Oblivious To Love / Fan Works

A Certain Magical Index

• In Twist of Fate, Touma tells Index that he's seen how happy his parents are with each other and would like to have a similar relationship with a girl, but he fears that no girl would ever want to be with a misfortune "loser" like him. Index walks away and cries, realizing that he hasn't picked up on her feelings or that of pretty much every female character in the fic. He remains so dense that he doesn't pick up on Misaki and Seria's feelings even after they all go out, get drunk, and spend the night together.

Arrowverse

• To Hell and Back (Arrowverse): Oliver is completely oblivious to his Childhood Friend Laurel's obvious crush on him. For that matter, it's implied he was also oblivious to Nyssa's feelings for him, though Nyssa is far more reserved and in control of her emotions than Laurel is.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Absolute Trust: Two of the three couples for Alec's second mission require very little effort on his part. But Aang and Katara (and Sokka) are oblivious to the other's attraction despite it being so obvious that even pre-Heel–Face Turn Zuko—heck, even Gran Gran could see it. Alec actively nudges them at every opportunity after the Siege of the North, and it still takes until Ba Sing Se for Aang to blurt out his feelings and Katara to return them.

Axis Powers Hetalia

• Italy sure seems this way to both Germany and Japan in Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità. Subverted.

Crossover

• The Chronicles of Tanya the Holy: Tanya spends the entire story believing she's merely securing her place as a valuable subordinate to Prince Arthas. It's not until the final scene where he proposes to her that she realizes he's madly in love with her.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: Ironically, Rival does not understand why Milly doesn't like it when he's ogling other women, especially since she had shot down all of his prior attempts to woo her.
• Colosseum of the Heart downplays this: Ash is a few years older than canon and has matured enough to figure out that, in hindsight, Serena had feelings for him when they were traveling in Kalos. However, he has yet to figure out that she still does, which the rest of their friends are fully aware of. Even Sora picks up on it pretty quickly.
• A Hero's Wrath: Having inherited Asura's lack of social skills when it comes to love, both Izuku and Mithra are terrible at picking up signals. For Izuku, Nejire had to be the one to ask him on a date. In Mithra's case, Inko had to physically shove Ryuko onto her for her to finally get the hint.
• If Wishes Were Ponies: Harry has no idea that he technically has three girlfriends (the CMC), mostly because he's still too young to fully understand relationships. Played for Laughs, especially since everyone else can see how the girls feel about him.
• Kyon: Big Damn Hero has Kyon completely unaware of the affections of Haruhi, Mikuru, Nagato (sort of), Kanae, Tsuruya, and many of the girls in his school. Until his shoe locker is filled with notes from those girls, that is. He's also incapable of spotting the polyamorous relationship that several other characters share. Even Mikuru worked that one out.
• Last Child of Krypton: Shinji fell for Asuka as soon as he met her, but did not believe she liked him... until she lunged at him.
• The Monkey D. Haru Series: Luffy was this prior to him and Boa Hancock getting together, with Hancock having to go through all sorts of trials and tribulations so he would realize her feelings. It's why she makes sure that their adopted son Haru/Harry is unlike his father in that aspect.
• My Huntsman Academia: Izuku and Shouto are this to varying degrees. A lifetime of being bullied powdered Izuku's self-esteem and he's thoroughly convinced that no girl on Remnant would want to date someone as high-maintenance as he is. Because of this, he has no idea that his kindhearted demeanor and impressive abs are winning his female friends' hearts until Yang decides to ask him out. In Shouto's case, his lack of human contact prior to coming to Beacon has just made him oblivious to social cues that could be interpreted as romantic. He thinks nothing of stripping a girl's wet clothes off during a rescue mission and is confused when Weiss starts fidgeting when he starts feeding her ice cream.
• The renegade hero!!!....Invader Zim?: As per canon, Betty is completely oblivious to Noah having a crush on her, which is made even worse by her own rather blatant fangirl crush on Zim.
• A Song of Silk and Saplings: A running joke is that Maki develops a colossal crush on Hornet after she kicks his ass in a duel that he's profoundly embarrassed by and does a rather poor job of hiding, and which Hornet is the only person to remain consistently oblivious to as a result of her poorly-developed social skills.
• Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Shinji fits in the "deep, deep denial" variety. Although he spends half story thinking of ways to ask Asuka out he has no idea that she is falling in love with him. Likewise, Asuka takes a long while until she notices Shinji likes her.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Lost In Gotham: Peter admits to Cassandra that he's still in love with Gwen, but that he didn't realize it until they were both seeing other people. He's mad at himself for being this trope back when he had a chance to be with Gwen, as now they're in different dimensions and he knows he'll never get to be with her.
• Auburn Strands And Red Threads: Orihime is so hilariously oblivious to Inuyasha's feelings for her, something most of her friends quickly pick up on after a few minutes of properly meeting him. Even Inuyasha has taken note of her obliviousness. That is until she overhears his confession. But even then, she remains in denial that he actually has any sort of strong romantic attraction to her because, in her mind, how can he develop feelings for her after they only knew each other for a short while?

