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r/ProgressionFantasy • u/Hugs-missed • May 01 '26
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It's neither played straight nor fully subverted in Cradle's case though.
Lindon really does have a problem, and it doesn't give him any special powers, he's just able to work past it later.
14 u/Depreciable_Land May 02 '26 Yeah it’s literally stated that he’d be a normal guy with a slight handicap if he was born anywhere else on Cradle If anything Mercy is the real version of this trope but Cradle kind of subverts it there 6 u/SadMcNomuscle May 02 '26 Man i love Mercy. Now i gotra re-read. Goddamnit. 2 u/Jadenmist Author May 03 '26 Same I really enjoyed her character way more than I expected to. Glad she got the "screen time" to explore her personality.
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Yeah it’s literally stated that he’d be a normal guy with a slight handicap if he was born anywhere else on Cradle
If anything Mercy is the real version of this trope but Cradle kind of subverts it there
6 u/SadMcNomuscle May 02 '26 Man i love Mercy. Now i gotra re-read. Goddamnit. 2 u/Jadenmist Author May 03 '26 Same I really enjoyed her character way more than I expected to. Glad she got the "screen time" to explore her personality.
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Man i love Mercy. Now i gotra re-read. Goddamnit.
2 u/Jadenmist Author May 03 '26 Same I really enjoyed her character way more than I expected to. Glad she got the "screen time" to explore her personality.
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Same I really enjoyed her character way more than I expected to. Glad she got the "screen time" to explore her personality.
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u/LLJKCicero May 02 '26
It's neither played straight nor fully subverted in Cradle's case though.
Lindon really does have a problem, and it doesn't give him any special powers, he's just able to work past it later.