Is there a story like this?
After reading demon Slayer and Seeing the Life story of the character Kokushibo…
I began to wonder…Is there A Story where the Protagonist’s Goals is Unachievable and it Focuses on How much that Stings?
(Not like Monsters University where Mike Does come around it. And Decides to Find a new path forward)
But a story that focus on how Unfair life can be Sometimes and That there’s just no way around it.
You cannot be this and You have to suck it up. And you’re probably never be fullfilled because The thing you wanted to be the most is what made you made you feel fullfilled.
Its a Bit specific but it would be kinda of like this…
CharacterA wants to be…let’s say a Botanist. That was their aspiration since their childhood and It Genuinely makes them feel whole as a Person…
However…They mot only suck at it…but they suck so hard that Not even if they spend Their Entire life on it they would be able to Become one. Even Amateurs are More Proficient in it than them.
No matter how much they study and master every possible Science behind it…They can’t.
Because that’s Just how they were made.
They have to now live with said knowledge that their Life Goal is Unattainable. They’ll have to just watch from the sidelines and seeing others live up totheir fullest potential and being fullfilled by it while they never can.
It specially Stings if they have a CharacterB whom also is like that but unlike A they CAN be what they want…
And Everything that B tries for A Hurts.
Encouragement? Doesn’t help.
Sympathy? It makes it worse.
Justifications or even downplaying their own achievements? Nup.
B is Living A’s dream and there’s nothing They can do about it.
And A doesn’t even have the iption to opt for so ething else because…Well that’s Just what they wanted in life.
And they’ll never have it. They’ll never know what its like to live with it and knowing that They were basically Denied by destiny what they wanted most.
And yes i’m aware that sound like a Miserable Life but I’m curious. Is there a story that makes thai Ugly Fact from Reality into an Angsty Analysis of the Unfairness of the world?