#i am SUCH a sucker for this dfhdkjsh

[arofili]

god my favorite elf/dwarf trope is cultural misunderstandings re: courting rituals? like a dwarf braiding their elf lover’s hair and freaking out internally because oh my god they don’t know i’m basically claiming that we’re together ahhhh or an elf having sex with their dwarf lover and freaking out because oh nooo they don’t know how serious this is ahhhhh (and this works with things other than braids and sex, those are just the two most common ones i see)

bonus points if the other person has heard rumors of that practice, like because the dwarf doesn’t mention anything significant about their new braids they assume it’s not an accurate rumor - until another dwarf points it out and they’re like ohHHH SHIT I WAS RIGHT, why didn’t they TELL me???

and even BETTER: the other person does know what it means but is too anxious to bring it up, like because the elf doesn’t say that having sex basically means you’re engaged/married/whatever version of the trope you want to go with, the dwarf is like well i guess i’m married now and starts acting like it, which freaks the elf out because they’re like i didn’t tell them we’re married?? are they mocking me?? are they coming on to me?? what’s going on??

- OR they assume they DO know what it means and are upset when the other person DOESN”T act like they’re already married...!!! and everyone gets their feelings hurt until they inevitably talk about it and clear everything up

and OF COURSE it has to be reciprocal, like the elf does their cultural thing and the dwarf then does theirs, and then when the issue finally gets confronted they both confess how much they care about each other and how they’ve already acted on it, and then they KISS and are HAPPY

#tropes #fantasy #elf #dwarf #gigolas #bc lbr that's where i see this most often #and to a lesser degree in #kiliel #tefain nin #i am SUCH a sucker for this dfhdkjsh