Danganronpa

• The Pre Despair Kids: Peko is unaware of the fact that Rina, a close friend of hers, has a huge crush on her. up to eleven because she is quite literally the only person who can't see it.

Digimon

• Rika Nonaka in the Tamers Forever Series. In this case it's justified since Rika is unable to believe that anyone could possibly even like her, much less love her.

Dragon Age

• Twice Upon an Age: In All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, Mahanon, in one of his Gadfly moments, teases his best friend Victoria that her Love Interest is the walking personification of this trope.
  Mahanon: In the future, people will ask themselves, "On a scale of one to Cullen Rutherford, how oblivious to love is this person?"
• It takes Varric a full thirty chapters to figure out that he's basically been in a committed relationship with Bethany for several months in Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium. As he himself lampshades when he thinks about it, he's pretty much the last one to know.

Dragon Ball

• Judgement Day (Dragon Ball): After Goku and Vegeta’s spar, the two have a conversation which Vegeta misunderstands as Goku wanting their relationship to be real, which he accepts. Goku doesn’t realize this and continues to believe Vegeta is faking. While Goku is still trying to figure out how to handle his feelings for Vegeta, Vegeta thinks they’re a real couple.

Fire Emblem

• Precocious Love gives us Robin and Lucina, ironically enough. Robin has unknowingly attracted the crush of the female Shepherds, along with Lucina. The irony comes in with the fact that both are completely oblivious to each other's feelings, and confide it to others. Chapter three has Robin invite Lucina out to a restaurant because she didn't eat that day. She thinks it's a date, and he doesn't realize that it sounds like one until later that day. Unfortunately, the "date" doesn't happen, as the Shepherds have to help a nearby village.

Fireman Sam

• Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy: A recurring element is Sam being completely incapable of realizing that Elvis is in love with him, even though every other character, including their colleagues/housemates, Penny and Briar, and Elvis' honourary sister Gabby, can see the connection.

Frozen

• Frozen Wight: It takes Elsa a looong time to realize Fritz is in love with her, despite him acting like a lovesick puppy. She also mentions that half the castle has confessed to her—she claims it's because they want to marry a royal for the prestige, and is unable to conceive of any other reason. The fact that she’s a beautiful, kind, and immensely powerful woman doesn't even seem to occur to her.

Glee

• In Hunting the Unicorn, Blaine's trust in people and his inability to gauge when people are interested combines this into Fridge Horror: If Blaine didn't get the picture when Kurt was all but throwing himself at him, nor when his old high school friend tried to invoke a Dance of Romance, it's only logical that he has no clue when someone is stalking him.

Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed

• In Impenetrable Walls, Wei Wuxian has not clued into the fact that Lan Wangji is desperately in love with him. Despite being kidnapped to be said prince's Sex Slave, his servants constantly dropping hints, the Emperor himself sending him porn and outright telling him to stop toying with his brother's heart.
• In Letters to My Partner in Crime, Wei Wuxian is this, no question. Even after, he's still unsure when Jin Zixuan literally spells it out for him since Lan Wangji is emotionally tongue tied and almost can't get his confession to Wei Ying out.
• In Twelve Moons and a Fortnight, Wei Wuxian is unaware of his romantic feelings toward Lan Wangji or Lan Wangji's reciprocation of them due not having the time to process nor recover everything that happened to him. From his perspective his Trauma Conga Line (the burning of Lotus Pier, falling into Burial Mounds, the Sunshot Campaign, his ambush at Qiongqi Path, and his resurrection)took place in the very near past, though these events took place over sixteen years previously. Wei Wuxian needed time to recover and find himself before he was ready to start a relationship.

