Romance Arc: Difference between revisions
m (clean up) |
m (removed Category:Genre Tropes using HotCat - A romance arc can take place in any genre, including Action.) |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{ |
{{Useful Notes}} |
||
The journey of two characters from strangers to lovers. |
The journey of two characters from strangers to lovers. |
||
| Line 146: | Line 146: | ||
{{reflist}} |
{{reflist}} |
||
| ⚫ | |||
[[Category:Love Tropes]] |
[[Category:Love Tropes]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||
[[Category:Omnipresent Tropes]] |
[[Category:Omnipresent Tropes]] |
||
[[Category:Narrative Tropes]] |
[[Category:Narrative Tropes]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||
[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]] |
[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]] |
||
[[Category:Plots]] |
[[Category:Plots]] |
||
[[Category:Index]] |
[[Category:Index]] |
||
[[Category: |
[[Category:Mechanics of Writing]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||
Latest revision as of 16:52, 10 September 2022
The journey of two characters from strangers to lovers.
One of the perennial herbs and spices in the cauldron of storytelling old and new. It's been around a while, it's a major driving force of fiction and it's not going anywhere. A surefire crowd pleaser; probably the only way to really, really screw it up is to overdo it. Induces emotional stakes in an audience like nothing else.
Comes in a myriad forms and flavors. Employs plenty of tropes to get itself across, though a lot of them are mutually exclusive. Like many other tropes, the Romance Arc is looking for a balance: Too many stock derivatives and it's just too much; too few, and it's not much of an arc at all.
See also: Love Tropes; How to Become a Love Interest
Here are some of the common checkpoints of a Romance Arc in typical chronological order.
- Love Before First Sight
- Boy Meets Girl
- Just Friends
- Will They or Won't They?
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore
- Maybe Ever After (probable exit point)
- Relationship Upgrade
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle
- Boy Loses Girl
- I Will Wait for You
- I Have Your Girlfriend
- Second Act Breakup
- Downtime Downgrade (where the "Second Act" is either a Sequel or in between episodes)
- Make Up or Break Up
- The Masochism Tango
- Break His Heart to Save Him
- Your Cheating Heart
- Break Up Demand
- Third-Act Misunderstanding
- Boy Finds Girl Again
- Did Not Get the Girl
- Her Heart Will Go On (exit point)
- They Do (exit point)
- Together in Death (exit point)
- Reincarnation Romance (Go back to start)
- No Romantic Resolution (exit point)