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80's AU | Accidental Baby Acquisition | Accidental portal travel leads to unexpected meeting | Accidental Soulbond (Remains Platonic) | Accidental World Hopping | A accused of crimes; only B believes they're innocent | adjusting to a disability | Adjusting to a new society or world | Adopted Sibling Relationship | adopting pets | Alternate Character Interpretation | Alternate Universe - 1920s | Alternate Universe - Aladdin (2019) Fusion | Alternate Universe - Assassins & Hitmen | Alternate Universe - Bed & Breakfast | Alternate Universe - Criminals | Alternate Universe - Dark Angel Fusion | Alternate Universe - Domestic | Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale | Alternate Universe - Foster Family | Alternate Universe - Genie/Djinn | Alternate Universe - High Fantasy | Alternate Universe - Leverage Fusion | Alternate Universe - Mob | Alternate Universe - Mythology | Alternate Universe - Noir | Alternate Universe - Pirates | Alternate Universe - Road Trip | Alternate Universe - Role Reversal | Alternate Universe - Royalty | Alternate Universe - Space | Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents | Alternate Universe - Steampunk | Alternate Universe - The Old Guard-Style Immortality | Alternate Universe - Thieves | Alternate Universe - Time Travel | Alternate Universe - Urban Fantasy | Alternate Universe - Willy's Chocolate Experience |Amnesia - Amnesiac Character Makes Wildly Incorrect Assumptions About Their Own Life | Amnesia - Trying To Bring Back Memories of Loved Ones | Animals being friends with humans | Animals being friends with other animals | Annoying Each Other as a Show of Friendship & Care | AU - Villain wins; character(s) continue to work against them | Awkward and Unconventional Gestures of Friendship | Awkward Family Reunions
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Badly wounded enemies separated from their respective allies must work together to survive | Becoming a better person through the power of friendship | Becoming an Accidental Father Figure | Befriending a cat | Being Emotionally Vulnerable with One Another | Beware the Quiet Ones | Blending cultures in a blended family | Bodyswap | Bodyswap - Character A now has Character B's superpowers; B must try to help them control it | Bonding | Bonding by teaming up during a fight | Bonding over speaking the same language | Bonds forged by fire more intense than anything Characters have felt before | Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
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Canon Compliant | Canon divergence - siblings separated in canon grow up together | Canon Event where character gets Hurt Instead Goes Better | Canon Events From Perspectives Not Given In Canon | Canonically dead character lives (but is still badly hurt) | Capitalism | Captured Character Doesn't Believe Anyone Will Come Rescue Them | Case Fic | Casual Platonic Intimacy | Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse | Cats | Chance Meetings | Character A accidentally infects Character B’s computer with a virus | Character A Attempts to Sacrifice Themselves But is Saved by Character B | Character A Doesn't Realize How Much Power They Have Over Character B | Character A Finding Out Character B Trusts Them | Character A is hurt saving Character B's life | Character A offering massage to Character B | Character A recognises the darkness in Character B; reluctantly appreciates B more because of it | character A shielding character B and getting hurt in their place | Character A showing affection by making clothes for character B | Character A supporting Character B during physical therapy | Character A tests Character B by pretending to be evil | Character A wields Character B's weapon to defend Character B | Character Becomes a Spy | Character being rescued can’t quite believe rescuer is real and not a fakeout/hallucination | Character discovering own self-worth | Character does not feel ready to raise a child; does a good job anyway | Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore | Character Finds Support In Queer Community | Character Goes For Long Walk In Pretty Nature; Has A Great Time | Character Is Immortal | Character is Rewarded with big powers/godhood/blank check favor from powerful being | Character is so tired they feel sick | Character makes a mistake and expects the worst due to past experiences; is met with gentle kindness | Character meets evil alternate version of themself | Character Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others | Character people would least suspect decides they shall cause problems on purpose | Character Raises a Child | Character realizes that their younger siblings have grown up | Character resigned to loneliness finds (platonic) love/family in a most unexpected place | Character resigned to loneliness finds platonic intimacy with other(s) | Character Says "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" | Character Study | Character thinks no one is coming to save