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Author: carla

Oct 8th 2010 at 9:41:31 PM

@redwren-- but that's the thing, as i see it, it's not necessary for the mage to meet someone's eyes. the trope is more general than that, it can be one-sided. like, say i can do a spell to make things glittery, but i have to be looking at whatever i'm trying to charm. i look at a trash can, focus on it, and it starts to glitter. if i'm not looking at the trash can, i can't make the trash can glitter at all. the trash can can't look back at me because, well, it doesn't have eyes; so it's not eye-to-eye. get it? of course, spells that require eye-to-eye contact (like mind control and such) fall under this trope as well, but this one is basically "eye-to-''something''". i don't know if that's coming across in the trope definition...

@henke37-- good idea! i'll add that in somewhere.

@unknown-- i haven't read any ''{{Naruto}}'' in like a year or so, but aren't tsukuyomi and amaterasu more about the sharingan than about the person? even if they do require eye contact, i think those would probably fall under EvilEye, as the eyes themselves are the ones that give the person that ability.

@stratadrake-- oh, i see what you mean. yeah, i'll work out the example so that it reads better.