Do we have a trope for this? The over-effective masquerade. Such a good masquerade, that when the folks behind it want to unmasque, no one believes them, and everyone thinks it's a double-blind, or a massive joke, or something else that justifies them thinking the cover story is the real thing no matter what.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....