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[joncronshawauthor]

The Ten Most Enduring Tropes in Fantasy Literature

Fantasy literature is known for its rich and diverse worlds, as well as its use of familiar tropes and conventions. These tropes have become staples of the genre and are often used to create familiar and relatable stories for readers. Here are ten of the most enduring tropes in fantasy literature: 1. The Quest. A journey undertaken by the protagonist(s) in order to achieve a specific goal,…

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#back from the dead #chosen one #dark lord #enduring tropes #familiar tropes #fantasy literature #fantasy world #genre conventions #horde of mooks #magic school #magic sword #quest #secret legacy #wise mentor

[siliquasquama]

The idea of being all give and no take sounds so tragic and self-sacrificing, but if you can actually pull that off without being completely used up, it's kind of a flex.

So I gotta wonder about the Magical Negro trope, where the sidekick-mentor minority figure gives all they can for the protagonist and asks for nothing in return. Who the hell is this character if they have that much time and influence? Are they trying to solve the conflict of the story through a convenient proxy who can move unimpeded through the ethnic majority? Is every white hetero protagonist of these stories just an earthly catspaw for the complex plans of the godlike Magical Negro?

If you're watching Bruce Almighty, the answer is probably yes. Not sure about any other story.

#magical negro #wise mentor #I have tried to be all give and no take and I think I might actually have been trying to deny myself into a beautifully tragic ruin

[nelkcats]

The 7th

When the Wizard explained to Billy about his powers he forgot to mention that the Champion of Magic had a seventh patron who would manifest in his greatest moments of need. Although this one did not count as "official" since he was not exactly sharing his powers like the others.

So it's understandable that Billy would freak out at the new voice in his head telling him to steal a sandwich from one of the rude people on the subway.

Billy tried to argue with the voice about it since his parents had taught him all about good and evil but it had been a few days since his conversation with the Wizard Shazam and it had been weeks since his last decent meal other than leftovers. The Sandwich was packed and its owner wasn't paying attention, one little slip and he would have something in his stomach.

Solomon was very upset with the new voice, he was fully aware of who was talking and thought that he had left after the disaster with Adam but apparently the Ghost King had taken an interest in "The New Champion", Solomon had suspicions that it was because Billy was a kid.

The new voice introduced himself as "Phantom", he argued a lot with Solomon, didn't seem to have any moral and Zeus always muttered about his older brother's annoying best friend whenever he manifested. The boy did not know who the new God was but at least he gave good life advice. Or he liked to think so.

Phantom had many arguments with the other immortals, Hercules complained about his friendship with Kronos (which the boy found worrying but decided not to comment), Salomon about his recklessness, Atlas and Achilles bothered him constantly and Mercury kept challenging him to races. But it seemed that thanks to him everyone had become interested not only in helping Captain Marvel but also Billy!

Phantom even had a lot of good advices on being a young hero or keeping his secret from the League and for the first time since he got his powers Billy didn't feel so lost.

#dpxdc #prompt #Danny is like his mentor #he take care of Billy #the kid remind him of his past self #ghost king danny #he is considered the god of all death #because of the realms #and is Hades BFF #Apparently Sam liked talking with Persephone and present him to Hades #Zeus is just grumpy because Phantom prefer his older brother AND dad before him #dp x dc #dc x dp #Danny got interested because Billy is a kid #he disconnected from the other champions before #too old or wise #they didn't take his teen voice seriously #Danny is the reason the Champions of Magic are almost immortal in that form #and can manage all the magic inside their body #the rock is also connected to the realms #danny phantom #shazam #captain marvel #dc x dp prompt #billy batson

[threebea]

I love how Obi-Wan Kenobi is a symbol of Hope and a figure of Goodness in the universe of Star Wars, but he is also anxious. He has imposter syndrome. He is sarcastic and smug. He's overconfident. He's kind. He cares about people. He has depression.

He's this complicated person that's fucked up and who has always done the right thing simultaneously.

