Not paging the thread creator due to his absence. Anyway, I think we can merge Midflight Water Touching with The Joy of First Flight, due to the former being wick-starved and being a ZCE magnet, in addition to being covered by the latter anyway.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 16th 2024 at 2:36:24 PM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.This does seem to happen a fair bit, but I would agree it's definitely related to The Joy of First Flight: I would agree with merging, and mention the water-touching in the description.
Edited by Azorius24 on Jan 16th 2024 at 8:39:53 PM
"The only thing which is certain, is that something will happen".I think adding a bit of text on The Joy of First Flight mentioning it as something a character can do would be sufficient.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.How about this? I did add a bit more, given that the description was a bit brief:
Whether it's achieved through magic, superpowers, some kind of machine or by riding an animal, the moment a character first takes flight is seen as euphoric, empowering and cathartic. Often, the first flight will be savored by characters and given a lot of screen time, often including soaring music, Scenery Porn which typically involves the character zooming around tall buildings and mountains, before skimming low over the surface of water and possibly reaching out to touch it, and maybe even a song — subsequent flights just don't capture the magic of first taking off.
Possibly due to its place as a character's emotional high point, First Flights are also prone to getting interrupted.
Standard trope for any character becoming the Dragon Rider. See also Flight Is the Final Power and Flight of Romance. Compare and contrast Die or Fly and Traumatic Superpower Awakening which may lead to a character discovering flight in decidedly unhappy circumstances.
Edited by Azorius24 on Jan 17th 2024 at 10:18:57 AM
"The only thing which is certain, is that something will happen".Merge with The Joy of First Flight
Oh, and I have to touch the water first for it to work.
Kirby is awesome.Merge. I'm good with the revised description proposed.
back lolMerge
"As long as I have my comrades with me, I can do anything!" (She/Her) (Current Focus: Cleaning Hell Is That Noise misuse)Merge into The Joy of First Flight and then mention water touching in the description
Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation projectto merging.
Merge away.
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She/Her | Currently cleaning N/AWe probably could have called this sooner since it's wick-starved, but calling in favor of merging with The Joy of First Flight.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Didn't take long to expand the description and clean the wicks, so locking up.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Note: This thread was proposed by The Mayor of Simpleton.
Courtesy link to the TLP draft.
The problem: Midflight Water Touching is a trope about when, while in flight, characters reach down and touch the water. Per the description:
Besides the low wick count (21 wicks not counting the queue and wick check since 2017), I had tropeworthiness concerns regarding this definition though, as to me, this trope just seemed like something that sometimes happens in flight, not a trope in and of itself. I brought this up on the Is this tropeworthy/Chairs? thread and there was agreement that this didn't seem tropeworthy—quoting some of the comments:
To see if there were indeed concerns over tropeworthiness, I did a wick check.
Wick check: Link here, but here's the quick results:
Analysis: The vast majority of wicks were just "character touches the water while flying", without any further elaboration on how that's relevant or what the act is trying to convey. Just two wicks did any elaboration beyond that, and I was being generous with the WALL-E one. Overall, not an especially great state for the trope to be in.
Possible solutions: Either disambig with the mentioned tropes, merge with one of them (The Joy of First Flight would be my pick), or just cut outright. I don't think we can save this trope.
What does everyone else think? Any other ideas or suggestions?
Wick check:
Here a wick check will be performed for Midflight Water Touching.Why?: A conversation in the Is this tropeworthy/Chairs thread indicated that this may not be tropeworthy, and there's a possiblity several examples are just "midflight water touching happens".
Wicks checked: 21/21
Wick totals:
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 20th 2024 at 6:24:42 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.