them; MULTIPLE people team up for the rescue | Character Unexpectedly Turned Into Child | Character Wakes Up In A Different World | Character was kidnapped as a child and raised by the enemy instead | Character's competence comes across as strange without knowledge of character's background | Character(s) as Great British Bake Off Contestant(s) | Characters argue and make up | Characters Bonding Over Shared Hardships | Characters debate philosophy | Characters Do Drag | Characters Help Each Other After a Shared Traumatic Experience | Characters in a lavender marriage of convenience getting to know each other | Characters learning to trust each other | Characters Meet in the Afterlife | Characters meet themselves from an alternate universe | Characters participate in in-universe fandom | Characters Reading Fanfiction | Characters run into each other in an unexpected place | Characters Teaching Each Other New Skills | Characters Who Dislike Social Events Plot to Avoid One Together | Characters with complicated pasts struggling with guilt and grief and forgiveness | Characters work together to solve a major problem | Characters work together to solve a mystery | Cleanup and paperwork after canon-typical plot | Close Friendships Between Leaders & Subordinates | comedic gardening failures | Coming Out | coming to terms with permanent injury | Competent Character teaching skill (s) to others | Complicated Family Legacy/Inheritance | Complicated power dynamics in a friendship | Compromising on Uneven Power Dynamics In A Platonic Relationship | conversations in liminal spaces | court intrigue |Crack Treated Seriously | Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded | Crossover - character travels to another dimension | Crossover - Character's Canonically Incurable Illness/Injury Curable By Character From Other Canon | Crossover - Characters From Different Fandoms Are Related | Crossover - Characters From Different Fandoms Are Very Compatible as Friends | Crossover - characters with similar experiences from different fandoms talk about it | Crossover - Villain from one fandom is causing trouble in another fandom
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Dancing | dangerous character | Dangerous morally grey person utterly loyal to person they see as good and kind | De-Aging - Meeting a Younger Version of a Character | Defeating a villain by convincing their subordinate to betray them | Detectives with very different styles or skillsets must collaborate on a case | Difficult Decisions In War Time | Difficult recovery after an injury | Dimensional Travel - Transported To A Dramatically Diverged Alternate Universe | Discussing similarities between their respective lovers | Doing Household Chores Together | Dreams - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
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Enemies team up to fight against a mutual enemy | enemies turned friends | Enemy to Caretaker | Escalating Game of Telephone | Estranged Family Members Must Go On A Quest Together | Estranged siblings in conflict (circumstances ideology or battle) still care deeply for each other | Estrangement | Exhaustion | Exploration of Wealth and/or Class Differences | Exploring Alien City/World | Exploring canon injuries in more detail | Expressions of Trust
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Fake/Pretend Relationship (Remains Platonic) | Family bonding via hair care | Family members who would do absolutely anything for each other | A Fan Wakes Up In A Fictional Universe As A Previously Non-Existent Character | Father Figures | Father-Son Relationship | Fight Scenes | A finds it easier to talk about their problems with B than with other friends they know better | Finicky Details About What It's Like To Live In A Particular Setting | First time a character with very rare interest or talent meets another character who shares it | Fix-It | Fix-It - Canonical Character Death is Averted | fixing the world after breaking it | Flawed parental figure | Flawed parental figure seeking atonement | Fluff and Hurt/Comfort | Friends Discussing Treason Over Tea | Friends supporting each other through tough times | Fun Day Out
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Genderbending | Gratuitous Historical Detail
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Hair Braiding | Hair Grooming | Having “the talk” (about sex) with your kid | Headaches & Migraines | Healthy Communication | Heart-to-Heart Talk in the Middle of an Action Scene | Heist | Hero sacrificing themself for others - but sacrificing freedom/sense of self/way of life (not dying) | Holidays | Homesteading/Farming | Hospitalization | Housewarming Gifts | Huddling For Warmth | Hugs | Hurt/Comfort | Hurt/Comfort - Arrow Wounds | Hurt/Comfort - Broken ribs | Hurt/Comfort - Character A Doesn’t Know How To Help Hurt B Because Of Their Nonhuman Biology | Hurt/Comfort - Character Doesn't Expect Tenderness But Gets It Anyway | Hurt/Comfort - Character expects to be punished but is comforted instead | Hurt/Comfort - character isn't used to being taken care of | Hurt/Comfort - Comforting from Nightmares | Hurt/Comfort - Downplaying traumatic events and/or injuries | Hurt/Comfort - Expecting More Hurt; Receiving Comfort Instead | Hurt/Comfort - hurt character hates showing vulnerability | Hurt/Comfort - Seasickness | Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/sick character still has to get their job done
