#relationship tropes

[tremendously-crazy]

Friends to lovers --> boo, basic, everyone's seen it before

Lovers to best friends with an even stronger bond because they both realized they were aromantic -> new, way cooler, yay, i would pay all i have (2 pennies and a button) to see it

[qweenofurheart]

hello. my favorite extremely niche dynamic

[witchthewriter]

𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞

⤷ female, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!

ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ | ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ ᴵᴵ

ISTP

Slytherin

Chaotic Neutral

Aries Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Capricorn Rising

𝑺𝑭𝑾🌿

・Everyone knew Randall was an asshole from the get-go. Loud-mouthed, aggressive, and does not play well with others.

・He rubbed people the wrong way, his defense was up 24/7. The dude was a pure menace.

・But everyone reacts differently to this town. There were so many questions and hardly any questions. Could an individual's personality be turned up? Maybe.

・So you decided to give him a chance.

・Knocking on the bus' door, a shout came from inside ("Yeah, Yeah, I'm coming!")

・Swinging it open, he looked at you expectantly. It made your confidence waver.

"I ugh, I thought maybe I could show you around town? Ya know, since you've been in the bus for so long."

"Ugh, maybe another time..."

"Oh, okay," you couldn't lie - rejection still hurt, even in this purgatory of a town.

As you turned away, you heard Randall's voice.

"But um, maybe tomorrow?"

A blush crept onto your cheeks as you nodded.

・It took a while for him to warm up to you.

・And when you kissed for the first time; it freaKED HIM OUT.

・He emotionally pushed you away. Afraid of his feelings, of opening up, of caring and then having it all ripped away.

・But after two weeks, your feelings solidified for each other. And it was all because a monster nearly killed you.

・Randall's feelings came at him full blast once he realised you could have died. And if you have ever seen a protective boyfriend ... no you haven't. Not until Randall.

・He was by your bedside - even after you had fully healed. He wouldn't leave you alone.

"Oh, you do care-" you said playfully one morning. And Randall had a tear in his eye.

"You don't understand..." He said, quickly wiping it away, "I don't understand this place, fucked if I know how or when we'll go home. But ... you're mine now."

・His nicknames for you started out as your last name, and then he chose your eye colour. But after your relationship was officially he started calling you, 'babe', and mockingly: 'sweetpea,' 'honey buns.'

・Likes sharing his clothes with you (but NO ONE ELSE. Seriously.)

・You definitely do not call him Randall, when you do it makes him think he's in trouble.

・So you call him the most randomest, sickly-sweet nicknames; just trying to make him blush. He usually just rolls his eyes.

・He moved out of the bus and into the room you'd been staying in.

・Since the bar no longer had a shop keep, the two of you kind of took it over.

・Even if either of you don't like to drink alcohol, you somehow brighten up the place and people feel more welcome.

・Always kisses you goodmorning and goodnight. (He stays awake all night, checking and rechecking the monsters can't get in (they can't) but the thought of being caught asleep next to you, completely defenceless causes so much anxiety for him.)

𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔

Asshole To Everyone Except One Person (Randall) x Is That One Person, Will Never Admit That It Makes Them Feel Special (You)

“I care about you!” (You) x “You shouldn’t!” (Randall)

Thinks They're In Charge (Randall) x Is Actually In Charge (You)

𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆

Defying Expectations

Bickering and Banter

Mutual Growth and Empowerment

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈

Talk Show Host by Radiohead

Please Please Please Epic Version by Morgan Clae

Too Sweet by Hozier

[aeth-eris]

Synastry Placements as Love Tropes

Enemies to Lovers: Mars in hard aspect (square or opposition) to Venus. This planetary configuration symbolizes the initial conflict and tension that often characterize the enemies-to-lovers trope, where intense attraction gradually unfolds amid a backdrop of emotional friction and passionate exchanges.

Friends to Lovers: Moon in harmonious aspect (trine or sextile) to Venus. Reflecting the gentle transition from friendship to romance, this aspect signifies the emotional comfort and rapport underlying the progression from platonic companionship to profound romantic intimacy portrayed in the friends-to-lovers trope.

Forbidden Love: Venus in hard aspect (square or opposition) to Saturn. This configuration mirrors the emotional constraint, societal barriers, and profound longing central to the forbidden love trope, where characters grapple with the complexities of desire amidst formidable obstacles and societal expectations.

Love Triangle: Venus in hard aspect (square or opposition) to Uranus. The disruptive influence of this configuration echoes the emotional turmoil and conflicting desires often depicted in love triangle narratives, where characters navigate intricate relationships fraught with unpredictability and inner conflict.

