a traumatized character whose trauma turned them into a villain who hurts innocent people the way they were hurt vs. a traumatized character whose trauma turned them into a hero who will do anything and everything to make sure no one goes through what they went through
love the classic damsel in distress trope, but the damsel in question is a pathetic fictional man bleeding out in the dark somewhere on the floor before his ridiculously gorgeous knight comes for his rescue just when heās about to pass out, and the ridiculously gorgeous knight in question is actually a deranged villain who is his archenemy. but they both have these frustratingly unresolved sexual tension going on where they both hate each other but are also super possessive and protective of each other in the sense that no one else can hurt this little guy but me!!!! and so the knight carries his pathetic damsel in his arms bridal style back to his goth castle where they have hot, kinky gay sex ever after (after he nurses his pathetic enemyās ass back to health, of course, canāt risk bruising our fragile damsel when heās already half dead).
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when other people just donāt get your pathetic fictional man who has at least 1,996 issues and 2,627 unresolved traumas with severe wet cat energy and murders for a hobby like you do š
Whumpee being given an aphrodisiac at a party, Caretaker being a big ol' green flag and realizing something is wrong with their friend/partner, and rather than taking advantage of how hard Whumpee is coming onto them- bringing them home to sleep it off. Leaving Whumper at the party feeling stupid for thinking that they'd get ANYWHERE with that shit.
this is one of the superior tropes. ever.
but since Iām such a sucker for enemies to lovers trope (in case itās not obvious enough from like 90% of my posts), I was thinking ābut what if caretaker is whumpeeās enemy too?ā ā not the one who drugged whumpee, of course, but what if whumpee and caretaker are enemies, and caretaker notices something off with whumpee and knows immediately that they were drugged.
obviously, itās not caretakerās problem that the idiot got themself drugged. but I meanā¦ if caretaker just walks away now, then anybody could do whatever they want to caretakerās own nemesis.
and thatās caretakerās nemesis. can caretaker really stand the idea of someone else touching and hurting what is theirs?
oh screw it! before caretaker knows what theyāre doing, they already have whumpee ā their own archenemy ā tucked safely and nicely in their (caretakerās) own bed.
@bebx wrote a fic with this prompt, with enemies to lovers x aphrodisiac and all that :) you can read it here!