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Anyone who attempts to avert a fate is fighting it. Trying to get rid of a child who is prophesied to do something, or to run away from a place where you're prophesied to do something, is the archetype example of trying to fight your fate. That's why SelfFulfillingProphecy and NiceJobBreakingItHerod exist as two of the main examples of YouCantFightFate.
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Anyone who attempts to avert a fate is fighting it. Trying to get rid of a child who is prophesied to do something, or to run away from a place where you\'re prophesied to do something, is the archetype example of trying to fight your fate. That\'s why SelfFulfillingProphecy and NiceJobBreakingItHerod exist as two of the main examples of YouCantFightFate.
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Accepting your fate means accepting that it is inevitable. Someone who is trying to avert it, ''by any means'', is trying to fight it; and certainly something as dramatic as sending away a child is a very extreme, tooth-and-nail, absolutely brutal attempt to fight fate at any cost.
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Accepting your fate means accepting that it is inevitable. Someone who is trying to avert it, \'\'by any means\'\', is trying to fight it; and certainly something as dramatic as sending away a child is a very extreme, tooth-and-nail, absolutely brutal attempt to fight fate at any cost.
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You're criticizing them for not fighting their fate in the way you prefer; but that's just... not related to this trope. An unbuilt trope averts the usual mechanisms of the trope in action.
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You\'re criticizing them for not fighting their fate in the way you prefer; but that\'s just... not related to this trope. An unbuilt trope averts the usual mechanisms of the trope in action.
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*Your* example (going on with your life as though nothing has changed, confident that you can
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Your proposal for what they could have done instead (going on with your life as though nothing has changed, confident that you can \"fight\" your fate in small ways and avoiding big dramatic actions like they used to attempt to defy it in these stories) is the more post-modernist / deconstructive approach. In fact, I\'d go as far as to say that if they did what you suggested, *then* they would belong on the page, since the actions you\'re suggesting they take go against the grain of the typical Oedipus-style YouCantFightFate / SelfFulfillingProphecy story.

But something like \"I will defy fate by sending away my child so they can\'t kill me\" only to have the child kill you because they never knew you? That\'s a very basic bare-bones example of the trope, with nothing unusual about it. They thought they could fight fate and it got them anyway, the end.
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