Possibly unpopular opinion
Okay this may be an unpopular opinion I don’t really know but I hate any form of romance that has a bully or a character that does something bad to them and then the other character just gets over it. I hate it so much and it’s a genuine pet peeve of mine because I ignore everything in life including my problems but if someone hurts me I’m going to try to give them tenfold back if they’re important to my everyday life.
Like the cruel prince for example, it was a bad romance in general in my opinion, but he literally tried to push her off a tower with no real motive and she’s just like let’s make out. (I know it’s not all that but that is a decent sum up).
Or like Jinx for example, which I dropped a while ago but big guy is literally one of the worst human beings alive and I bet the brown haired fellow will say something like “I hate myself for loving him” or “somehow, I’ve fallen in love with him”, and then he’ll chase him down for an eternity only to do something petty like not talk to him and that’s basically the whole thing of “you raped me, blackmailed me, took advantage of my whole being, isolated me, etc. so the equal punishment is ignoring you for like a month” and it makes me so annoyed like let’s not condoning rape but at least beat the shit out of him or better yet, don’t get with him?
Like I love twisted characters that are downright be horrible, but they need a understanding of mutual destruction in that scenario for the relationship to have equal footing, like Neil and Andrew from AftG, or Felicity and Eli’s from LiV (I know she killed her in the end but they almost got somewhere before she murdered her roommate), or even Asashi and Yoru from that one Manga by Harada (I think?). Like they all have dirt on each other or some form of payback for how they treated each other, and not a simple I’ll walk all over you kinda thing.
This is just a vent because I feel like enemies to lovers is increasingly popular nowadays, but I don’t get the hype around a lot of the stories because the dynamic is not there. Am I the only one who feels like this??
For me, I don't really like it when there's a power dynamic, for example like a bully and a victim, or a mobster and the person they kidnapped, but I'm fine with things like rivals or just enemies, dynamics where the characters can stand on equal footing but still hate each other.
That kind of dynamic is probably still more on the unrealistic side......
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26 12,2023