Trope Ball Meme


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Sometimes, things in a canon just plain don't make sense or flow in a way that feels organic. Plots railroad characters along whether they want to be or not, forcing them to act out of character, plummet down bewildering plot holes, run into coincidences just a little too convenient, or bend or break the established rules of the universe for the sake of drama. While real life can be messy and chaotic, everything in a story happens for a reason. Have the characters ever noticed these strange, inexplicable narrative contrivances? Have they ever thought that things just shouldn't have happened the way they did?

Well, there's no need to wonder about them any longer--suddenly, their eyes have been opened to the source of these disturbances. Gremlins! These tiny, monstrous supernatural creatures are normally unable to be directly perceived or interacted with, as they operate on a level one step removed from reality as characters know it. Not only are characters now aware of them, however, but also of the intangible narrative driving forces they tinker with--which appear as balls of all shapes, sizes, and substances. Maybe they're stealing the luck, competence, and badassery of a love interest suffering from Chickification to give to the protagonist instead, maybe they're forcing obliviousness of crucial details onto a villain who's slated to be defeated, or maybe they're monkeying around with someone's morality in order to force them into a Heel Face Turn redemption arc that doesn't seem realistic for their mindset at all. Whatever it is they're doing, though, they're messing with the natural progression of characters and plot, seemingly to make it all neatly fit into some predetermined storyline orchestrated by a higher power.

How will characters use their new knowledge and power? Will they try to tame or enslave the creatures, so they can wreak havoc as they see fit? Will they exact vengeance over unfairly being toyed with, or feel guilty over being handed world-bending protagonist powers without earning them? Will they try to steal the right to graduate from being a background character and have a story of their own, or try to distribute things more equitably among a large ensemble cast?

( Because sometimes characters want to write THEIR version of Fix-It Fic, too. )

rare muse meme!
rare like a unicorn get it? ..i tried.
originally from here?

rules
first
- tag in with your rarely played muses
- or tag in with a muse that is rarely seen in rp in general
-- got a muse you haven't played since you voicetested three years ago? post them!
-- got a character from a 1970s romcom that nobody remembers? do the thing!
- seriously whatever man i'm not your mother do what you want
- but r a r e is the name of the game.
then
- tag rare muses with your rare muses! or not-so-rare. whatever.
- look it's just a regular meme ok no more rules you know how to do this

for people that are into picture prompts:
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( prompts underneath )