Another trope I forgot to mention that I love are traumatized characters experiencing love for the first time and not knowing how to cope with it. I just eat that shit up
especially when they’re like edgy, scary and mean. that moment where they get a tender hug, or a gentle rub or just someone complimenting them and their entire world view is changed. thats so good. i need more of it
if the next big fanfic trope isn’t ‘we had a maybe-fake-maybe-not marriage 26 years ago and i just realized that we never bothered to check if it was legally binding’ i’m suing all of you
a mental image that needed to be shared: percy using the gloves of missile snaring to catch a small excitable quarter elf
perhaps even a small, excitable quarter elf who’s trying (without permission) to figure out how to use Mama’s broom
(So far it’s mostly just running around the house like they’re riding a hobby horse, but on occasion there’s a little bit of lift, and more speed than there ought to be even for a rambunctious kidlet with energy to spare. 😉
I hope the mighty nein keep the blink dog and train him to fight like trinket when he’s full grown, because imagine someone trying to fight jester and she calls out “NUGGET”and this motherfucker appears out of thin air