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Challenge #9
Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)
oh man.. rolls up sleeves...
i don't have it in me to look through Trope Websites so ill just yap mindlessly about shit i love YAY
at my core, i love best friend dynamics, basically. ðŸ˜peace and love to the angstheads out there, but i am fueled entirely on fluff-and-comedy stuff. almost borderline gen content even in my romantic ships. it's so good to me. i love it when two guys are just being pals. shit like spongebob and patrick or timon and pumbaa... LMAO when i was a kid, i shipped them before i knew what shipping was. it's just good for the soul
so basically everything i love comes from that.
in terms of *tropes*... ohhh who doesnt love a good wound tending, a punk with a heart of gold, a gruff old man with cute gap moe!? or any old people. i just love old people. oh and of course the angry hothead shitty asshole shit mean little bastard mean. asshole. loud. angry. Perfect. i love it. chefs kiss.
-basically any character with a pompadour. i love pompadours they mean the world to me. i read the outsiders at a young age
-more of an art thing than anything but you know what i love and wish manga did more often?! is when they get like, little animal characteristics temporarily, like as part of their chibification, they also get cat ears. SO CUTE
-i'm dipping my toe into liking whump more, but mostly for the sake of "and then their partner finds them and comforts them so much and everyone loves them forever" LMAO i like whump as a way of validating how important and valued someone is...
-i'm not done talkiing about how cute little angry assholes are BC THEYRE SO CUTE. THEY GIVE ME SUCH BAD CUTENESS AGGRESSION. this is kyo fruits basket's fault
-similarly, any sort of animal au/hybrid au, like, turn them into an animal, they have to be an animal. make them an animal for me. I'm just a furry ok ðŸ˜
-i read a really good "drunk confession" dhurkedatz fic once and it changed me
-AND tbh i love a bad doctor. i love creepy doctors. NOT like dr hotti, but like, shinra kishitani. people don't do this much anymore either and it's not 100% My Thing but like it's just funnnnn like its sillayyy theyre having funnn
-i love when girls are mean. i love mean girls. ok. but that goes without saying right? i love ore/boku using girls in jp media, i love tomboys who stay tomboys... i love hotheaded mean girls...
-and i especially love when there's no like, added snark or wink to the audience like "see even though i'm a GIRL i'm MASCULINE even though i'm a GIRL im not like those STINKY BOYS ;))" in a way that just undermines everything. you know...
-unrequited love is something i don't love but it keeps happening so i GUESS But like unrequited love where the person accepts it. and is like. 😌this is fine (me, in the background, setting myself on fire)
-TWO GUYS RAISING KIDS TOGETHER?! Like a single dad and his friend who just happens to come over frequently...And gets hit with that "uncle" tag because well you're basically family at this point right..!?AHHFGHH
-And did i mention i love little angry obnoxious shitty asshole guys because i
dubcon, noncon (to a lesser extent), age gap/underage stuff (again preferably fluffier than angstier lol) sibling incest (same applies), but it has to be same gender ok? like yaoi and yuri. also heat dynamics/aphrodisiacs/any sort of Sex Compulsion is fun... and somnophilia. which is all under dubcon lol. and interspecies/nonhuman sex yuppp (nodding emoji) and nipple play/male lactation AHFGHG Listen there's a bunch of doujinshi about a cute punk guy who spontaneously starts lactating and his friend is like Bro....Let Me Help You Bro..and it cracks me up so bad BUT IT'S SO PEAK. YAAHHHH RIPPING SHIRT OFF Oh and older bottoms of course...!!! i love any sort of "unexpected bottom" but then that makes it expected after all, doesn't it... im out of ideas actually nevermind (walks away)
there is one, the holiest of grails, the dynamic that has been ruling my mind for 6 to 7 godless years, the one i may never recover from
and it is the right hand man/sidekick/best friend/unreasonably devoted lackey character..