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Immortality | Immortals recognize each other through brief reference to long-dead culture that no one else gets | In-Universe Academia | In-Universe AITA Post | In-Universe Social Media Posts | Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" | Injury Recovery | Inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice | Involuntary Apotheosis | A Is Kidnapped and B Will Burn Down the World to Get A Back Safely
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Language Barrier | Laughter and levity as a way of forgetting about horrible things for a moment | Learning to Interact With Your Parents as an Adult | Leather Mentorship | Legends & Lore | Loyalty - A is loyal to B and desperate to believe B is a good person (despite evidence otherwise) | Loyalty - King/Queen and Lionheart dynamics | Loyalty - Leader wants to be worthy of their followers' loyalty | Loyalty Kink - Us Against The World
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Magical Education | Magical Tattoos | Male Damsel in Distress | Meeting Again Years Later | Mental Health Issues | Mentor-Protégé Relationship - Paladin & Squire | Mercyfic - Expecting Hurt; Receiving Kindness | Mind Control - Recovery while in high pressure circumstances | Mind Control - Victim pretending to be mind controlled to trick the villain | Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery | Moral Dilemmas | Mundane character learns more about magical world
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Nice humans taming wild/feral animals | Non-Linear Narrative | Non-Traditional Found Family | Noodle Incidents | Normally stoic character loses it after losing someone important to them
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Oaths & Vows | Office Party | Old Injuries Acting Up | Older character sees themselves in younger character | on the run together | On the run together and become very protective of one another | Only person character can lean on in a foreign land | Outsider POV - Outsider Has Entirely The Wrong Idea About What They Witness | Over protectiveness | Overworking
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Pack Bonding | Pack Family | Parallels | Parental figure comforting child/adult having nightmares or flashbacks | Parenting Causes Character to Reevaluate Their Own Childhood | Period-Typical Medical Care | Permanent Injury | Platonic "I Love Yous" | Platonic "there was only one bed" - characters annoy each other through the night | Platonic arranged marriage | Platonic Battle Couple | Platonic Bed-sharing | Platonic Bedsharing - Trauma Makes It Hard To Sleep Alone | platonic co-parenting | Platonic Cuddling | Platonic Fake Marriage for "Propriety" in a Historical Setting | Platonic Forehead Kisses | Platonic Hero Worship | Platonic Life Partners | Platonic marriage of convenience | Platonic Physical Affection and Tenderness | Platonic Relationship Negotiation | Platonic soulmates dealing with rumors about their love life | political maneuvering | Portal Transports Character To A Different World/Reality/Universe/Time Period | POV Outsider | Power Outage | Pre-Canon - What sort of adventures did the character(s) go on before canon? | Pretending to be a fictional character | The Process of Healing From Past Trauma | Prophetic Dreams/Visions | protective friends | Protectiveness - Character A verbally defends B when B doesn't stand up for themself | Protectiveness - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about | Psychics
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Queer Character Brings Their Newly Out Friend to Their First Gay Bar | Queer Gen
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Rashomon-Style Conflicting Narratives | Realization of Unconditional Trust | A Realizes Their Impression Of B Was Incorrect | Reformed former bad guy has to go undercover as a bad guy | Reincarnation | Reluctant Mentor & Very Enthusiastic Protégé | remaking your identity after leaving behind everything you knew | Rescue | Rescuing your platonic plus-one from awkward conversations | Reunion After A Long Estrangement | Ride-or-Die friendship | Road Trip | Road trip after succeeding in stopping the end of the world