Soulmates: Sun in close aspect (conjunction) to Moon. This celestial alignment signifies the deep emotional resonance and profound connection characterizing soulmate relationships, exemplifying the profound sense of unity and mutual understanding embedded within the soulmate trope.

Fake Relationship: Venus in hard aspect (square or opposition) to Neptune. Reflecting the illusory nature and emotional complexities woven into the fabric of fake relationship narratives, this configuration captures the blurred lines between genuine affection and orchestrated pretense often portrayed in this trope.

Slow Burn: Mars in harmonious aspect (trine or sextile) to Saturn. This planetary configuration embodies the patient development and enduring attraction characteristic of slow burn relationships, where emotional growth and profound connection gradually unfold over time amid a backdrop of steady, deliberate progression.

Second Chance Romance: Jupiter in harmonious aspect (trine or sextile) to Venus. Signifying renewed hope, growth, and forgiveness, this configuration embodies the themes of redemption and reconciliation embedded within second chance romance narratives, where characters embrace a renewed opportunity for love and understanding.

Vampire/Human Love: Pluto in hard aspect (square or opposition) to Sun. Reflecting the intense power dynamics and existential challenges often portrayed in vampire/human love stories, this configuration captures the transformative and sometimes tumultuous nature of relationships entwined with themes of immortality and forbidden passion.

Opposites Attract: Mercury in hard aspect (square or opposition) to Jupiter. This planetary alignment embodies the interplay of contrasting perspectives and personalities central to the opposites attract trope, where characters navigate the intricate balance between differing worldviews and complementary qualities to foster a harmonious and dynamic relationship.

[ineffectualdemon]

I love it when two characters are intelligent and capable separately but when they stand next to eachother you can see their braincells rapidly jumping ship

their iq goes into freefall if they are within a certain proximity to eachother

They brains crawl out of their heads and go on vacation if they get too close

They cancel out each others intelligence and they turn into two idiots who only have bad ideas

I luv them

[wordslikesilver]

I’m not sure it’s a well known YA series but I think about this one character relationship in the Fablehaven series a lot. I’m gonna skim as much context as possible for brevity here. Caretaker of a mythical creature sanctuary named Patton Burgess falls in love with a Naiad named Lena and he rows his boat out to the middle of the lake every day for months, years to take time to play his violin for her. Talk to her. Ask her to step out of the water for him. If he leans over the edge, she’ll capsize his boat and drown him. If she steps on land, she’ll turn human. And he’s simply polite and persistent and kind and loving while she mocks him, but eventually becomes warm to him. After a long, long time, she finally steps onto the land for him. It’s a really massive deal, like it’s basically utter taboo for her and she can never go back to her sisters in the water. But she does so willingly, and with love in her heart for him because she decides he’s worth it. They marry, they live well and happily together for decades, he passes away and she becomes a maid to future caretakers (and is generally a huge badass in a ton of other ways, led a very exotic life before the events of the books). Literally the sweetest old woman you’ve ever met in your life. Full of love and tenderness and warmth and everything you would associate with a kindly old maid who’s secretly a badass.

Events happen in the books and the misguided benevolence of the fairy queen has her reward the heroes by “setting everything back the way it was” before all the death and destruction, but it goes too far and changes Lena back into a Naiad too, back to the lake where she dwelled, back to her old ways of caring so very little for humans and their company. Our protagonists plead with her to come back. They beg her to remember their time together and the love she felt and expressed towards them. She laughs them off. She even laughs them off when they ask her to think what her husband would’ve wanted. To think about his violin. They try to play it for her. It could never be the same but they try because they love her. She says she doesn’t care anymore and doesn’t seem the slightest like she doesn’t mean it. She’s happy with her sisters again. Happy once more to drown our protagonists if they lean just a little too far forwards, something utterly unthinkable for her character before this. More plot happens and the situation in the sanctuary becomes so dire that a failsafe triggers and a memory of her husband Patton appears as a clone of himself from when he set the failsafe, ready to fix the dire circumstances as best he can. He learns what happened to his wife, what she’s been forcibly changed back into, how her feelings have seemingly irreversibly been changed back the way they were, and doesn’t even think twice before he calmly and confidently strides forth to the lake. He takes up his violin and rows out on the boat to the middle and politely asks her sisters if he can talk to her. When they decline and tell him she doesn’t care about him, he smiles and begins to play.

