vbfdoee
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Post by vbfdoee on Sept 10, 2012 18:27:00 GMT -6
Feel free to discuss common plots/tropes in Warriors fanfiction that I've forgotten to mention here. (help me i am spending too much time desultorily flipping through fanfiction.net) - The chosen one, a miraculous kit who is destined for greatness. There is usually a prophecy and a nebulously-defined evil involved. Characters with this kind of plot attached to them are usually flat and two-dimensional in the sort of way associated with Mary-Sue type characters.
- A variant thereupon in which the chosen one is a kittypet or a kit mysteriously dropped on the Clan's doorstep.
- Similar to the above: a long and detailed biography of a leader, similar to Bluestar's Prophecy.
- Stories taking place in the distant future of the Clans are more common than those in the far past, for some reason. Often, in this sort of story, there will be entirely new Clans born of the ashes of the four canon ones.
- Similar to, but distinct from, the above are fanfictions acting as a sort of epilogue to The Last Hope, taking up various plot threads that were never satisfactorily resolved. Often involve romance (including kits) between either Lionblaze and Cinderheart or Dovewing and Bumblestripe/Tigerheart.
- SkyClan, perhaps for its leniency regarding newcomers, kittypets and ridiculous names, is a popular fanfiction setting.
- Counterfactual stories, mostly addressing one of a few situations:
1. Spottedleaf didn't die. Romance ensues between her and Fireheart.
2. Cinderpelt never was injured. Romance ensues between her and Fireheart. The astute may be sensing a pattern at this point.
3. Firestar never came to the forest in the first place. (i know it's overused, but i have one in my dusty mental storage drawer of fanfictions i plan to write)
- Warriors, but with a different species. Wolves, horses and winged cats are popular
- Human characters (usually female and in their early teens) die and are reincarnated as warrior cats. These often carry a miasma of self-insertion.
These are all I can think of, but I'm sure all of you keen analysts of the Warriors fandom can think of more. |
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leah
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Post by leah on Sept 10, 2012 18:43:12 GMT -6
I lost it at "Winged Cats".
No but seriously, this is very true. I'm writing my own FF, and I'm trying to avoid these, the only one on the list being the long and detailed biography, since I was going to make it into the famous six-parter but realized that what I was doing would work best as a "super edition" kind of book. I'm trying to make the main character absolutely not special. The point is to tell a story about an average cat who was born in a clan, witnessed both good and bad events in the clan, and dies in it.
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Post by mistytail on Sept 10, 2012 20:22:32 GMT -6
Are we going to talk about all the genuinely awful and heinous tropes in the M-rated section or are those off limits?
Also: Tigerstar successfully gets rid of Bluestar and Fireheart. Sometimes tied in with the "Firesheart never came into the forest," sometimes not.
And do I even need to mention the "Scourge had kits" trope?
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ameliette
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Post by ameliette on Sept 11, 2012 13:03:58 GMT -6
Are we going to talk about all the genuinely awful and heinous tropes in the M-rated section or are those off limits? I think those can easily be summed up as Did Not Do the Research and X Does Not Work Like That (also called Artistic Licence, though that kinda misses the point, amirite?) |
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Post by celestialsquared on Sept 29, 2012 18:18:00 GMT -6
The thing about these plots, I see them nearly everywhere even outside of the Warriors fandom. And the "female in their early teens" description of some of the writers are pretty much a summed up reason for all of these overused plots.
Troupes like these always spawn self-insert, mary sue, or not-very-well-planned characters that serves to satisfy the fantasy of the author instead of for the purpose telling a great story.
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drheiter
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Post by drheiter on Sept 30, 2012 9:19:14 GMT -6
One thing I never fail to see is romance. It's in every single FF. I realize that a little romance in a story can make things interesting, but the life of a warrior just doesn't center around love. Often they fail to include anything a Clan cat is actually supposed to do; things like hunting, maybe a border patrol, mentoring an apprentice, being respectful of their other Clanmates, etc.
I guess this couldn't be really considered a trope, but it's really annoying to see. Personally, in the FF I'm (slowly) writing, I'm not going to include romance at all.
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