A Meme Full of Tropes

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A Meme Full of Tropes

trope noun \ˈtrōp\
Definition of TROPE
1
a : a word or expression used in a figurative sense : figure of speech
b : a common or overused theme or device : cliché

This meme is a collection of random fanfic and roleplay tropes. Here’s how to play:

1) Post with your character, listing any preferences you have, or tropes you don't want to play.
2) Other people will tag, either using Ye Olde RNG to select a trope, or just picking one from the list.
3) Play out the tropes to your heart’s content!



1: Accidental Baby Acquisition: One of the characters in your story, by means other than pregnancy or adoption, acquires a child. This could be because his or her parent was killed, or someone leaves the child on the doorstep, or any other plotline. The main idea is that the main characters have to band together to raise the child, even if it is only temporary.

2: Alpha/Beta/Omega: Alpha/Beta/Omega or Alpha/Omega (occasionally Alpha/Beta) is a kink trope where some or all people have defined biological roles based on a hierarchical system, with the terms originating from animal behaviour research. There may be werewolf, knotting, or other animalistic elements involved, or the characters may be otherwise purely human.

3: Animal Transformation: Animal transformation is a fanfic trope in which one or more characters are transformed into an animal, or else an Alternate Universe story wherein the characters are cast as animals.

4: Bodyswap: Bodyswap is a plot device or story trope involving two (or more) characters switching their physical bodies by magical, scientific, mystical or unspecified means. The device is used in canon and fanfiction alike, and fanfic may expand upon canonical instances of bodyswap.

5: Cross-dressing: Crossdressing refers to characters dressing as members of the "opposite" sex or gender. It is used comedically, as a plot device and as a kink, both sexualized and not, in fanworks and in canon.

6: De-aged: De-Aging is a story trope where adult characters are turned back into children or younger adults. The transformation can be fully physical and mental. It can also be a physical transformation that leaves the adult mind in a younger body; or the opposite, where the mind is reverted to a child-like state, but the body remains as is.

7: Handcuffed/Bound Together: Bound Together is a bonding trope in which two characters are chained together, psychically or physically, either through magical or technological means. The usual result (in ship fic) of all this one-on-one "bonding" time is that the characters either fall in love or realize they were in love all along.

8: Huddled for Warmth: Huddling for warmth or blanket fic is a trope that is generally found in both het and slash pairing-oriented fanfiction, and occasionally in some gen Hurt/Comfort. It is mainly used in order to maneuver two characters into a First Time. The advantages of putting your OTP into a "huddling for warmth" scenario are legion. The two characters are trapped in one place with no distractions, alone, and so their attention is focused entirely on each other. The tone of the story can range from fluffy to angsty.

9: Mind Control: Mind control is a very popular trope in fanworks (and many canons). In slash or ship fic that uses the trope, one part of the pairing is usually under the mental control of the other -- or is unable to resist orders from anyone, such as in Ella Enchanted AUs or fusions or "obedience curse" fics -- and the other part of the pairing figures this out and either helps the mindcontrolled character resist the urge to obey or takes advantage of them.

10: Road Trip: The characters must go on a long-distance trip in close proximity. There are any number of reasons for this, including a quest, mechanical failure of their original transport, or one of the characters (e.g. Tony Stark) thinks it will be a "good idea" or "fun." This then results in shenanigans or sex or both.

11: Sex Pollen: Sex Pollen is a common fanfiction trope used to bring two characters together in a sexual encounter. It involves one or several characters becoming infected with a pollen of some alien or magical plant, or they might be influenced in some other way (magic, alien technology, mind control, etc.) that causes them to lose inhibitions and/or revs up libido, usually resulting in non-con sex, which may lead to dramatic guilt and misunderstandings, or a resolution of UST.

12: Soul Bonding: In fanfiction and sometimes canon, a soulbond is a mystic or psychic bond between (usually) two people, who feel drawn to become devoted friends, or (more often) lovers. The bond may be something that brings them together, or something that results from their being together. It is usually portrayed as unbreakable and irresistible, a force that unites two people in a unique way. A soulbond can persist after the death of one or both partners, and through numerous reincarnations. It can be very similar to soulmates, which are two (or more) people who are always meant to be together.

13: Telepathy: A story in which one (or more) of the characters develops the ability to read thoughts. This ability could be limited to their love interest, or it could be more general. Mindmeld is a more specific form, in which both characters can read one another's thoughts. Depending on the needs of the story, it could require a physical link, and it could be temporary. It is named after the Vulcan Mind Meld in the Star Trek universe.

14: Wingfic: Wingfic is a fanfiction genre in which one or more human characters sprouts a pair of wings. Fanfic written for a fandom in which the character canonically has wings (e.g. Good Omens) is usually not considered wingfic. However, as a response to a surge of wingfic, a Good Omens writer came up with wingless fic, wherein canonically winged characters suddenly and inexplicably lose them. Wingfic can be whimsical, but it can also be much darker in tone.

Comments

Shirley Fenette | Code Geass

[all_over_again]

[open to anything but smut]

Castiel † Supernatural † m/m for anything smutty

[featheryass]

Hatsune Miku → Vocaloid

[curiousmiku]

[ ooc: no smut pls! ]

Tsukino Usagi | Sailor Moon

[mooncrystal]

[no smut please, otherwise anything goes]

Alec Lightwood | Mortal Instruments

[gayspider]

[I am up for anything.]

