Fanfic / Fragile; Handle with Care

Fragile; Handle with Care is a Turning Red fanfiction posted on FanFiction.Net, written by NoonboryKedabory (Ma Fille).

In it, Tae-young comes down with a cold on tour, and the other 4*Town members look after him.

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Tropes:

• Affectionate Nickname: The other boys all refer to Tae-young as just Tae.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Early in the fic, sixteen-year-old Tae-young is specifically referred to as the baby of the band.
• Big Brother Instinct: All of the 4*Town boys have this towards Tae-young, but primarily Jesse, who even refers to him as a brother in the second part of the fic.
• Catch Your Death of Cold: The morning after getting drenched in the rain, Jesse wakes up with a cold.
• Congestion Speak: Tae-young and eventually Jesse speak like this in the second chapter.
• Fear of Thunder: The first chapter has a minor conflict of Tae-young being afraid of the thunderstorm outside.
• Go-to-Sleep Ending: The first chapter ends with the boys all going to sleep.
• Here We Go Again!: At the end of the second chapter, Tae-young wakes up feeling fine, but now Jesse's the one with a cold.
• Hot Drink Cure: Late in the second chapter, Robaire makes Tae-young tea for his throat.
• In the Hood: Jesse wears a hood to the pharmacy to keep from being recognized, which attracts suspicion from an employee.
• Production Throwback: Soti-Kids, a medicine that appeared in NoonboryKedabory's previous fic, Ma Fille, makes a reappearance at the pharmacy.
• Shout-Out:
  • Tae-young and the Aarons are shown to enjoy The Golden Girls.
  • Aaron T.'s joke:
    Aaron T.: Why doesn't Shrek like Pulp Fiction?
    Tae-young: Why?
    Aaron T.: He thinks it's medi-ogre!
• Sick Episode: For Tae-young, who spends the majority of the episode in bed with a cold, and eventually Jesse, who is shown to be sick at the end.
• Sickness Equals Redness:
  • Tae-young's face is flushed pink in the second chapter.
  • At the end, Jesse's face had gone red now that he has a cold.
• Tempting Fate: The first chapter ends with Jesse assuring Robaire that Tae-young only has an anxiety fever, and he'll be fine by morning. The second chapter opens with Tae-young being worse off than the previous night.

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