That is literally the whole point. She died at the age of seventeen and found the experience so traumatizing that she literally dedicates the rest of her life to making sure she never experiences that sense of loss a second time. She's a goofball but she DOES feel that hurt?
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And the narrative specifically doesn't treat her past self as totally disconnected from her world. Like, it is made really clear that when she was died, she was mourned by her loved ones and many of them never completely got over it for the rest of their lives. It's refreshing
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Like it's weird that such a silly and ridiculous series would be the one to unpack these kind of grim realities of the genre conventions but that's kind of why I love it There is something really honest and sincere buried here and it's really such an unusual thing to see
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A subgenre or sibling genre of the isekai is the "second chance" story, the Peggy Sue Got Married plot It's a classic thing people talk about - "If I could start my life over knowing what I know now" - but that movie I think was the first one to make a story out of it
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And what's interesting about that one is the originator and trope namer also has an ending that subverts the whole wish fulfillment premise the genre revolves around She chooses *not* to change her past, and by so doing closes the time loop and wakes up in the present
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Because of that thing that you're talking about It doesn't cheat and have her be an antisocial nobody with nothing to lose She has a very strong (and feminine-coded) reason not to pick a different life - she was a mother with children
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Vapor Weyve @NymphomachyConcept: a twist on PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED where a girl must stop her oblivion-seeking brother from completing his scheme to project their mother's consciousness into her teenage past self, knowing she absolutely would not make the same bad decisions that led to their existencesShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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Ha ha Would you actually try to stop your biomom from making better choices and deleting you
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Appearing as a specter from A Christmas Carol "Be warned, if you continue down this path, your marriage shall end in disaster, and your children shall be a NEET, a trans NEET, and a less attractive version of yourself"
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"...*How much* less attractive"
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Haha This slowly built reveal that the plucky young girl's mysterious fairy godmother/spirit guide/psychopomp is the ghost of her future daughter trying to push her to make beneficial and responsible decisions to wipe herself out of existence
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