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.
