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** Sybil and Gwen sneaking out for the latter's job interview: PlayedForLaughs.

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** Sybil and Gwen sneaking out for the latter's Gwen's secret job interview: PlayedForLaughs.



* DrowningMySorrows: Tom when bad things happen.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Tom when bad things happen.and Sybil have this in common.



** Chapter 129 shows Sybil coming with the concept of a cellphone.

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** Chapter 129 shows Sybil coming up with the bare bones concept of a cellphone.
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*SpoiledSweet: Sybil's less endearing quality.
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Turns out Daisy and Mary aren't the o key ones with this. Sybil has a nightmare that Tom dies in the war at chapter 68. She later finds out he's been drafted.

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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: *MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Turns out Daisy and Mary aren't the o key only ones with this. Sybil has a nightmare that Tom dies in the war at chapter 68. She later finds out he's been drafted.
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*MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Turns out Daisy and Mary aren't the o key ones with this. Sybil has a nightmare that Tom dies in the war at chapter 68. She later finds out he's been drafted.
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*ShipperOnDeck: Sybil is one for Mary/Matthew.
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*DoggedNiceGuy: Tom
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*ASimplePlan:
**Sybil and Gwen sneaking out for the latter's job interview: PlayedForLaughs.
**The Ripon Count. PlayedForDrama.


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*SpotOfTea
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* BrickJoke: Sybil is puzzled by the color of Tom's eyes in chapter but she "solves her mystery" at chapter 5.

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* BrickJoke: Sybil is puzzled by the color of Tom's eyes in chapter 3 but she "solves her mystery" at chapter 5.

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* [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Nobles Who Actually Do Something]].

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* [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Nobles Who Actually Do Something]].Something]]


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*SoapboxSadie: Sybil reaches this level with her preaching.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Tom after his failed marriage proposal.

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* DrowningMySorrows: Tom after his failed marriage proposal.when bad things happen.
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*FreudianSlip: So many, to indicate Tom and Sybil's growing attachment.
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*SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: So many. The earliest was in chapter 12.
-->'''Sybil''': (Tom's) mind is far too serious to think about such silly, girlish daydreams--not that I daydream about such things, mind you!--[[LampshadeHanging why am I even writing this?]]
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* DrowningMySorrows: Tom after is failed marriage proposal.

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* DrowningMySorrows: *DrowningMySorrows: Tom after is his failed marriage proposal.
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*DrowningMySorrows: Tom after is failed marriage proposal.

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* AllJustADream: Chapters 27 and 87.

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* AllJustADream: *AllJustADream: Chapters 27 and 87.



* DancesAndBalls: Chapters 22-31 is about Sybil's debutante ball in London.

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* DancesAndBalls: *DancesAndBalls: Chapters 22-31 is about Sybil's debutante ball in London.



*DeusExMachina: Rachel, the girl Martin loved, works in the Swan Inn. Tom sees her as a sign that he shouldn't give up on his love for Sybil just because their elopement failed.



* MilestoneCelebration: The author calls chapter 100 this. Sybil and Tom have their first lover's quarrel.

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* MilestoneCelebration: *MilestoneCelebration: The author calls chapter 100 this. Sybil and Tom have their first lover's quarrel.



* WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.

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* WideEyedIdealist: *WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.

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* AllJustADream: Chapters 27 and 87.

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* AllJustADream: *AllJustADream: Chapters 27 and 87.



*DancesAndBalls: Chapters 22-31 is about Sybil's debutante ball in London.



* MilestoneCelebration: The author calls chapter 100 this. Sybil and Tom have their first lover's quarrel.

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* MilestoneCelebration: *MilestoneCelebration: The author calls chapter 100 this. Sybil and Tom have their first lover's quarrel.



* WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.

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* WideEyedIdealist: *WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.

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*AllJustADream: Chapters 27 and 87.



*MilestoneCelebration: The author calls chapter 100 this. Sybil and Tom have their first lover's quarrel.



* WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.

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* WideEyedIdealist: *WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.
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* WelcomeEpisode: Chapter 2 is this for Tom Branson.

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* WelcomeEpisode: Chapter 2 is this for Tom Branson.Branson.
*WideEyedIdealist: Sybil.
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*FormerlyFat: Sybil, which is why she has body issues.
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*BelligerentSexualTension: Tom and Sybil set this aside many times because they don't want to give the impression they're getting married because she is DefiledForever.

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* AscendedExtra: Tom's unnamed cousin who died in the Easter Rising is named Martin and they were very close.

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* AscendedExtra: Tom's *AscendedExtra:
**Tom's
unnamed cousin who died in the Easter Rising is named Martin and they were very close.close.
**Tom Bellasis in ''Stepping Stones''.



* BrickJoke: Sybil is puzzled by the color of Tom's eyes in chapter but she "solves her mystery" at chapter 5.

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* BrickJoke: *BrickJoke: Sybil is puzzled by the color of Tom's eyes in chapter but she "solves her mystery" at chapter 5.

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*AscendedExtra: Tom's unnamed cousin who died in the Easter Rising is named Martin and they were very close.



* BrickJoke: Sybil is puzzled by the color of Tom's eyes in chapter but she "solves her mystery" at chapter 5.

