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Challenge #11 - In your own space, talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

Peggy Sue! The specific type of time travel where a character goes back to their own past and to their old body in order to re-live their life (or a part of it) and do it right this time around. It can be a time loop (Groundhog Peggy Sue) or just a one-time thing. That's it, that's my most favorite trope in the universe. ♡♡♡

I got a number of wonderful Peggy Sue fics in several of my fandoms as exchange gifts (I'm not linking them because without re-reading I might confuse some of them with a different type of time travel fix-it), and a week ago I wrote a Yellowjackets drabble about it myself (I'm mainly a fanartist, not a fanfic writer, otherwise I'd write at least one of those for each of my fandoms).

This trope is the reason I absolutely loved Being Erica despite not even vibing with the main character. It's the reason why Higurashi is my main fandom right now. It's the reason I'll watch and read things instantly without even knowing of their existence beforehand as soon as someone tells me that the trope is a big theme.

And of course I'm taking recs! For entire new-to-me fandoms where the trope is canon, and for fics in any of my fandoms (the trope is usually very character-centric, which is also what I love about it, so reading fandom-blind is not really possible). If it's a Peggy Sue story, I'm automatically 100% interested! :D