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trixus
Since: Aug, 2015
18th Jun, 2017 07:42:55 PM
Edited by trixus
notShemp
Since: Oct, 2009
18th Jun, 2017 10:41:16 PM
That's not exactly what I mean, but I get what you're going for.
Freezer
Since: Jan, 2001
19th Jun, 2017 10:07:18 AM
Rich Boredom? Victory Is Boring? And Then What??
My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn.
Is there a trope where a character who has a perfect life (ex. they're successful at their job, they have a nice home, they have a loving family) but does risky behaviors that would ruin their perfect life and they're aware of this. Allergic to Routine comes to mind but I'm looking for a trope where a character would risk sabotaging their established perfect life.
- In Laughing Salesman NEW:
- In Episode 5B, Tomie Monomochi is a housewife who has a husband who's an elite at his company and a son who's an honor student and she's very happy with her life, but she's frustrated that her home is cluttered with her husband's train collection and her son's awards all over the house and she doesn't want more stuff in her home. When Moguro arrives, he introduces her to a woman who teaches her how to de-clutter her home. It starts off normal as she removes some magazines from her home and taking down her son's awards of the wall, but then she starts to throwing away shelves and tables. When Moguro returns to congratulate her for making her home cleaner and spacious, he gives her a bouquet of flowers which Tomie immediately throws in the trash and she doesn't want to make her home cluttered again. Moguro didn't like her attitude so she DO Ns her into going overboard with her cleaning. She starts acting crazy and she starts throwing away everything with sentimental values, such as her family albums, her husband's train collection, and her son's awards. She doesn't even realize what she has done until her husband and son leaves her.
- Episode 11A, "Destructive Tendencies", Matsuo Ochiiri, a salaryman, is an elite at his job and has a lovely wife, but he almost ruins his perfect life by subconsciously doing destructive behaviors, like almost dropping important work documents over a bridge while heading to work and wandering into a shady alley where a woman tries to get him to enter a clip joint and almost agrees to it. Moguro intervenes to prevent him from making these mistakes and explains to Matsuo that he's suffering from destructive tendencies. He helps Matsuo break this tendency by sending him to a bar in a seedy part of town where he realizes he shouldn't endanger his happy life, and Moguro warns him to never do this again. It works for a while but he ends up going back to the bar again to feel the thrill of losing everything. For ignoring his warning, Moguro punishes him by making him give into his destructive tendencies and then brought his wife to the bar to show that he's extremely drunk and he missed work because of this.
Edited by notShemp