>>99482417>Bruh Fate/Destiny has been a thing in storytelling since the beginning of time,And it should have stayed there. It just cheapens all the events and actions of the story, when the Universe mandates it all to have a singular outcome. What good are the character’s motivations, goals and the actions they take to fulfill those motivations and goals, if they’re just going to be pigeon-holed into fulfilling some prophecy and their actions for or against it all be explained as some Cosmic keikaku? What stakes do thw obstacles and trials they face have when can’t do anything because they’re all futile in the face of Destiny? Yeah sure, we can probably figure out that they probably arent goinng to be killed off it’s anticlimactic, but it breaks the suspension of disbelief when even the story itself says it wont happen.
And speaking of anciet myths and legends, a lot of them would have been better off without the idea of fate as well. Do you know how much cooler if Destiny werent an element in, say, the Aeneid? If it were about a scrub-tier hero, who suddenly has the leadership, lives and well being of the last of his people thrust upon him, and still perseveres Against overwhelming odds, despite being way out of his league, because it’s his responsibility and duty? That would have been bitchin as fuck, and way cooler than just “Aeneas bumbles his way around but it’s okay because mom’s there to hold his hand because Fate says he HAS to help make Rome.”
>Read fanfic or two if you don’t like the writing.Nigga there’s plenty of actual books that dont use that fate bullshit. It is not a neccessity of storytelling, just a lame element that’s been grandfathered in.
