Okay, so the only posted fic I can think of where I did this was in Hunger Games fandom. I will spare you reading the 120,000 words (it's in the penultimate scene, of course), but here's the line in question:
Mags sits on the couch and Finnick kneels at her feet, because it's the only way his body can communicate the intensity of I will do anything for you.
The context is that she's just had her stroke and can't talk any more, and he's all HOW CAN I HELP. The two of them have a Fritz/Wilhelmine type relationship in my fic: codependent, nonsexual, but borderline emotionally incestuous. (I guess not literally incest, since they're not genetically related, but ykwim.) At the very end of the series, Finnick will retrospectively question whether this was healthy, but at this point--end of the first installment--he's all in.
Speaking of whom, I still don't know why I can't seem to warm up to Wilhelmine in this fandom. I should be right there for the intense, supportive, codependent, abuse-surviving sibling relationship! I have at least two other sibling pairs in my head that are exactly this (one is an OC that exists only in my head, the other is Boromir and Faramir). I've written two fics featuring her and read her memoirs and her bio and I *still* can't summon up any feels for her. I'm very confused. I'm trying, guys! Maybe when I get to French and read her letters it will help.
(Ditto Fritz/Fredersdorf: given my Childermass and Childermass/Norrell feels, I should be *all over* this ship. Furthermore, I recognize that as important, supportive relationships go, it's far superior objectively to all of Fritz's other relationships. But only thanks to you guys writing me fic have I advanced beyond "meh" to "Okay, yes, I want to see more of this.")
MY BRAIN I do not understand it.
I think I prefer it when the character performing the gesture has complete and undivided loyalty and love for the recipient.
Fair enough! Yes, that's really different.
Yeah, that's why I never put this gesture in the right places for you unless you tel me to. :)
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Re: Loyalty gesture tropes
Date: 2021-01-16 04:31 pm (UTC)Okay, so the only posted fic I can think of where I did this was in Hunger Games fandom. I will spare you reading the 120,000 words (it's in the penultimate scene, of course), but here's the line in question:
Mags sits on the couch and Finnick kneels at her feet, because it's the only way his body can communicate the intensity of I will do anything for you.
The context is that she's just had her stroke and can't talk any more, and he's all HOW CAN I HELP. The two of them have a Fritz/Wilhelmine type relationship in my fic: codependent, nonsexual, but borderline emotionally incestuous. (I guess not literally incest, since they're not genetically related, but ykwim.) At the very end of the series, Finnick will retrospectively question whether this was healthy, but at this point--end of the first installment--he's all in.
Speaking of whom, I still don't know why I can't seem to warm up to Wilhelmine in this fandom. I should be right there for the intense, supportive, codependent, abuse-surviving sibling relationship! I have at least two other sibling pairs in my head that are exactly this (one is an OC that exists only in my head, the other is Boromir and Faramir). I've written two fics featuring her and read her memoirs and her bio and I *still* can't summon up any feels for her. I'm very confused. I'm trying, guys! Maybe when I get to French and read her letters it will help.
(Ditto Fritz/Fredersdorf: given my Childermass and Childermass/Norrell feels, I should be *all over* this ship. Furthermore, I recognize that as important, supportive relationships go, it's far superior objectively to all of Fritz's other relationships. But only thanks to you guys writing me fic have I advanced beyond "meh" to "Okay, yes, I want to see more of this.")
MY BRAIN I do not understand it.
I think I prefer it when the character performing the gesture has complete and undivided loyalty and love for the recipient.
Fair enough! Yes, that's really different.
Yeah, that's why I never put this gesture in the right places for you unless you tel me to. :)