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Kind of hard to write a descriptive title at times, sorry. I've seen a number of series now where a guy is oppressed by a girl, usually one who technically considers him to be her "childhood friend", "brother", "comrade" or even "boyfriend" but in practice treats him like a toy that she can abuse, degrade and damage as much as she wants, all while telling him how useless he is. Like, there are a lot of series like that. But pretty much every one of these series winds up with the guy cutting ties with her and her running after him in shock and fury that he would "betray" her like that or delusion that he's just throwing a tantrum without understanding what she's really doing wrong.
The thought then occurred to me, are there any where instead the guy tries to actually teach her a lesson? Bring her down to what she perceives as his level so she can learn humility, force her to see things from others' perspectives, basically get her to a point where she recognizes what a monster she's been?
This would be a hard story to pull off, I know. Especially if the "heroine" is as awful as a lot of the stories I mentioned at the top. But it wouldn't be kind or gentle. It just sort of changes the goal. The guy doesn't try to distance himself or change sides, instead he tries to expose truths, dismantle things holding the girl up, break down the things that give her this sense of entitlement and justification so that she has to see past it.
The stories I've seen where the guy breaks free from the oppressive girl in his life do tend to end with the girl learning such a lesson (or dying, one of the two). The big thing here is that the guy's setting his focus on that goal.
The thought then occurred to me, are there any where instead the guy tries to actually teach her a lesson? Bring her down to what she perceives as his level so she can learn humility, force her to see things from others' perspectives, basically get her to a point where she recognizes what a monster she's been?
This would be a hard story to pull off, I know. Especially if the "heroine" is as awful as a lot of the stories I mentioned at the top. But it wouldn't be kind or gentle. It just sort of changes the goal. The guy doesn't try to distance himself or change sides, instead he tries to expose truths, dismantle things holding the girl up, break down the things that give her this sense of entitlement and justification so that she has to see past it.
The stories I've seen where the guy breaks free from the oppressive girl in his life do tend to end with the girl learning such a lesson (or dying, one of the two). The big thing here is that the guy's setting his focus on that goal.