#obi-wan kenobi #star wars #i like thinking about him #it's hard to say people's interpretations are wrong #because of all the characters he's very humanized outside if the archtype box #he has to fit the wise and good mentor #but he is also a guy that has had bad stuff happen to him from his mistakes #like he always has to be good but he also has to fail #idk he's just interesting

[coyoteclan]

oops

big win for everyone who wanted Dancingheart to be a med cat all along but at the cost of more death :(

trying out some art stuff so let me know what you think for this moon lol, I did this all in one night

#clangen #warrior cats #art #coyoteclan #tw blood #tw character death #tw animal death #leafclaw #frondstar #dancingheart #mitehaze #kiteswoop #sorry for this one LMAO #but look!! more dancingheart!! #sadly she takes a step back for a few moons lore wise but you'll see it's to make space for some cuties :) #frondstar is having the worst time rn #first her deputy is having kits and now she's being scolded like one by the clan's friendliest cat #it's okay though she kinda deserves it for making dancingheart train under the worst mentor ever #I cannot wait for moon 12 there's so much to be excited for

[onaperduamedee]

Heartbroken reminder that Egwene is 17 when she gets taken by the Seanchan, spends two months in captivity being tortured, used as a weapon and dehumanized. When she gets back to the Tower, she immediately passes a test that's not at all traumatic, nearly gets killed by a Grey Man and is sent on a secret mission to hunt murderers completely unsupervised. During this period of wandering, lacking direction, she naturally gets angrier and erratic, but Nyn and Elayne mostly treat it as childish rebellion against Nyn's authority, with Elayne slapping Egwene because she was mean to Nyn. When the girls eventually get captured because they are not equipped at all to hunt the Black Ajah, Egwene becomes so terrified of being taken again that she keeps on resisting the sisters long past it is sensible, earning a brutal beating from the sisters who throw her back into a cell, beaten to a pulp, with no hope for help this time.

Clearly, Egwene has no PTSD whatsoever.

#egwene al'vere #The wheel of time #Wot book spoilers #The Great Hunt #The Dragon Reborn #Remblai #wot book journey #I think about it all the time #About how early in the books she gets to experience something so horribly traumatic and to receive little support afterwards #None from the Tower #None from her mentors #And little from her friends because they have their own stuff going #And even if the books don't give as much room to Egwene's trauma as Rand's it's always here #Her prime reaction to someone trying to subdue her will be extremely violent #She would rather die than let that happen again #It's beyond me how she managed to rebuild herself after this and mostly on her own #The Wise Ones helped tremendously here #Because she had a strict routine #She was far away from everything and everyone that could remind her of what happened #Being a Dreamwalker has also little to do with the OP so it allowed her to regain control without interacting with the OP #I love her arc from very early on tbh #It's not about Egwene being unbreakable #It's about Egwene living with a pain that could destroy her #That's something she shares with Rand as well

[htsparrowheart]

"Mia kind of sucked actually" yeah geez she only grew up in a resentful death cult, got parentified at age 12, fled the only home she's ever known to avoid being pitted against that same sibling she had to raise, graduated law school alone, overcame trauma and depression to start a successful law firm alone in her mid-20's, and spent whatever free time she had researching emotionally painful cold cases and planning to take down a corrupt CEO. even if therapists existed in the trilogy (real therapy, not Athena's bs), when would Mia have had the time? she covered an incredible amount of ground just breaking free of Kurain and adapting to the world outside the village - again, without anyone she could entirely trust to catch her if she fell. but still, she changed and grew as a person in just the 3-year span we knew her. she got much better at managing her anxious and aggressive tendencies. she was more openly supportive toward Phoenix than any adult was to her. and she was literally TRYING to open up more to Phoenix and Maya on the night she died, by introducing those two halves of her life to each other despite the risks! if Mia Fey "sucked", then how high a standard should women be held to, hmm?

