History Fanfic / TheBalladOfStootAndArgyle

--> ''Terrance's mother once told him that you should be able to sense when people were bad for you. Terrance never could. He used to be too trusting, now he was completely unable to fully trust anyone. He didn't know if he should be wary of Eric or not. He had no sense, no internal gauge, nothing but a bruised, misshapen lump of a frozen heart.''

%%* CanadaEh: Terrance and Phillip, obviously. Terrance's mother Ondine also counts.

* ExtravertedNerd: Phillip. Terrance has a harder time with it.

%%* OverprotectiveDad: Terrance's dad was like this.

%%* NotGoodWithPeople: Cartman.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/659649/chapters/1202880 The Ballad of Stoot and Argyle]] is a WesternAnimation/SouthPark HighSchoolAU fanfiction written by Satine89, focusing on an alternate universe where Terrance Stoot and Phillip Argyle are teenaged students at South Park High preparing for their senior year of schooling. Jump-starting the story is a giant party being thrown by the most popular girl in school, Bebe Stevens, which ends with Terrance confessing to Phillip that he's gay after Cartman plays a rather nasty prank on him.

* ShoutOut: A mistake on Terrance's part about ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' leads him to believe the duo is from [[AcceptableTargets Newfoundland]]. Music/FleetwoodMac is also extensively discussed during a pivotal scene, and Cartman apparently [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender mastered Firebending at some point in the past.]]

* ShoutOut: A CriticalResearchFailure on Terrance's part about ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' leads him to believe the duo is from [[AcceptableTargets Newfoundland]]. Music/FleetwoodMac is also extensively discussed during a pivotal scene, and Cartman apparently [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender mastered Firebending at some point in the past.]]

* TheAllegedCar: Terrance's Chevy Cavalier.

* BilingualBonus: ''Hundiste mi barco.''
* {{Bookworm}}: Terrance. [[CreepyChild With true-crime books.]]
* BoyNextDoor
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Heavily implied to be the case with Terrance's time in Canada.]]
* BrutalHonesty: The Goths.
* CanadaEh: Terrance and Phillip, obviously. Terrance's mother Ondine also counts.
* CannotSpitItOut: A frequent problem with Terrance, regarding just about everything.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Bebe Stevens.

* ComingOfAgeStory: For the two titular characters.

* DeadpanSnarker: A few characters.

* [[DramaQueen Drama Queens]]: The Raisins girls.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Terrance.

* FromBadToWorse: Terrance's last week of school, until the trial relationship comes about.

* JadeColoredGlasses: '''Terrance.'''

* NotGoodWithPeople: Cartman.

* OverprotectiveDad: Terrance's dad was like this.

* RotatingProtagonist

* StalkerWithACrush: Cartman is really, REALLY bad at dating.
* StraightGay: Cartman.
* [[spoiler: SympatheticMurderer: Cartman admits to Terrance that he killed Scott Tenorman's parents without much prodding. He also admits that it was a fucked-up thing to do, and he's been trying to atone for those things since middle school.]]

* [[BoyNextDoor Boy Across The Street]]
* [[spoiler: BrokenBird: Heavily implied to be the case with Terrance's time in Canada.]]

* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: Bebe Stevens.

* ClosetKey: To quote Ike, Terrance "had no idea he was the key to so many closet doors."
* CloserToEarth: Ondine is much closer than Terrance, her son.

* [[JewsLoveToArgue Jews Love To Argue With Cartman]]: Illustrated fairly well in Chapter 20, after being heavily implied for most of the fic.

* NoAccountingForTaste / [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See In Him?]]: Kenny invokes these two after the party. [[spoiler: In an inversion of what everyone on earth would assume, he thinks Terrance is too crazy for Cartman.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Well, you are a fag. Like me."]]

* TroubledButCute: [[CastFullofPrettyBoys Basically the entire male cast]], excepting Stan. Taken UpToEleven with Cartman, Terrance, and Kenny.

* TheCheerleader: Bebe again.

As it turns out, Eric is just [[CannotSpitItOut very bad at]] [[StalkerWithACrush expressing his]] [[GoodIsNotNice true feelings]] - he's attracted to Terrance. Terrance, though he might [[DistractedByTheSexy stare at Cartman all the time in Bio lab]], isn't sure he returns those feelings, so the two of them consent to a "trial dating period" with each other. They have the summer to determine whether or not they might like each other enough to date... and to keep their arrangements a secret from [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters South Park at large]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Almost everyone in WesternAnimation/SouthPark gets a shout-out, a cameo, or has a large role in the story.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7824372/1/The_Ballad_of_Stoot_and_Argyle The Ballad of Stoot and Argyle]] is a WesternAnimation/SouthPark HighSchoolAU fanfiction written by Satine89 (aka Tropers/LargoQuagmire), focusing on an alternate universe where Terrance Stoot and Phillip Argyle are teenaged students at South Park High preparing for their senior year of schooling. Jump-starting the story is a giant party being thrown by the most popular girl in school, Bebe Stevens, which ends with Terrance confessing to Phillip that he's gay after Cartman plays a rather nasty prank on him.

* BiTheWay: Phillip.

* HighSchoolAU: [[CaptainObvious Clearly.]]