What do you want then
Like for characters in a historical webtoon to just be from that era and world. Lie, there are some good stories where the reincarnation is a key plot point and it Centers around the character having migrated into that universe (these stories are constructed in a way that it incorporates that fact well: the character has to learn about the world, might not even understand the language etc.) and those stories are great! BUT many times these past few months I‘ve read popular historical webtoons which had a great engaging storyline (which btw worked fine completely without the reincarnation plot), and all of a sudden 20-30 chapters in the MC be like „btw I reincarnated into this world that I read about in a novel in my own world 10 years ago)………. Like who cares? Why even bring it up if it was of no importance from the beginning and is of no importance from now on. The story would work just fine without this reincarnation. I just feel like some authors these days forcefully try to get these popular plot points in so they can put the „reincarnation“ or „childhood acquaintance“ Tag on their works to garner more views when in fact they had a wonderful original story right there which was engaging and did not need any boost with some unnecessary concept.
Don’t get me wrong. I still really lie, this story and I don’t yet know how the author is gonna work this out but I‘ve seen too many examples by now where the authors started out with a fantastic idea and then went super cliché in the middle and kinda „ruining“ the flow of the plot in my opinion by introducing some unfounded information, with no lead up on anything. Like in this story they were perfectly fine, and it would have been so I gefestigt seeing these two strangers warm up to each other and it was so cute seeing them get to know each other and working out their relationship and all of a sudden he be like: OMG aren’t you that one kid from like 15 years ago that I only have one glimpse of in the back of my mind but how I‘m gonna get super emotional about it even tho I did not have any thoughts about it ever before“……
I just want a well structured plot, with an engaging storyline, authentic characters and lead ups to big plot points. Don’t just spring them on me in a split section without having built the foundation first.
I'm not so bothered by the re-encounter trope but I agree with you. The story was fine and would've been better without it.
we're already getting the rich x poor and big x small tropes, why not throw in re-encounter to round out the cliche trifecta? ╮(￣▽￣)╭
I agree with you in that I'm tired of the "they were actually childhood acquaintances" trope, I've been put off of so many stories bc they like to just throw that in somewhere in the middle when it's totally unnecessary to the plot. This one I think is slightly helped by that it explains a bit why the ML was drawn to the MC in the beginning and treated him differently. And they're introducing it early enough for it to be incorporated into the plot instead of thrown in randomly later.
Please can we stop with the reencounter, childhood acquaintance kinda plots please. The story was so good even without this kind of plot point. It‘s overused at this point (same with reincarnation in historical webtoons ugh)