Snowflake Challenge - Day 11

[evandar]

Challenge #11

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



My favourite tropes vary between fandoms, tbh, but one constant is that trope of singular, obsessive love. Whether it takes the form of a Dwarf's One in the Tolkien fandoms or a soulmate AU or a regular person just developing an obsession, I don't care. It's like catnip.

It doesn't have to have be mutual. It doesn't even have to have a happy ending, but I do prefer it not to get physically or sexually abusive. When I was younger, I was very much into twu wuv but now that I'm older, I embrace more of the fucked up side of things. Even in my happy-place-fluff fandoms, I like a disquieting edge to my twu wuv 4eva fics. I want the characters in question to know that they're fucked up over each other, and I want them to not care. Embrace the codependency!

I also like outsider perspectives on that sort of relationship. A long time ago, I wrote an outsider-perspective Wincest fic that remains one of my favourite fics that I've ever written because it's basically this trope to a ridiculous degree.

Comments

[flo_nelja]

Yesss, do you have fave canon examples? Or ships for whom you love these best?

[evandar]

Fave canon example would probably be SVSSS. Luo Binghe is seconds away from attic-wifing Shen Qingqiu at any given point.

I usually gravitate towards pairings that involve characters that are enemies in canon, which this trope works really well with. I also like it with incest pairings like Wincest or Thorki, so definitely any pairing that has a darker slant to it.

[florianschild]

I have a soft spot for one-sided obsessive love too. It's kind of tragic and makes for a lot of good angst fic. I definitely prefer it when the lover is very protective and devoted to the object of their affection, much moreso than the creepy stalker kind lol.

[evandar]

Yeah, I prefer the protective dynamic rather than creepy stalker - unless it's for a horror fandom, in which case that preference gets set aside. But you're right. The angst is just delicious.

[greetingsfrommaars]

ooh yeah there's something compelling to me about one-sided "fated love" especially. also I have read that Wincest fic at some point! truly those brothers are so fucked up about each other

[evandar]

They truly, truly are. Even if you don't add in an incest dynamic, they're still fucked up about each other. They should be more fucked up about each other.

One of the reviewers for that fic pointed out that the most unrealistic part of the canon dynamic is that they're too well adjusted for people who had that kind of childhood, which. I still think about that review every time I dip my toes back into Supernatural fandom.

[musyc]

one constant is that trope of singular, obsessive love

Yesssssssssssssssssss. Gimme all of that, it's so good.