This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Starfish Character: From YKTTW
Prfnoff: I'm trying to split this from Evil Twin (appropriately, it's a trope about characters being split). I'm not sure how well I'm doing.
Micah: I feel like it also needs disentangling from Enemy Without, which seems to have a bunch of the same examples. (This is why I never got around to launching it—figuring out its exact niche looked like more trouble that I wanted to think about at the time). The logical division that I see is:
- Evil Twin: The two characters are in every way treated as distinct people, who just happen to look like each other and have corresponding/opposing traits for the purpose of narrative awesome.
- Enemy Without: One of the characters is explicitly subordinate to the other (usually because they're the "evil side", but not necessarily: I think Calvin's good duplicate belongs here, as do the Anne-bits from The Wotch).
- Starfish Character: The character is split in two; both halves are equally real.
Does this make sense to you?
- Does Zetsu from Naruto count?
