Not What it Seems
Characters A & B are in a relationship, but they sneak around without revealing it to others.
What is a Secret Relationship?
Once Characters A & B are in a relationship and finally find their footing, A starts to feel ill and tired and moody, but they brush it off until they come to a startling realisation that could change everything.
What is Pregnancy?
Character A picks up B from a bar after a night out. B is very out of it, but professes their undying love and attraction for A, who is left shocked and in disbelief.
What is a Drunken Confession?
Character A is cursed to be unable to lie until they confess their deepest, most precious secrets.
What is a Truth Spell?
Character A has a profound destiny that they can’t escape from, often with special skills or powers to help them achieve it.
What is a Chosen One?
Character A overhears a conversation between B & C, and assumes that B doesn’t love them anymore or that B loves someone else.
Characters A & B grew up together, and both fear ruining the relationship they already have by sharing that they might want more.
What is Friends To Lovers?
Characters A & B check into a hotel, but there is only one room left in the entire hotel, so they fight back their feelings and resolve not to do anything to give away how they truly feel about the other.
What is Only One Bed?
Character A is born with words written on their skin, and they go through life waiting for them to be said until B finally comes into their life.
What is a Soulmate AU?
Characters are pulled from their world and dropped into other worlds by the author, often with their same characterizations, but able to do things that aren’t possible in their original world.
What is an Alternate Universe?
Characters A & B agree to get married to fulfill both of their selfish desires, either for money or to escape family pressure.
What is a Marriage of Convenience?
A 30-chapter, 178,000-word fic where Characters A & B don’t confess feelings until chapter 24, and don’t kiss until 26.
What is Slow Burn?
Character A is deeply in love with B, but will never tell them. B is also deeply in love with A, but believes A would never feel the same.
What is Mutual Pining?
Character A decides to sacrifice everything to go back and do it all over again, usually after having lost everything that has ever mattered to them.
What is Time Travel?
Characters come together and form strong bonds through shared experiences, challenges, and/or trauma that are placed above blood relations.
What is Found Family?
Character A wants to make their ex jealous, so they use B to do so by going through the motions and doing everything that C wanted to do or never did with A. Over time, feelings begin to develop between A & B, leading them to question just how real their relationship was.
What is Fake Dating?
Characters A & B are on opposite sides of a conflict, often arguing or fighting with each other, even as they grow close and understand each other better.
What is Enemies To Lovers?
Character A cares deeply about B and values them, but B is deeply in love with them. B is left heartbroken after finally confessing their feelings.
What is Unrequited Love?
Character A wakes up in B’s bedroom, alone, and feeling different than they normally do. B wakes up in A’s bedroom, feeling off as well.
What is a Body Swap?
Character A intervenes during a robbery and gets shot. Despite all attempts at saving them, they succumbed to their injuries.
What is Major Character Death?
Character B has distanced themselves from A after A’s tragic injury as not to confuse them, usually with the hope of everything going back to normal. A seeks them out anyway and falls in love with B all over again.
What is Amnesia?
Characters A & B are both being held captive by C & C’s minions. They share a cell and come to rely on each other while they wait to be rescued, or killed.
What is Forced Proximity?
Stranded in a frigid environment, Character A is at high risk of hypothermia, so B crowds in close to warm them up. Bonus points if they make a fire and get out of wet, cold clothes.
What is Sharing Body Heat?
Character A is dosed, knowingly or unknowingly, by a substance that takes away their inhibitions towards B, thus revealing the attraction they have for them.
What is a Love Potion?
Character A shows up on B’s doorstep, weak and bloody from a struggle. They collapse into B’s arms, leaving B to take care of their wounds and nurse them back to health.
What is Hurt/Comfort?