Opposites Attract: The Dating Game thread

Hello, and welcome to Opposites Attract: The Dating Game. We aim to match seemingly impossible couples, such as an Ice Person and one who likes Playing with Fire. The goal is to seek out two trope personifications, and match them together! Fun, right?

The game is simple, you take two tropes that are opposite and make them a couple. Then you make up a story about how they interact as partners, and their dynamic. For bonus points, find a couple in fiction that matches the dynamic. But it should be the trope personifications themselves being a couple. It can also be any trope you want and not just personality tropes.

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Opposites Attract: The Dating Game

Edited by Ponymations on Feb 12th 2023 at 4:49:10 AM

I have a trope couple idea, and boy it's gonna be a tragic one. Might have it out by the weekend.

On a different topic, I assume this thread is where to discuss that Fun page in general, so I'd like to ask if it'd be fine for me to make these changes:

• Would adding foldercontrol be alright?
• Can I wick Opposite Tropes in the sentence "There's also the opposite page in the fun pages as well."?
  I assume you're referring to that page with that sentence.
• The page mentions the thread but there's no link. Could I add it there too?

To the former and latter, yes. For the middle? ~Ponymations needs to answer that, she's the one who wrote it.

Sure. Go ahead.

+ : Done and done, thank you .

Okay I'm a couple weeks late and I thought I'd have a first draft up and ready, but I'm gonna introduce my couple idea with an inquiry instead.

The tropes I intend to match are Back from the Dead and Killed Off for Real, so you can probably guess where the tragedy in such a couple would be.

My question is, how would the names be formatted in the folder title?
Is "[name], the Back From The Dead and [name], the Killed Off For Real" comprehensible enough?

yeah, that a fine way to format it. Just don't forget to make an entry.

Would Overdrawn at the Blood Bank be a good opposite to Bloodless Carnage, or is there another trope that would work better?

It's a good opposite.

That's a great one, probably would've never noticed it.

Apologies for the delay, but I just got up a draft for my first couple proposal. Unfortunately, I overlooked the rule that how they are opposites must be in the first paragraph, whilst in my draft, the tropes occur more as events in the 2nd/3rd bit of the proposed paragraphs. I may have to do some rewriting in that case, but here's what I have for now. ^note I might just write up a short story of this premise myself with the vague lines filled in.

[[folder:Betha F. Dawn, the Back From The Dead and Killian O. Foster, the Killed Off For Real]]

Betha Francis Dawn and Killian Oz Foster

• Betha lived a relatively simple, content life. Her friends agree that her best quality is bouncing back whenever life got her down, even when she outlived her family. She met Killian as her to-be-repeat customer. She asked why he came so often, and thus he confessed. He loved her most for her kindness and optimism, while she claimed she was just making sure to do a good job. With some support from her friends, she later accepted and returned his affections.
• They told each other a great many things, like how Betha lives to honor those she lived alongside with. Killian confided his list of life goals to her, some oddly mundane, and some extraordinary. One date night, he arrived with a letter for her to be left in her home, only to be read after the date was over. They had a wonderful time together, although his smile seemed sadder than usual, but he dismissed it. Unfortunately, the theatre caught fire, and everyone escaped, except for them.
• When she awoke in a hospital, she couldn't believe that Killian was nowhere to be found. Besides the staff saying it was a miracle that she was alive and unscathed, they could only provide so many condolences before sending her home. She read the expository letter, and these words struck her most: "I hope you can forgive me, but I have not left you. I've granted you a gift; you cannot die before you decide your time. I can't control what you do with it, but I believe you will use it well."
• Betha now understands that Killian cannot return to the living as she did as he granted his life-force to her. She mends her heart not by locking away her memories with him, but embracing them by living out the goals he so wished. Whether they are to value the simple things in life or to accomplish something greater, she does them as if Killian could experience what he wanted in life through her. She hopes to reunite with him someday, though she knows what she must sacrifice.

Wow.

That is a really good way of demonstrating the tropes, especially because of the nature of Killed Off for Real.

Only issue is the one you mentioned.

If/when it's fixed, I'll give it a .

Edited by CardboardBot on May 12th 2023 at 9:24:53 PM

Alright, so I got the first line to explain the tropes, and the rest explains their history. I expanded a few paragraphs minorly for the sake of length consistency.

Does this look alright now?

[[folder:Betha F. Dawn, the Back From The Dead and Killian O. Foster, the Killed Off For Real]] Betha Francis Dawn and Killian Oz Foster

• Betha was brought back to life by her lover, Killian, but the process made himself unable to return alive. Before, she lived a relatively simple, content life. Her friends agree that her best quality is bouncing back whenever life got her down, even when she outlived her family. She met Killian as her to-be-repeat and most understanding customer. She asked why he came so often, and thus he confessed. He loved her most for her kindness, optimism, and patience with her clients, while she claimed she just made sure to do a good job. With some feedback from her friends, she later accepted and returned his affections.
• They told each other a great many things, Betha her fond memories of the past and Killian his plans for the present and future. Betha's drive lies in living to honor those she lived alongside with. Killian confided his list of life goals to her, some oddly mundane, and some extra achieving. One date night, he arrived with a letter for her to be left in her home, only to be read after the date was over. They had a wonderful time together, although his smile seemed sadder than usual, but he dismissed it. Unfortunately, the theatre caught fire, and everyone escaped, except for them.
• She awoke in a hospital, unable to believe that Killian was nowhere to be found. Besides the staff saying it was a miracle that she was alive and mostly unscathed, they could only provide so many condolences before sending her home. She then read the expository letter which explained Killian's true nature in great detail, but the simple introduction struck her most: "I hope you can forgive me, but I have not left you. I've granted you a gift; you cannot die before you decide your time. I can't control what you do with it, but I believe you will use it well."
• Betha now understands that Killian cannot return to the living as she did as he granted his life-force to her, the process of which means not even his body can be recovered. She mends her heart not by locking away her memories with him, but embracing them by living out the goals he so wished. Whether they are to value the simple things in life as they are or to accomplish something greater for public or personal benefit, she commits to them as if Killian could experience what he wanted in life through her. She hopes to reunite with him someday, though she knows what she must sacrifice in order to do so.

Bumping with a question, I've an idea for my next couple proposal to be for Grin of Audacity and Psychotic Smirk, can they be considered opposites? One is a smile that anticipates victory, the other is a smile that anticipates hurting someone, the two are considered heroic/villainous counterparts to one another. Could this work enough?

No, they're more like related tropes, with their "parent" being smiling in general.

Okay, understood.

Different idea: Obfuscating Insanity and Mask of Sanity should work. One is pretending to be insane (while sane) and the other is pretending to be sane (while insane).

Might take a week (more or less) to cook up a couple idea for them. ^. I wanted to get to some insanity tropes anyway-

Sounds good to me. Not to mention that such a pair has a trope of its own.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on May 14th 2023 at 11:03:36 PM

Alright,

Okay, this one should be obvious. Playing with Fire and An Ice Person.

Since it's been more than 72 hours since the last draft of Betha and Killian, I've added them to the page.

Once again, I'd like help on how to format the titles for the next couple I'm working on please.

It seems to me that "[name], the Obfuscating Insanity" doesn't work as well as it may have for others, though "[name], the Mask of Sanity" is... sort of do-able?

I have this tentative example though:

[[folder:Ophelia Ingram, Obfuscating Insanity and Mark Sinatra, Masking in Sanity]]

The title's pretty good.