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My name is Megan Tennant in case you didn't already know and today we are covering
romance tropes which I love. Now I covered a couple weeks back
romance tropes which I hate so if you're interested in hearing me rant a bit you
can check that video out link in the description down below and so of course
I have to cover the opposite side of things which is of course romance tropes
which I love. Now quick disclaimer to all the authors watching this, this is me
talking about this topic as a reader. Some of the tropes on this list are
technically cliches and so I'm not saying you should go and throw all of
these into your book. Further disclaimer I read entirely sci-fi and fantasy.
I do not touch contemporary. I don't read plain romance. So with that context in
mind this is my list of romantic tropes which I have read in science
fiction and fantasy which I freakin love and I'm gonna count the list backward so
we're gonna start at my kind of less loved romance trope so let's get right
to it. Number 7 fake relationships. I haven't
actually seen those ones done all that often but I love this trope because it
gives the author the perfect excuse to take two unlikely characters and shove
them together and make them consider each other in ways they wouldn't
otherwise. It also generally comes paired with a slow-burn romance which I adore I
think my favorite execution of this was the Hunger Games.
Yes I consider the first book the thing with Peeta to be kind of a fake
relationship sort of thing because if you read the book from Katniss's POV she
wasn't all that into it in the first book. They were doing it for the cameras
and for the benefit of getting sponsors and such.
So it was essentially a fake relationship. a fake romance. That scene in the cave
where they kissed so that they can get soup and stuff from sponsors that was
these two characters being shoved together and needing to think of the
other person as sort of a romantic partner even though they wouldn't have
otherwise necessarily considered the other person. Trope number six which I
love near-death experience makes the characters finally make up or admit
their feelings for each other. I know this is super cliche. It is so overdone
but I just live for that moment where the character almost dies and that wakes
them up to how dumb they've been this whole time. That moment is just so
wonderful and I live for it. Number five a lot of you guys are gonna judge
me for this one and I don't care I can't help but enjoy it and part of me knows
it's so cliche and so overdone but just every time it happens in a book or movie
or TV series I just... number 5 is only one bed or or
hear me out other forced forms of intimacy when the characters are
mutually interested in each other and we have a confirmed potential ship and then
there's forced intimacy. A few non bad examples of this are scenes such as in
divergent when Tris goes into Four's stimulation and they're briefly trapped
in the metal vents and they're getting closed in together and their bodies are
pressed all closed and it's a forced closeness but we have confirmation that
both characters are interested in each other so it isn't awkward or
uncomfortable it's just like ah they're being forced to be next to each other and
touch each other and I'm judging myself a little it's okay you can judge me too.
Some other examples of this are when characters have to help you know bandage
another one up like maybe one of them got sliced on their back and it
needs to be treated and they have to take off all the shreds and let
the other person treat their back injury and it's a bit more on the intimate side
and it just sort of kind of opens the characters minds to the possibilities
and forces them into a scenario they weren't brave enough to otherwise enter and
I live for that. Four is similar to five and that is forced to have each other's
backs this is where the characters are forced to adventure together or fight a
battle together or they're abandoned together and they have to find their way
home or get somewhere or it's just the two of them and maybe they don't get
along in the beginning but they have to defend each other and help each other
survive otherwise they're both gonna die. My most recent favorite that did this is
the book Unearthed where we have our two main characters and they're dropped on this
alien planet basically and they need to help each other get through all sorts of
traps and puzzles and survive and they each have their own strengths that the
other person needs and it's just ah. Number three is a fairly common one and
this one is forbidden love. Is there anything better than characters wanting
to be together with increasing desperation only to have the world or
the plot or other characters cruelly tearing them apart? Especially when
there's danger involved and they're risking their lives for one another to
be together. I just love this one because it helps draw out the tension of a ship
for so long with the characters still wanting each other and the thing keeping
them apart not being something silly like lack of communication or inability
to express their feelings to one another. They're being kept apart by something
very much outside of their control and so you can have the characters fight so
hard to be together and I think that just opens the potential for such a
strong romantic development. Favorite trope number two enemies to lovers. I
love this one and I don't see it as often as I would like done well. I
think one of the main components necessary for it to be done well
they have to both the enemies on the same level they have to have the same
amount of power in the relationship even if the types of power they have are
different they have to be well balanced for this to work. But when well executed
this one is amazing. You know nothing Jon Snow.
One of the best parts about this trope is it guarantees a nice slow burn
romance because not only do we get to watch the romance develop with no chance
of insta-love because they hate each other in the beginning but we also get
to watch it grow from kind of a negative point so it makes the relationship last
that much longer so by the time they actually get to the point where they
kiss and they're in love and they admit their feelings for each other
they know each other that much more and we know them that much more so we care
and are that much more invested in their relationship working. And last but not
least my favorite trope in romance of all time from completely different
worlds. Okay so I might be planning to write a
series like this in the near future my next series that I'm constantly talking
about so I'm so excited about it because I just I love it when two characters
from completely different worlds encounter each other find a connection
together or have to fight for the same thing together or one of the other
tropes applies where they have to have each other's back and through each other
they get to learn about each other's worlds and they get to be curious and
they get to experience all of these new things together. The romance is laced
throughout its entirety with new discoveries and experiencing this new
and exciting world on both sides. I love this one so much.
I think this works best the more different the worlds are from each other
especially if one of them is like an alien planet. Now this isn't always done
well because we encounter the issue where if one of the people is an alien they
have to be morphologically similar to humans but we can't have them be too
similar or it's unrealistic but if an explanation is given as to why,
like there's shared ancestry or people settled from one planet on to the other
you know thousands of years ago and that's why they're similar. If there's an
excuse given, this trope can flourish and I freaking love it. My favorite
execution of this is... I blush just thinking about it. I loved this show too
much. i binge watched it in like a couple of days and then i binge watched it
again a couple days later and this was star-crossed. This is the TV show which
they went and canceled even though the season ended on a cliffhanger. Oh that hurt.
That hurt. I felt that right in here. Is this the right side? My left side? Yeah right
ah still hurts. And that was it for this video! So let me know down in the
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