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Why Temporary Amnesia With Established Relationship Is The Best Fanfic Trope

It's a spectacularly underrated perfect mix of all best tropes. And yet it never seems to make the cut whenever big tropes are being discussed!

While some tropes are just niche and that's part of thier charm, this one has potential to take over one of the top 5 trope spot if given a chance. And I will tell you 10 reasons why:

1. We get angst obviously. Because hello, the love of my life forgot me? (After almost dying in an accident, presumably. a n g s t)

2. We get both established and developing relationship at once!! What other trope allows that? Huh??

3. We might also get enemies to lovers because the one who forgot might not appreciate being forced to live with a stranger to "remember by exposure". Also they might only remember the rocky start. So many possibilities.

4. We also get Hurt/Comfort for the one who remembers. Like what do you mean that you don't remember my favourite food? What do you mean you don't knOW IF YOU WANNA REMEMBER!?!

5. We get a perfect setup for SO MANY tropes without sacrificing logic and reason to the fanfic gods.

Like the one bed trope. Ofc they have one bed, they were married/engaged/together.

6. Fake/pretend relationship? Oh no! We have to attend this family wedding and everyone and thier pet duck knows we love each other! Hurry up and suck my face off!

7. Fluff? Hey babe? See our photos on which you look at me like I hung the stars in the sky? Isn't that amazing? Leave the dishes for later, let's cuddle on the couch and fall asleep so our friends can tease us later.

8. Denial. Do you want to cook now or should we order takeout pretend that you haven't fallen in love with me all over again? Ok, takeout it is then.

9. We get an almost guaranteed angst with a happy ending bc they're already in love, one just forgot temporarily! (bc some authors are just sadistic.)

10. Smut? Add as much or as less as you want. None? A pinch? Vanilla extract? Choose your amount. It makes sense literally all the ways. They're not? Ofc it would be too heartbreaking and weird. They are? Ofc it might help with the memories! (And besides they got together for a reason)

...and much much more!

With this, I conclude my thesis. I hope I have convinced you. And if not, stop lying. The conclusion of this conclusion is that I conclude that Temporary Amnesia with Established Relationship is the best trope. Thus, this conclusion is now fully concluded.

Thankyou for concludin- um reading.

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can't believe someone wrote a bruce wayne amnesia fic on ao3 and named it "Batnesia"

idk why but i think that is utterly hilarious. This fandom is nuts lmao.

anybody else in the club feeling this one