We're not supposed to put stuff like that in the description. If you can find a trope that fits you could probably mention it, but I can't think of one offhand.
I don't think Rape as Backstory fits here at all. Sunny used Fawn for sex, yes, but Fawn used him for sex too. It was an equal relationship at first. Fawn sought him out and she knew he was engaged to Violet when she did so. Sunny didn't manipulate her into it; if anything, her family did by treating her as a child and treating sex as some beautiful adult mystery.
Sunny's asshole behavior came after the sex, when he refused to take responsibility for the child, threatened Fawn with lies about her reputation and called her "slut". I'm not defending him. But of the many crimes he committed, rape wasn't one of them.
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Hmmm.. alright, I guess it doesn't quite qualify, but I disagree that he became an asshole after the sex. He took full advantage of her offer without a second thought, the emotional damage it did to Fawn smells and tastes identical to Rape as Backstory, and he's quite happy to twist the knife. These are the actions of someone already a borderline Complete Monster.
I left it in but altered it a bit. If you feel it really shouldn't be in there you can remove it, though.
What Sunny did to Fawn was terrible but not half as evil as actual rape. I'd rather remove it completely but the new phrasing is an acceptable compromise if I'm alone in this opinion.
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
LMB has described
an academic’s 2014 paper
as “one of the more insightful readings of the tetralogy”.
Professor John Lennard (AKA bracketyjack) draws parallels with the Lakewalkers and Tolkien’s Rangers of Arnor, except that the former “struggle without hope of deliverance, knowing a single failure will end the world, and their only artefacts of power are worked from their own bones and sacrifices” (c/f the The World Is Always Doomed item). He shows that LMB was consciously “taking on” Lot R, playing a deep game with lots of the tropes from Lot R.
I’d like to mention this in the article, but I’m not sure how this should be done. Any advice?
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