Harry Potter

• The title character of Alexandra Quick has a serious complex about this that extends beyond romantic love. Essentially, her sense of self-worth is so poor that she has difficulty comprehending that other people care about her. She still hasn't cottoned on the fact that her school's headmistress cares about her more than she lets on, she thinks that her foster mother hates her and never wanted her, and she generally assumes that anyone trying to be friends with her is out to deceive or humiliate her (though paranoia factors into this as much as poor self-esteem). The only person from whom she is generally willing to accept love is her best friend Anna... and she may be missing something there as well.
• In The Shoebox Project, Sirius believes that Remus is oblivious to love.
  Kissing Lily was being touched with purpose but even that was sort of a joke, and now he's thinking about kissing, and is that why Sirius has licked his lips twelve times in the past thirty seconds? "Oh," Remus says suddenly. "I get it. I'm rocks."

The Hunger Games

• In Some Semblance of Meaning, Vale could easily be accused of this. Her Love Interest, Obsidian, isn't quite as bad as she is, but even so, by the time he finally realizes his feelings for Vale, several others—Amber and the other Careers, Phlox, Vale's sister Laurel, and probably even Caesar Flickerman and others in the Capitol—had already picked up on it long ago.
• When The Moon Fell In Love With The Sun: Bad as she is in the actual series, Katniss's portrayal here is even more so. Peeta treats her like a queen and repeatedly states that the only thing he wants is for her to be happy. Meanwhile, she knows there's a girl in District 12 with whom he's in love, and Everyone Can See It... but she believes it's physically impossible for Peeta to have any feelings for her no matter how obvious it is. 11 chapters in, she's still at the stage of thinking that someday they might be friends (even when she's started having Erotic Dreams about him and that she clearly has strong feelings for him).

Jackie Chan Adventures

• Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey: In the Valentine's Day Episode, it's made pretty clear to the reader that both Simone and Jimmy have a crush on Jade, but Jade seems oblivious to both of them.

Kingdom Hearts

• It's established early in Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness that Lea has a crush on Isa, but the series ends with him unaware that Isa loves him back and convinced Isa was in love with someone else before they became Nobodies, so he doesn't say anything. Hilariously, by the time Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Mistress of Evil picks up five years later, Isa is not only unaware that Lea was oblivious to his feelings, he's under the impression they're already dating and Lea was just taking things really slowly.

Kingsman

• In No Charm Equal, Harry is so focused on finding the perfect match for Eggsy that he fails to realize that the actual purpose of his mission was to have him fall in love with Eggsy, and that Eggsy is in love with him.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

• The male lead of The Private Diary of Elizabeth Quatermain manages to completely miss the fact that the woman he adores has it bad for him right back, even when it's pointed out by another character.

The Lord of the Rings

• Frodo in The Very Secret Diaries is oblivious to the fact that every single member of the Fellowship wants in his pants, and tries to flee to Mordor when he figures it out.
  Sam coming too. Good thing, as will enable me to have more of those platonic, brotherly foot massages he's so good at.

Lyrical Nanoha

• In Game Theory, Tiida Lanster completely fails to notice Rizu's massive crush on him.

Marvel Comics

• Sixes and Sevens: Pat Mason has never found himself interested in relationships of any sort, so he's caught by surprise when Robert Frank tells him that Mark Todd's been crushing on him since they met.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Hero Chat: Chat Noir is as blockheaded as always when it comes to romantic feeling. The others have to point it out that, no, visiting his "balcony girl" (Marinette) frequently is not something you do with someone that's "just a friend."
• Leave for Mendeleiev: Adrien completely fails to recognize that Aurore is crushing on him. Even when she tells him outright how she feels, he responds by blankly asking for her name. To make matters worse, he only starts paying attention to her when he thinks that she might hold the key to Ladybug's Secret Identity... aka, the alter ego of his own crush.
• In There's More Magic Out There, Juleka is convinced that Rose isn't in love with her as she is with her, even believing Incompatible Orientation is at work. Not only does Rose love her back, but they have been dating for months without Juleka even realizing it.
• In The One to Make It Stay, Adrien's ignorance of Marinette's feelings is so extreme that even after accidentally overhearing Alya and Marinette arguing about her former crush, he still needs Plagg to spell things out for him.
• In Hey, Hey, Maybe you're my love, an AU where Marinette and Adrien have to kiss in order to transform into Ladybug and Chat Noir, they remain completely oblivious that the other is deeply in love to them in spite of the BLATANT signs they both leave behind, while their friends, families, and Kwami are just exasperated they think their feelings are not reciprocated.

