#so the tl;dr is foolish starts taking eret on dates and eret is like 'wow this is nice'

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If there's one thing that I love about fandom is the passionate ways that people describe their favorite tropes

Basically, please say more because I'm actually intrigued with the fooleret concept (or techza but it's easier for me with them opposed to fooleret).

SO GLAD YOU ASKED.

under a cut bc this got LONG

like. okay. this one is like four different tropes in one bc the appeal to fooleret is just as much “foolish pining after someone that doesn’t remember him and their history” as anything else, right? right.

so like. childhood friends fooleret. completely inseparable rough-and-tumble playground buddies. eret was the one with all the terrible ideas (“let’s sneak into so-and-so’s garden and take some flowers, she won’t notice”) and foolish was the one getting them into trouble by, say, falling off the fence while climbing over it and crushing the prized rose bush. did everything together, told each other everything, ring pop proposals type of thing.

and then one day foolish shows up at eret’s house to play and all the windows are dark. the whole family just up and vanished, overnight, and nobody knows where they went.

now foolish is like, 18, and studying computers, and scrolling absently through the news between classes and sees an article that the museum downtown got robbed of that necklace that they put on display, the one that’s been missing for some two hundred years — and now that foolish thinks about it, yeah, he remembers they got a calling card from a thief, a brazen declaration that it would be stolen out from under everyone’s noses, but he didn’t pay it much mind.

guess he should have, because he’s watching the videos from the scene now and the thief broke past all the security systems, the police line, all of it, and got to the necklace, and nobody had any idea that it happened until they were standing on the roof in full elaborate costume, holding it up to the news helicopter. and the image of their face, even though it’s hidden beneath a mask... that is definitely eret. they’re taller now, sure, and their voice is waaay deeper, but even years later foolish could recognize that smile anywhere.

it’s almost funny, how fitting this is for them. a trail of mayhem wherever they go, tricking everyone into dancing to their beat.

they’re beautiful.

in all honesty, switching career paths isn’t too much of an adjustment — in this day and age, the more advanced a security system is, the more vulnerable to attack it is from a thief that wants it gone. and now foolish is older, and he’s a security consultant, and he’s working with the police to catch the friend he lost all those years ago.

and it’ll be a huge shock to him when he corners them (of course he corners them, all these years later they have the same tendencies and they still head for higher ground when they’re threatened) and tries to ask what happened —

— only to discover they have no idea who he is, and are horrified that he knows their true identity.

and eret, right? they’re a thief, and not to be prideful but they’re a damn good one. this is the dream job, too. they travel the world, and they get to surround themself with the most expensive and rare of fashions and treasures, and all the while they’re stringing the rich and powerful along and letting them make fools of themselves.

and the best part? nobody knows a damn thing about them.

except, somehow, this random fucking security consultant that keeps popping up on their heists. and he seems like a nice enough person, and he’s -- okay, they’ll admit it, he’s attractive -- but he knows their name and he knows all this stuff about them and they don’t want that at all.

sure, it’d be nice to have someone who knows when they’re having a bad day and knows how to help them. it’d be nice to have someone plan nice surprises for them, and it’d be nice to have things they didn’t get for themself. it’d be nice to be known.

but it’s also terrifying, and so they want nothing to do with this guy. unluckily(?) for them, he’s persistent. 

they suppose they’ll just have to track him down out of uniform and ask him what the hell is going on.