The air fills with music. The sisters panic and squabble, telling each other to stop her, that he’s not really there. Seconds after he begins playing, despite all the efforts of her sisters, she leaps from the depths and lands in his arms, changing back to the way she was. No hesitation, not the slightest fleeting doubt before tossing away immortality a second time just to be with him again. It took nothing more than the sound of his playing that she never forgot no matter what to bring her back to land. The memory of the love and happiness between them was simply that powerful that it could move her that way. And reader, that destroys me. Oh it tears me asunder I tell you. Can you imagine her in that moment? Peacefully ignoring all the worries and cries of humans she no longer gives a shit about. She’ll outlive all of them. And then music. Her heart begins to hurt and sing with a song it never forgot and she looks up, up at the sunlit shadow of a boat far above her. A heartbeat passes while she listens, it can’t be him. Even as she’s asking herself is it him, is that the music of the man I loved, she’s swimming. All doubts fade away just moments after she draws the slightest bit closer, she knows the timbre of her husband’s bow against the strings. Her sisters are trying to hold her down, to stop her, to drown her in her promised and now returned immortality and she doesn’t want it. She wants to see him again. All of this happening in less than a minute, mind you. That’s how deeply she missed him, long outliving him after he passed away forever ago. They can’t hold her. Nothing could stop her from reaching him in that moment. It DESTROYS me okay, can you imagine love like that? This memory clone of him was only around for 3 days and she gave up immortality just to have him back for even that long.

My favourite relationship trope will always be “no matter what’s happened to me, no matter what I’ve become, I will always return to you. Your scent on the wind, your voice beneath the din, your eyes in the light will call me back to you forever and always. There is nothing that is mine that I wouldn’t give up for you. There is no spell or drug or threat or lie or promise or heaven in all the world that could ever make me turn from you. I could resist you no more than the apple on the branch could resist your hand. Reach for me and I will tumble into your arms again and again.”

Sometimes I imagine my lover being turned into a dryad and what song I might sing to her to bring her back to me. Gods I’m too sappy for things like this, truly.

[cuteasdeath]

Will: First Love

Gwen: Platonic Love

Freya: Tragic Love

Morgana: Forbidden Love

Lancelot: True Love

Gwaine: Passionate Love

[aardvaark]

"She wanted you to know that if you were a shape, you were a straight line, an arrow". --- Leverage "The Stork Job" || Person of Interest "Return 0".

i love this type of relationship. i love you because of, not despite. especially when the other person has never had that kind of unconditional love.

[part-time-zombie]

Rb with your ships, I'm curious

[orangechickenpillow]

One of the saddest things about growing up is realizing that you've passed the age where all of your favorite child characters found love and comfort in the form of someone older

And so you wonder, am I too old to be cared for in the way I should have could have been when i was a child? Is my only choice to be the one who does the caring? Is that why so many older characters care so deeply and reluctantly for younger ones? Because they were never protected as children? Because they had to carry themselves so now they will carry another?

[msfcatlover]

Ship dynamic I go rabid for:

You are a complex, nuanced, amazing person. I see you trying your very best, I see how the world kicks you down again & again, but you just keep spitting out gravel and getting back to your feet. I want to give you safety. I want to give you a break. I want to give you everything. I see how your failures have made you think so, so poorly of yourself; I wish you could see how wrong you are. I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. I wish you could see how incredible you are, and how much better you deserve than what life has given you. You think you're rotten through & through, but there's a good heart beating inside you, and all the sharp, rusty armor in the world can't hide how brightly it's shining.

Me, though. I'm just the Worst(TM)

(It's mutual.)

[angstpancake]

A thought just occurred to me about the relationship dynamic, “I can fix them.” I’ve thought about how toxic this mindset can be in a relationship, and it’s a way that victims of abuse can find themselves trapped in their toxic relationship with their partners.

But I’ve also noticed how some ships i support kind of… have the “I can fix them” trope? And for some reason i am not uncomfy with them and it is in fact my OTP sometimes?

And then i got to analyzing, and i realized, i was calling them the wrong thing.

“I can fix them” is one sided. It’s scary, it’s risky, and it’s repeatedly placing your partner’s needs ahead of your own, with the knowledge that there will never be such a return of sacrifice. “I can fix them” is wasted effort.

“I can fix them” is a toxic mindset. But what if it wasn’t? What if instead of that, we say “I’m not giving up on them”. It implies a healthy boundary, and leaves room for the decision to leave if things go sour. “I’m not giving up on them” says “we’re a team, no matter what” “I’m staying with you” “I love you.”

And if your partner is willing enough, if they’re willing to change for love, then they are more likely to reciprocate. Faith is important people. Remember that always.

Yes i had an agenda what do you take me for, a fool?