Mob Psycho 100

• In What's a Little Kissing Between Friends? Mob shares all the times that he has been kissed by Teru... and how he sees these as friendship kisses.
• In Kissing Booth Mob ends up manning his class' kissing booth and Teru pays him a visit. Throughout the entire story, even after Teru outright tells Mob that they can kiss whenever he wants, Mob never stops believing that Teru just wants to be a nice guy and contribute to the class' trip fund.
• In Everyone Loves Mob (Gender swapped) Mob spends the first four chapters not knowing that Onigawara, Shinji Kamuro, Musashi Goda, and Tome have feelings for her.
• In The Best Laid Plans Mob has no idea that Teru is planning on confessing to him. Even after they go out for a fancy dinner together, a walk in the park, and even hold hands.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

• In the Rain: Rainbow Dash. Twilight Sparkle's "hints" grow progressively more elephantine, from rhapsodising about storms using terms that also apply to Dash, to straight-out telling her about lesbianism and how it's not too uncommon in Canterlot. In the ending with the Relationship Upgrade, we get this gem:
  Twilight: Dash, has anypony ever had a crush on you?
  Dash: I don't know. Maybe?
  Twilight: Well, one does now...
  Dash: Who is it?
  Twilight: [Face Palm]
• The Life and Times of a Winning Pony:
  • It took a very great deal of efforts, hints and time to get it through Rainbow Dash's skull that Pinkie was in love with her.
  • Somewhat ironically for the Princess of Love, it takes Cadance surprising amount of time to realize Shining was into her. In Cadance's Lovely Misadventure, she managed to completely miss every sign Shining sent her way. When he said he was interested in someone in the nobility, and that he was a close friend to, she concluded that he was homosexual, since she though he meant one of his other male friends and it simply never occurred to her he could possibly be talking about her.
  • Admittedly, Shining wasn't much better. It took him just as long to realize that Cadence liked him that way — in fact, he didn't catch on until Musette said to his face in so many words that Cadence was interested in him. By that point, their relationship had degenerated into one where each was in love with each other but did nothing about it out of conviction that the other wasn't interested in them.
• Magician's Obsessions: A defining plot point. Anypony who cares to look will notice that Twilight and Trixie are head over hooves in love with each other, but Trixie's egotistical stage persona keeps her from seeing Twilight as anything but a Worthy Opponent, while Twilight's lack of social skills makes her think that what she's feeling is only very intense friendship. Even though Twilight was suffering a severe depression due to longing for Trixie, while Trixie has an entire shrine with pictures and news clippings about Twilight.
  Celestia: At this rate I may need to send her a book on the subject, or perhaps just write her a message telling her she is in love. For being my smartest student to date, Twilight is also sadly the most dense.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell:
  • For a very long time, Wind Breaker had no idea that Diamond Back secretly had a crush on him.
  • Gentle Step is clearly attracted to Memorizing Gaze, but doesn’t seem to realize her own feelings for him until it's pointed out to her in the sequel Picking Up the Pieces .
• In Spectacular Seven, Twilight is reunited with Moondancer, who is a childhood friend that Twilight spent a lot of time when they were younger. And yet, despite being in a committed relationship with Sunset Shimmer, Twilight can't see that Moondancer is head-over-heels in love with her for quite a while. Twilight does manage to figure it out after the end of the first volume, with Sunset Shimmer laying on thick levels of snark about how it took Twilight that long to notice.
• Stallions Of Harmony Verse:
  • Shining Armor doesn't register the dozens if not more mares (and stallions) that like him, even if you tell him that directly in the face. He treats their confessions and love letters as "pranks".
  • Spitfire doesn't realize that her best friend, Soarin, is in love with her for years. To be fair, he never tells her outright, but only gave hints that she missed.
• In Twilight Learns a Secret, Twilight was several months into her relationship with Dash before she even realized she was in one. And that was only because RD kissed her, and then spent several pages explaining the situation. Possibly with diagrams.
• In The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, Nova Shine, full stop. Cadance has to tell him point-blank that Twilight has a crush on him and he quite literally has no idea how to react to Twilight telling him to his face that she loves him. However, this has a lot to do with him trying to keep himself closed off from others, and it finally takes his father coming in and giving him a good lecture to get him to realize he loves Twilight back.
• The Flash Sentry Chronicles: Twilight and Flash play this not only towards each other but themselves too, not even realizing they have feelings for each other until years after becoming friends. Even Princess Cadance, the princess of love, has been trying in vain for years to get the two of them to hook up.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

• Lemon Cakes and Late Confessions: Taken to impossible extremes. Despite Gerald and Katarina being married WITH A CHILD, Katarina is still convinced that they're Just Friends. It's gotten so bad that the other members of the harem have finally given up trying to win her for themselves and are actively explaining to her that no, Gerald is not going to divorce her to get with Maria, he is madly in love with her. It should be noted that they are in fact Happily Married and Gerald didn't force her into anything. She just kept going along with everything while convincing herself it was just a friends thing. Yes, even through the sex (lots of it) and resultant pregnancy.

