What is a "MS"?
MS=Manuscript, I think.
Wouldn't a Freudian Trio without an ego just be Brains and Brawn?
edited 4th Mar '12 7:40:58 PM by chihuahua0
The time is now,
The point would be that the dynamic had changed. I'm not looking at how they would fit a new trope, I'm looking how people think the characters would change and develop.
As I was writing I wasn't looking at 'this fits this trope'. However I did notice that Rich and Lizzie were becoming the centre around which the other characters interacted, even though Gabriel and Lucy are the lead characters. We see the group at age 17/18 in the '80s. When the story jumps to the present, the 'id' Jase dies off screen in about '04, and we pick up the narrative 8 years after this. 'Superego' Gabriel is still having trouble coping with his 'Best Friend's' death; even though it is really Ego Rich who the controlling influence- Jase was everything Gabe is not, but wanted to be.
Now I'm NOT writing to the trope, but when I found it, I realised how perfectly it fitted. (Which should, I feel, be the point of a trope - you characterise first, then use tropes to describe, not the other way round.)
Jase lives completely in the present, Gabe worries about the future and the past. This was fine when they are together, you get each pulling against the other, thus finding a middle way, and Rich balancing them. With Jase gone, Gabriel can't relate to the present as well.
Do the job in front of you.
Recap on the Freudian Trio
Id- This character tends towards action
Superego - tends towards thought
Ego - balances and controls the other two characters, often the leader because of that.
Now I don't write to Tropes. I spot them in my work (I've only recently realised my Trio are Freudian Trio , as I was looking for Three Man Band, but they do fit nicely).
So what do people think the effects of one of these disappearing long term have on the other two; I know what has happened in my MS, interested in your opinions. Personally I think losing the 'ego' would be the biggest problem, in the other two cases the 'ego' can step in and counteract the other.
edited 4th Mar '12 4:03:50 PM by LastHussar
Do the job in front of you.