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psych0s0m4t1c · 5 months

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TRICK is CANON

Why Nick x Troy of FTWD (aka Trick) are a Canonized couple:

First, you need to understand tropes, there are many various kinds but for this purpose we are looking at romantic/love interest ones only:

Relationship Trope: a common or overused theme or device, in tv/movies/multimedia to elude to or direct an audience to infer a relationship between characters, that may or may not result in on screen consummation.

Now let’s look at Nick and Troy’s relationship and see if they fit any known Relationship Tropes.

Tropes that fit Trick A-Z:

Abduction is Love: Kidnapping your Love Interest guarantees they’ll fall in love with you.

The first time we see Nick and Troy on screen together, Troy has Nick held hostage and at his mercy. Along with all the members of his family. There is tension between Troy and several members of the Clark family so at this point it is unclear who the intended pairing is.

Adaptational sexuality: A character’s sexual orientation is changed in an adaptation of a story.

While Troy’s sexuality is unknown, Nick has had only relationships with women up to this point that the audience is aware of. This allows for the adjustment to Nick’s previously known sexuality.

Anger born of worry: When you love someone, you get angry at them for endangering themselves.

There are multiple examples of Nick becoming angry whenever Troy is endangered, like when he nearly killed Jake to stop him from killing Troy or in the lodge when he is fighting to save Troy, or when he lies for him over and over again to protect him from punishment for his crimes, and Troy refuses to let Nick run the suicide mission for the militia and only admitted to feeling fear after Nick placed himself among the infected and Troy had to stop him from giving himself away to them.

Aww, Look! They really do love each other: No matter how much they fight, they really do care about each other very much.

There are so many examples of this I can’t even begin to list them all. Basically, the entirety of season 3.

Battle Couple: Lovers who kick ass together.

Again, too many examples to list… see season 3 of FTWD

Belated Love Epiphany: Realizing that you love someone when they’re no longer there with you.

The look on Nick’s face says it all when he see’s Madison kill Troy in front of him. It devastated him so much his next move was to attempt to kill himself via dam explosion and ensuring he announced the act as “my suicide note”… the very thing Troy had kept him from doing previously.

Birds of a Feather: A couple share similarities with each other.

Alicia states this explicitly on the show, “You like him, you share the same self-destruction.”

EDIT: Troy also recognizes this and lets it be known when he tells Nick they are both “children of violence”

Can’t Live with Them, Can’t live without Them: When you prefer to be alone but find yourself oddly attached to another.

Again, another example of too many times to list for them.

Converse with the unconscious: Ship Tease moment where a character talks to their Love Interest while they’re unconscious, often in a very angsty way.

When Nick was locked in the hotbox he was not unconscious, but he was near it and hallucinating and of all the people he could have hallucinated to come save him, his mother, sister, Luciana, Travis, Strand, etc. It was Troy his brain sought comfort from.

Eating the Eye Candy: Eyeing up your Love Interest’s gorgeous body.

I dare anyone to tell me Troy and Nick weren’t consistently and continually undressing each other with their eyes.

Everyone can see it: It’s obvious that these two are meant to be together, if only they themselves saw it.

Again, multiple examples but most recognizable one, Madison tells Troy, “You have such a strange fixation on him” referring to Nick. Need I say more…

Fate Drives us Together: If two people keep encountering each other, it means they’re meant to be together.

There are many thing that keep putting Troy and Nick together, but one obvious example is when Nick decides to go hunting and ends up having to travel with Troy and Troy tells him with a grin, “Looks like your with me”… words that have always represented a double meaning in romantic set ups.

Flirting Under Fire: The Battle Couple flirt while in the middle of combat.

Seriously, I lost count how many times this happened but if you need an example when Nick and Troy are fighting the horde and end up in the helicopter together and literally laughing and having a blast as they face death and carnage together.

Green Eyed Epiphany: Realizing you love someone when seeing them with someone else upsets you.

Troy gives Nick and Luciana a few stare downs when he sees them together and even makes a point to verify with Nick that she left him.

Held Gaze: Lovers look deeply into each other’s eyes.

You don’t even have to watch the show to see this happening, just check out any Youtube vid featuring Nick and Troy.

Hypocritical Heartwarming: Someone who regularly antagonizes their significant other gets enraged if someone else wrongs them.

Perfect example of this is when Jake is about to kill Troy and Nick nearly kills Jake by cracking him over the head with a rifle screaming at him, “Jake NO!” and this ultimately leads to Jake being bitten.

Inconvenient Attraction: A character falls in love when they’d rather not

Neither Nick or Troy would likely choose each other due to their circumstances, but they are drawn together anyway.

Lonely Together: Two lonely characters bond and fall in love.

Nick and Troy share a lot in common emotionally. Another reason they are drawn together.

Longing Look: Glancing at your Love Interest in a yearning way

Again, Youtube it people, or just watch the show and basically anytime one of them is looking in the general direction of the other, there’s longing in the gaze

Lost Lenore: This person is dead and their lover mourns over them.

Nick is in such mourning right after Troy’s death, he’s ready to commit suicide, he didn’t have to take that detonator, Strand had it and would have used it to save them. Nick wanted to die. He also becomes extremely angry with Madison when she suggests she killed Troy for Nick and he vehemently denies any part of his death.

Love Across Battle lines: Characters from enemy factions fall in love.

This is Nick and Troy in a nutshell.

Love at First Punch: Falling in love with somebody who beat you up.

We see this plainly when Nick and Troy get into a fight and Nick had the opportunity to kill Troy but doesn’t and Troy says to Nick, “I think we can be friends now” right after Nick fired a bullet next to his head in the dirt and tore up his journal.

Loving Bully: They pick on you because they secretly love you.

I think you’ll find Nick and Troy’s picture next to this definition.

Outlaw Couple: Lovers who commit crimes together.

Nick and Troy get into a lot of mischief together including but not limited to purchasing and using drugs and being directly or indirectly responsible for the death of one another’s family members.

Unresolved Sexual Tension: Two people are obviously attracted to each other, but some element of the story is keeping them apart

There are so many obstacles in Nick and Troy’s way it’s no wonder they wouldn’t admit their feelings to each other. It is the apocalypse and all.

Will They? Or Won’t They?: Two characters, often combative but with obvious Unresolved Sexual Tension, resist going into a full blown relationship for a rather long time.

This one goes along with the last one. This was the big question of season three.

Conclusion:

Ok, so if you haven’t figured it out yet let me point out the obvious. Most shows will use only one or two of these tropes to signal that two heterosexual people are being presented as “love interests” so you know who to root for. In this instance we have so many things happening at once with these two characters there’s practically not a second of screen time that isn’t flashing giant neon signs and screaming “these two are endgame!”

I dare anyone to say different…i put way too much time and energy into this post lol

In case you’re interested, the tropes used in this writing can be found at http://tvtropes.org/

Just so u know I didn’t make them up to feed into my own “version of the story”.

Happy Shipping Everyone!

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