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Author: raithe

Apr 10th 2013 at 6:30:26 PM

The wording "where the main dilemma is not who she ends up with, but what lifestyle" seems more like it is about the lifestyle, regardless of the man, than that the man represents the lifestyle, at least to me.  Word choice might help.

I think there may be a problem if dangerous is vague.  BettyAndVeronica, when mentioning the male version, already has the Veronica as an "edgy bad boy".  Since Betty and the Gentleman parts are already very similar, this feels to me a lot like TheSameButMore of Veronica.  Additionally, while we have been characterizing BettyAndVeronica as "safe vs. exotic", it actually mentions that Veronica can be "edgy".  Unless there is a qualitative difference between an edgy character and a dangerous one, there is going to be major difficulty in deciding when this trope applies over BaV, unless you play up the lifestyle, which makes it really just a mix of PoorSuitorRichSuitor and BettyAndVeronica.  Take the Twilight example.  If both guys are dangerous, then why is it not simply a BaV scenario?  Saying that one is more dangerous than the other is already covered in BaV, if dangerous is just basically an extension of edgy.  What makes it not an extension of edgy?

As it stands, I don't think this is qualitatively different from BaV.  BaV is not just exotic, so unless we redefine it to be so, it already fills this trope.  If you think it should only be exotic, then use TRS to split it.

I don't think you read WrongGuyFirst all the way trough.  While the first guy wins at first, he eventually loses to the second, like how you mentioned that if the choice is made half-way through, then the guy not chosen will probably be the winner.