Zinless
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What do you guys think of stories where the characters/author refuse to call certain things as they are.
Zombies are one of the most common forms of this. A lot of stories from films, games, etc. refuse to call them 'zombies' and instead choose to name them something else like 'Walkers', 'Biters', 'Runners', etc. I get naming them 'infected' when its something like TLOU, where they're not walking corpses per se, but still act like one.
Another example is monsters. I get naming them to differentiate between types (one is man-made, one appears out of nowhere, etc.). But what's stopping the characters in your story from just calling them monsters? Instead of having to memorize the difference between 'Aragami', 'Corrupted', 'Flixofliomiamana', etc. I watched/read/played a few stories that have the characters refusing to call the creatures they see as 'monsters'.
I'm not saying that they're bad tropes, but I wonder why people keep doing this in their stories. Would love to understand this phenomenon, so that I may apply them to my story if needed.
Zombies are one of the most common forms of this. A lot of stories from films, games, etc. refuse to call them 'zombies' and instead choose to name them something else like 'Walkers', 'Biters', 'Runners', etc. I get naming them 'infected' when its something like TLOU, where they're not walking corpses per se, but still act like one.
Another example is monsters. I get naming them to differentiate between types (one is man-made, one appears out of nowhere, etc.). But what's stopping the characters in your story from just calling them monsters? Instead of having to memorize the difference between 'Aragami', 'Corrupted', 'Flixofliomiamana', etc. I watched/read/played a few stories that have the characters refusing to call the creatures they see as 'monsters'.
I'm not saying that they're bad tropes, but I wonder why people keep doing this in their stories. Would love to understand this phenomenon, so that I may apply them to my story if needed.