The Best Trope Ever Showdown: FINALS
Found Family
Propaganda:
Well all know it, we all love it
the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb
Forming a bond with friends or strangers so deeply they become your family!!! Choosing the people you want to support you, to be your backbone, to care for you and be cared for by you in return!
literally the experience! characters may not come from the best past but they grow together and give each other the support that they can't get otherwise. the attachments that form are usually amazing and I guess just. yeah! + platonic/doesn't need romance involved which I guess is a plus for myself???
Because its so cute! It's sweet, and kind, and forgiving, and just asdfghjk its just the best. Without FF we wouldnt have shows like The Owl House so think about that okay?
I mean, come on. A pair or group of people that know little about or nothing about each other become fiercely protective and loving towards the others. They consider each other family through shared experiences and traumas, loving and caring for each other as if they were kin.
Battle Couple
Propaganda:
Two people fighting side by side, or back to back, trusting the other to have their back, even while bickering. Amazing. And if they kiss, surrounded by enemies… perfection ❤️❤️❤️
Reformed, but Not Tamed
They're not Evil anymore. But like, they're also not Nice really. Still a jerk about it. (No TVTropes page submitted)
Propaganda:
All the coolness of a redeemed villain but without losing the spicy villain jerk charisma they had before. Often called The Vegeta. Get to have your cake and eat it too.
who doesn't love a villain kinda sorta turning good but being annoyed about it the whole time
We all love it when the bad guy joins the Plucky Team of Heroes because it is a) hilarious or b) reaaaaally interesting character dynamics, and "reformed but not tamed" is the superior way to achieve this. You get all the fun of having the bad guy join the team WITHOUT having to sand down everything that MAKES the bad guy interesting. In this house, we like a "domestication" arc more than a "redemption" arc. He's still an awful little shithead, but now he's OUR awful little shithead.
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It’s been a while, tumblr. I drew this after seeing a few ship dynamics posts and obviously the only place I could possibly post this was tumblr. If you have any fiction to recommend me based on this, I’m all ears. Chaotic Found Family is definitely my favorite dynamic of all time.
If you couldn’t already guess, I was thinking about Avatar: The Last Airbender (not a kids’ show!!), N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy (The Fifth Season), Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth), and the Grishaverse (TV adaptation) while drawing these.
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I just watched the Tether conversation for the first time! This is 1000% a soulmates conversation. If I'd watched weekly I would have come away from c3e49 confident Imodna would get together.
It was so beautiful 😭😭😭😭
I can't believe they had the Soulmates Conversation before they kissed!!!!
Also I can't help but see the similarities between Imodna and GreenQueens especially because both have had conversations where one calls the other her tether.
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More platonic battle couples. Battle friends.
Soldiers who've trained and fought together for years and now move like two halves of a whole, always watching each other's back.
Fantasy duo who've perfected their method of fighting side-by-side with weapons and magic. Or who use magic to strengthen each other, magic bolstering their fighting.
Near strangers forced together by a dire situation, having to work together to survive. They're a little awkward, a little clumsy, but necessity gives way to partnership. Trauma keeps them together after. Their struggles and growth as they learn to work together.
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The Best Trope Ever Showdown: Round 3, Side B
Tragic Villain
No propaganda was submitted.
Battle Couple
Propaganda:
Two people fighting side by side, or back to back, trusting the other to have their back, even while bickering. Amazing. And if they kiss, surrounded by enemies… perfection ❤️❤️❤️
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