Promotion Fest: “Rec me!” Comment Meme

[dark_administrator]

Hello, doers of darkness!

To kick off our fandom promotion fest, let’s have a recommendation meme:

• Comment with your favorite tropes, narrative kinks, character archetypes, and other qualities that you look for in a fandom.


• Reply to other people’s comments with recommendations for fandoms with chromatic creator(s) and character(s) that suit their preferences.

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Comments

[franzeska]

I love longsuffering best friend characters who prop up their more volatile and unhinged counterparts and anybody who ought to be the woobie but who's just too stable.

Alas, recs for this are always inherently spoilers, but I love plots that have presumed-dead characters popping up again, whether it's YuYu Hakusho style afterlife bureaucracy hijinks or secret agents with a bad habit of falling over cliffs at dramatic points in the plot. Also cheesiness. Lots of cheesiness.

[sophinisba]

You might like the relationship between Alberto and Ernesto (Che Guevara) in the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Ernesto isn't really unhinged or volatile but his tendency to self-sacrifice can be kind of reckless, and Alberto watches out for him.

[aldanise]

In answer to your spoilery request, there's Black & White, a Taiwanese drama available at all the usual drama places.

The character I'm thinking of is a major-minor, but her story is definitely plot-critical and has a major effect on one of the main characters. Furthermore, in a description that completely gives away which character this is, she disappears, comes back, fakes her own death, then comes back to aid the main characters' enemies. It's pretty epic, and there's plenty of other "did s/he die?" moments with other characters. I'm afraid it mostly holds back from cheesy, though.