[neptune-scythe]

betrayal is the juiciest most underutilized trope ever

that shit is so good if it's done right

like get two characters that are inseparable, written in the stars type shit, the two of them against the world, closer than blood, joined at the hip, a package deal

and then BOOM

betrayal

split up

never speak to each other again

it's fucked up it's evil it ruins both of them

you'll have one character ridden with guilt and regret, always replaying it in their mind, haunted by both the choice they made and the permanent lack of their person

and the other one is so shook to their core, if the person they trusted and counted on and leaned on more than anyone else in the whole world could do that to them, then how can they ever trust another person again

and they'll always be replaying it in their mind too, if there was something they could have done to prevent it

and even better

get the one who gets betrayed to see the signs, to know it's coming but write it off as anxiety or their own doubts and fears because the trust they've built with this person is stronger than that and they've actually come to believe their person would never do that to them and then BAM

their suspicions were right all along

and even better give both characters anxious attachment and abandonment and trust issues, give them childhood trauma from their parents and a lifetime of failed relationships that came before, make them believe they've finally found something safe and permanent and let them just be settling into it and trusting it and then rip it away

it's pure angst

tragedy in it's most perfect form

it's a canon event that could never have been avoided no matter what different choices were made

it's fate

it's death and rebirth and death and rebirth again, two broken souls coming together and becoming something new and beautiful together and then shattering into something grotesque and hollow and jagged and permanently scarred

it's so juicy

so angsty so intense so hurt/no comfort coded

it's delicious

[witchthewriter]

𝐒𝐢𝐡𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞

⤷ gender neutral, ambiguous race, and any size reader. Requests are open, thank you for reading!

Warnings: some spoilers for the series xx

ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ | ᴹᵃˢᵗᵉʳˡᶤˢᵗ ᴵᴵ

ISTP

Hufflepuff

Chaotic Good

Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon, Cancer Rising

𝑺𝑭𝑾🌿

・The most sweetest, most gentle and most loyal husband you could ever imagine.

・Exactly like the ones in the romance novels - you are his world.

・And he would do ANYTHING for you. Sounds cliche but he would literally climb the tallest mountain, ask Uhtred to help him bring down the moon, Sihtric is crazy in love with you. And it doesn't stop after the honeymoon phase.

・Any part of your body that you dislike, Sihtric is the first one to be like "what? I don't get it. You are ... the most glorious person to ever walk on midguard."

・Has cried while alone when he's away from you.

・Not when he's been asked by Uhtred to spy though - he just thinks about you when it's safe to do so (he takes caring for his friends very seriously. He's big on loyalty.)

・Further with the loyalty comment; it's actually hilarious that it was he and Uhtred who set up that ruse in season 3. Sihtric would rather die than actually be that person

・Buys you any and every kind of jewellery; bracelets, rings, earrings, necklaces. If you follow his religion/way of life, then he buys you your own thor's hammer pendant.

・When he places it around your neck, he tugs you forward and leans his head against your forehead.

・Calls you, "sweetheart," "my love," "beautiful/handsome". But also likes to call you cheeky ones too: "troublemaker," "danger."

・Puppy god eyes, puppy dog eyes, PUPPY DOG EYES. He doesn't even know he's doing it. It was practically beaten out of him when he was younger by his father and half-brother.

・But when he realised he was doing it, Sihtric thought, 'I have never felt safe enough to act like this. With anyone.'

𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔

Calm bf (Sihtric) x Hyper gf/bf/non-binary partner (You)

Gives Jewellery (Sihtric) x Tries To Wear Everything Every Day To Make Them Happy (You)

Black Cat (You) x Black Bat (Sihtric)

𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆

Enemies to Lovers

You first saw Sihtric when he was living with his wretched father. You never expected to find him tied up under Uhtred's command.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈

Lady of the Dawn by Peter Gundry

𝑁𝑆𝐹𝑊 🔞 No one under the age of 18 past this point.

・When he first gets back from being away from you, he's hungry - like a dog in heat, he's rough, he needs to feel you, all of you.

・Sihtric's favourite thing to do is go down on you. Your juices, your smells; it drives him mad.

・After he's made you cum thrice, he rubs your cum/juices on his clothes just in case he has to leave again. He wants to be able to smell you.

・It has become a ritual now - if he doesn't then it's bad luck in his mind.

・If Sihtric is home for a while then his fucking turns into love making. Gentle, loving, slow, passionate.

・Long strokes, in and out of you while kissing every part of your face from above, nuzzling his face into your neck.

・Has a massive breeding kink (even if your body does not have the means to create a child); he likes to talk dirty while pumping into you.

"That's it, let me cum inside you my love. I want to put a child in you."

・When you agree with a whimper, it sends him over the edge. Hot ropes of cum shooting inside you.

・Sihtric keeps pumping though. The fantasy of having a large family with you made his cock hard again.