Tony Stark | MCU | OTA

[reactored]

Jem Carstairs | The Infernal Devices | OTA

[silvering]

nora sutherlin | original sinners

[ridingcrop]

Mitsuru Kirijo | Persona 3

[obeymycommand]

[interested in 3,4,5,9,14. no 1,2,11 please.]

Clark Kent (genderbent) || Smallville || OTA

[blurrybrunette]

Minako Aino | Sailor Moon

[ai_no_megami]

[hit me with your best shot, the crackier the better. all i ask is no smut.]

Susan Pevensie | Chronicles of Narnia

[calledmegentle]

[OOC: Slight AU. No 2 or 11 please.]

Bruce Banner | MCU

[angermanaging]

[Not interested in 3, otherwise open for anything!]

Betty Ross | MCU

[cellsunite]

[Again, not interested in 3, otherwise open for anything!]

Raven | Teen Titans

[azarathmetrion]

_{[won't do romantic/sexual with beast boy. anything else is cool.]}

Jake Long | American Dragon: Jake Long

[americandragon]

_{[muse is underage! and no 3.]}

Doc Holiday | Generator Rex | OTA

[doc_holi]

mind controlled....lets see how this goes

[stupidsexysix]

He couldn't think straight.

This thing on his neck itched like crazy, but he couldn't move his arms to scratch it or take it off. There were voices pounding in his head and he felt an unnatural compulsion to listen to them. All he knew were those voices. He didn't even know who he was anymore.

And there was a specific, feminine voice, that kept saying one thing: hurt her.

He stumbled into the large building where he was dropped off by the men in white and black uniforms. Who was her?

SCREAM I JUST READ THIS AND AHHHHHHH

[doc_holi]

Holiday was busy working in her lab, complete absorbed in what she was doing. She hadn't heard any word from Six in hours and the thought did, honestly, worry her a little bit. It shouldn't, though. He was on a covert mission and he said it would take a while before he could get in contact with them so-

So, she worked away. He'll call in tomorrow.

I ASKED IF YOU READ IT EARLIER AND YOU SAID YES YOU LIAR

[stupidsexysix]

Noises. There were small, careful noises coming from a large room not two hundred feet away from him. Quiet breathing and the sound of typing on a keyboard.

He felt his feet start to move towards the noises. Though he couldn't be sure, these noises were most likely the "her" his mind couldn't stop thinking of.

I LOOKED AT IT I DIDNT READ IT

[doc_holi]

Holiday was lost within her own thoughts, not noticing anything amiss around the place. Things were quiet, which was usual, and it was only when she glanced at a clock that her thoughts were pulled away.

It was that late already? Suddenly, she had an uneasy and very alone feeling. Maybe she should just call it a night and leave the work for later, but she didn't feel comfortable leaving on her own right now...

She looked around the lab before shaking the feeling off. She was being weird.

Mix of 10 and 8? Road trip from hell with Dragon AU...

[i_am_not_a_taxi]

He was a drugged and miserable dragon chained up in the back of that truck, not quite willing to try and break out yet... It was a rather a busy part of the highway still, and he didn't want to hurt anyone more than necessary when he broke loose.

The drugs they had dosed him with when they had caught him had mostly worn off, and he was starting to get his strength back... but this wasn't the time nor the place for an escape... Not yet anyways.

In the cab of the truck, a rather... sketchy looking man took another drag of a cigarette and started to pull over to the side of the road.

[doc_holi]

Holiday was on her way back to Providence HQ when the belt of her car decided to rip apart. Just lovely. And here she was without so much as a cell phone or comm-device. Six would have her head. Knight will have her head.

She sighed. Might as well try to hitch a ride back. If anyone tried anything funny, well... at least she didn't go anywhere without her handgun. Luckily, it looked like a truck was stopping.

[i_am_not_a_taxi]

Pulling to a stop and getting out, the man started in on a fresh cigarette while smirking at her. "Hey babe, boss'll have my head if I let you in the cab... but I can give ya a lift in the back if ya dun mind sittin with a cage of animals."

He figured the cage with the chained dragon was covered and it was still doped up, so what was the harm? He might get some rescue nookie out of the deal... and if she went snooping... well, maybe he could still have some fun and he wouldn't have to pay to feed the dragon. It was a win either way right?

Skyfire meanwhile, was wondering what was going on... the thick canvas covering his cage didn't let him see much of anything really, but the thick canvas that made up the walls of the back of the truck did let a lot of sound and smells in.

He could practically smell the stink of lust and chemical heavy smoke from the driver from where he was chained and quite frankly he was sickened by it. Skyfire was didn't want to hurt anyone... but he was rapidly losing the fight with his urge not to hurt the man when he escaped from the cage.

Now though... it looked like he'd likely be taking company along when he did attempt his escape if she accepted the offer. He'd drop her off near a human fuel station or something... because he couldn't in good conscience leave her behind or let her be hurt when he made his escape...

First though... he had to shake off the drugs in his system... He couldn't fly anywhere like this.

[doc_holi]

... Holiday gave the guy a skeptical look. "What are the animals for, dare I ask?"

Dangerous to ask questions, but that's how Holiday rolled. Everything about this screamed bad idea.