#sparrow rants #ace attorney #mia fey #hate this new trend of dumping on mia for not acting exactly like a therapist would recommend 100% of the time #just because mia is a wise mentor figure doesn't mean that everything she did was meant to be interpreted as correct #ace attorney is ABOUT people trying their best in messed up circumstances #'mia hid information in 2-2' she literally taught phoenix how to crack her psyche-locks??? #you know? the things that stop people from sharing the painful secrets in their heart? #mia's relationship with morgan was probably more complex than 'I hate that bitch' despite fandom loving to hate that bitch #block me if this take is too spicy #I don't really interact with the fandom anyway

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Gorion, Wise Mentor

"You are safest in Candlekeep, Abdel, but I cannot keep you from the world forever."

Artist: Jason Kang TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

#mtg #magic the gathering #tcg #$0.08 #jason kang #gorion wise mentor #commander legends: battle for baldur's gate #legendary #creature #human #wizard

[technoturian]

"I'm seeing something where I'm like, "In a land with all this food, why would you all be this frightening?" And I think that it's just, I can't get away from how good these people are at violence, when the only justification for violence I've ever seen is needing to survive."

- Brennan Lee Mulligan making me gasp with his observations yet again.

#Burrow's End #Dimension 20 #Brennan Lee Mulligan #Tula the Stoat #I feel like Brennan is just passing time until he gets old enough to be a wise old mentor/wizard type as he was always meant to be

[majorpepperidge]

skelly @ zagreus: can't remember stuff? write it down idiot lmao skelly @ melinoe: omggg noooo you're fine if you can't remember, you've got it all written down you're doing amazing kiddo

#Hades game #Hades 2 #i know part of it is the 'wise mentor' persona he's putting on but his dialogue is so much more gentle with mel #but it's still ofc very much skelly's way of being kind and im AUUUGH #he's also talked a LITTLE bit more abt how he died via drowning but not yet abt what made him so 'infamous' #babygirl stop holding out on me tell me ALL the things

[cynical-sprite]

Okay, but the grin on Jaheira's face here as Gale is saying this to me... She ships us.😊

#i love jaheira #she's so wise and badass #she's the wise mentor figure to all my tavs/mcs☺️ #my screenshots #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #gale bg3 #gale x tav #jaheira bg3 #jaheira

[sebek-zigbolt]

thinking abtttt sebek and vils dynamicc I love the new years event I adore the new years event Like MENTOR VILLLL YAYYY YAYYYY Adopt sebek But also yeaaa u get these 2 weirdos, who are OBSESSED with perfection, and quite stressed about how others perceive them. Who put EVERYTHING they have into bettering themselves since they were little, and yet always end up second place to the kindest souls imaginable.

I love how sebek respects vil now, he got impressed by vils elegance and is now one step closer to always having a neat appearance, like he wants. And vil realised that sebek is NOT just.. green jack lol. I love how vil just has I CAN FIX HIM about everyone. I dont like your vibe and I WILL do something about it.

I think sebek and vil have similar values about a lot of things, the importance of effort and not giving up, the importance of always looking your best, how you must balance athletics with studies, speaking elegantly (when sebek isnt rude on purpose at least) etc.

(also they both dont care for gender roles, I think thats nice. Vil has his whole main story "did u just gender MOVEMENTS?, ill beat ur ass" thing and Sebek is very masc but he doesnt CARE, hes like, o nice dress ur wearing in that photo epel :), master lilia is THE fae soldier and also the cutest, fight me, my mom is STRONG AND BADASS and thats so cool of her, n stuff.)

#text #n marja is like his wise mentor now lmao #i love vil sm but i an only talk abt sebek sorry #unless im prompted idk #so glad i made this side acc so i can ramble without making my friends want to murder me for talking abt green guy again #sebek analysis #ig #not main tags tho #i need to DRAWWWW the new years guys its so evil its exams season that keeps getting postponed so it never ends #<-guy who draws every day anyways #and made a 52 frame shimeji #orz

[total-karma]

my vaguely secret unpublished supervillain au is SO fun i cant wait to post it (partial spoilers: it mixes first gen w the new gen. heather and alejandro are exes running rival supervillain organisations. mk works for alejandro, julia works for heather. amongst other characters. but the plot mostly follows those four. mkulia is the main pairing) it's a very unserious lighthearted fic but im having so much fun w it. should be out once i get a bit more of my current half-done fics out of the way

