#and stereden's absolutely fantastic competent-buggy AUs
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You know what I love?
I love when a fic author takes a side character and turns them into a Secret Badass.
And they'll do it in such a way that it's still somehow at least mostly canon-compliant by having said character act behind the scenes and hide their true skills...for whatever reason.
And the best parts are the reveal scenes where the other characters finally realize how much they've underestimated them...!
"Secretly a Badass" is seriously one of my absolute favorite tropes of all time.
#currently thinking about buggy the clown from one piece#and stereden's absolutely fantastic competent-buggy AUs#fanfic#fanfiction#fan fic#fan fiction#ao3#fic#one piece#another example: nie huaisang from mdzs#technically the “secretly a badass” thing actually happened in canon#but i'm mentioning him bc some fic authors take it a lot further#and i fuckin love that#bamf nie huaisang#nie huaisang#mdzs#cql#mo dao zu shi#the untamed#<- series like that have SO MANY underappreciated characters#and so much opportunity for fic#one piece as well ofc#bamf#secretly bamf#secret bamf#secretly strong#secretly a bamf#secretly a badass#is there an actual name for this trope or...?#hidden powers
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