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Secret Identity | secret reveal | Seeming fluff that’s actually incredibly bittersweet due to surrounding circumstances | Seemingly-Dead Character Faked Their Death And Has Been Absolutely Miserable | Seemingly-Dead Character Faked Their Death And Has Been Off Living Their Best Life | Seemingly-dead character was actually kidnapped and mind-controlled/brainwashed by the bad guys | Self-Discovery | Sex pollen successfully resisted by uninterested characters | Shapeshifter A turns into a cat and sits on B's lap | Shared commiseration over being forced to attend a formal event | Shared Grief | Sharing a Body | Sharing the Hot Gossip | Siblings | Sick/hurt character indispensable on case/mission; team looks after them while they get things done | Sickfic | slow burn found family | Slow burn friendship | Small lie escalates into increasingly more convoluted lies and their maintenance | Snowed In | Subtle and considerate gestures of care where overt comfort is inappropriate or can't be offered | Surviving Canon Death with Nonetheless Life-Altering Consequences and Injuries | Sworn Sibling Dynamics
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Taking On New Responsibilities | Talking in the middle of the night when insomnia hits | Teaching a New Skill | Teaching a Serious Character How to be Teased | Teaching Someone How To Drive | Teaching Someone How To Pilot a Spaceship | Team Bonding | Team Dynamics | Tender Friendship and Even More Tender Cheek Touches | Terrible But Earnest Attempts at Mentorship | Therapy | Time Loop | Time Travel - Character changes the past to prevent traumatic events and succeeds | Time Travel - Character saves their younger self from trauma | Time Travel - Child meeting the parent they never got chance to know | Time Travel - From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character | Time Travel - meeting the younger version of yourself | Time Travel - Peggy Sue | Time Travel as Trauma Therapy | Time Travel Fix-It | Touch telepathy helping overcome miscommunication | Touch-Starved | Train Stations As a Blatant Metaphor for Life Transitions | Trapped in Elevator together | Traumatized Character Learning to Trust Others | Truth or Dare | Truth Serum | Truth Spells | A typically puts their own needs/preferences to one side; B pays attention to A's needs/preferences
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Unappreciated Charater Finds Out that They Are Appreciated After All | Undercover - Hurt/Comfort While Undercover | Undercover - Much To Their Distress Good Guy A Is Surprisingly Good At Pretending To Be Evil | Undercover agent reluctantly grows to like their target (& still goes through with their mission) | Undercover as Evil | Undercover As Father And Son/Daughter | Undercover character ends up actually becoming the person they're pretending to be | Unplanned Pregnancy | Us Against The World Mentality That Might Not Be Healthy But The Characters Find It Comforting
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Very Logical Character has to work with character who uses magic/the supernatural | villain is the only one to see the true state of the hero's mental health | Villain Protagonist | Villain tries to draw out hero's dark side (that they say they know is there) | Villain turns to the good side but Heroes still distrust them; Villain Gets Hurt Fighting For Heroes | Vow of Honesty
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While not lucid character A accidentally lets slip a secret they think B will hate them for | Whump | Wingfic | Worldbuilding | Worldbuilding - details of how politics work in the canon setting | Worldbuilding - exploring new settings/countries | The Worst Person Is Also Hurt Character's Only Hope | Wounded Doctor Character Has To Instruct Non-Doctor on How To Treat Their Injuries
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Badly wounded enemies separated from their respective allies must work together to survive | Becoming a better person through the power of friendship | Becoming an Accidental Father Figure | Befriending a cat | Being Emotionally Vulnerable with One Another | Beware the Quiet Ones | Blending cultures in a blended family | Bodyswap | Bodyswap - Character A now has Character B's superpowers; B must try to help them control it | Bonding | Bonding by teaming up during a fight | Bonding over speaking the same language | Bonds forged by fire more intense than anything Characters have felt before | Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
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Canon Compliant | Canon divergence - siblings separated in canon grow up together | Canon Event where character gets Hurt Instead Goes Better | Canon Events From Perspectives Not Given In Canon | Canonically dead character lives (but is still badly hurt) | Capitalism | Captured Character Doesn't Believe Anyone Will Come Rescue Them | Case Fic | Casual Platonic Intimacy | Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse | Cats | Chance Meetings | Character A accidentally infects Character B’s computer with a virus | Character A Attempts to Sacrifice Themselves But is Saved by Character B | Character A Doesn't Realize How Much Power They Have Over Character B | Character A Finding Out Character B Trusts Them | Character A is hurt saving Character B's life | Character A offering massage to Character B | Character A recognises the darkness in Character B; reluctantly appreciates