January Posting Meme: favorite tropes for cathalin

cathalin wanted to know: Favorite tropes/situations to have your favorite characters be placed in? And why/examples?

Well, that's one I'm not sure about.  I mean, worldbuilding is far more my kink than tropes/situations, so I'm more likely to strongly resonate with that than tropes.  I love genderswap (preferably alwaysagirl), but only if the author has done a good job of trying to figure out how the character would be different. ivorygates has some really good Danielle!Jackson fic.  In A Kingdom By The Sea is the story where she explores her headcanon for what Danielle!Jackson's life would have been like as a girl in the New York foster care system, so it's where you really feel where the changes come from.  Change Is Only The Beginning is a great alternate view of the movie, though it branches off from canon several years before the movie starts.  synecdochic has an awesome female!Cameron Mitchell (though, beware, you have to understand that Syn decided early on that the show's canon for Cam's background (from Kansas) made no sense for the character, and so discarded that and made up her own, and her Cammie uses that fanon.  Then there's a pretty awesome alwaysagirl!Rorshach in The Arrangement.  A Degree of Hope is about Charles Xavier/Erika Lensherr.

I like wingfic, too, and a good soulbond!AU where the soulbond doesn't magically fix everything.  Oh, and wishbabies!  Well, babies or kidfic of any sort, I suppose.  I don't tend to go for apocafic.

But again, the main thing isn't the trope, it's the worldbuilding and how well the story is written.  Even if it's crack, I want my crack to be well-written and executed thoughtfully, you know? 

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