The Stations of the Canon: Difference between revisions
→[[Literature]]: replaced: [[Lord of the Rings → [[The Lord of the Rings
(→[[Literature]]: replaced: [[Lord of the Rings → [[The Lord of the Rings) |
|||
Line 48:
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': As described above.
** It was [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past]]'' - Harry [[Peggy Sue|goes back in time to fix things,]] [[You Can't Fight Fate|but finds that some things keep happening anyway.]] He wonders whether or not he actually has any free will.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' gives us Frodo inheriting the Ring, running from Nazgul, meeting Strider, the Council of Elrond (Even if a [[Sailor Earth|Tenth Walker]] [[Mary Sue]] has skipped over the previous bits, we invariably get the "and you have my X" lines.) Caradhras, the Mines, Boromir's betrayal, etc.
* The [[Circle of Magic]] books invite this by starring a [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]] who all followed the same general template to begin with—so it's inevitable that half the fanfics are about [[The Woobie]] experiencing a traumatic event (or an entire tragic childhood) resulting in [[Parental Abandonment]], having their unusual ambient magic discovered at a late age, being whisked off to [[Wizarding School|Winding Circle Temple]], and getting transferred to Discipline House because they don't fit in.
* Discussed in the RPG rulebook for ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. In one section about what to do with the eponymous wizarding PI, it mentions that whatever you decide to do with him, there are some defining events of the setting that need to be taken into account—usually because Dresden himself was in a wholly unique position that let him stop [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Therefore, if you go the "kill off Harry in the background" route, the GM needs to either figure out a way that the world continues to not be a [[Zombie Apocalypse]], or perhaps have the PC's deal with it.
| |||