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  • AU: School x 43
    The work is set in an alternate universe, where canonical characters are presented as school students.
  • A trope in which a character or characters are trapped inside their own mind while remaining physically free.
  • The work is set in a parallel world.
  • The work is focused on characters who use a secret identity or live a double life.
  • Dark past x 23
    The work is focused on the tragic past of the characters.
  • The plot of the work focuses on a character or characters who are waiting for a marriage proposal, want to make a marriage proposal to their partner or partners, preparations for the event and/or the event itself.
  • Antiheroes x 22
    A significant role in the work is played by characters who have predominantly gray morals and follow their personal ideas of justice. They cannot be identified either as negative or positive characters.
  • The work focuses on characters protecting their partners.
  • The work deliberately ignores the deaths of characters that occurred in the canon, or the death is played out in such a way as to guarantee the survival of the character.
  • The work focuses heavily on second chances at something.
  • The work is built on a plot trope in which relationships develop between characters who are extreme opposites in terms of personality, temper, etc.
  • The work is focused on characters, usually strangers, who share the same room, apartment, or house.
  • The work is focused on characters who save other characters in a deadly situation.
  • The work is focused on characters who act selflessly to benefit their enemies.
  • The theme of family secrets plays a significant role in the work.
  • A story trope that involves creation of a fictional character who is seen as too perfect and almost boring for lack of flaws.
  • A literary device in which the author writes themself into the story as a fictional character.
  • Dimensional Travel (also called Dimension Hopping and Interdimensional Travel) is the ability to move between different dimensions and universes, cross over different planes of existence or travel across various forms of reality.
  • New life x 10
    The work is focused on themes of starting over.
  • The work is set within canon, but does not feature canon characters in any significant way.
  • Sickfic x 9
    The work is focused on nursing characters dealing with a minor illness back to health.
  • One day x 9
    The work focuses on one single day in the life of a character.
  • The work is focused on political intrigue.
  • The work is focused on characters who repeatedly live through the same period of time.
  • power sruggles
    The work is focused on themes of the struggle for power.
  • A variation of Hurt/Comfort, in which "hurt" corresponds to rape, and "comfort" is achieved through revenge brought upon the rapists.
  • The work focuses on the active development and progress of the character.
  • The work is focused on characters whose actions come from external factors rather than their own motivations.
  • The work is focused on characters who easily attract other characters, be it sexually or romantically.
  • The work is focused on a possibility of voluntary or forcible extraction of a soul and/or personality from one body to be relocated into another vessel.
  • The main protagonist of the work is a clearly negative character whose actions, goals or views on life are unacceptable from the point of view of the author and/or in the world of the work.
  • The work is set in an alternate universe where the mystic elements of the original canon are removed or omitted.
  • A plot trope in which a confrontation between two different worlds takes place.
  • The work is focused on the first meeting of two previously unfamiliar cultures.
  • The work is focused on saving the world.
  • The work is focused on characters who actively hide their gender.
  • The work pays significant attention to characters whose close physical contact is not sexual in nature.
  • The is focused on themes of secret identity.
  • The work is set in an alternate universe where characters, who canonically have superpowers, are depicted as having none.
  • A variation of Hurt/Comfort, in which “hurt” is an abusive relationship, and “comfort” is achieved through help in getting out of said relationship.
  • A story trope in which the characters share one bed accidentally, voluntarily or involuntarily.
  • The plot of the work is based on competitions to the death, usually until the last survivor.
  • The work is focused on themes of false memories.
  • The work is focused on characters who undergo a process of permanent transformation into another species.
  • The work is focused on characters who share a special connection of magical origin.
  • The work is focused on a character of one species undergoing the process of temporarily transforming into another species.
  • The work is set in a universe where the characters have a soul mate predetermined based on certain characteristics.
  • A plot trope in which an unintentional kiss plays a significant role.
  • The work describes characters whose behavior gives the impression that there are several distinct personalities sharing one body, most often due to fantastic or mystical reasons. Not to be confused with an actual psychological disorder (dissociative identity disorder).
  • The work is focused on mad scientists.