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Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes, you like broad general tropes that can involve a lot of variation, like, for example, "mutually unrequited love." But sometimes you have a special interest in a very specific version of a trope, like, for example, "unrequited love where A is in unrequited love with B, then gets over them, and then B falls in unrequited love with A, neither of them realize the other one was ever in love with them." Or even more specific than that.

Do you have any examples of weirdly specific favorite variations of tropes like that?

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[skeletal_history]

A Marriage of Convenience, but not just any marriage of convenience, oh no.

A & B are Forced by Circumstance to marry. They barely know each other, but A thinks B is in love with someone else, and B thinks A is a total player who would never fall in love with anyone. They have sex (because it's required) and gradually fall in love with each other, but they both feel like they have to hide their love from each other. So they act all loving and affectionate for real but are prepared to claim they're faking it if questioned, and indeed, each believes the other to be faking it. This stage of the relationship should be drawn out indefinitely, with no reveal of the actual love going on between them until the very, very end. (Because that's boring, and I want to just marinate in the angst for a long while.)

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

Oooooh, I do like that sub-variety of the trope a lot.

But I also like all the other versions of it...

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[skeletal_history]

Thought of another one:

A & B have a spark between them, but they're coworkers or police partners or she's his dead brother's widow or whatever -- they're in some circumstance in which their principles preclude them acting on their feelings -- and so they keep their feelings to themselves and don't know they're requited. The whole story is peppered with little moments of them low-key caring for each other, and maybe they have to Pretend to Be Married or Share a Bed While Traveling (or whatever...I love those tropes), but nothing is ever revealed outright. And the story ends just like that! Nothing conclusive ever happens, but the last scene is something ambiguous that hints that their relationship might continue afterward. Like, they're both (IDK) soldiers in the same unit during wartime, and then the war ends and they're going to part ways, but one of them mentions they've been offered a job in the same city the other one lives in. THE END. So you can imagine the rest yourself, without ever being disappointed by the way their relationship would go in canon.

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

So you can imagine the rest yourself, without ever being disappointed by the way their relationship would go in canon.

I would be totally okay with this sort of ending for any non-canon pairings I'm a fan of in my favorite shows. Just knowing there's possibilities is enough to make me happy.

I second the rest of your post as well :).

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[otakugal15]

This sounds like SVU. :C

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[shortysc22]

I love the fake marriage trope so much.

I'm a big supporter of the green card trope (a la The Proposal) where one needs the another to stay in the country.

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

yes, i'm a sucker for arranged marriage type deals

honestly my biggest reason for watching The Americans

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

Twins where one half dies, but where we get to spend a good amount of time on both the pre-death twin relationship AND on the post-death surviving twin's coping, instead of the death happening at the beginning of the story (so the whole thing is just the survivor's coping) or the end of the story (where there is no coping stage.)

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[mrs_don_draper]

I like "first time" sex, but I especially like it when the characters go from "never really thought about until you gave me to the idea" to "let's do this" in a very short amount of time. Like spur of the moment, "let's do this before we realize this is a bad idea" kind of thing.

I like sex pollen when it's between two characters that are not in a canon or fanon established relationship.

I really enjoyed the Marriage Law Challenge back in the day, as long as they weren't together in canon because that would just be boring.

Basically I like throwing two characters together who aren't normally put together and seeing what happens.

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

I love the "back from the dead"/"thought you were dead" trope, but only if the character who "died" didn't plan to fake their death.

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[(Anonymous)]

I like hurt/comfort in general, but I love it when the hurt party is a tough, but pretty guy who nearly dies due to intense torture and the one who rescues him is his weaker, sweeter, slightly incompetent partner in crime who turns into a total badass to do the rescuing/avenging and suceeds without any outside help.

Re: Weirdly specific versions of tropes you like

[lb_lee]

Aw, that sounds really sweet, anon. Not quite my trope, but I can understand why you'd like it! :D