Naruto

• In Catch Your Breath, Keisuke Gekko is entirely oblivious to Kakashi's feelings toward her for most of the story's Door Stopper length. This is due to a combination of her crappy self-esteem, reincarnation issues, and canon-based Selective Obliviousness, and the fact that Kakashi Cannot Spit It Out. It's evolved into a Running Gag.
• Naruto in Escape From The Hokage's Hat. In part due to No Social Skills and in part the people around him not giving him any relationship to learn from or anybody teaching him about it. Kakashi is a single man who reads smut in public. Anything Jiraiya says is written off as bullshit by Naruto. Sakura's failed attempts to get Sasuke's attention won't help Naruto any. Tsunade would only bring up her dead boyfriend. Shizune is single and tends to tease him relentlessly on the subject of relationships. Sasuke is a Celibate Hero who finds love annoying. Compound the fact that he's going through puberty and you get one very confused little boy. A confused little boy who thinks that finding someone attractive means you're a pervert.
• History's Strongest Shinobi: Naruto and Kenichi. Kenichi only has eyes for Miu. Naruto has gone on record to state "I'm shit with girls." and of the girls who like him one sees him as Just a Kid, there is too much baggage associated to another and the third is a downplayed Tsundere who's not trying to rush revealing her feelings.
• Naru-Hina Chronicles: Much like Naruto with Hinata, Konohamaru initially had no idea that Hanabi blushing and sweating was a sign that she was in love with him, and incorrectly thought she was getting sick.
• In Naruto: the Secret Songs of the Ninja Naruto loans Hinata his forehead protector (she left hers behind when she ran away from home) as a sign of how much faith he has in her during a fight, something which gives her enough strength to win. When they get back to Konoha and she retrieves her own, she asks Naruto if she can keep his and let him have hers to replace it instead. After pondering why she'd want the forehead protector he received from Iruka-sensei rather than the one she earned herself, he has a "Eureka!" Moment- because him having Iruka's old forehead protector is like having part of Iruka with him at all times, obviously Hinata is comforted by having part of Iruka with her as well. He even observes that him wearing Hinata's forehead protector means that it's like she's always with him now, but doesn't think anything of it other than "that's pretty neat".
• A new world: Story of a lost Shinobi: Subverted. Naruto and Mirajane openly flirt and tend to indulge each others Covert Pervert. Due to this, Natsu goes to Naruto for advice on how to start dating Lucy and Gray is less dismissive of Juvia's feelings what with having Naruto's interactions with Mira giving them perspective.
• Frustratingly played straight in Time and Again. Naruto grows up in a Bad Future, where Orochimaru successfully obtained Sasuke's body, to be a single 35-year-old with Hinata as his best and closest friend. He STILL doesn't see she loves him. Not helped by Hinata due to Cannot Spit It Out. Even when Naruto goes through Mental Time Travel, due to dying by Orochimaru's hands , he spends most of his time helping and hanging out with Hinata. Sakura and Sasuke even call him out on it. The kicker is that he does love her back... but he rationalizes his love for her as him trying to make up for not stopping her from entering a (very unhappy) Arranged Marriage and getting Neji and Hanabi killed even when she never blamed him in the Bad Future.
• Son of the Sannin:
  • Downplayed with Naruto. On the one hand, he's able to figure out his own feelings for Hinata fairly easily thanks to both growing up in a healthier environment than canon and the two of them having been best friends since they were six. On the other hand, he has no idea that she feels the same way about him until Fu (who barely knows either of them at this point) points out how obvious it is, and he's the only one who doesn't realize the true nature of Kiba and Tamaki's constant bickering.
  • Neji isn't much better. Despite him spending plenty of time with Karin in the lead-up to the Chunin Exam finals and her specifically calling out to him before her match starts instead of her teammates or mother, he completely fails to realize that she has feelings for him until his aunt spells it out for him.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• A Crown of Stars: A lot of the troubles Shinji and Asuka faced in the past and many of their traumas are rooted in their inability to realize each other's feelings, believing she hated him/he was not interested in her, and missing all hints stating otherwise. Late in the history, Asuka wonders whether their lives might have been different if he would have noticed her hints or she would have been more sincere and less prideful.
• Advice and Trust: Subversion. In the prologue, Misato thinks Shinji and Asuka are still oblivious to each other's feelings and she tries to encourage Shinji to win Asuka over... not knowing they got together two months ago. The first chapter narrates how they accidentally noticed each other's feelings after dancing around each other for months without realizing the obvious, and both got shocked reactions.
• The Child of Love: In chapter 2, Hikari realizes what Shinji has no idea what Asuka likes him, and his obliviousness surprises her:
  Hikari:"Oh, don't tell me you don't know at all...I know she likes you very much."
• Children of an Elder God: During a large fraction of the story, if you tell Shinji that Asuka and Rei are smitten over him, he will laugh and say that is crazy talk.
• Evangelion 303: Asuka never noticed her best friend Jessika had a huge crush on her. Jessika never wanted her to know either, because she knew Asuka was in love with Shinji and would not love her back anyway.
• Ghosts of Evangelion: Shinji and Asuka are completely oblivious to each other's feelings, which leads to their world ending. Even after Instrumentality, they are incredibly dense. After several years, Shinji confesses and Asuka doesn’t believe him initially:
  "I didn't get what you wanted. I wanted the same thing you did, and I didn't get it. I just... I guess I just lost it in a different way."
• In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, Shinji liked Asuka but he thought that she hated him. Asuka liked Shinji but she thought that he hated her. They needed one more death battle to open up and realize each other's feelings.
• The One I Love Is...: Shinji had no freaking idea that Asuka and Rei liked him. He was utterly clueless. So that when Rei gave him chocolates in episode 1 he was surprised. When Asuka got mad with envy he was incredulous. When Hikari told Asuka liked him he was shocked and amazed. Then in episode 2 they argued, shouting (Asuka) and snarling (Rei) at each other that he was hers and Shinji finally got a clue. Finally.
• In Role-Playing (Evangelion), the Children are roleplaying moments of Nerv's past. At one point, Shinji is playing Kaji flirting with Ritsuko (Rei) while Misato (Asuka) watches and fumes. And Shinji cannot understand why Asuka looks so angry during their performance...
• Scar Tissue: Asuka does not get why Shinji puts up with her despite of all she has done to him. Shinji has convinced himself that Asuka hates him because all he has done to her. Misato wonders how both kids can be so dense.
• The Second Try: Inverted. Everyone thinks Shinji and Asuka are oblivious to each other's feelings; in reality, they not only are completely aware of how they feel, they actually got married before returning to the past. But since they don't want anybody finding out that they are time-travelers, they pretend to be blind to each other's feelings.

