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beccaelizabethToday I at least know what felt missing in the fanfic I read: metaphor layer.
It told a perfectly good fixit adventure story. Character has magic, character applies magic to all canon problems, character solves problems. But despite the fight scenes it felt like they didn't have to work for it?
I think I was looking for that metaphor story
where a character finds their power
by dealing with some personal issues.
Like, not just, here have a spell. More like, here, overcome shyness that leaves you agreeing to anything asked of you, take back your power for yourself, and impose your will on the world! Or, start reaching out to people and instead of applying force apply The Power Of Friendship. Or... you know, rebalance your life to slay your demons. With spells.
Without that metaphor character feelings layer, it feels like video game or rpg levelling up. Like sure, you killed enough monsters, but if those monsters didnt even represent childhood fears, was it really hard work?
So now I know why the fic was not what I was looking for, but I am also :eyeroll: at myself.
Also there was a certain degree of things just happen to them going on. Like, seeing how specific choices push the plot forwards, yaay, one single choice pushing the whole thing forwards on inertia, kind of... unsatisfying at that length. Like it was plausible but... I don't know, sandwich only has one filling? No salad?
So I have figured out things I'm looking for in a story but once again not things that are tagged and searchable.
Ah well.
It told a perfectly good fixit adventure story. Character has magic, character applies magic to all canon problems, character solves problems. But despite the fight scenes it felt like they didn't have to work for it?
I think I was looking for that metaphor story
where a character finds their power
by dealing with some personal issues.
Like, not just, here have a spell. More like, here, overcome shyness that leaves you agreeing to anything asked of you, take back your power for yourself, and impose your will on the world! Or, start reaching out to people and instead of applying force apply The Power Of Friendship. Or... you know, rebalance your life to slay your demons. With spells.
Without that metaphor character feelings layer, it feels like video game or rpg levelling up. Like sure, you killed enough monsters, but if those monsters didnt even represent childhood fears, was it really hard work?
So now I know why the fic was not what I was looking for, but I am also :eyeroll: at myself.
Also there was a certain degree of things just happen to them going on. Like, seeing how specific choices push the plot forwards, yaay, one single choice pushing the whole thing forwards on inertia, kind of... unsatisfying at that length. Like it was plausible but... I don't know, sandwich only has one filling? No salad?
So I have figured out things I'm looking for in a story but once again not things that are tagged and searchable.
Ah well.