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* BrickJoke: *BrickJoke: Sybil is puzzled by the color of Tom's eyes in chapter but she "solves her mystery" at chapter 5.
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*CharacterTic: Sybil bites her lower lip when she's nervous.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sybil using the slang "bloody" in her first diary entry.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: *EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sybil using the slang "bloody" in her first diary entry.



* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Tom's late father didn't believe cars would be so important.

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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Tom's *ItWillNeverCatchOn:
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late father didn't believe cars would be so important.important.
**Chapter 95 reveals [[HistoricalInJoke Tom accidentally invented the emoticon]] but doubted anyone else would want to learn it.
**Chapter 129 shows Sybil coming with the concept of a cellphone.



* ShadowArchetype: Martin Branson goes back to Ireland without telling the girl he loves how he feels, something Tom decides not to do.

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* ShadowArchetype: *ShadowArchetype: Martin Branson goes back to Ireland without telling the girl he loves how he feels, something Tom decides not to do.

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* BootCampEpisode:

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* BootCampEpisode: Chapters 48-56 is about Sybil's time studying nursing in York.



* {{Deconstruction}}: Chapter 20 is basically Sybil seeing all her positive qualities as negative.

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* {{Deconstruction}}: Chapter 20 is basically Sybil seeing all her positive qualities as negative.giving herself a negative AlternativeCharacterInterpretation.


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*ItWillNeverCatchOn: Tom's late father didn't believe cars would be so important.


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*ShadowArchetype: Martin Branson goes back to Ireland without telling the girl he loves how he feels, something Tom decides not to do.

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*BootCampEpisode:



*JailBaitWait: One of the reasons Tom delays his courtship of Sybil is because [[MayDecemberRomance she's 7 years his junior]], so he waits till she's 18.



* MyEyesAreUpHere

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* MyEyesAreUpHereMyEyesAreUpHere: Sybil dances with a man who is distracted by her cleavage in chapter 27.
-->'''Sybil''': ''They'' go wherever I go, my Lord, so why don't you ask ''me'' that question?''


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*VacationEpisode: Chapters 144-147 is about Tom and Sybil's secret London holiday.

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This also has an interquel called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7964849/1/Love-s-Journey-Stepping-Stones Stepping Stones]]'' that tells what happened to Sybil and Branson during the "missing years" between Seasons 1 & 2 (late 1914 to early 1916). Begins right after Chapter 40 of ''Love's Journey'' and the end of Series 1.

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This There is also has an interquel called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7964849/1/Love-s-Journey-Stepping-Stones Stepping Stones]]'' that tells what happened to Sybil and Branson during the "missing years" between Seasons 1 & 2 (late 1914 to early 1916). Begins right after Chapter 40 of ''Love's Journey'' and the end of Series 1.



** HotBlooded: She's very prone to anger.

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** HotBlooded: She's very prone to anger.anger and swearing but she hides these well.



** PassionateSportsGirl; An ImpliedAttribute. She used to play Cricket.

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** PassionateSportsGirl; An ImpliedAttribute.InformedAttribute. She used to play Cricket.


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*[[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Nobles Who Actually Do Something]].


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*WeddingDay: ''Stepping Stones'' chapter 9 is about Gwen's wedding.

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These are followed up by ''Love's Continuing Journey'' telling of Tom and Sybil beginning their lives in Ireland.

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These are followed up by ''Love's Continuing Journey'' telling of Tom and Sybil beginning their lives in Ireland. It will be discussed elsewhere because it swerves greatly from canon.



* HeroOfAnotherStory: Most of the other Downton residents and their storylines are mentioned. Many of those stories are unresolved by the story's end but we know they'll sort itself out eventually.

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*CentralTheme: The value of patience.
*{{Deconstruction}}: Chapter 20 is basically Sybil seeing all her positive qualities as negative.
*DownerEnding: ''Stepping Stones'' ends with the news that Tom's cousin Martin was killed.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Most of the The other Downton residents and their storylines are mentioned. Many of those stories are unresolved by the story's end but we know they'll sort itself themselves out eventually.eventually.
*HiddenDepths: SYBIL.
**CovertPervert: She sure does love EatingTheEyeCandy.
**HotBlooded: She's very prone to anger.
**OutdoorsyGal: She climbed trees as child.
**PassionateSportsGirl; An ImpliedAttribute. She used to play Cricket.


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*TheyDo: Tom and Sybil is a ForegoneConclusion.
*WarIsHell
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7747573/1/Love-s-Journey Love's Journey]]'' is a ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' fan fiction that tells the story and romance of Tom Branson and Lady Sybil Crawley is through a series of letters, diary entries, and personal POV thoughts, spanning from Branson's arrival at Downton in 1913, and ultimately leading to their journey to Ireland.

This also has an interquel called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7964849/1/Love-s-Journey-Stepping-Stones Stepping Stones]]'' that tells what happened to Sybil and Branson during the "missing years" between Seasons 1 & 2 (late 1914 to early 1916). Begins right after Chapter 40 of ''Love's Journey'' and the end of Series 1.

These are followed up by ''Love's Continuing Journey'' telling of Tom and Sybil beginning their lives in Ireland.
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!Tropes relating to Love's Journey
*AdaptationExpansion
*HeroOfAnotherStory: Most of the other Downton residents and their storylines are mentioned. Many of those stories are unresolved by the story's end but we know they'll sort itself out eventually.
*LoveAtFirstSight
*WelcomeEpisode: Chapter 2 is this for Tom Branson.

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