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I don't even know what this one is called, but -
Girl is way too young to possibly have any kind of sexual feelings (let's say like six years old), but has a positive adult mentor in her life who she just KNOWS she is in love with. Then circumstances separate them for years, she can't forget him, and ends up going on a wild quest in her teenage years to find him.
I guess this is a trope that I've only been able to approach logically, because for whatever reason it doesn't trigger me personally, and I don't have that kind of personal experience in my life to relate to.
Every time I watch Rurouni Kenshin and teenage Misato spills her guts about her quest to find Aoshi who taught her kenpo - when she was six - I'm always like, "BUT SHE WAS ONLY SIX!! HOW CAN SHE LOVE HIM THAT WAY, IF SHE WAS ONLY SIX?!?!"
I'm analyzing it, and thinking the appeal of the trope is an extremely pure type of love?
I've seen it a few times in reading and came across it again tonight. It makes for a compelling story and I'm not by any means knocking it - it's just not a storybuilding block I reach for intuitively (unlike, say, Mr. Rochester ), and therefore it holds my interest (also like Mr. Rochester, but now I digress). I was curious to hear everyone else's thoughts about the trope, likes or dislikes, different ways it can be played, stabs at a Freudian explanation, etc.
I might want to save it in my Box of Future Writing Tricks. So please tell me more.
Girl is way too young to possibly have any kind of sexual feelings (let's say like six years old), but has a positive adult mentor in her life who she just KNOWS she is in love with. Then circumstances separate them for years, she can't forget him, and ends up going on a wild quest in her teenage years to find him.
I guess this is a trope that I've only been able to approach logically, because for whatever reason it doesn't trigger me personally, and I don't have that kind of personal experience in my life to relate to.
Every time I watch Rurouni Kenshin and teenage Misato spills her guts about her quest to find Aoshi who taught her kenpo - when she was six - I'm always like, "BUT SHE WAS ONLY SIX!! HOW CAN SHE LOVE HIM THAT WAY, IF SHE WAS ONLY SIX?!?!"
I'm analyzing it, and thinking the appeal of the trope is an extremely pure type of love?
I've seen it a few times in reading and came across it again tonight. It makes for a compelling story and I'm not by any means knocking it - it's just not a storybuilding block I reach for intuitively (unlike, say, Mr. Rochester ), and therefore it holds my interest (also like Mr. Rochester, but now I digress). I was curious to hear everyone else's thoughts about the trope, likes or dislikes, different ways it can be played, stabs at a Freudian explanation, etc.
I might want to save it in my Box of Future Writing Tricks. So please tell me more.
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