Trope List (Winter 2026)

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Works for this event should be inspired by one or more of the following tropes. This is obviously not an exhaustive list of tropes; it is a list of tropes the mods consider common and/or easy to include in both fannish and original works, and which can be identified even fandom-blind. It may change for future rounds. Please feel free to interpret them broadly, subvert them, or otherwise make them your own!

You will be asked to indicate which trope(s) you have included in your work as part of your sign-up, as well as what trope(s) you’re most excited to remix. You are not guaranteed to match on the trope(s) you’re excited about, as the mods cannot guarantee that any specific trope is written, but we will take your preferred tropes into consideration as part of the matching process.

The master list of tropes for the Winter 2026 event is listed below. Tropes are alphabetized for ease of navigation.

Master Trope List (2026 event)

A:

• Accidental baby/child acquisition


• Amnesia


• And they were roommates…


• Arranged marriage

B:

• Battle Couple


• Bodyguard Romance


• Bodyswap

C:

• Came Back Wrong


• Captivity/Imprisonment


• Casefic/Missionfic


• (Character) is a Supernatural Creature


• Character(s) vs. The Environment


• Character(s) vs. Themself


• Coming of Age

D:

• Delving too deep in pursuit of knowledge


• Duel of Honor


• Doppelgangers

E:

• Enemies to lovers


• Epistolary

F:

• Fairy Tale-inspired


• Fake relationship/fake dating


• Fealty Relationships


• First Contact


• First Time


• Fluff


• Forced proximity


• Found Family


• Friends to lovers


• Fuck or die

H:

• Hanahaki


• Heel-Face Turn / Bad Guy Joins the Good Guys


• Heists


• Home for the Holidays


• Huddling for Warmth


• Hurt/Comfort (Emotional)


• Hurt/Comfort (Physical)


• Hurt no Comfort

I

• Identity Reveal

K

• Kidfic: Characters Raising Children


• Kidfic: POV Character is a Child

L:

• Love triangle/quadrangle/polygon

M:

• MacGuffins (Very Important Plot Object That Everyone Wants)


• Mad Science


• Monster of the Week

O:

• Omegaverse (Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics)


• Overthrowing the System

R:

• Reincarnation


• Rivals to lovers


• Road Trips

S:

• Second Chances


• Secret relationship


• Self-Sacrifice to Save Family/Friends/Country/World


• Sentient Locations


• Sharing Clothes


• Sickfic (Caring for Sick Character(s))


• Something Made Them Do It/Sex Pollen


• Soulmates


• Star-crossed lovers

T:

• Telepathic Bond/Mind Link (with (an)other person/people)


• Telepathic Bond/Mind Link (with Creature/Animal Companion/Sentient Beast)


• There was only one bed


• Time Travel/Time Loop


• Tournament Arc


• Travel to Another Plane/World (inc. isekai, transmigration, portal fantasy, space travel)


• Treasure Hunts

U:

• Undercover/Secret Identity


• Unexpected Royalty


• Unexpected/Unusual Teacher/Mentor

W:

• Whump


• Wingfic