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In live action, or even voice acting, chemistry can do a lot. But when it comes to a written medium, what makes you love the friendship between two characters? Are there specific things that you can point to that makes a fictional friendship so awesome and/or memorable? Give examples to illustrate your reasons!

If they influence each other, or even change deliberately for each other.

For example, in the Protector of the Small series, the friendship between Kel and Neil. He learns so much about chivalry and the value of sincerity from her, and she learns how to open up a bit from him.

Characters who show their strong dynamic, and don't seem to merely like one another. I have casual friendships, and I have close friendships - I know the difference, and too often written media (particularly TV shows) try to pass casual friendships off as close, deep friendships, when it doesn't seem that way to me.

I know you asked for specifics, but it's hard for me to explain because a lot of it is just... how they talk, how their scenes go down, the things they do for each other and how real they seem. Troy and Abed in Community, for example, seem like brothers, but closer than most actual brothers. Ann and Leslie in Parks and Recreation really seem to love each other, and Leslie's very protective of Ann. That sort of thing. I need to believe that these characters have more than a polite interest in one another's lives.

I think by "written media" they meant "without actors". As in books, comics, that kind of thing.

AYRT

Oh...

Awkward.

i think you need moments of clear tension. where they fight, or there is a conflict of some type between them. not an overall plot long type thing necessarily, it could be a matter quickly resolved. but something to show that they butt heads but also work it out and remain close.

personally i also tend to like relationships with a bit of snark and bite. one insults the other with a grin and they get back what they gave.

I like different friendships for very, very, very different reasons, but pretty much one rule is that the sum total of all these reasons has to add up to something so satisfying that if they go through a lot of shit for each other's sake on a personal level (I don't mean big heroic sacrifices that really good people would do for anyone, I mean the exhausting, frustrating, infuriating personal troubles) it has to feel as though it's all worth it to hold onto that friendship.

Inside jokes. Finishing each other's sentences. A clear understanding of what the other is saying in a just a few words. Utter joy in the happiness of the friend. Wine is preventing me with coming up with examples LOL

They talk, trade experiences, find common ground between them, work together well, can get through a fight and resolve their differences amicably, act as emotional suport, defend each other and have each other's back.

My favouritest favourite fic is such because it's exactly that. In fact that description was based on the course of ADL.

http://archiveofourown.org/series/36072

The way they compliment each other, and by that I mean how their personalities mesh well together, not making nice comments. But that too. :P

For me to believe in a great friendship, each one's strengths should compensate for the other's weaknesses, create positive change in one another, make them do and strive for things they normally wouldn't, and overall be together a greater whole than they would be alone. That's how you know you have a BFF.

The definition you're using is spelled "complement". It's not a strict homonym "compliment" in the sense of praise. ;)

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