All right guys, I needed to make a new journal anyway and this is a topic I've thought about for a really long time. It's about stories and the assumptions we make in order to tell them. Get ready for a great big essay!
I realize after rereading that this post might be taken as very accusatory... I am NOT out to discredit Nuzlocke storytelling as a whole, I'm out to explore the way we tell stories and the mechanisms we sometimes use to do that. The 'givens' I describe here are also called Acceptable Breaks from Reality. I don't think these mechanisms are at all 'wrong' just because they might have unfortunate implications attached, and besid