The Elf Who Wasn't Familiar with Humans - Ch. 1

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Oh look, it's the ridiculous trope that a long-lived race will somehow experience some sort of time dilation and have no concept of time.
 
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This is actually pretty sad.

Sure you can go all: yay marry the tsundere elf.

.. but then you have to think she's going to outlive the mc by a very large margin.
It's played for a laugh, but the literal punchline is that she realized this and wants to have as much time with the guy as possible. It's actually a neat depressing idea. Whereas we'd usually get a slow burn, the elf here literally goes "the guy will be dead in what feels like no time at all to me; I better hurry."
 
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Oh look, it's the ridiculous trope that a long-lived race will somehow experience some sort of time dilation and have no concept of time.
I mean, the trope does kinda have roots from actual mythology, particularly that of the fae which really are a case of "Time flies when you're having fun" sort of deal... When they're not being nightmarish little bastards tormenting people for some strange logic humans cannot comprehend...
 

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