Hahaha, oddly enough I’ve never thought about it? *thinks back over past work*
I love moments of profound intimacy. Not necessarily romantic intimacy. I mean the kind where two characters find the curtain drawn back between them and they make some kind of profound connection—some kind of understanding, or a meaningful moment shared, something that joins them in a way that no one else shares.
It doesn’t have to be a good kind of connection. Um, like, all those little Forcey moments between Luke and Vader. Or. Ever seen Farscape? Scorpius deliberately cultivates this with Crichton and uses it against him throughout the series.
So…yeah, I guess that’s in the vast majority of my writing, in one way or another. It also features heavily in the bulk of my favorite stories.