#2btes polls

Odd Friendship

Two characters who are very different from each other are friends.

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Because I love it when two characters who seem like they would never go together become friends!!!

Bunny-Ears Lawyer

An eccentric character is so good at their job that people look past their eccentricities

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I really like characters whose personalities and actual competency levels seem to go in opposite directions

Dark Is Not Evil

Dark colors, styles, themes, and powers being associated with good.

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Unreliable Narrator

A narrator who may not be telling the truth.

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It’s cool, interesting, and a fun way to learn your mc has been lying to you the entire story!

The Lancer

A character who usually is both a foil to the main character and/or leader of a group, but is also someone they trust, and who is usually treated as their second in command.

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Messed-Up Together

The trope is one where A thinks their unloveable or messed up beyond fixing, while B knows there isn't any real way to save themself. So B tells A that yeah, you're really messed up, but so am I, and it doesn't really matter if we're together, right?

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Because it shows that you don't have to be perfect to find someone to love, and that libe doesn't always mean seeing the best of your partner

My Greatest Second Chance

A character prevents their greatest failure from happening again, to themself or to others.

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Decoy Protagonist

A story in which your initially presented protagonist ends up not being the one who the story is truly about

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It is such a fun way to play with the expectations of the narrative, letting you have fun in a story set up for someone else, seeing how the world reacts to this shift up

Amnesiac Dissonance

A character with amnesia realizes that they used to be of a different alignment/allegiance than they've taken up post-amnesia

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Amnesiac Dissonance

A character with amnesia realizes that they used to be of a different alignment/allegiance than they've taken up post-amnesia

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I like tropes that explore a character's sense of self, and it's always interesting to have a character piece together information that they didn't even know about themselves, and in this specific scenario have to wrestle with whether who they were pre-amnesia is part of who they still are

Idiots to Lovers

Two characters whose love for each other makes them stupid or who are too stupid to realize they love each other.

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Bunny Ears Lawyer

An eccentric character is so good at their job that people look past their eccentricities

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I really like characters whose personalities and actual competency levels seem to go in opposite directions

Tomato in the Mirror

A character learns that something about their identity is different than what they thought

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We Want Our Jerk Back!

Characters liked someone more when they were a jerk.

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It can be really interesting seeing how, despite their flaws, a character can be so important to a group that they can't be without them! Especially if they're a "punching bag" character.

Friends to Lovers

Friends fall in love with each other and become lovers.