(06-09-2025, 04:01 PM)robkelk Wrote:(06-09-2025, 03:57 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: 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.
That sounds like Extra-Strength Masquerade to me.
I suppose it could be a variant, but I think there's enough difference to merit a separate trope. I've been trying to express the difference between them that I intuit, but am failing horribly. Maybe a good night's sleep will give me the proper comparison to separate the two.
-- 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....