Wow, I wasn't expecting the first one to blow up like that, haha. Thank you so much. Since the first one did so well, here's part two!
Human vs borrower. A human who cannot STAND the borrower living in their walls, and the borrower feels the same about the human. The two are always beefing with each other, the borrower doing things like hiding the human's car keys before an important meeting or placing legos on the floor for the human to step on. The human also finds ways to get back at the borrower, doing stuff like placing food or other materials that the borrower needs in high or hard to reach places or putting out traps (not harmful traps that will kill them or anything, but ones that would just inconvenience them). Basically just Tom & Jerry with borrowers.
A human who hates and/or is afraid of giants and their friend who is secretly a sizeshifter. The two have been friends for a while, have grown close to each other, and are always there for each other. Then one day, something happens. The human is in danger and the sizeshifter has to grow to help them. The surprise on the human's face when they find out their friend is a giant. Oh, how betrayed they must feel. Maybe they run away from their friend, angry at being lied to. Maybe they don't, instead having a change of heart and trusting them. I've seen like one story that toyed with this idea which involved a monster hunter and a sizeshifter but I cannot remember what it was called.
Mini-giant and a giant. Both of the giants thinking that they are the only ones left of their kind until they meet each other. The mini-giant, so used to being the big one, is now small compared to the giant. Meanwhile the giant is amazed to find another giant like them, only shorter. Maybe they become friends, bonding about being the only giants in a world too small for them.
Borrowers living in unconventional places. Most borrower stories take place inside a house. Which, I get it, but I think it'd be very interesting to see a borrower living in a strange place. For example, a borrower living in a science lab, in a prison, in a restaurant, or in a movie theater. It would be difficult for a borrower to live in any of these places without getting caught which is what's so interesting to me about this trope.
Tinies tying down a giant like in Gulliver's Travels. Maybe the giant has been tied down by a monster hunter or by a group of tinies that found them washed up on the shore of a beach. Maybe the giant pleads with the tinies, assuring them they mean no harm. Maybe they are angry, shouting threats at them. Maybe they act confident, teasing the tinies, though the ropes are way too tight for them to break free. How do the tinies react? Are they wary of the giant? Are they angry? Do they eventually let them go?
Tinies playing dead. The tiny has been noticed by the giant, and they know that have no way of outrunning them, so they pretend to be dead, thinking the giant will leave them alone. They remain still, waiting for the giant to lose interest and leave. Unfortunately for them, however, the giant grabs them, taking them off to who knows where. The suspense is what is so appealing to me about this trope. Does the giant know that they are faking it? What do they plan to do with the tiny? Idk I just really love this trope.
Giants being scared of tinies. Don't get me wrong, I love reading stories where a tiny is terrified of a giant, but I have yet to see one where the roles are reversed. Maybe the tiny is some kind of powerful supernatural creature or is maybe a well-known giant slayer. Maybe the giant is just simply terrified of tinies the same way a human might be scared of a spider. Maybe the tiny even takes advantage of the fact that the giant is afraid of them and manipulates the giant. Idk, I just think it's a pretty cool concept haha.
Giants ripping off the roofs of buildings. Idk what it is, but this is one of my all-time favorite g/t scenarios and I get so excited each time I see it. Some tinies are in a building, maybe a house or something, and suddenly, the entire roof is ripped off at once and a gigantic looming face stares down at the people inside. Maybe the giant reaches in to grab some of the tinies as they try to run. Maybe the giant has been searching for one specific tiny and they've finally found them. Idk it's just a really fun concept.
G/t where neither character is human. In most g/t settings it's either giant/human or human/tiny. While I do love these (especially giant/human) I think it'd be interesting to see a scenario where neither character is human. For example, a giant and a mermaid. Or a robot and a tiny alien. Or a fairy and a werewolf.
