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Do you guys have any examples of fanfic tropes - from broad ones that can apply to any character or fandom, to ones that are specific to a certain character/relationship in one particular fandom - that are almost like a favorite kink of yours, but in a non-sexual way? Like, you devour them greedily and look for more and get an incredible id-ish thrill out of them, but all for non-sexual reasons?

De-aging fics. I love them so, so, so much.

Hurt/Comfort as well but that is a super broad one. I do have specific H/C tropes I like more than others.

Edited 2016-09-03 20:12 (UTC)

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kaijinscendre - 2016-09-04 01:58 (UTC) - Expand

Still obsessed with school-era Marauders fic in Harry Potter fandom.

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I pretty much inhale everything that is well-written about Aragorn/Estel's childhood in Rivendell. Mind you, it's a premise that's easy for a lot of shitty authors in LOTR fandom, so it gets a lot of shitty fic, but I love it so much I'm willing to spend time sifting through the crap. It makes me feel happy in a way that only a few other fandom tropes can reliably accomplish.

idk what if it has an official name, I call it the Lotus Eater trope - a character gets trapped in some kind of artificial world where everything is gone right and they have everything they ever wanted, but they reject it because even if its perfect, its not real.

I lose it for that kinda shit.

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I'm the biggest slut for h/c. I live for that shit. All the tropes. All of them.

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I really love childhood fics, and it's a huge bonus if somehow the two halves of my ship met during their childhood, more or less forgot about it, until they're reunited and they start to remember their happy memories.

I hate to say it, because it's about the corniest fucking adolescent-ass shit possible, but I really do have a soft spot for fics where one character has major self-confidence or self-esteem issues and another character comforts them. Fucking disgusting, I know.

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kaijinscendre - 2016-09-03 20:45 (UTC) - Expand

Extreme hurt/comfort where characters are tortured or severely traumatized in some way and then have to heal (with realistic healing that takes a long time). Especially if the healing involves multiple other characters surrounding the hurt person and helping them and caring for them.

Sacrifice. As in characters giving up their life or safety for something. Like Harry in Deathly Hallows or the Nova Core in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Anything involving characters that had a strong friendship in the past meeting again after a long time and bonding again.

Anything involving telepathic bonds.

Fandom specificly, in Tolkien fics, I like fics where the Melkor and Sauron relationship is closer to equals. Where Sauron is arrogant and just stakes a claim on power. Where while he works for Melkor and Melkor is ultimately the boss, Sauron says what he things and does what he wants and they are both fine with this.

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I can never get enough fake relationships.

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I really love the kind of found-family stuff that involves adoption/fostering/taking responsibility for a kid, caring parent/child relationships between people who are not biologically related, and any mentor/mentee relationships that take on a pseudo-parent/child character. The "kid" can be any age - including an adult - but it has to always remain platonic.

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There's a meme going around with overused tropes that are still awesome, and the one that always makes me twang upright and go 'that!' is "I can't stand this person but I would die for them". I have loved that with a passion since Spock & McCoy, especially when characters take the 'would die for you' part extremely literally.

I also have an undying love for stories where enemies have to join up and work together, for probably similar reasons.

Stranded in the woods/on a mountain and having to work their way back home.

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Neuroatypical characters in AU/Fantasy settings.
Not done in an identity politics kind of way (which I've never read but I can imagine there is lots of).
Just characters who engage with the world differently and find peace without changing. Character is non-human, character is a "sentinel", character is functionally on the autism spectrum even if the author never uses those words... that kind of thing.
I'm feel very alone today and I'd love one of those right now...

- H/C

- Someone on the run for whatever reason, but their running from people who care about them, but they're still running?

- Found family/families of choice/non-traditional family configurations

- ~Friendship~

- Someone sacrificing themselves for someone else, in both flavors:
-- The person didn't need to sacrifice themself, it's a form of non-traditional self harm
-- The person did, for whatever reason, need to sacrifice themself, with people who care for them watching them after the fact

- H/C involving non-traditional self harm tbh, especially eating issues? IDK why it gets to me so much, but it does. Especially eating, for some reason. On one hand, it feels kind of gross to say "H/C with people forgetting (or "forgetting") to eat is my jam" but it is what it is.

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I have no idea why but I have a real love of stories where the eldest of a family is left in charge of their younger siblings. Especially where it really messes up their lives and they struggle with it.

It's super cathartic for me.

Time travelllllll~

Also (WAY more specific) I love in OC-inserts or self-inserts when the OC/IC starts introducing information or technology to the setting (because I read a lot of fantasy, but everyone loves toilet paper). I also love when this happens in a canon, but it's not very common, mostly because it usually only comes up in time-travel stories.
[Examples, for anyone who's interested, include fanworks Blood on the Trident, Greyjoy alla Breve, and the informatively titled Joffrey from Game of Thrones replaced with Octavian from Rome (obviously a crossover, but whatever); and manga Jin, Anatolia Story, and (sort of) Nobunaga no Chef] [I'm not actually a fan of GoT, but the fanbase is so big that it's quite easy to find interesting fic. There was one Dragon Age fic I wanted to name, but I can't find the damn thing now I go looking!]

Enemies to friends and other such premises where two (or more) people who don't like each other have to work together and end up gaining new respect towards each other.

Also team bonding. I guess I have a thing for co-operation.

Friends to lovers, especially for noncanon pairings. I don't want to just be dumped into a situation where they're together, I want to see that moment where things changed and watch their relationship blossom.

Also, teammate/friend in peril and "character is or feels alone and ostracized from the people who are supposed to care about them."

Time-travel fix-its, outsider character fix-it (non-canon or even crossover character steps in and does things better). Canon character gets some sense and does things better.

Basically, all the fix-it scenarios.

Bodyswap.

I love the shippy kind but I also love GEN versions of it too. I just find the concept highly amusing.

Characters suffering alone until the person least expected to help does - maybe even surprising themselves.

does gender bending count? esp. if it's magical and not just "this char has always been x"

I'm simple -- H/C, enemies to friends to more, platonic life partners, redemption arcs.

I love stories where Character A is usually aloof/an asshole/a killing machine/an emotionless robot....except where this one Character B is concerned. Then, they are slightly less aloof/etc. and demonstrate in vague and oblique ways that they look out for B, or they let only B know certain things about them, or even just that B is sometimes in their thoughts. Nothing has to progress any further for that for me to be happy (except if that connection fades away by the end of the story).

Fandom usually turns these into ships, but I enjoy them best when they're just faint "connections" in the story. (See: Carol and Daryl in TWD, Sandor and Sansa in ASOIAF, even Mulder and Scully in the early seasons of the X-Files).

Hurt/comfort and accidental marriage. Can't get enough of it.