Between2Worlds [Story] 06/04
https://i.ibb.co/xYcr7Zv/B2-WPart2-Banner.jpg Prologue here. Prologue here.
Forum Discussion
@ArcherDK
@mercuryfoam I love the damsel-in-distress trope ! :D In any variant, girl is rescued by boy, boy is rescued by girl, characters are rescued by their love interests, friends, parents, (ex-)enemies... I like it so much, because it allows the characters to be weak, be overwhelmed with a situation, but then there is someone that helps them out. It is a very sweet way to show that the character is not able to deal with everything alone, but they are not, they have someone that catches their back, up to risking their own life for them.
I'm a sappy romantic and maybe guilty of overusing that trope (in some butchered versions) myself :D
It only gets tiresome if it happens over and over again in the same pattern, without the damsel learning anything.
Spoiler
I think the term Mary Sue may be a bit too much here. Yes, it does look like Athena has it all. But, at least in that case of being popular in school, she had to earn it. Granted, she was lucky to be friends with one of the most popular boys in school, but it could have gone the complete different direction. I actually had expected first she'd be bullied behind Kian's back, but it didn't happen, because the situation was averted by Kian and Athena (idk the details anymore I tend to forget xD).
And let's be honest, Athena was quite an ungrateful b*tch at first xD I really didn't like her. Ok, her father died, and she ended up being bullied, but she didn't make any effort to change it in the next school, and the next. And she closed out her mother and brother.
Now she finally got a chance to start fresh, and she took it and did it better this time. I think that shows character improvement, what Mary Sues usually don't have (bc they are perfect, so they don't need to, you know :smirk).
But also I have caught up reading to the last chapter, and I found that the story starts to really run from here, in chapter 6-7!
And let's be honest, Athena was quite an ungrateful b*tch at first xD I really didn't like her. Ok, her father died, and she ended up being bullied, but she didn't make any effort to change it in the next school, and the next. And she closed out her mother and brother.
Now she finally got a chance to start fresh, and she took it and did it better this time. I think that shows character improvement, what Mary Sues usually don't have (bc they are perfect, so they don't need to, you know :smirk).
But also I have caught up reading to the last chapter, and I found that the story starts to really run from here, in chapter 6-7!
@mercuryfoam I love the damsel-in-distress trope ! :D In any variant, girl is rescued by boy, boy is rescued by girl, characters are rescued by their love interests, friends, parents, (ex-)enemies... I like it so much, because it allows the characters to be weak, be overwhelmed with a situation, but then there is someone that helps them out. It is a very sweet way to show that the character is not able to deal with everything alone, but they are not, they have someone that catches their back, up to risking their own life for them.
I'm a sappy romantic and maybe guilty of overusing that trope (in some butchered versions) myself :D
It only gets tiresome if it happens over and over again in the same pattern, without the damsel learning anything.
