My college English professor absolutely hated the narrative device of “fate.” He felt it was a lazy excuse authors use to signify a character as “special” without having to work hard to justify it. Why work on character development to turn an average character into someone worthwhile, when you can just say they were born to be special? You can still use tropes like the refusal of the call to round out a protagonist and give them some illusion of choice, but ultimately the stamp of “fate” can only go one way.
My college English professor absolutely hated the narrative device of “fate.” He felt it was a lazy excuse authors use to signify a character as “special” without having to work hard to justify it. Why work on character development to turn an average character into someone worthwhile, when you can just say they were born to be special? You can still use tropes like the refusal of the call to round out a protagonist and give them some illusion of choice, but ultimately the stamp of “fate” can only go one way.