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sakabatou

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11. My own personal fix

Sat Jul 29, 2023, 01:44 PM

Jul 2023

In a season before this new girl is introduced (or any season before), have the MC and his friends discuss the MC's past/hometown.

Person 1: Did you have any friends when you were younger?

MC: Yeah, of course I did, but my hometown's small. A lot of people have moved away for "better pastures". Thing is, it's been so long since I've seen them that I don't think I'd recognize them at all.

Person 2: Well, I hope you meet one of them some day.

MC: Me too.

That's how I'd set it up.

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[Trope Discussion help] First Girl After All [View all] sakabatou Jul 2023 OP

I might run this with a Chekhov's Gun.. Permanut Jul 2023 #1

As far as I know, there's no Chekov's Gun sakabatou Jul 2023 #4

To what degree is truth presented in the story that you have in mind ? Tetrachloride Jul 2023 #2

The story has been presented already, so I'm going to use a generic example sakabatou Jul 2023 #3

that happened to me. totally blanked out on a person Tetrachloride Jul 2023 #5

That's how it felt to me sakabatou Jul 2023 #6

Still pushing Chekhov's Gun.. Permanut Jul 2023 #7

There's no Chekhov's Gun to my knowledge in the actual show. sakabatou Jul 2023 #8

MC is floundering. loses sense of self LuvLoogie Jul 2023 #9

That sounds like something that'd happen in the first season as character establishment sakabatou Jul 2023 #10

Well you'd essentially be deconstructing MC LuvLoogie Jul 2023 #12

That isn't what happens within the story. sakabatou Jul 2023 #13

My own personal fix sakabatou Jul 2023 #11