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Well, they can use The Last Day of Normalcy. We're shown our hero(s)/heroine(s) in their casual day to day settings right before the events that will forever change their lives. They may be thrown into a war. They may have someone pull back the veil of TheMasquerade. They might be spirited off to some unknown place. Whatever the case, we are shown their last peaceful moments in their regular lives.

While this can be used for a singular hero/heroine, it is more common for a story that involves a group, allowing the author to showcase their relationship dynamics, good and bad, prior to putting them into the thick of danger, where those characteristics might come out of left field because they weren't previously established, including ChekhovsSkill, or showing the audience who is TheLeader, TheHeart, TheLancer, TheSpock, and even the DirtyCoward or TheSoCalledCoward.

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Well, they can use The Last Day of Normalcy. We're shown our hero(s)/heroine(s) hero(s) in their casual day to day settings right before the events that will forever change their lives. They may be thrown into a war. They may have someone pull back the veil of TheMasquerade. They might be spirited off to some unknown place. Whatever the case, we are shown their last peaceful moments in their regular lives.

While this can be used for a singular hero/heroine, hero, it is more common for a story that involves a group, allowing the author to showcase their relationship dynamics, good and bad, prior to putting them into the thick of danger, where those characteristics might come out of left field because they weren't previously established, including ChekhovsSkill, or showing the audience who is TheLeader, TheHeart, TheLancer, TheSpock, and even the DirtyCoward or TheSoCalledCoward.
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* ''Theatre/CrossRoad'' has one scene with Niccolo Paganini before his DealWithTheDevil. He is a young bundle of nerves, convinced he isn't good enough for the big plans that his parents and violin teacher have for him. He runs into the forest, to his usual practice spot AtTheCrossroads, and, well... (The twist is that the audience has already seen him in a flash forward, as the JerkWithAHeartOfGold and master of CapeSwish that he would later become).

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