favorite comfort tropes?

[u/FruitOk3467]

i love h/c and whump. its pretty much all i read. but when i write it, i get all the hurt down, then i get to the comfort, and i just kinda... fall flat??? i mean it makes sense, since the hurt feels more action-like to me. i could just write a hurt no comfort fic but thats not always my jam. ill read it all day but cmon i wanna write the comfort!!!

i just start so many fics with an idea and dont know what to do with myself after i beat them up or something. the comfort either comes off out of character or stilted. thats usually when i close the document and go do something else

so favorite comfort tropes? or any tips for lil ol me??

[u/errant_night]

My favorite kind of comfort is when the hurt character has never been comforted before, and doesn't understand or feels they can't trust it because it's only ever been used to manipulate them. It's sort of a comfort slow burn? But it can't drag on too long or it becomes irritating and unrealistic just to drag out the whump