I Have Just Been Reading Way Too Many Cloying Fanfics, Is Clearly The Moral Here

[redbrunja]

Has anyone ever, actually seriously argued that a dog was good security?

And since the answer is clearly "no" can we please delete that trope from the fanfic lexicon for all eternity?

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. If more fanfics had stories like that in them, I roll my eyes so much less when dogs showed up.

That said, reading the further explanation, yeah, I get where this is coming from. I know exactly the story you're talking about and while I didn't read it as that and it DID read in-character in the moment, I can head nod along with this. And I do think the author set it up in-story - at least to my satisfaction - that it was not something that the female character would do without interest on her own terms with input from a partner.

I have a feeling that it wasn't the same story because, trust me, with the story that prompted this, it WAS NOT in character.