Stardew Valley is peak because they turn this trope around and make YOU hate the blacksmith at first. And then as time passes and you build friendship with him, you come to hate him even more
I like how everybody in hotd speaks with this kind of affected Shakespearean lilt and then thereโs aegon the idiot walking around speaking completely normally
unrelated to the post, but the amount of LD mentions really pmo when I read the book
you can feel how much Suzanne WANTS you to believe in their love, but instead of showing it in any interesting way, she just tells us on every single page about it