i'd love to know what makes others fall in love with a fic - we see the more common talked about tropes like "there is only one bed" or "coffee shop au" all the time on spaces like tiktok all the time, so i thought i'd ask here since forums allow for longer responses. please take your time and think about it!
here are my personal favorites:
amnesia/memory loss : i'm especially really fond of it when it's mixed povs or povs from people that didn't lose their memories. even better when it's characters that are misunderstood, disliked, etc. it's interesting to see a character be stripped down to their most "basic form" if you will, without the years worth of memories to shape them. what's different? what stayed the same? and how does this change how they're viewed by others? particularly when there's no romance involved, but that's just personal preference. i'll take platonic relationships and found family over romantic pairings any day.
time travel (fix-it) : the angst, oh my god the ANGST that comes with it. especially time travel fix-it. i love when a character doesn't get the chance to grieve what they've lost, or doesn't let themself grieve in the first place. when they look at someone they had known in the last timeline/past/future?, when the memories, experience, affection or hatred once shared is no longer there. the realization that "oh, i'm a stranger to you". i cannot stress enough how much i adore time travel works.
dimension travel/crossover : when i grow incredibly attached to a character, i'll send them in every other fandom i've been in or am currently in. "i love you, and i love this world, so i want to see you in said world" type shit. though i will say, this only applies to crossovers between fandom A and fandom B, any more fandoms in the mix and i lose interest, because there's too much going on. yeah, let's send Giyuu to UA as a teacher, that's great i love that, but then Gojo or Dazai appears and that's when i say "too much". but again, this is personal preference.
