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Anima
Since: Jan, 2001
29th Jan, 2011 11:11:18 PM
Bumping because it's been four days with no replies.
NoirGrimoir
Since: Oct, 2010
30th Jan, 2011 12:39:22 AM
I don't think it exists yet. It seems a bit too specific to be tropable in my opinion.
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I'm hunting for a trope where a protagonist is seemingly The Chosen One. However, they were chosen on purpose by someone who has the power to perform the Chosen One's task, but for some reason or another doesn't want to.
The best example here I can give is from a story I'm writing.
There's this Eldritch Abomination that needs to be taken out before The End of the World as We Know It. A very specific wavelength of Pure Energy is needed to do so. The thing is, a guy with this very wavelength already exists and has been around for around the same time as the Eldritch Abomination. For reasons I have yet to decide clearly, he doesn't want to do the dirty work himself. He happens upon my protagonist, who happens to have the aforementioned flavor of Pure Energy. From the time he meets her he immediately begins to secretly groom her and set everything in place to make sure she gets the job done, to the point of Xanatos Speed Chess. The only justifiable reason for this is that The Eldritch Abomination is his mom.