![]() Eventually she just gives in and rolls with it. She ends up involved in the whole "friend" conspiracy completely by accident, and repeatedly attempts (and fails) to go back to her normal life. ![]() It also helps that he grows to care for the girls which contain the Weiss, because the Weiss will severely affect the girls in some way and will be reborn as the girl's first child. So he sucked up at his job and a made good success of it. (He thought that it was a contract for a new game). In The World God Only Knows, Keima Katsuragi basically just wants to be left alone with his games, but he already signed the contract that would make his head explode should he fail to accomplish his goal.Al is also wired into the device that allows the mech to twist the laws of physics, itself black box tech that no one in Mithril knows how to replicate. The reason he's the only one who can use the Arbelest is because he was the first one to use it, and since then the mech's quirky AI (named "Al") refuses to work with anyone else. He frequently declares that a system so uncertain that you can only use it when your 'emotions peak' is way too unreliable to be a decent weapon, but is rather more like magic - and he's a soldier, not a wizard! And yet, he's the only one who can use the system at all, so even though he'd much rather just use a bog-standard Real Robot, every time a Lambda Drive-equipped enemy shows up, he's got no choice but to climb into his Super Robot and take them on, grumbling all the way. However, he does mind being assigned to the only robot in the unit which is powered by Hot Bloodedness. After all, it's his job, and 'bout the only thing he's good at, having grown up a Child Soldier. He doesn't mind going into battle and fighting dastardly foes in a Humongous Mecha, really. Sosuke Sagara of Full Metal Panic! is an odd example.While he hates being a pilot and the constant stress of battle he continues to take his Evangelion into battle, and both of his efforts to stop being a pilot wind up being Ten Minute Retirements. ![]() While he did initially try to refuse the call, Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion mostly falls into this category.Someone who is continually resigned to Calls and taking it badly can become a Knight in Sour Armor. If someone who is Resigned to the Call is one of a party who otherwise embraces the Call, it's a toss-up whether the next trope to come into play will be The Complainer Is Always Wrong, or Only Sane Man. If someone who is Resigned to the Call ever does attempt to move up to Refusing the Call, expect it to be a 10-Minute Retirement before they change their mind or their conscience makes them go back, usually just in time for a Big Damn Heroes moment. It's also the most common response to a Refusal of the Call / You Can't Fight Fate combination or to The Call Knows Where You Live. It all depends on where on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism the work is. Often, resigning to The Call means that the person has recognized and accepted the responsibility of doing so, seeing it as something that has to be done, whether he likes it or not. Sometimes, this is the only appropriate response - to jump at the call would indicate that he wasn't really fit to be The Chosen One. Let's get it over with." He's Resigned to the Call. I'm not doing it." His reaction is "I can't talk you into picking someone else, can I? I'm gonna have to do this thing, aren't I? (sigh) Fine. For whatever reason, his reaction isn't "Yay! Adventure!" or "Leave me alone. ![]() Then there's the hero who isn't happy about being called, but doesn't believe that he can avoid it, either. If he ignores it, or tries to continue living as though The Call never came, there was a Refusal of the Call. If he's thrilled about it, and excited, he's Jumped at the Call. There are many ways a character can respond to the Call to Adventure.
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