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What's your opinion on the "kids/teenagers that are heroes and save the world but their parents/normal people doesn't know" trope?
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I'm asking because a lot of author's/creators of fantasy and sci-fi worlds have stories with it, some using this known trope:

A group of teenagers start their lives as normal people, but discover something important to the lore of the world and now have to go into a mission to get an object, save the world, fight an evil villain, you get it. However, parents or normal people from the heroes' world are completely unaware of their sons/daughters hero life or the lore/complexity of the world they are in.

I wanted to ask if you make something like that with your world's main warriors. For me, when done good, it's really cool (just like other tropes). When writing my world and story, I experimented with this trope and some others, making a team of warriors that fight without the knowledge of their parents (at least at the beginning before their skills with weapons and warrior life was made public, so I quickly got rid of the trope because I felt like it).

In general, I played with the trope just for fun and curiosity, as well as it being easy to mess with, but I got rid of it after some point and made the adults more important (and because it became boring for me after a few mini arcs). My project would finish its storyline with a more unique and developed approach and the protags as adults.

So yeah, what's your thoughts about the trope of "teenagers became heroes/warriors but parents/normal people don't know"? Does you use it in your world?

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I haven't used it but I really enjoy it.

Tonally I'm always very inspired by Pokemon in my writing so kids going out to save the world is Just A Thing That Happens and is broadly accepted as plausible & common.

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