For me that trope is the “Alpha and Mate” trope. Like, yikes. Ew… I hate that trope SO MUCH. It just weirds me out. And I swear I’ve tried many times to get into this trope. But I just can’t…
What’s one trope that no matter what, you’re never able to get into it?
BL, GL, reverse harem, and all their euphemisms like shounen ai or the other bullshits.
To me, that's just the height of degeneracy.
Face-slapping.
I just can not understand why anyone would write something like that.
I think it is fine if it was done in moderation like two or three times in the whole novel, but then sometimes I find this BS about MC just going around faceslapping young masters and some rich second generation who, for some reason, are the epitome of bastardry...Is that even a word? I dont know...Anyway, I hate it so much!! but unfortunately all chinese novels are filled with this crap.
Now even some original authors are imitating this BS and it is getting harder to even find something to read in this site...
Mai0414 Same! I refuse to read or write anything like that at all. It just is yucky to me
(Omg, i just wrote a similar post like this. In which i described about what is wrong in this kind of novel. I thought I will send it to you. If you by chance can't check it out.)
We all knows that this alpha and his mate trope is the trashiest of all. But still we read them. Just for fun. (And i am guilty charge for it)
This trop is also similiar to the billionaire's ex wife. But some thing is different in this.
This is because the FML of this novel is my favourite. Do you know who she is?
Drums roll
Yes! She is the one only. The fanfictions writers favourite. Our lord and the CEO of "i am not like other girls" trope.
Y/N the greatest pick me girl in the world. (She is cringe but great meme material.)
So. I am not going to tell you what I hate about it because this trope is similar to the billionaire's genre.
But here, we have a cold distance alpha instead.
So now, i am going to tell you about a werewolf novel i read in some platform. (I think it was in dreamea app)
And trust me, that novel was horrendous.
After reading that s*** i didn't touched any other alpha stories anymore.
So it was typical at the start. The FML gets rejected by her mate who is supposed to be playboy. (i guess.)
So the alpha playboy rejected his mate because she was very ugly for him. (How dare he say that to my girl y/n ) (her blonde hair, blue eyes, a glasses and baggy shirt is not enough for him. So rude)
So y/n was heartbroken by this and then she went in the mountains. (Yes you are right. She went in the mountains to do sucide by jumping off the cliff.) (Because for her, if her one and only mate rejected her then she has no purpose to live.)
Then she jumps off the cliff but still survived (female lead halo) and then the alphahole feels horrible that "my goodness, what have I done? She was my soulmate blah blah blah."
You guys think he is good right? Wrong. Because guess what he did? When his mate was fighting her life in the ICU?
I'll give you three options.
1) he stayed by her side
2) he left her
3) he was f**king someone in the hospital
Yes, sadly answer 3 is right. You won't believe it but he was f**king the nurse right infront of his mate who was in coma.
(Can you believe that?) And after FML woke up. She asked him about it. But he replied confidently that the nurse threw herself on him. He didn't meant anything. (Like seriously? You can't stop her if she is seducing you.)
I don't know what happened after because i dropped it.
(But i think, that Dumbo FML went back to that cheating alpha.)
[unknown] can I ask why you don't like it? Would adding something to or taking away a part of the trope help you enjoy it?
Not a big fan of the cliche plot armor. Like ohh mc fights bully and curb stomps him when the bully is like X amount stronger than them. It just gets old. That or just the dumb side characters. Like dude mc just beat the sh** out of 10 of your friends without breaking a sweat and you think bc of the power of friendship or some bs your gonna win? Again...gets old