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Adding onto my fourth-wall-breaking story ideas ~ 

The core characters, working under the theory that they’re in a story, go Okay, so the protagonists always survive the big battles, right? And they figure out ways to win partway through. If we just trust in ourselves or whatever our powers will evolve and we’ll find some new ability that saves the day. 

They head into some plot-important fight with almost no preparation, assuming they’ll win just because the protagonists always win. 

They lose. They lose so hard. The antagonists utterly destroy any semblance of a plan they did have, no new power manifests to save them, there is no dues ex machina person swooping in, and someone dies. Maybe more than one someone. 

They barely make it out, and it’s not because of their Special Status, it’s because one of the minor characters had an escape plan and through sheer luck. 

They don’t ever bank on winning again. They learn that being the main characters doesn’t mean they automatically get what they want. They know, after this, that they have to actually earn victory. 

Next time, they make a real plan.