Giants in cities. When I do see this trope, it's usually used when a giant is destroying a city. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind that stuff, but it gets kind of tiring seeing it only used that way. Give me a curious giant who stumbled across a human city, peeking inside the windows of buildings and picking up cars and some humans even. Maybe the humans are afraid and running, maybe they aren't, maybe they are even excited. Either way it's a pretty cool concept.
Tinies that aren't afraid to stand up to giants. Maybe the giant is the kind of patronizing giant that doesn't realize that constantly teasing and infantilizing the tiny annoys them, or maybe they are just straight up mean and have no regards whatsoever for the tiny. Meanwhile the tiny has just about had it, and puts their foot down, letting the giant know how they truly feel and just what they think of them. They've been holding their true feelings in for a while, and now it all comes pouring out. Maybe the giant is ashamed and listens, maybe they snap as well and shout at the tiny, maybe they simply don't care, looking down apathetically at the tiny.
I've got many more I like but these are a few. Maybe I'll make a part two.
raise your hand if you want to post more about your oc’s or even make a small comic but your lore is too fucking complicated so you just stare at your empty ass blog
Okay you know that classic: person went to bed and while they were asleep they became a giant and they thought the whole thing was a dream but it keeps happening every night and their are news reports about it?
Imagine that this happens to our main character. When they go to sleep, a giant version of themself spawns in near a city. They think it’s just a dream, but they aren’t the type to just wreck things. So they just walk around the city, carefully stepping around cars and stuff. They see people running away and they think that it makes sense, they are a giant. Although they kinda wish they could interact with someone without diving for them or aggressively grabbing them. They eventually notice someone frozen in fear and they think the dream has answered their call. They lower themselves down and gently scoop the terrified person up. Remarking how cute the person is and that they aren’t going to harm them. They give ‘em a gentle kiss or gently rub the person’s head before putting them down.
They then wake up and think about how the dream was nice. Despite everyone running away, they still got to hold someone. They go on about their morning routine, until they see the news about a giant roaming a city. Spitting out their coffee they watch the clips of themself walking around the city. The news doesn’t know if the giant is friendly or not but says that law enforcement is ready if the giant returns. Our giant has no clue what to think or do in that moment and just awkwardly goes to work, where everyone is obviously chatting about it. Especially about the interaction between the giant and the one person who got snatched by them, but was let go. Our giant joins in and says that maybe the giant is friendly and just wants friends or something. To which most say maybe or perhaps that’s just how the giant plans to trick them.
Later on they go to get lunch or something, and they are so happy that their giant form looks different from them, even just slightly, as no one has put two and two together. While at lunch someone walks in with a crowd of people asking them questions, they look embarrassed and our giant realizes that this person was the person they picked up last night and that they are being hounded for questions. Luckily the store owner kicks out everyone bugging the person because they are too loud and he doesn’t like the news people for whatever reason. They thank the owner and sit down nearby our giant who is feeling very embarrassed right now. They ask what’s bothering the person and they just sigh and explain that ever since they froze last night and got scooped by a giant, people haven’t stopped bugging them about it. People wanting to know their thoughts, what it felt like, how’s they feel, and so many more questions. The giant just nods and says that they did get a unique experience and the giant probably did too, before chuckling. The person smiles and starts asking the giant questions. Eventually a bond is made before they have to leave to get back to work.
That night the giant wonders if they’ll become a giant again and what the law enforcements will do to them. They told themself before falling asleep to be careful again, just in case and to be a gentle giant.
Who knows what happens next. Perhaps they keep becoming a giant every night and interact with people who slowly want to meet with them. Maybe the person they first picked up comes back and they bond even more, to the point they share their secret with them. Maybe every night they are put near a new place to explore. There are endless possibilities for it and I find that super cool tbh. To be a giant while asleep and a person while awake, and no one can stop or capture you cause you “de-spawn” when you wake up. It’s perfect…until they find out your secret that is.
A little something that came to me in a burst of inspiration a few evenings ago. I had so much fun writing this one 🤭🤭 Hope you enjoy! (And to the person reading this whose creativity inspires me every day, thank you. The circus has come to town.)
