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  1. Aetherald

    Aetherald Well-Known Member

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    For certain tragic do over stories should they be tagged as tragic past or tragic future?
     
  2. rpgbscout

    rpgbscout I don't only read mature novels

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    I would personally label it tragic past, since it is in the past for the character and the readers.
    Basically, this tragic event happened to the character in the near future temporally but in the past of the characters memories.
     
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    Mufarasu Well-Known Member

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    If that's all then obviously tragic past.
    If there's tragedy in their new life then tragic future.
    If both are tragic then just tragedy.
     
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    Takumi168 『Forever Alone Guild』『Boredom sect』『Merchant』

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    please dont use tragedy tag so liberally but specify past or future. i dont want to read a future tragedy.
     
  5. Simon

    Simon [The Pure One's Chief Steward][Demon Beast]

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    Do over is essentially a new game +, any tragic event that the MC occurred in, was in the previous life.
     
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    Mufarasu Well-Known Member

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    A tragedy tag already implies future tragedy. It shouldn't be tagged tragedy if it's just part of the back story, and the MC has already more or less moved on.
     
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    Actually my bad. I misread the OP.
    It shouldn't be tagged as tragedy then unless new tragedies occur.
     
  8. Asf

    Asf 《《The aria of souls》》

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    New game + doesnt caunt as tragedy at all... and a tragedy that happens before the prologue are just background story. So I view past tragedy tag as needless.
     
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    Future tragedy in the past?
     
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  10. Nyamsus

    Nyamsus Life is full of shit and we live in it

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    MC with tragic past dont deserve Tragedy tag, just describe it as unfortunate MC alone is enough.
    even if tragic past tag is added, it is irrelevant because it serve as MC trait not something related with series storyline
     
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    LaDyViL New Member Staff Member

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    Tragic past and Tragedy is not the same thing, right? Tragic past covers the MC before the start of a novel while Tragedy covers the future events in subsequent volumes/chapters?

    I'm one of those people who avoid titles with Tragedy tags.
     
  12. Rivenn

    Rivenn 【I eat fruit】【commonhouseman】【RV_n/Rivelle】

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    Tragic is best served unexpected.
    Tragic future sounds like a spoiler.

    and tragic writers love to watch readers drown in feels.....leave it be.

    my verdict is leave tragic tags as it is.
     
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    as for me :
    no story has a tragedy tag..., unless proofed otherwise..., and it made you cry...
     
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