Fuck yeah, ive been reading too many fucking novels where harems are forcibly added and it ruins shit, toika's novels have made me have an irrational hatred for harem novels, though im still going to read them because otherwise they are acceptable
They are overused for a reason! What are your favorite overused tropes and if possible why? Personally I like systems if its not just the protag that gets it because it lets us keep track of what exactly each character can do and some of my favorite novels make good use of the idea of the origin...
Orthodox is meditation and sword techniques
Unorthodox is Orthodox but you sometimes stab people with a poisoned dagger or two
Demonic is just sacrificing people for power
If its given an infinite supply of whatever it needs to function like infinite bullets for a gun or infinite electricity and internet for a phone then id choose some sniper rifle and go work as an assassin for hire
If not then it depends more on what kind of world it is, worst case scenario...
For future reference how would you show a period of silence? Would saying for example in that situation "Realizing the strangeness of Karma's claims considering the circumstances Victor suddenly fell silent, while Gloria, dumbfounded about how her husband hadn't realized the oddity until she...