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Keep the Home Fires Burning
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Lots of stories are about The Hero and their comrades on their adventures. This story focuses on The Hero's lovers, family, and friends back home, often in a Lower-Deck Episode, as they try to keep normal life together and not go crazy from loneliness and worry. British examples will exhibit lots of Stiff Upper Lip. Romantic partners will find renewed determination that I Will Wait for You or succumb to Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder. The usual portrayal involves families of the military and other warriors: soldiers are subject to long, distant deployments with little contact back home, and combat situations always involve the fear of injury and death. Families of police officers, sailors, and superheroes can also feel like this. |
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The French film A Very Long Engagement is about a woman (played by Audrey Tautou) trying to find out what happened to her fiance who fought in World War I. | |
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The family plotlines on Rescue Me exhibit this trope. | |
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The Highlander: The Series episode "They Also Serve..." focused on the Watchers, the mysterious organization who observed and recorded the constant warfare between the immortals but (theoretically) never interfered in the ongoing fights. | |
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In a non-romantic version of this, in The Dresden Files novel Cold Days, when Harry goes back to visit Chicago, he finds, to his shock his Godmother, Leanansidhe has been keeping his obligations current during his absence. Due to the nature of the benefactor, he is more than a bit concerned. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, Miounne takes a motherly role to the adventurers who get their start at the Carline Canopy, the Adventurer's Guild in Gridania. She nags them to prepare themselves properly for their coming adventures while also having an eel pie and a cup of tea on hand for when they return. Yet she also knows that some of the adventurers she sees off won't come back, but that makes it even more important for her to be able to welcome home the ones that do. | |
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Ithaca's queen Penelope in The Odyssey, of course. | |
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Army Wives focuses upon the titular women, along with an army husband, dealing with the various strains and stresses of their position. | |
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Colonel Moore's wife, Julie, in We Were Soldiers has scenes of this. In one, the taxi driver delivering death notification letters to widows stops at Colonel Moore's house to ask his wife for directions to another house. She initially thinks her husband has died, and is not pleased to find out why she just got the scare of her life. | |
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In Turning Red, Sun Yee's story explicitly begins with it being wartime and the men being all gone. | |
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Between The Crosses: William Schofield's wife writes various letters chronicling her side of the story. | |
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Agamemnon shows how this can go horribly wrong; during her husband's long absence, Clytemnestra had plenty of time to ruminate upon how much she despised and resented him, especially for how he'd sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia. By the time he returns, both of them have had affairs, and Clytemnestra has had plenty of time to plot his murder. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Éowyn was ordered by Théoden and Aragon to stay behind in Edoras, she does not take it well. | |
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Another non-romantic version: Hestia in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, who stands watch over Olympus while the other gods are off fighting. She even says the trope name in a discussion with Percy and Nico. Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth and domesticity, so she is a literal embodiment of this trope. | |
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Bomb Girls is set in a munitions factory during World War II, following four different women who all work there and are dealing with various trials and tribulations. | |
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Apollo 13: Marilyn Lovell's subplot starts with her shielding her family from media attention (and advising other astronauts' wives in the same). Once the mission goes wrong, she tries to hold her family together emotionally despite the lack of updates from NASA - while still keeping press agents eager for a tragedy out of their home. | |
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The last Anne of Green Gables work, Rilla of Ingelside, is about World War I in Canada. The central character is Anne's youngest daughter, who is not really the Love Interest until the very end. | |
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Spider-Man: Mary Jane Watson-Parker struggles between her desire to support Peter Parker in his role as Spider-Man and her real fear that this time could be the night she sent her husband out to die. This is notably a factor in the Kraven's Last Hunt storyline when for two weeks MJ doesn't know if Peter is dead. | |
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