like, not just "the yes-man" but "the yes-man who the other person relies on and trusts more than any other character" like. the capable one. you know?! the trusted one!! their Special Guy.
and i have to be very wishy washy with what actually counts as this trope... it's usually like... say, there's one character, and they're given more narrative importance, like they are more significant to the story. and then this person often has like, a best friend. or side character. adjacent pal. their accessory. their right hand arm man their everything their confidant their best friend their silly rabbit LIKE. YOU GET IT? It's usually a placement, i think, so that the more-important character can have development............
but i, am obsessed with that side character. i think that's a good way to put it...
my biggest example is a character very few people know about so LOL but it's datz are'bal who changed my life forever. he is a right hand man legiterally, which is why that phrase broke my brain, but we see more of him than his leader- his leader is more significant to the story though- and datz basically exists as a way to dripfeed information about the leader to the audience without meeting him directly.
but that creates this insane implication where datz is so close to dhurke (his leader) that he Knows All of this about him, and he's like, fondly reminiscing about his kids and how cool dhurke is and Fuckkk it's so much
BUT there's speedwagon! robert eo speedwagon from jjba! not a right hand man outright, but very much a peak example of the kind of character i'm talking about!! because speedwagon is jonathan's like... Loyal Ally. and who supports him when no one else does. and devotes his entire life to uplifting jonathan and standing by his side. it's shit like this!! It drives me fucking crazy!!!! he dropped everything and imprinted on jojo so randomly it cracks me up so bad
to me, most of the appeal comes from that devotion and dedication above all else... so like, a traitorous right hand man isn't it for me. and like it has to be mutual too like the leader/main character has to be nice to their sidekick or else i'm calling the rhm protection agency. it has to come from a place of love- it doesn't have to be romantic (but i will make it romantic) but just. ohh. the "this is a set do not seperate" of it all. the long nights spent in quiet moments together... the parts of each other that no one else sees just because they aren't AROUND... Jumps off a cliff
basically..
if a character fondly calls someone else their partner....
i will be dead, on the ground, deceased, actively decomposing
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I find myself encountering more often the variant of this where the right-hand man is also an advisor character; that's always fun. But! That relationship tends to be more one-sided in practice, I've found XD I find myself wanting to call a protection agency for them often 😬
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:D youve played soj?? HES SOOOO (bashing head against the wall until i'm rendered incapable of speech) but yessss the advisor is... i want to love that character type, but they're so often disrespected that i can't take it 😠like omg stop ignoring their advice. please. take their feelings into account. Screams
i also saw in your #9 challenge that youve played dq11 too? i ADORE that game so much!! honestly erik fits the dynamic i'm talking about too.. less emphasis on the right hand man part and more of a best friend, but his devotion to eleven drove me crazy..... sure, they had like, destiny and fate guiding them together, but also erik you just like him. LOL (and hendrik x jasper, which doesn't have anything to do with what i listed, but it ALSO broke meðŸ˜)
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Yeah I played SOJ when it came out!!! I beat it in a week and then cried and sobbed at the end :) Apollo's one of my faves, so you can imagine the emotional stress I was under, lmao. Datz was a highlight, though, fr.
Yay another DQ11 fan~! It's one of my favorite games of all time, and Erik is my favorite character, 100%. I married him at the end of the game, hehehe. His and Eleven's friendship was a main reason for that! One of my fave moments with them is one I didn't get during my playthrough but apparently if you ask Erik to be the bride in a Tickington quest's Wedding Rehearsal while he still has amnesia then he cries and says it'll be one of his happiest memories ever. So you know. Normal Behavior. If beating DQ11 didn't take 90 hours I'd love to replay it sometime just for him XD (And also to maybe pay more attention to the Hendrik & Jasper stuff; I admittedly didn't do that the first go around, but from what I've gleaned it seems FASCINATING. But I'm mostly saying that as a Hendrik enjoyer, haha)
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