Writers, I am begging you, please stop memory-wiping your main characters. I know why you do it.

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It's a cheap way of putting the reader and the main character on the same level. Both are starting in the same unknowing position and experiencing things together.

But there are better ways of doing this! And you lose the character depth of personal history & backstory. I think videogame RPGs are the worst offenders!