Snowflake Challenge #9: Your Favorite Tropes

[snowynight]

 Challenge #9

 

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

 
My favourite trope is pining, because it can lead to easily resolvable angst and heartbreak. I like when characters stoically pine from afar without feeling of entitlement. I like when characters have very good reasons to expect their feeling to be unrequited (and happily proven wrong). 

My current fandom Conclave (2024) is ripe for pining when the main characters are all Catholic priests and nuns,  who swear vows of chastity. So much delicious angst: do you want to break your lifelong vow? Do you really want to tempt your love interest from breaking their vow? Do they want to? Not to mention the power difference between the pope/cardinals; superiors/subordinates. So ripe for pining! 

Comments

[grayswandir]

I've never really tried to pinpoint what my favorite tropes are, but when you put it like that, yeah -- pining is a great one, and is probably somewhere in my top two or three favorite tropes as well. Especially, as you mention, characters stoically pining from afar without feeling entitled. I haven't seen Conclave but it certainly does sound like a perfect setting for pining and angst!

[snowynight]

It's really great for pining! The guilt, the risk...