You know how lots of times when a woman comes up with an idea or argument and noone "notices" until a man repeats the exact same thing and gets the credit for it? I'm kinda feeling like this might be a flipped around version of that: the queer Vo has a dream, but it's the straight(?) Shara who gets the credit for seeing the dream through; and Vo's death is necessary to erase his contribution and ensure that Shara gets all the credit.
...It's been a while since I've read City of Stairs, so that reading might be totally off-base. But to whatever extent it holds up, it just makes the whole situation that much more disgusting.
I wonder if there's a name for this excuse for killing off a marginalized character. It's not really fridging (since it's not providing the motivational impulse to the hero), but it's certainly not a novel trope.
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You know how lots of times when a woman comes up with an idea or argument and noone "notices" until a man repeats the exact same thing and gets the credit for it? I'm kinda feeling like this might be a flipped around version of that: the queer Vo has a dream, but it's the straight(?) Shara who gets the credit for seeing the dream through; and Vo's death is necessary to erase his contribution and ensure that Shara gets all the credit.
...It's been a while since I've read City of Stairs, so that reading might be totally off-base. But to whatever extent it holds up, it just makes the whole situation that much more disgusting.
I wonder if there's a name for this excuse for killing off a marginalized character. It's not really fridging (since it's not providing the motivational impulse to the hero), but it's certainly not a novel trope.