I'll admit my mind tends to make such characters automatically in their 20's - a 14-year-old killing man-sized rats in a barbarian rage is a bit ridiculous.
Haha...yeah
Come to think of it, many of the things I read/played/saw that involved more than 1 world started as "pest control" plots leading to a "Wardrobe transition" to the other world...
...and yet there is no trope for that...
I was thinking more of how most Dungeons and Dragons type games have you spend your first character level killing rats in the cellar of the tavern. Glorious business.
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.