I often feel bad for characters introduced as love interests because it's difficult not to be immediately wary of their presence - not because of their character, but because of myriad ways the show will attempt to make the romance "interesting" or "drawn out." And, yeah, then make so much of the plot center around that romance. Then poor romantic interest ends up taking the brunt of our annoyance.
What's funny is that in my current story I do have two characters who I plan to make show a bit of a romantic interest in each other. But the more I plan it, the lighter that interest becomes (in fact I need to be careful that it doesn't end up one-sided. Especially since, at the end, the characters don't exactly get together - I leave that open-ended - but more that one of the characters finally knows what they're going to do with their life). My brain is becoming surprisingly good at steering away from romance instead of toward.
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I often feel bad for characters introduced as love interests because it's difficult not to be immediately wary of their presence - not because of their character, but because of myriad ways the show will attempt to make the romance "interesting" or "drawn out." And, yeah, then make so much of the plot center around that romance. Then poor romantic interest ends up taking the brunt of our annoyance.
What's funny is that in my current story I do have two characters who I plan to make show a bit of a romantic interest in each other. But the more I plan it, the lighter that interest becomes (in fact I need to be careful that it doesn't end up one-sided. Especially since, at the end, the characters don't exactly get together - I leave that open-ended - but more that one of the characters finally knows what they're going to do with their life). My brain is becoming surprisingly good at steering away from romance instead of toward.