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Take on
Take on verb - To enter into contest or conflict with.
Both terms in one sentence
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Players usually take on the roles of angels or demons, and a good number of Dungeon Masters apply this trope to infernal characters.
Source: Rage Against the Heavens -
It's a pretty generic take on the subject (what else would one expect from Greg Lake?), so it can easily apply to either guy-love interest or parent-offspring.
Source: Beautiful Dreamer - This trope also does not apply to a character who starts out as weak in combat as one would expect from someone with no training and poor equipment, and grows strong enough to take on more powerful foes only after appropriate level grinding.
Source: Underrated And Overleveled
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