Question about A Shared Suffering

A Shared Suffering's description and laconic page has stated it's about a character being The Last Of Their Kind and clinging to any remaining member of their species left. However, both the wicks and the one page examples instead are about character relating to each other about what other suffering they have. So what is it really about?

I always default to trusting the description, unless it got messed with at some point.

That's exactly why I put in on TRS Queue. The actual definition is far narrower than the trope name implies and almost none of the examples actually fit that narrower definition.

Edited by Adept on Dec 12th 2023 at 1:29:53 AM

Ah yes, tropes whose names only make sense if you recognize the quote they're referencing, one of the odder yet particularly acute ways the Wild West days of the 00s wiki could make you tear your hair out. For completeness' sake, this is one of a handful of tropes where what would be the Archived Discussion got wiped somehow at some point, resulting in the link to the original YKTTW needing to be fished out of the Internet Archive.