wish list / thread ideas / much-beloved tropes

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general things enjoyed

• realistically unpleasant interactions; fights, arguments, furniture-breaking, bad judgment calls, you name it
• realistically unpleasant but tender attempts at repairing after stupid fights, arguments, etc
• character growth
• slow-burn friendships
• lots of different character types would be good with bond, but i'm especially interested in foil characters (ones with similar principles but different ways of getting there; ones not impressed by his bullshit; basically anyone who falls into the 'no hero to his valet' trope for bond; characters with significantly better or worse morals)
• action & aftermath of action
• horror (chiefly psychological; not a huge fan of gore but not shy about injuring characters to up the drama)
• h/c in both directions
• exploring bond's substance use disorder
• just generally exploring darker subjects than you usually can approach strangers for on memes, honestly
• banter during action or on its own

are there headcanons you have that i should know about?
warning: contains spoilers

• canon gives us two main options for bond's backstory, that directly contradict each other; he's definitely an orphan, but was he home alone while his parents died and went directly to boarding school, or was he in the Alps with them on vacation and stayed in Switzerland for years before going back to England? observant readers might see that these are pretty different things, and the movie tells us both backgrounds
• i personally default to bond was home alone when his parents died, and went directly to boarding school
• the only reason i wouldn't use that backstory is if i'm threading with a castmate/someone canon-familiar who wants to involve blofeld for some reason, so please let me know
• i tend to make up necessary background details as fitting each different meme/psl/au, so i don't have much of a list of headcanons for anyone to peruse
• i do play bond as bisexual bc since i don't have mgm's budget, i can write whatever i want
• i will typically gloss over bond's manpain about vesper, because it's otherwise distracting to threads with anyone not canon-familiar; if you are familiar and don't mind some weird sadness over someone he knew for like two weeks and who was dating someone else at the time anyway, lmk