#gilmobb

i like huddling for warmth, i’ve just never come up w/a situation for it that doesn’t feel contrived af?  tbh it’s s/t i’d like to write as a parent-child bonding thing more than a shippy thing--a little kid hogging their parent’s blankets on a cold night seems a lot more plausible than “we’ve been trapped in a freak snowstorm, our only course of action is to hug under a blanket and warm ourselves w/the force of our unresolved sexual tension” www  so to take the family fluff approach, maybe it’d be s/t i’d write for olivia + lil inigo growing up in ferox, since inigo apparently dislikes snow/the cold.

my great fandom secret is that i’ve never really seen the appeal of fake dating?  it feels like such a circumstance- or au-specific thing to me that i’ve never really thought abt writing fic for it.

i’m gonna call the first one love at first sight, ig.  it’s cute, tho i veer more towards slowburn or established relationship, so it’d dovetail w/one of those tropes.  this would be a cute marilissa fic, i think?  lately, i’ve been thinking abt marilissa a lot from both of their perspectives, and it’d be interesting to get into maribelle’s head and examine that unconditional platonic and romantic love she has for lissa.

soulmates is one of my least favorite tropes this side of a/b/o--while i think there can be That One Special Person (tm) out there for some ppl, i generally dislike the idea of being somehow magically bound to that person.  it feels kind of restrictive to me, and the more questions you start to ask abt the mechanics of such a world, the more i kind of feel like it falls apart.  so if i were to ever touch the trope, it’d be in a [tvtropes voice] deconstruction.  what that would entail, i’m not totally sure--maybe s/t abt cordelia -> chrom + severa -> lucina in the context of severa resenting her own feelings for lucina b/c she misunderstood what she saw as cordelia’s continued pining for chrom?  severa’s misunderstandings and misconstruings of cordelia -> chrom are interesting to think abt, tho it’s saddening if bad timeline!cordelia really didn’t get over chrom b/c she was clinging to that soulmate idea.  that said, i would also want to give cordelia -> chrom a more nuanced portrayal beyond “tragic unrequited love that consumes like half her supports”, haha.

forced to work together to succeed is one that i really like when the characters don’t straight-up hate each other so much as they just get on each other’s nerves or operate in different ways.  i had this whole silly buddy cop au abt soleil and nina as Righteous Thieves who bicker constantly b/c soleil is only in it to look cool (and to keep nina safe, tho she’d never admit it out loud) whereas nina is only in it for her own pigheaded view of justice (tho she’s thankful soleil supports her, even if she’d never admit it out loud).  so it’d just be comedic nonsense like the two of them shouting at each other b/c nina is driving the getaway car at the speed limit (she is a RIGHTEOUS thief, not an indiscriminate lawbreaker!!) www