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What are your most hated fanfic tropes

0Jordinio0 said:
Chaos Gacha itself was a mistake. There's like 3-4 new ones posted every damn day on here. I've gotta have like over a hundred of them on ignore at this point, more probably. This website and it's absolute obsession with the pick-me copy cat shit of latching onto every new fic fad that comes about is pathetic. There's a new one every couple months, that dozens jump onto when one dude does one that gets semi decent attention.
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The least they could do is put some more creativity in the names.

It's always prefix Chaos or suffix gacha with them.
 
Chaos Gacha is a stain on writing. I hope one day the writing community looks back on Chaos Gacha as a regrettable mistake that will never happen again. Sadly, that's not going to happen. The only Gacha story I ever was even remotely interested in was Pick me up Infinite Gacha, and even then, it was a 7/10.
 
Ughh what even is chaos gacha it just sounds like random bullshit story where the mc gets op powers but they are "lol Randumb"
 
Theman said:
Ughh what even is chaos gacha it just sounds like random bullshit story where the mc gets op powers but they are "lol Randumb"
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It should be a tool to help writers improve their writing. They have to really think outside the box sometimes to incorporate the stuff that's thrown at them from the Gacha. However, it's generally not used that way, from what I can see. It can be too much random bullshit thrown into it and kills the story far more often than not depending on how free the author is with the gacha tickets.
 
Hellhound_dow said:
It should be a tool to help writers improve their writing. They have to really think outside the box sometimes to incorporate the stuff that's thrown at them from the Gacha. However, it's generally not used that way, from what I can see. It can be too much random bullshit thrown into it and kills the story far more often than not depending on how free the author is with the gacha tickets.
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Yeah, there's the chance it could be amazing if handled by an amazing writer with a big imagination and solid knowledge on things like psychology, engineering, mechancs, etc, but that's like pulling a needle out of a 10 mile wide haystack. Besides, most of said authors would be working on their own books, not sitting on a forum writing Chaos Gacha. It reminds me that half the time the author you'd need for a good story isn't even writing in the genre you'd want.

Personally, I'd read a Chaos Gacha written by Michael Chrichton.
 
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Theman said:
Ughh what even is chaos gacha it just sounds like random bullshit story where the mc gets op powers but they are "lol Randumb"
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Pretty much.

It is a horribly escalating stupid power fantasy. Some guy is given a bunch of random powers. Then he can get raffles for more random powers by doing random shit, which is made easier by the random powers previously given.

So it is a stupid and increasingly stupider cycle of "I acquired powers, which allowed me to do a thing that gave me more powers to let me do more things that also give me powers" ad infinitum.


I abhor it. Give an MC a concrete and properly arranged powerset. At most it evolves under believable thematic lines, but no random bullshit that spawns new random bullshit.


Chaos gacha stories would MAYBE work if it was just "we roll for a bunch of random powers at the start and THAT IS IT", and the writer plays with how creative he can be with that initial random combination.


But they never do that. It is always just more power and ability escalation slop.


Fucking killing me with this shit.
 
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Stimpak Medic said:
Personally, I'd read a Chaos Gacha written by Michael Chrichton.
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Sphere.

One thing that bugs me is there are rolls that are utterly incompatible with the worlds they are written in, but authors kind of write like their hand is forced? Like if you roll Tokyo ghoul and it would be a death sentence in say, The West Wing, maybe reroll and call it a mulligan.

That and there are rolls I just fucking hate, like getting turned into an oni. Some people might dig it, I think it's gross.

Another thing I notice is a lot of the new Chaos Gacha fics force too many curses at the start. Is there like, a rule in writing chaos gacha stories? They always roll like four curses when one or none would be better.
 
CriticalFailure said:
Chaos gacha stories would MAYBE work if it was just "we roll for a bunch of random powers at the start and THAT IS IT", and the writer plays with how creative he can be with that initial random combination.
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Or each time you roll you get a new power and lose the old one. Kind of like Sleeper from the Wild Cards series, who would get a new form and new powers every time he slept.
 
Bear_Mint said:
Post-game MCs will all die to Raynare's mighty spear
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Late response, but it would have been perfect if you put a Trademark there due to how common it is for people who really shouldn't even be hurt by Raynare to die to Raynare's Mighty Spear TM. Heck it might as well be a unique spell like Bigby's crushing hand, or Tenser's floating disk.

Heck you could play into it and get meta if you really wanted to. Like imagining a character who knows the plot and realizes if he wants to get into Rias's peerage for whatever reason, has to find a way to get hurt by the spear by literally turning off their passives, and lowering their defenses or whatever. It'd have to be played as comedy though.
I'd like to imagine a psychopathic/somehat crazy mc that's absolutely thrilled when Raynare pulls out her magic spear thingy, and the mc is just like "Yes, there it is, the spear! Think. How can I get hurt by this and make it look authentic?", but it's subverted as when Rias arrives, she thinks it's suspicious and just leaves them there, or sends them to a hospital or something.
 
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