this may be a character flaw, but for me the hook for storytelling is always a romantic love story.
I will always come around to friendship and family and found family, but in order me to go ham on said story and feel it in my bones, I need there to be two people who fell in love first. Or that are falling in love. Or have crazy good tension that I know will lead to them falling in love. There needs to be a love story for me to love it.