What if the protagonist was a party member that was not kicked out of an elite group but instead was supportive of the banished member of the group?

[OP1000]

How would you write a story where the protagonist is a member of an elite group (the hero's party, a high ranking adventuring group, a team of elite hunters, etc.) and he/she finds out at a later date that the weakest member (the typical protagonists of such stories) whom they (the protagonist) were fond of was kicked out of the party?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Sounds like one of the older underdog war stories my parents and grandparents read. Only the underdog got trained by a mentor figure to be better or enough to keep his team alive when it counted instead of being kicked out. So probably like that.

 

[NotaNuffian]

How would you write a story where the protagonist is a member of an elite group (the hero's party, a high ranking adventuring group, a team of elite hunters, etc.) and he/she finds out at a later date that the weakest member (the typical protagonists of such stories) whom they (the protagonist) were fond of was kicked out of the party?

Odd.

The reason why most readers got interested in the whole "kicked out of xxx" is because of rejection and maybe isolation even though in a crowd IRL.

If your perspective became one of the popular personnel, at least popular enough to not get shunned, what exact role would the protag play?

In most of such cases, it would always be bystander effect unless genuinely close to the kicked out.

If that is the case, chances are the story will become about protag quitting the group on the spot because fire then rehire would make the leader lose face. The subsequent quitting will then result in leader losing more face and then generic genre will continue.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Sort of reminds me of the movie Nimona,
but instead of the normal Nimona/Ballister movie, it was through the eyes of Goldenloin.

 

[OP1000]

Odd.

The reason why most readers got interested in the whole "kicked out of xxx" is because of rejection and maybe isolation even though in a crowd IRL.

If your perspective became one of the popular personnel, at least popular enough to not get shunned, what exact role would the protag play?

In most of such cases, it would always be bystander effect unless genuinely close to the kicked out.

If that is the case, chances are the story will become about protag quitting the group on the spot because fire then rehire would make the leader lose face. The subsequent quitting will then result in leader losing more face and then generic genre will continue.

Yeah, the last paragraph of your comment was something that I was thinking of when I thought of this scenario.

 

[corruption]

MC thought their fellow party member willingly left, but finds out latter they had been kicked out?
This has happened a lot in manga, but there are a few ways to do it.
First you have to deal with how the party reacts to their party losing a member. Sure a new member might be added, but they would not mesh as well. They party would have to adjust.
They might want to visit the one who they believed left, but the other's stop that and they have no idea of how to find them.

Then they discover the other had been banished, and did not leave of their own free will.
They could feel betrayed. Maybe angry for the other, but also for being lied to.
Does the banished one survive? Do they hate all the old party?
So many possibilities!