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Eggy0 (Holding A Herring)
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2023-10-28 23:50:35

I Let You Win reads like a combat trope. Characters failing a competition on purpose could go there, but I think the divide in examples warrants a split in TRS.

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Eggy0 (Holding A Herring)
2023-10-29 00:35:22

Makes sense. I was going to make a TLP draft about characters that forgo winning in favor of something else, which would have included (secretly) throwing a game to lwt someone else win - ergo forgoing a win in favor someone else, like your friend, winning instead. It was why I went to analyze I Let You Win because I wanted to check whether such examples would go there or if they should be moved to this new trope.

Eggy0 (Holding A Herring)
2023-11-02 20:44:23

Last time I checked Throwing the Fight is about losing in a fight on purpose for some sort of gain (i.e. it is a strategy), or at least it reads that way. The laconic doesn't appear to be very indicative (it just says "intentionally losing"), but the main and playing with appear to define it as some sort of strategy/deal to deliberately lose to get a specific result. Deliberate Under-Performance seems to be about avoiding doing your best in general. What I had in mind was a character genuinely wanting to win but then straight up choosing something else at a certain point, i.e. the throwing/losing is unplanned and a choice rather than a strategy/for gain.

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