snowflake challenge #11

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Challenge #11:
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

There are a lot of tropes that, if present in a work, will get me to click almost immediately, like: fake dating, friends with benefits, and soulmates, but the one that I really love yet haven't written myself (yet) is 'amnesia'.

I am ready to handwave any medical accuracy for all the drama and angst of a character forgetting part or all of their memories. It just contains so many things I like - pining, angst, misunderstandings. I like it when a character forgets up to a certain point and that means they forget just a certain someone or someones. There's angst on both sides of they're in a romantic relationship and one doesn't remember, but I also love it as a push to get two characters together, with the character who forgot seeing the situation much more clearly than when they had their memories, kind of a "why AREN'T we together? we are practically married!" type thing. Or even just assuming that they are together and the other (pining) character is so conflicted, because of the potential 'oh they only want me when they don't remember me' aspect.

I also like it when they do remember the other person but a different relationship than what they currently have. As in they remember being friends or even not liking one another and now they're in a relationship. There's something both funny and painful about them looking at an important person and being like "him/her?"

I've had ideas for all variations and started one or two but never got around to finishing any, going back to the Charles/Erik (XMFC) fic I was working on over a decade ago (almost 10k just sitting in a word doc lol) and a couple of Smallville fics that didn't go very far either. Fortunately other people are writing amazing fic so I can still enjoy the trope! :D

I even got a couple as gifts:

root out the wine-dark honeyed center by celaenos (Elementary, Jamie/Joan, Teen, 7.8k)
“WATSON, COME DOWN HERE AND TAKE YOUR WIFE OFF OF MY HANDS. PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU!” Sherlock hollers.
“My what?” Joan mutters, snapping the book shut with force and climbing out of her bed. “I’m sorry,” she repeats as she makes her way down the stairs. “My what?”
(or, a story of poison, amnesia, sexual tension, and marriage)

Normal by LearnedFoot (Suits, Mike/Harvey, Teen, 9.7k)
“Welcome back,” Harvey tells him. “I always knew biking was a bad idea.”
Mike’s eyebrows squeeze together. He blinks again. Then, voice weak but clear, he says, “Sorry, who are you?”

If we have shared fandoms/ships and you have recs, I will always welcome them! :D

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh I wrote an amnesia fic nearly 10 years ago, it was an interesting experience. My character Marc was aged 23 but he lost a few years due to an accident so when he woke up, he thought he was 17 again and had forgotten his boyfriend, Luca. At the time Luca was 19 so he became the older one with younger Marc and their relationship changed due to that. There was a lot of ups and downs in the story, but eventually Marc got his memories back, remembered he was 23 and more or less went back to normal. It was a really emotional fic, there's loads of backstory I can't go into here or it would be a very long post 😅

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I can imagine! The characters feeling a different age than they are and that changing the dynamic like that, whether it reverses their age gap or adds one due to the mental and physical gap thanks to the amnesia does add another interesting aspect. And amnesia stories do tend to get emotional, which is something I enjoy for sure. Hopefully you liked writing it too. :)

[kitarella_imagines]

It was emotional, definitely. A lot of ups and downs, probably one of the most emotional, affecting fics I've ever written. But I gave them a really fluffy, happy ending, so that helped.

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Well, then the journey was worth it! As much as I love all out fluff, the happy ending does feel sweeter when you see them struggle first.

[kitarella_imagines]

And it's a very popular fic, I've got some lovely comments on it, calling it 'magical'. Sometimes I write fics that are really from the heart and mean a lot to me, so it's good when others feel the same 💗

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That's awesome! It's definitely feels validating and good when something that you put so much effort and feeling into gets appreciated by others. :)

[kitarella_imagines]

It does, doesn't it! Usually I get little reaction to my stories but that one seems to touch people. Probably because the characters are very popular ones, individually and together 😊

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For sure! I know it is important to find joy in your own writing and write for yourself, but feedback is nice. And that can definitely help.

[kitarella_imagines]

It's nice to get a bit of both isn't it 😊

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Definitely! :)