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No, that’s not even close to what I’m talking about.
^ He gets traumatized by his experience that he now doesn't like cantaloupe. What else?
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I guess the focus is on how he used to like it until the trauma happened.
^ Exactly. There’s nothing repressed or hidden about it, which is what Trauma Button relies on.
Try taking a wiki-walk starting at Lost My Appetite. How about Put Off Their Food?
Edited by Miss_Desperado If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Lost My Appetite is definitely related, but the concept I'm talking about doesn't necessarily have to be food-related. The example I mentioned is just the one that I came across recently and made me think of fielding it here.
Misery Trigger plus Put Off Their Food, exaggerated, on a permanent basis? For the example. Given that it doesn't have to be food. But Misery Trigger was created, iirc, because Trauma Button did have those connotations of uncovering repressed memories.
Edited by Unsung
Misery Trigger might play into it for some cases if the trauma is extreme enough, but in the example I gave, the person doesn't have any kind of reaction like that; when the topic is brought up, it's part of a normal conversation with no emotional outbursts at all.
Edited by Willbyr
I don't know, I think it's either extreme enough for at least a downplayed Misery Trigger, or if it's really not, then maybe it's just best to trope it under the cause of the trauma. All things considered the example's not that unreasonable a reaction, just an exaggerated form of Put Off Their Food, which at the end of the day is just an everyday, unintentional version of Behavioral Conditioning, the kind that's omnipresent as part of life in general. I guess maybe there's a trope in the form of Unfortunate Associations, or something? But I don't know if that wouldn't end up being redundant.
I can see how the general concept might relate to Behavioral Conditioning, but at the same time I'm not sure how good of a fit it is since I don't think it necessarily involves a change in the person's behavior, just that they're put off that particular thing. I'll probably take it through TLP and see what examples shake out, if any, and decide what to do with it based on the success or failure there.
Edited by Willbyr
The general idea is that you used to be very fond of something, but a traumatic experience you had while partaking of that something has completely ruined your ability to enjoy it.
The specific example is from The Outsider, where a character mentions that he loved canteloupe as a kid, but now can't tolerate even the thought of eating it because once, while he was still pretty young, he got hold of a canteloupe that looked fine on the outside, but when he cut it open it was riddled with maggots on the inside.
Edited by Willbyr