#i WILL spread my heather julia mentor-student agenda #heather finds it annoying how similar julia is to alejandro personality wise though.. #mk is one of those kids with like six adoptive parents. a commune nepo child #td heather #td alejandro #td julia #td mk #mkulia #total drama fanfiction #total drama ao3 #td author

[ragecndybars]

does a mysterious benedict society ageswap AU exist yet because i am having many Thoughts but i dont wanna crib the idea from somebody else if it already exists

#Lee Speaks #ok but grown up reynie as the Wise Mentor figure and also grown up constance as Still A Terror #also i want more baby nicholas when he's younger and gets to be more of a menace #MBS #TMBS #Mysterious Benedict Society

[th3e-m4ng0]

what if i gave megatron a newspark..

they like music and would like to become a medic one day, like ratchet !!

#transformers #megatron #sunlight #au #art #i like the mentors concept of idw2 so im stealing it #so basically a cybertronian has to sign up to vector sigma's database or something like that and agree to take care of a sparkling #and it will let the mech know. after some time has passed (can be maybe 10 years or up to a millennia) when its time to pick up their child #so they have to go to the designated hot spot and get the kid to successfully emerge from the dirt and take em home #the mentor has to teach their apprentice about life and spending money wisely. help em choose their alt mode.. the basics #sunlight transforms into foc bumblebee's alt mode but with a big window at the front. and instead of being yellow #they're light blue or something different LOL #<- i'm still figuring out what their color palette will be so that is subject to change. but they won't be yellow

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

#saw carnation lily lily rose by john singer seargent irl today. it was basically at my doorstep all along idk why i never went to see it #it was placed at a corner in the gallery. me and my friend sat down and sketched the paintings of beautiful naked people quite badly. paper #provided by tate britain. she told me about how she couldnt look her boyfriend in the face after a harrowing film about war. when i say the #interview was informal i mean the person who was supposed to be my boss told me let me get you a cider and then he said after #50 years of life he knows people are inherently good and it only takes a little bit of kindness to save this world. he said he tricked #his wife into keeping the baby and then he said he quit his job at a US bank to help people find meaning and in it #he would have liked to find meaning. instead he started climbing with his friends. he said he chews his cigarettes because its a habit from #when he had to hide things from people. the entire time i felt uncomfortable and incredibly enlightened. this is my friends mentor. she has #his pattern of pauses and expletive and penchant for ends-justify-means attitude. i do think im not very clever #but maybe one day i will love you enough to make up for it. i wrote code i dont understand staring at the final error i thought about how #we both thought of how when we're too old to remember the voices of our friends we would like to stand in the pathway of the LHC beam pipe #cut it open and eat light in the freezing cold vacuum (kills you long before radiation will) the invisible puncture wound unfolding dna #back to the start larger than you ever were. you go to heaven once youve been to hell. my friend is in my bed #practicing calculations of eigenvectors by hand and she is uninterested in a visual proof you are uninterested in incompetence #we catch a train this is your kind of burden you tragic hero wincing at that word you only do this because you have to. im the only one #who can. i am a coward in this for the fucking poetry. the visual proofs. the pretty numbers. an architect who was horrible at maths wanted #to be a philosopher and accidentally ended up neck in deep in 70th Error On Visual Studio Code i want to kiss your eyes before we say #goodbye we both know there is no love in the way there should be. I still have your dress in my wardrobe. i hope you make art. #you think im alright head-wise i think you fucking hate me i think ill never be so clever you want me to tell you my idea? #if you wanted more of this world i would have liked to kiss you harder. we cant both be like this. im sorry i cant be with you the whole wa #the love is gone if you have to ask it. his breath catches his eyes feel stiff it is -1.9 kelvin he is near the beam pipe i miss holding #his hand i miss her singing voice i miss his hair and i found the antonym of pain thank you for carrying me home.