#bonus points for alien parasite. there’s an anime i never finished with a similar situation to venom

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over specific writing trope kink: Fusions

-tagged Ryuko from klk on a ‘tag a female blorbo’ post. mostly cus she’s a fun tomboy and female shonen protag who’s allowed to act like a shonen protag. then I remembered her transformation was basically a fusion with Senketsu and that’s part of what stood out about her to teen me. I was not immune to girl and he/him genderless entity that only she can hear and understand reaching their full power via one wearing the other as armor. and hitting you with “don’t lose your way” when they do it.

-in pokemon my fav box legendaries are reshiram/zekrom and necrozma. I like their taoist and space motifs to begin with, and fusion is the icing on the cake. the original dragon being so attached to its human companions and their ideologies that it splits itself into independent beings is fascinating. do reshiram and zekrom have separate senses of identity or do they see each other as another self? no one’s doing it like them. and don’t get me started on necrozma. having its true self stripped and stolen from it, it can now only reach its true form through fusion. in games without z crystals it can’t go ultra at all, so the fusion isn’t just a stepping stone but the closest it can get to being its original self again. it’s shown as a hostile takeover/possession type beat, but I like to speculate that post story when necro is no longer running around in a rage it could be more of a consensual mind meld. I wonder if both parties could say, come to prefer being dusk mane rather than solgaleo and necrozma (separately). yes this is about a being wearing its partner/other half as armor again.

-haven’t seen stevens universe but know Garnet is a fusion on purpose and I’ve heard her beautiful song about it. looking respectfully

-the mirror scene in turning red where they try to seal the panda spirit made me recoil internally when I saw it years ago. instinctively thought ‘it splits you in half’ in mild horror.

-this one isn’t that deep but do any cartoon network kids remember the ben 10/generator rex crossover where they fused. Ben and Rex started as kinda antagonistic rivals but became friends by the end of the special, and they fused by having Ben turn into upgrade. yes this is about characters wearing each other as armor or weaponry again sorrry

-obligatory haven’t seen venom but looking respectfully

do you see my vision