B more because of it | character A shielding character B and getting hurt in their place | Character A showing affection by making clothes for character B | Character A supporting Character B during physical therapy | Character A tests Character B by pretending to be evil | Character A wields Character B's weapon to defend Character B | Character Becomes a Spy | Character being rescued can’t quite believe rescuer is real and not a fakeout/hallucination | Character discovering own self-worth | Character does not feel ready to raise a child; does a good job anyway | Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore | Character Finds Support In Queer Community | Character Goes For Long Walk In Pretty Nature; Has A Great Time | Character Is Immortal | Character is Rewarded with big powers/godhood/blank check favor from powerful being | Character is so tired they feel sick | Character makes a mistake and expects the worst due to past experiences; is met with gentle kindness | Character meets evil alternate version of themself | Character Offers/Sacrifices Self to Protect Others | Character people would least suspect decides they shall cause problems on purpose | Character Raises a Child | Character realizes that their younger siblings have grown up | Character resigned to loneliness finds (platonic) love/family in a most unexpected place | Character resigned to loneliness finds platonic intimacy with other(s) | Character Says "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" | Character Study | Character thinks no one is coming to save them; MULTIPLE people team up for the rescue | Character Unexpectedly Turned Into Child | Character Wakes Up In A Different World | Character was kidnapped as a child and raised by the enemy instead | Character's competence comes across as strange without knowledge of character's background | Character(s) as Great British Bake Off Contestant(s) | Characters argue and make up | Characters Bonding Over Shared Hardships | Characters debate philosophy | Characters Do Drag | Characters Help Each Other After a Shared Traumatic Experience | Characters in a lavender marriage of convenience getting to know each other | Characters learning to trust each other | Characters Meet in the Afterlife | Characters meet themselves from an alternate universe | Characters participate in in-universe fandom | Characters Reading Fanfiction | Characters run into each other in an unexpected place | Characters Teaching Each Other New Skills | Characters Who Dislike Social Events Plot to Avoid One Together | Characters with complicated pasts struggling with guilt and grief and forgiveness | Characters work together to solve a major problem | Characters work together to solve a mystery | Cleanup and paperwork after canon-typical plot | Close Friendships Between Leaders & Subordinates | comedic gardening failures | Coming Out | coming to terms with permanent injury | Competent Character teaching skill (s) to others | Complicated Family Legacy/Inheritance | Complicated power dynamics in a friendship | Compromising on Uneven Power Dynamics In A Platonic Relationship | conversations in liminal spaces | court intrigue |Crack Treated Seriously | Creating your moral code from scratch after the last one imploded | Crossover - character travels to another dimension | Crossover - Character's Canonically Incurable Illness/Injury Curable By Character From Other Canon | Crossover - Characters From Different Fandoms Are Related | Crossover - Characters From Different Fandoms Are Very Compatible as Friends | Crossover - characters with similar experiences from different fandoms talk about it | Crossover - Villain from one fandom is causing trouble in another fandom
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Dancing | dangerous character | Dangerous morally grey person utterly loyal to person they see as good and kind | De-Aging - Meeting a Younger Version of a Character | Defeating a villain by convincing their subordinate to betray them | Detectives with very different styles or skillsets must collaborate on a case | Difficult Decisions In War Time | Difficult recovery after an injury | Dimensional Travel - Transported To A Dramatically Diverged Alternate Universe | Discussing similarities between their respective lovers | Doing Household Chores Together | Dreams - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious
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Enemies team up to fight against a mutual enemy | enemies turned friends | Enemy to Caretaker | Escalating Game of Telephone | Estranged Family Members Must Go On A Quest Together | Estranged siblings in conflict (circumstances ideology or battle) still care deeply for each other | Estrangement | Exhaustion | Exploration of Wealth and/or Class Differences | Exploring Alien City/World | Exploring canon injuries in more detail | Expressions of Trust
