[quote=@shylarah]
[@Terminal] for the new round of TTL -- not the Final Hazard, but the First Labor -- I wished clarification of a point.  How exactly do you determine what is trite?  Usually that means overused.  I do recall that you didn't like how I handled the matter of a character beating me, but I wouldn't think a character manifesting their own will and gaining the ability to function as a writer's block because of that will to be something often used, even if the idea of a character disagreeing with the author has been used.  *tilt head*  Will triteness disqualify an entry entirely?  Because I'm not sure how stale an idea I've got , since invulnerable doesn't preclude self-destructing, nor does it rule out the idea of very specific weaknesses, given that many characters are presented as invulnerable with one or two glaring flaws.  Take Superman.  Or, for a more suitable example given the way you present these Labors, how about Achilles?  =P
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Here I was merely referring to how subverting the death of one's characters is, in and of itself, a trite and thoroughly played-out aspect of fiction that I am not looking forward to seeing in your entries. Subversion of the need for their death, in a general sense, is trite - regardless of how doubtlessly clever the accompanying excuse might be. As indicated in the clarification though, I would merely be unamused, and I did say I would not be as strict as I was in the original First Labour. I would be unlikely to disqualify an entry [i]just[/i] because you revived the character, or said they were playing dead, or had it so the afterlife was already the focus of the setting anyway, etcetera.