#I had to pick SCOY somewhere and where better than here lol

[littleragondin]

Hello Ragon! 1, 3 and 17 for the BL romance tropes? 👀?

Benka dear! ( ´ ▽ ` ).｡ｏ♡ thank you for asking ♡♡

1. Enemies to Lovers

This one turned out surprisingly easy, and it's Chu Sangwoo and Jang Jaeyoung from Semantic Error. Frankly I was not convinced after the first episode, I feel like it's easy to step into bully romance which is not something I really enjoy personally. But I thought the antagonism between the two of them and the way it changes and evolves was really well done, and I full heartedly believed in the romance of it all.

3. Childhood Sweethearts

Okay the difficulty in this one is that I don't think a brief connection during childhood is enough to justify calling this trope, but I think the line between this and friends to lovers can be pretty thin? So with some uncertainty to the fit, I'll go with Cake and Seeiw from My Only 12%. I picked them because they have always loved each other, no matter the way or the label they might have put on it. We meet them still pretty young, and they have already been at the center of each other's life for so long already and they can't really imagine their life without the other. And, while it may not be true for Cake, well, he is Seeiw's first love after all.

17. Ugly Duckling

Okay so here is a trope that, in its original format, I don't really like: the "ugly" character getting a make over and suddenly, wow, everyone fall for them. So I do have to go with a show I adore and who kind of turns it around a little bit - Secret Crush on You, especially SkyJao but I'd argue it works for them all. I know Surprise is neither 'ugly' (nor fat, one of my few gripes with the show) but he is treated like it in the narrative AND YET! he gets Known Flirt And Certified Hottie Sky by changing absolutely nothing about himself except allowing himself to be loved (which is not nothing). The whole message of SCOY is that you deserve to be loved the way you are, so it makes sense that they would skip the makeover part of the trope and I do love them for it.