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Challenge #9
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
I don't know if there's already a trope and/or term for this, but I'm a huge sucker for what I'm going to call house voyeurism. Give me two characters in any sort of relationship (friends, coworkers, adult siblings, new acquaintances; bonus if they're antagonistic or in any stage of a potential or ongoing romantic relationship) where one character enters the other's living space for the first time (bonus points if the other character isn't present or wouldn't have admitted them absent XYZ circumstances) and I will turn to putty in your story's hands.
I'm emphatically not talking here about stalking or home invasion or character A coercing character B; that's ick. But, or just, askd$jd@kd%i!!! I just love the—yes, voyeuristic—aspect of one character learning things about the other by observing their books, their furniture, what they have on hand to eat, how they lay out their rooms, the place they inhabit when they are in their shell. It just gets me, every time.
これで以上です。
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
I don't know if there's already a trope and/or term for this, but I'm a huge sucker for what I'm going to call house voyeurism. Give me two characters in any sort of relationship (friends, coworkers, adult siblings, new acquaintances; bonus if they're antagonistic or in any stage of a potential or ongoing romantic relationship) where one character enters the other's living space for the first time (bonus points if the other character isn't present or wouldn't have admitted them absent XYZ circumstances) and I will turn to putty in your story's hands.
I'm emphatically not talking here about stalking or home invasion or character A coercing character B; that's ick. But
spoilers for BG3, Chapter 3
Astarion taking Tav and the party to Szarr Manor even though it's the last place he wants to be and sharing the horrors of existence therespoilers for Blake & Avery book 3
sick and injured Blake reluctantly letting Avery into his rooms because he needs someone to take care of himこれで以上です。
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I wouldn't have thought of this, but it's really good!
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Yes, this is exactly it! In a lot of ways, I think the items in people's personal spaces are an externalization of their thoughts, emotions, outlook, preferences, you name it. So a person getting an uncurated chance to observe that is really intriguing to me from a narrative standpoint.
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Yes! I mean, I like it with pretty much any configuration of characters, but when it's a factor that helps move the needle from hostility or distrust to friends/more? That's *chef's kiss*
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Oh yes. Yes, indeed. I didn't make that connection until you pointed it out above, but that may have been one of the formative examples for me!
I love scenes where characters are faced with things they didn't know about someone they assumed they had pinned down.
Me too—watching a character grapple with their understanding of a person being torn down and reworked is one of my great narrative pleasures.
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Oh yes, I didn't think of it but this is an excellent example too! There's just something about watching a character have to recalculate their previous understanding of who another person is that is just so intriguing to me.
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