april]

When you have to marry your ex for world peace:

SBW25.2 Day 2 - It's not what it looks like | Fake/pretend relationship | Trope reversal | Culture shock

Krypton invades Earth. Earth wins. How do you legitimize surrender in Kryptonian culture? Why, with a wife, of course!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[nerdypeanuthoagiebanana]

So I was thinking about how ATLA inverted the favored sibling trope -if u can call it a trope-. Like usually in fiction, it's the older sibling that is the favorite and the younger one is kind of the underdog. And then I realized that they didn't only invert it they also subtly executed the classic version of it. It's never said explicitly but in the one scene, where we see Ozai and Azulon interact with each other, it is abundantly clear that Azulon favors Iroh - his older son- and completely dismisses Ozai. Ozai is the one lacking, Ozai can't do anything right in his father's eyes.

And now we go one generation further, Ozai is now an admittedly terrible father to two children. Zuko and Azula, and who does he favor?!

THE YOUNGER ONE

AZULA

Of course he does, Ozai heavily projects on both of his kids. He goes the extreme other way and puts the same abusive pattern on his own children, just reversed.

- Iroh himself btw never has the opportunity to develop that pattern, first of all because he only had one child, and second of all because he was the one who got the at least somewhat "healthier" dynamic with his father and probably his mother, if we go with the theory that Ilah died in childbirth.-

Because he sees the exceptional prodigy of Azula as himself, the second child, who in his narcissism is the better option. Who he can form to be the perfect successor of his legacy.

And in that way of thinking he treats Zuko, his older child with the same neglect and dismissal as he was treated as a child. He himself does not realise it, but he creates in that way in Zuko a kind of distorted mirror image of himself.

With one difference. Zuko has his mother and his uncle to teach him compassion. Not only that but Zuko himself is someone who as a person has a strict honor code he follows. (See 41st division).

Zuko is with that in mind, not just a reflection of Ozai but also a WEAK reflection from his perspective.

Which puts us back to the reason of, why he burned the face.

So in conclusion did ATLA not only invert a trope, it also used it to develop a unhealthy family dynamic and create a realistic picture of the cycle of generational trauma.

[daydreamorama]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi ~ Wu Xie Characters: Wang Pangzi, Wu Xie (DMBJ Series) Additional Tags: Aromantic Asexual Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Aromantic Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Asexual Wu Xie (DMBJ Series), Wang Pangzi is in love with Wu Xie, trope inversion: and there were too many beds, Accidental Kiss, allo-aro relationship, queer platonic relationship Summary:

After an accidental kiss in the heat of the moment, Wu Xie stresses over the fact that Pangzi got a room with two beds. Pangzi just loves his friend as he is.

[oopsbirdficced]

Chapter 9: of dangerous situations

Rating: T/PG13

Fandom: Tolkien’s Silmarillion

Pairings/Relationships:

WARNINGS: brief mentions of vomiting/nausea related to seasickness, description of hunting and butchering an animal (sea serpent)

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You could not find two people cut of a more different cloth than Findaráto Ingoldo Arafinwion and Morifinwë Carnistir Fëanárion. It is, perhaps then, Fate’s cruel whims or the One’s idea of a particularly entertaining joke that they be bound together in a sacred union.

They survive.

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Chapter 9: of dangerous situations - Carnistir is not adjusting to life on the open sea well. There's not much time to remedy that as they come across a deep sea serpent, and the hunt is on.

[dracereads]

Manga Break Time

Way of the Househusband v.1 | Kousuke Oono | ★★★★

Synopsis: A gag-series about a former Mafia boss Tatsu, on his quest to succeed in his new life as a househusband. This manga pits some really strong criminal element imagery against some super... domestic scenarios for comedic effect.

Opinions: This series is all about using strong visuals and situations to tell a dynamic story about Tatsu's new life as a househusband. It's not supposed to be deep or thought provoking, but. it is very nicely illustrated and it's. such a contrast between the scenario and the visual representation that's going along with it that it's absolutely hysterical.

Sometimes it's nice to take a break from my breakneck reading schedule and squeeze in something just to make me laugh.

[a-tumbly-man-from-a-tumbly-land]

Why is "Widowmaker" supposed to be a cool, edgy name for an assassin? Do they only kill people who are married? Well there's more than one way to be a widowmaker, so I suggest a character that's refered to as a/called Widowmaker, but they just marry people and then fake their own death.

[chucktaylorupset]

Trope inversion: reverse amnesia au. Person gets hit on the head and cam now remember every moment of their life with excrutiating clarity. After they power through the headached and sort through all their memories they turn to their friend and say hey so youve definitely been in love with me all this time, and apparently ive been in love with you, how the heck did i miss all that