Like Death of the Hypotenuse and Ron the Death Eater, this trope serves as a subtrope of Die for Our Ship in fanfic, to clear the way for the author's preferred ship. Super-trope to In Love with Your Carnage, in which a character sees someone dish out brutal murders and falls for them. This is easy to do to The Lost Lenore since she's not around to contradict an idealized version of her.ĭoing this poorly can feel incredibly cheap if the "explanation" doesn't make sense or potential evidence wasn't presented beforehand, as it feels as if the writers are just going down the list of romantic opposition and checking them off.Ī sub-trope of Broken Pedestal, which is often what awaits anyone on the path of this trope. For example, Bob falls in love with Alice because she is incredibly beautiful, or a brilliant fighter, or incredibly smart, but he fails to actually comprehend Alice beyond that trait. In some other cases, it turns out that the character was only in love with the idea of being in love and applied it to the first suitable person they met and in others, a character falls in love with another character… or more specifically, some defining feature of that character. This situation is often the inherent role of an Unwanted Harem's Unlucky Everydude. For example, some characters attracted to older characters often have an absent parent or older sibling. (Hell, who hasn't done this at some point?) They spend time with a person because they remind them of someone else. This has some basis in reality, where some potentially romantic relationships are actually people seeking "figures". In the character's mind, one type of relationship was simply confused with another. If this causes the writers to accidentally build things like harems, the easy way to get around this is to reveal the basal nature of a relationship. The nature of emotional relationships often overlaps in confusing complications ranging from the simple crush to Freudian oddness. Nick about Gatsby and his flame for Daisy, The Great Gatsby
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