Stick Out Your Chin

B. A very solid option, especially since I mostly read and write superhero fic! Adding additional layers bumps this one up, like "Not only am I the superhero who rescued you, I'm also the person you've been anonymously corresponding with and fallen in love with via letters" or whatever. (Speaking of which, there should be way more The Shop Around the Corner/You've Got Mail riffs in fandom.)

C! I feel like this is one of those tropes, like soulmate AUs, where all too often it's used to solve problems instead of creating them. Like, it hits, the characters are forced to confess their love, everything's great...and that's not particularly interesting to me? But forced truth that causes problems, i.e. where a character says a hurtful truth, or is desperately looking for any possible way not to say the thing to the point of making ill-advised choices, or just fucking bails...now that, that's a fic!

D. Does absolutely nothing for me aside from the extremely silly one I wrote twenty years ago. I would only read it if I really, really trusted the author or was absolutely desperate for fic with the pairing. Often it feels like a way to erase women in canon (fic where Lian is Roy and Jason's bio kid infuriates me) or just generally replicate heteronormative dynamics without having to write icky women. Plus I have no interest in OC kids.

Sorry that was misleading! I meant in my head, where he's bi but oblivious, he also has multiple queer kids. Canonically it's just Connor.

(Ollie is...not a tremendously introspective man.)

Many, MANY years ago I cowrote a Javid (Newsies) mpreg fic. Which in and of itself isn't that weird except the pregnancy was diagnosed by a talking toilet Jack had invented named Hamlet.