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Fake/Pretend Relationship (Remains Platonic) | Family bonding via hair care | Family members who would do absolutely anything for each other | A Fan Wakes Up In A Fictional Universe As A Previously Non-Existent Character | Father Figures | Father-Son Relationship | Fight Scenes | A finds it easier to talk about their problems with B than with other friends they know better | Finicky Details About What It's Like To Live In A Particular Setting | First time a character with very rare interest or talent meets another character who shares it | Fix-It | Fix-It - Canonical Character Death is Averted | fixing the world after breaking it | Flawed parental figure | Flawed parental figure seeking atonement | Fluff and Hurt/Comfort | Friends Discussing Treason Over Tea | Friends supporting each other through tough times | Fun Day Out
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Genderbending | Gratuitous Historical Detail
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Hair Braiding | Hair Grooming | Having “the talk” (about sex) with your kid | Headaches & Migraines | Healthy Communication | Heart-to-Heart Talk in the Middle of an Action Scene | Heist | Hero sacrificing themself for others - but sacrificing freedom/sense of self/way of life (not dying) | Holidays | Homesteading/Farming | Hospitalization | Housewarming Gifts | Huddling For Warmth | Hugs | Hurt/Comfort | Hurt/Comfort - Arrow Wounds | Hurt/Comfort - Broken ribs | Hurt/Comfort - Character A Doesn’t Know How To Help Hurt B Because Of Their Nonhuman Biology | Hurt/Comfort - Character Doesn't Expect Tenderness But Gets It Anyway | Hurt/Comfort - Character expects to be punished but is comforted instead | Hurt/Comfort - character isn't used to being taken care of | Hurt/Comfort - Comforting from Nightmares | Hurt/Comfort - Downplaying traumatic events and/or injuries | Hurt/Comfort - Expecting More Hurt; Receiving Comfort Instead | Hurt/Comfort - hurt character hates showing vulnerability | Hurt/Comfort - Seasickness | Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/sick character still has to get their job done
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Immortality | Immortals recognize each other through brief reference to long-dead culture that no one else gets | In-Universe Academia | In-Universe AITA Post | In-Universe Social Media Posts | Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go" | Injury Recovery | Inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice | Involuntary Apotheosis | A Is Kidnapped and B Will Burn Down the World to Get A Back Safely
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Language Barrier | Laughter and levity as a way of forgetting about horrible things for a moment | Learning to Interact With Your Parents as an Adult | Leather Mentorship | Legends & Lore | Loyalty - A is loyal to B and desperate to believe B is a good person (despite evidence otherwise) | Loyalty - King/Queen and Lionheart dynamics | Loyalty - Leader wants to be worthy of their followers' loyalty | Loyalty Kink - Us Against The World
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Magical Education | Magical Tattoos | Male Damsel in Distress | Meeting Again Years Later | Mental Health Issues | Mentor-Protégé Relationship - Paladin & Squire | Mercyfic - Expecting Hurt; Receiving Kindness | Mind Control - Recovery while in high pressure circumstances | Mind Control - Victim pretending to be mind controlled to trick the villain | Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery | Moral Dilemmas | Mundane character learns more about magical world
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Nice humans taming wild/feral animals | Non-Linear Narrative | Non-Traditional Found Family | Noodle Incidents | Normally stoic character loses it after losing someone important to them
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Oaths & Vows | Office Party | Old Injuries Acting Up | Older character sees themselves in younger character | on the run together | On the run together and become very protective of one another | Only person character can lean on in a foreign land | Outsider POV - Outsider Has Entirely The Wrong Idea About What They Witness | Over protectiveness | Overworking
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Pack Bonding | Pack Family | Parallels | Parental figure comforting child/adult having nightmares or flashbacks | Parenting Causes Character to Reevaluate Their Own Childhood | Period-Typical Medical Care | Permanent Injury | Platonic "I Love Yous" | Platonic "there was only one bed" - characters annoy each other through the night | Platonic arranged marriage | Platonic Battle Couple | Platonic Bed-sharing | Platonic Bedsharing - Trauma Makes It Hard To Sleep Alone | platonic co-parenting | Platonic Cuddling | Platonic Fake Marriage for "Propriety" in a Historical Setting | Platonic Forehead Kisses | Platonic Hero Worship | Platonic Life Partners | Platonic marriage of convenience | Platonic Physical Affection and Tenderness | Platonic Relationship Negotiation | Platonic soulmates dealing with rumors about their love life | political maneuvering | Portal Transports Character To A Different World/Reality/Universe/Time Period | POV Outsider | Power Outage | Pre-Canon - What sort of adventures did the character(s) go on before canon? | Pretending to be a fictional character | The Process of Healing From Past Trauma | Prophetic Dreams/Visions | protective friends | Protectiveness - Character A verbally defends B when B doesn't stand up for themself | Protectiveness - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about | Psychics
