Another trope I forgot to mention that I love are traumatized characters experiencing love for the first time and not knowing how to cope with it. I just eat that shit up
especially when they’re like edgy, scary and mean. that moment where they get a tender hug, or a gentle rub or just someone complimenting them and their entire world view is changed. thats so good. i need more of it
me awake at 3:30am: thinking about when house had the epiphany that the qualities wilson liked in amber were also qualities house himself had and they just stood there in tense silence for like 15 solid seconds after he had voiced that