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With a Friend and a Stranger
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When introducing characters, you want to keep the overall number of relationships and names to remember to a minimum. This is why many media start off with only a handful of primary characters, often three. There are many common "stock" variations on the genders and relationships of these few characters. One of them is the friend and stranger dynamic. The protagonist will have a best friend, often a childhood friend. This dynamic is easy to show in the limited time you have to hook your audience, and easy to add depth to at a later time. The third character will be a stranger to the protagonist and their friend. Their appearance will often serve to drive the plot, and their unfamiliarity with the characters and location helps justify Exposition. On occasion, it will be the protagonist who is the stranger, also acting as an Audience Surrogate to understanding the setting as well as fulfilling the stranger role in this trope. The stranger can also put a strain on the friends, since they change their long-standing dynamic, especially if they become involved in a Love Triangle. Tropes that may play out in these scenarios when both the friend and stranger are female include Childhood Friend Romance, First Girl Wins, and The Dulcinea Effect. In Eastern RPGs, this dynamic almost always appears as a (male) hero, his childhood friend, and a girl from nowhere (almost always female and a Mysterious Waif). This adheres to the three-person dynamics in Cast Calculus. They may form a Power Trio. See also Two Guys and a Girl, Two Girls and a Guy, Tomboy and Girly Girl. Compare to Token Houseguest. If the protagonist is the stranger, he's probably also a Rookie Red Ranger. Examples: |
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