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Andariel
(Long Runner)
29th May, 2023 09:00:14 AM
Hard Truth Aesop? Subverted Honesty Aesop?
Edited by Andariel
KD
Since: May, 2009
29th May, 2023 10:15:40 AM
Maybe Will Not Tell a Lie as a Deconstructed Trope, given the extreme (but tactful) honesty and the grief it causes Bob as a result.
A situation where a character needs it explained to him that honesty isn't necessarily always a good thing. Not necessarily Brutal Honesty, but more along the lines of "Bob, you use your real name as your username on every site you're on, no wonder your inbox is 99% spam!"
Or Bob has had several job interviews, and not a single successful one. It turns out that he doesn't go into any form of self-aggrandizement, never attempts to disguise a Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job through Exact Words, and says "I don't know" to any question he doesn't know the answer to rather than guessing or lying his way through it. As a result the job always goes to people who are able to better present themselves even if their skills are of similar level, but Bob maintains his ways, thinking that it's better he not get the job than get it and then be confronted with a situation he can't handle but claimed he could.