1) Unspoken mutual trust! I love love LOVE dynamics that are about trusting the other person with your life, even if your surface interactions are all about mild conflict. This is what hooked me into Kara/Lee and Booth/Brennan, even though the latter is less conflict-driven on a daily basis, and it's what I'm enjoying about Arthur/Merlin. Let's say I like dynamics that are mostly bickering but with occasional serious moments of 'I trust this person completely'.
2) Created families. Bulletproof. This is what I love about fictions which concentrate on small ensembles or small sub-groups of an ensemble; the slow development of dependence and protectiveness and a family dynamic.
2a) Siblings protecting each other!
3) I have a thing about loyalty to a mentor figure, actually. I am mostly very ambivalent towards Harry Potter as a character, but I'm Dumbledore's man hit me pretty hard. I find student-mentor dynamics to be interesting.
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1) Unspoken mutual trust! I love love LOVE dynamics that are about trusting the other person with your life, even if your surface interactions are all about mild conflict. This is what hooked me into Kara/Lee and Booth/Brennan, even though the latter is less conflict-driven on a daily basis, and it's what I'm enjoying about Arthur/Merlin. Let's say I like dynamics that are mostly bickering but with occasional serious moments of 'I trust this person completely'.
2) Created families. Bulletproof. This is what I love about fictions which concentrate on small ensembles or small sub-groups of an ensemble; the slow development of dependence and protectiveness and a family dynamic.
2a) Siblings protecting each other!
3) I have a thing about loyalty to a mentor figure, actually. I am mostly very ambivalent towards Harry Potter as a character, but I'm Dumbledore's man hit me pretty hard. I find student-mentor dynamics to be interesting.