I also love this trope, though I don't know any good keywords to find it. I thought of it as "stoic background suffering", although I like your "adaptation" more. I feel like canon movies/TV series often give the characters some painful background, but then don't really address it, and so I turn to fic for the "adaptation" part.
And thank you for the link to that incredible K/S fic! I just spent most of Saturday reading it in one go :D
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Date: 2022-01-29 09:06 pm (UTC)I also love this trope, though I don't know any good keywords to find it. I thought of it as "stoic background suffering", although I like your "adaptation" more. I feel like canon movies/TV series often give the characters some painful background, but then don't really address it, and so I turn to fic for the "adaptation" part.
And thank you for the link to that incredible K/S fic! I just spent most of Saturday reading it in one go :D