S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist? & T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand? :3c
S: PINING..........and usually slow burn by extension. I like emotional development much more than any other type (like intellectual/doctrinal or physical/power-ups, even with overlap). Good old fashioned 'i love this person but am too scared to express it' is my Brand and yes i will die on this hill. i live in a victorian novel, thanks for asking. i WILL flip my shit over the All Important Hand Touch.
i also love idiot protags bc theyre their own villain. it's like watching them crash a car, and as it slowly burns up they figure out if it was Really their fault, how they Really feel abt the flames, and Really, why didnt they take an extinguisher like the friend they pushed away said? Rly smart protags are great too as long as theyre wrecks in other areas (like FE Soren or Hornblower, i love their ingenuity but also their entire lack of social skills etc). I like as many debilitations as possible on my protags.
T: i thiiink a lot of things abt villains? bc i rarely like villains so v few things involving them appeal to me (only villains i can think of that i like are FE Sephiran + Zelgius, Yzma, and wyda's Max LOL). i dont get hateships, enemies to lovers doesnt feel rewarding enough to warrant a read usually, and redemption arcs only work 1% of the time bc i think villains a) dont need to be redeemed to be complex n worth interest or b) can be redeemable within the story's limits n without focusing overlong on it. So it's just a Not For Me thing.
otherwise, ppl ought to stop giving their charas mental illnesses or disorders w/o doing research. theyre not for ppl to angst it up one day n never have it come up again--that's as disrespectful as much as it is plain bad writing. cliche mi narratives are usually uninspired, uninteresting, and full of unwitting misconceptions that can hurt real ppl. still, there is a ton of interesting n mind-opening work ppl have done to build on what the original creator ignored or underwrote in characters, plus a larger space n audience that are open to exploring those narratives.