SYN: A giant castle guard tries to win the princess's heart by using every cunning insight he has into her own.
OC content | Premature themes (14+) | ~1,300 words
Winning Affections
Bellametre
“A hundred men,” the giant began, leaning against the castle wall beside Eleanor’s balcony. His guard’s helmet was tucked beneath one arm, and his gauntlets hung from his belt. He tipped his head back with a smile, bright blue eyes flashing as though he could feel her watching him. “Did you know giants have the strength of a hundred men?”
“So with a hundred and one soldiers,” Eleanor said coolly, looking away as the glow in his eyes brightened, “I could cut you down and carve out your heart?”
The giant chuckled. “That’s not very princessy of you.”
Eleanor sighed and turned her attention back to her mirror, fingers massaging around the half-finished braid plaited along her aching temples. She had sent her ladies-in-waiting to fetch lavender oil, honey cakes, and mulled wine.
“Adopted princess,” she corrected.
“Fine,” the giant said. “And yes—you could carve out my heart. But giants are terribly sentimental about their hearts. You’d have to run off with it over the mountains.”
A pause. Eleanor lowered her hands.
“Don’t,” she warned softly.
“What?” the giant said, all innocence. “You’re inferring things, Ellie. I didn’t do anything.”
“You were going to. Don’t pretend—”
“Oh, Majesty,” the giant simpered, spreading his hands. “I’ve been such a monster. Fetch the fire and pitchforks and we’ll get right to the slaying.”
“I’m not queen yet. You can’t call me Majesty.”
The giant lifted an eyebrow. “How about masquerador?”
Eleanor twitched. “Quit it.”
“Oh, you find me charming,” the giant said, standing to stretch his back. He set down his helmet and stepped in front of the balcony. It reached only his chest, and his face filled nearly the entire window.
Eleanor’s eyes flicked toward him despite herself.
“Face it,” he said, grinning. “You’re entranced. I’m glorious. Otherworldly. And I know exactly how to coax you away from your noble responsibilities.”
“Name a single time that’s worked,” Eleanor said dryly.
“Winning the heart of the queen herself? The most famous maiden in the land?”
“I’m not quee—”
“Progress is being made,” he cut in with a shrug. “I’ve had a tactical advantage ever since I joined the personal guard.”
Eleanor snorted.
“You’re not very resourceful,” the giant chided. “You’d miss me if I wasn’t here.”
“I doubt that very much.”
There was the turn of a heel, then a swift and surprisingly silent departure, and Eleanor was alone. The air stirred where he had stood, lifting the apple blossoms scattered across the tiles. A few fluttered down onto her coverlet.
Eleanor gripped the seam of her dress, her heart beginning to pound. She rose and hurried to the railing, the stone cool beneath her palms as she leaned over the edge.
“See, now that’s something,” the giant said, suddenly popping up from below the balcony.
Eleanor jumped and stumbled back, nearly tangling herself in her robes. Her cheeks reddened, and a scolding about leaving a princess unguarded welled up in her mouth, but then the giant smirked, and the words died on her tongue.
“What is?” she asked, defeated.
“Awfully archaic traditions, don’t you think?” the giant went on, lifting a hand beside his face to gesture toward her. “Stuffy gowns. Heavy jewels. Scalp-tearing braids. It’s all a bit much.”
“It’s my coronation.”
“A coronation you don’t have to attend,” the giant said quietly. His eyes were all sky and ocean. “Come on, Ellie. I could whisk you away anywhere you want to go. You only have to ask.”
Eleanor studied him for a long moment. “Why?”
“Hm?”
“That’s what I want,” Eleanor said. “Answers. You’re a guard of the highest rank, a position every other giant in the kingdom covets. Every need you have is provided for tenfold. Why are you so determined to lose that by persuading me to desert?”
The giant tilted his head to the side. “Why do you think?”
