Too Unhappy to Be Hungry
We all need food to survive and most of us enjoy it too, but sometimes, we're too sad, scared, or angry to eat, and that's what this trope is.
If they're sad, maybe they're grieving or getting over a bad breakup, but they could also have just had a bad day. Likewise, if they're afraid, their fear could be crippling anxiety or a response to a serious threat, but it's just as likely to be a mild thing like
Divine Parental Issues
In stories where one or more characters have Divine Parentage, chances are that they're going to have a rather poor relationship to that parent. Whether the parent is abusive, absent, or just don't really get along with their kid, it's very rare for any children of the gods to grow up without some degree of mommy or daddy issues.
The reason for this common dynamic is quite simple; People very rarely like authority figures, and a divine parent manage to cram two of the greatest authority figures in an average person's life into one. The fact that a divine being is also largely to entirely removed from the mortal life their child presumably leads also means that them getting along poorly with them is all but a given.
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