A Year and a Day/Playing With

Basic Trope: The passage of a year and a day is significant.
 * Straight: Jack must travel a year and a day to reach a mountain in a Magical Land.
 * Jill must live in a city a year and a day to have the status of legal resident.
 * Exaggerated: Every journey in the Magical Land takes a year and a day.
 * Downplayed: It's a year and a day on a planet that travels around its sun much more quickly than usual, so it's not as long of a time period.
 * Justified: ???
 * Inverted: Jack must travel a day, then a year to reach a mountain in a Magical Land.
 * Subverted: Having been warned about the year and a day, Jack talks with wizards along the way, and gets magical wings that will let him travel more quickly.
 * The city's lawyers figure out a way to not grant residency.
 * Double Subverted: The wings cause him to crash at the foothills of the mountain; he has to recover before he can finish the journey, which takes only a day, but his recovery ate up the rest of the year.
 * The mayor's rivals use it as a campaigning point about how the law is not respected, and grant residency when they win.
 * Parodied: ???
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: A city requires that yearly laborers be hired for a year only, because then they don't get the day that will make the residents.
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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