Eleanor threw up a hand. “To say you did it! That you persuaded a member of the royal family the monarchy is nothing but folly. That you convinced me to run away of my own volition. That you accomplished something… impossible.”
“Or,” the giant said, stepping closer, “maybe it’s because, since the day you appointed me, I noticed the shadows under your eyes. Or how you sit on this balcony and look toward the mountains whenever you have a free moment. Or how, at the end of the day, you still manage kindness to me, even though this burden is killing you.”
He paused.
“Maybe I thought it was time someone returned the favour.”
Eleanor shook her head, but she couldn't tear her gaze from his eyes. They were too blue, like lapis set into living marble by a master sculptor. Eyes made for bewitching. For promising wild, crystal-cold adventure in places far beyond the mountains.
“Maybe it’s destiny,” the giant continued, inclining toward her. “Maybe it’s because you’re meant to accomplish something impossible.”
Eleanor shifted her weight, but she didn’t move away. “I’m meant to accomplish the impossible?”
“Uh-huh,” the giant whispered. His breath drifted over Eleanor’s bare arms and neck, rustling her hair.
And then his hand. It rose over the balcony slowly, carefully closing the distance and curving behind her, hovering, not quite touching. It was calloused, clean, and larger than her whole body.
“Something perfectly impossible.”
“What?” Eleanor asked, turning her head toward the creases and whorls of his fingers. He smelled of leather and rainclouds, nothing like the monstrous things the kingdom’s gossip liked to imagine. “What impossibility is that?”
The giant’s eyes caught the light. They glowed so blue it seemed they were the only points of light in the world.
“Fly away.”
Eleanor inhaled sharply. She felt the weight of his palm as it finally settled against her from heel to crown, each pulse in his veins a slow, steady rhythm where their skin touched. Her own heartbeat roared in her ears. For a moment she imagined his enormous fingers curling around her waist—firm, but gentle—and the rush of wind lifting her hair as he carried her into the open sky.
She could scarcely catch her breath.
“Lydan…”
“Ellie,” he answered softly. “A hundred men, Ellie. They’d never stop us.”
And then Eleanor laughed.
The giant paused, then pulled back to consider her, his expression searching.
Eleanor shook her head. “I can’t believe you managed to turn that into another proposal.”
“What?” the giant asked, letting Eleanor push his hand away. “I’m easily the greatest opportunity you’re ever going to come across.”
“Don’t,” Eleanor warned, though she was still smiling.
“Well, you can commission me to pillage the castle and steal you away anytime you like,” the giant went on, entirely unperturbed. “Right in the middle of your coronation ceremony. Maybe even—”
“Enough!” Eleanor said. “You’re insufferable.”
“Naturally.”
“And distracting.”
“You like it.”
“Perhaps,” Eleanor admitted. “But that doesn’t mean I’ll—uh—“
The giant laughed. “Run away with the resident monster?”
“Yes,” Eleanor said. “I won’t be running away.”
“So you say,” the giant remarked.
“But I appreciate the effort. And I enjoy your company.”
“I know you do,” the giant said easily. “I wouldn’t bother you if you didn’t.”
“You wouldn’t?”
“No.” He reached out with one last experimental finger to brush gingerly against her side. “What are you so afraid of, Ellie?”
Eleanor sighed and stepped back. “I take my oaths tonight.”
“Ah, yes,” the giant murmured, standing back to his full height. “And then you’ll be a proper queen.”
“I will.”
“And you’ll leave this tower for the throne room.”
“Yes.” Eleanor hesitated. Swallowed. She knew she had command, but… “What will you do?”
The giant grinned.
“Oh, I’m following you there too,” he said lightly. “Winning a queen’s affections sounds far more interesting than winning a princess’s.”
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Spoiler alert randall doesnt like yellow. This is a little after their first meeting,,, (which i might write,,) but basically Randall's clothes are super gross and Jone's trying to make a new ones (except he sucks at. sewing.)
Sorry theres not that much gt stuff in this one (you'll have to wait until the next one)
