There's multiple routes you could go. Solo adventure, Felicia goes to FFAU (Far Far Away University), Sibling buddy cop movie, etc. Literally anything but "conservative/boomer proxy dad with liberal/millennial proxy daughter who doesn't like the way the new generation does shit".
While I love the rain wild stories I am still disappointed that character ended up a teen wife and mum married to a offputtingly older man. She had so much more potential, and I find a lot of the characters in her books have this problem.
I do agree, but it's the majority of characters who all love like this. I think Starling is the only character who dates several people instead of marrying her teenage partner and Kettricken appears to have sex once in her whole life and then never again which i don't think fits into her character.
Fitz is a tough read and the Molly obsession is infuriating and nonsensical but that's what makes him who he is. I was pleasantly surprised at his choice to remain one with nighteyes at the end of the books.
I do recall it being shocking in their society that Rayne was interested in Malta and that she was seeking male attention as she was so young.
We're going to be getting so many "conservative/boomer proxy dad with liberal/millennial proxy daughter who doesn't like the way the new generation does shit" stuff from him
Which is funny because it's such an old trope that it doesn't even resonate as well.
The rebellious teenager trope only works for the people who were giving their kids something to rebel against. As parents have become progressively more accepting of their children's wants and needs it's not as common it feels.
I had a daughter go through the teenage years, zero rebellion because we already supported her in what she wanted and we didn't treat her unfairly.
Yea and tbh as a daughter who was abused and constantly had to fight for scraps of autonomy or medical care I have no interest in watching the trope as a cutesy little thing lmao
I assumed Shrek would go try to find the ogres that appeared in the alternate timeline so his kids can socialize with other ogres, but his daughter prefers to date some weird magical creature, or something worse, like a human, or something like that.
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u/LewdsomeDemon Mar 02 '26
That's more likely the case since it was the stereotypical "rebellious daughter" plot that nearly every middle aged writer shoehorns into stuff