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Queer Character Brings Their Newly Out Friend to Their First Gay Bar | Queer Gen
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Rashomon-Style Conflicting Narratives | Realization of Unconditional Trust | A Realizes Their Impression Of B Was Incorrect | Reformed former bad guy has to go undercover as a bad guy | Reincarnation | Reluctant Mentor & Very Enthusiastic Protégé | remaking your identity after leaving behind everything you knew | Rescue | Rescuing your platonic plus-one from awkward conversations | Reunion After A Long Estrangement | Ride-or-Die friendship | Road Trip | Road trip after succeeding in stopping the end of the world
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Secret Identity | secret reveal | Seeming fluff that’s actually incredibly bittersweet due to surrounding circumstances | Seemingly-Dead Character Faked Their Death And Has Been Absolutely Miserable | Seemingly-Dead Character Faked Their Death And Has Been Off Living Their Best Life | Seemingly-dead character was actually kidnapped and mind-controlled/brainwashed by the bad guys | Self-Discovery | Sex pollen successfully resisted by uninterested characters | Shapeshifter A turns into a cat and sits on B's lap | Shared commiseration over being forced to attend a formal event | Shared Grief | Sharing a Body | Sharing the Hot Gossip | Siblings | Sick/hurt character indispensable on case/mission; team looks after them while they get things done | Sickfic | slow burn found family | Slow burn friendship | Small lie escalates into increasingly more convoluted lies and their maintenance | Snowed In | Subtle and considerate gestures of care where overt comfort is inappropriate or can't be offered | Surviving Canon Death with Nonetheless Life-Altering Consequences and Injuries | Sworn Sibling Dynamics
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Taking On New Responsibilities | Talking in the middle of the night when insomnia hits | Teaching a New Skill | Teaching a Serious Character How to be Teased | Teaching Someone How To Drive | Teaching Someone How To Pilot a Spaceship | Team Bonding | Team Dynamics | Tender Friendship and Even More Tender Cheek Touches | Terrible But Earnest Attempts at Mentorship | Therapy | Time Loop | Time Travel - Character changes the past to prevent traumatic events and succeeds | Time Travel - Character saves their younger self from trauma | Time Travel - Child meeting the parent they never got chance to know | Time Travel - From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character | Time Travel - meeting the younger version of yourself | Time Travel - Peggy Sue | Time Travel as Trauma Therapy | Time Travel Fix-It | Touch telepathy helping overcome miscommunication | Touch-Starved | Train Stations As a Blatant Metaphor for Life Transitions | Trapped in Elevator together | Traumatized Character Learning to Trust Others | Truth or Dare | Truth Serum | Truth Spells | A typically puts their own needs/preferences to one side; B pays attention to A's needs/preferences
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Unappreciated Charater Finds Out that They Are Appreciated After All | Undercover - Hurt/Comfort While Undercover | Undercover - Much To Their Distress Good Guy A Is Surprisingly Good At Pretending To Be Evil | Undercover agent reluctantly grows to like their target (& still goes through with their mission) | Undercover as Evil | Undercover As Father And Son/Daughter | Undercover character ends up actually becoming the person they're pretending to be | Unplanned Pregnancy | Us Against The World Mentality That Might Not Be Healthy But The Characters Find It Comforting
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Very Logical Character has to work with character who uses magic/the supernatural | villain is the only one to see the true state of the hero's mental health | Villain Protagonist | Villain tries to draw out hero's dark side (that they say they know is there) | Villain turns to the good side but Heroes still distrust them; Villain Gets Hurt Fighting For Heroes | Vow of Honesty
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While not lucid character A accidentally lets slip a secret they think B will hate them for | Whump | Wingfic | Worldbuilding | Worldbuilding - details of how politics work in the canon setting | Worldbuilding - exploring new settings/countries | The Worst Person Is Also Hurt Character's Only Hope | Wounded Doctor Character Has To Instruct Non-Doctor on How To Treat Their Injuries
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