Motherfucking dragons, of course, are not the inspiration for this blog post, as I’m sure you guessed from the title, but the OEL light novel My Best Friend Is Dense Harem Main Character-kun, But Why Am I the Heroine?! is. ![]() Otherwise, they’ll be reading through it going, “Where’s my motherfucking dragon?” In our aforementioned example with badass black dragons, unless you’re hyping it up throughout the book for a last minute debut because it’s basically god, the reader wants that dragon to appear as soon as is reasonably possible. ![]() The second we see the cover of a book or the commercial for an upcoming video game or watch a video essay on why a film is a sociopolitical commentary on modern American society, we obtain an instant image of what that work will be like, and we maintain that image until some other covert agent changes our mind or we experience it for ourselves. As soon as possible is also an acceptable answer. The reader wants the dragon to show up NOW. Now, let me ask you this: when you check that book out and crack it open, at what point during the story would you expect the dragon to show up? The more scholarly among you might have an answer something along the lines of, “When it’s appropriate for the story,” but let me go ahead and slap you with a great, thick textbook titled Expectations and tell you that that answer is dead wrong. One book in particular catches your eye because it has a badass black dragon on the cover and you think nothing in the known universe is more badass than a badass black dragon. ![]() Imagine for a moment that it’s a dull Sunday afternoon and you’re perusing the fantasy section at your local library.
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