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power fantasy or yield fantasy? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by bluemoon@piefed.social to c/keepwriting@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

The Giving Tree

[โ€“] 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