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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by bluemoon@piefed.social to c/keepwriting@lemmy.world

i want a genre called yield fantasy

the opposite of "weak to powerful" progression: protagonist starts with alot and humbles.

surely examples already exist, maybe a genre already exists, welp

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Isn't that basically a Greek/Senecan/Shakespearean Tragedy? Sans actual powers.

Oedipus, MacBeth, Othello. Generally "powerful" people who lose everything due to a traffic character flaw