If there's a male/female partnership that's non-professional, such as two adventurers/explorers/mercenaries, something like that, the logical conclusion for me tends to be a slowly developing romantic involvement,
I'm the same way, which is why many of my stories will hint at romance, even if they don't outright portray it. Also like you, I feel friendships to be a lot more powerful, in part because they're not as complicated as romance IMO.
I think bad handling of romance in some books and shows have kind of made me uber wary when it comes to romance - because you either have romance tossed in for the sake of it, tossed in for the sake of drama or a sex scene, involving exaggerated complications or an overabundance of angst that even I can't handle. Plus, as you said, it can turn characters OOC.
In other words, the romance wasn't handled very well, and any warm fuzzies I should have been feeling were smothered by annoyance and frustration.
That's not to say I've never run into good romance, because I have. I'm more the warm-fuzzies romance type, where the complications are more the fault of outside forces rather than internal conflict, and physical acts other than kissing aren't needed to consumate the characters' love. i.e. - PG romance ;)
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Date: 2008-11-27 06:27 am (UTC)From:I'm the same way, which is why many of my stories will hint at romance, even if they don't outright portray it. Also like you, I feel friendships to be a lot more powerful, in part because they're not as complicated as romance IMO.
I think bad handling of romance in some books and shows have kind of made me uber wary when it comes to romance - because you either have romance tossed in for the sake of it, tossed in for the sake of drama or a sex scene, involving exaggerated complications or an overabundance of angst that even I can't handle. Plus, as you said, it can turn characters OOC.
In other words, the romance wasn't handled very well, and any warm fuzzies I should have been feeling were smothered by annoyance and frustration.
That's not to say I've never run into good romance, because I have. I'm more the warm-fuzzies romance type, where the complications are more the fault of outside forces rather than internal conflict, and physical acts other than kissing aren't needed to consumate the characters' love. i.e. - PG romance ;)