TL: Stretch forever Sdop it! Reimu and Marisa were only doing sdretch-sdretch Marisa doesn't want to sdretch-sdretch any more... *stretch stretch* *Yunyaa* etc.
Think I just nailed down a description for the theme I like about this, surprised it took me so long.
I like the ones where they're faced with terrible consequences (usually death) if they fail to achieve something that ranges between very difficult to impossible. like this or the Reimu family being bred not to shit.
Is the situation common enough to get a tag, and what would that tag be called?
That actually doesn't cover what I'm looking for at all. Could we use another tag along the lines of "desperate_struggle"?
"Doomed" only tends to overlap with what I'm thinking of. In some cases the risk is mutilation, sometimes they actually have a chance, or the threat is imaginary.
What I think though, is that "doomed" is applied to situations where bad things are going to happen to the Yukkuri regardless of what they do, while desperate_struggle is used when they're fighting to survive and have a chance? That what you're after?