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MiinU
Since: Jun, 2011
2nd Mar, 2024 12:52:05 PM
You Can't Go Home Again, first paragraph.
Otianul
Since: Feb, 2024
2nd Mar, 2024 01:37:43 PM
thank you!
I've been trying to create the page for a webcomic I really like and appreciate, and when I started I was sure this would be an existing trope with a page.
Basically, the idea of this trope is that a character has been in a "paradise", a place where their desires were satisfied, but had to leave it, either as a part of The Call, a moral objection to some dark secret of the paradise, or whatever else.
Then, after leaving, the character is experiencing deep longing to return, despite their better judgment. They might find themselves daydreaming, going through withdrawal symptoms as if the paradise were a physical drug, or actually going through the first steps of going back before stopping themselves, or maybe they don't stop themselves at all, and completely give in after enough time in agonizing yearning.
I'll keep looking, but if anyone could either point me in the direction of a trope or confirm this trope doesn't yet exist on the wiki, that would be very helpful.