Odd Squad

• My Dream Is Yours: Owen keeps having Oona's recurring dream of riding on a gondola and being serenaded by Danny T., the lead singer of Soundcheck. He has absolutely no idea what it means.
  "You...don't get out much, do you?"
• Ships Ahoy!:
  • Oprah initially feels herself falling in love with O'Donahue, but brushes off the feelings because she's unfamiliar with the concept of love. O'Donahue feels the same way, but unlike Oprah, he knows about love. Regardless, the pair force themselves to see each other as work partners and friends rather than lovers, but the truth eventually comes out and they concede, accepting their feelings for one another and entering a romantic relationship.
  • When Oscar mentions that his Truth-Sniffer-inator gadget is his favorite one, Olive gets butterflies in her stomach. However, instead of realizing what the feeling means, she brushes it off as nervousness and assures herself that she has nothing to hide from him. The pair eventually end up in a relationship.
  • Opal begins to realize that she has a crush on Otto from the very moment she comes to the realization that he is endearing to her, but tries to deny her feelings by bringing up excuses that range from "Otto likes another girl" to "I'm only eleven and shouldn't have a crush on anyone at this age". Of course, she and Otto do eventually end up falling in love with each other and enter a steady relationship with each other.
  • After Precinct 13579 wins their first Jackie Award, Octavia finds that she feels flustered when talking to Oren and has no idea why. Likewise, Oren is also struggling with his own feelings for Octavia, which isn't helped by Olaf revealing that he is in love with him and causing him to question his sexuality.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

• Broken Bow: Being the son of Artemis, the goddess whose existence revolves around purity and innocence, Armani Dove is clueless about love.

Persona

• The Body Reflects the Heart, the Shadow Reflects the Soul: Ren mentions in Chapter 18 that his mother dropped hints for years before his father asked to date her.

Pokemon

• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: In this story Ash is not as bad about this as he was in canon (partly because he's a teenager as opposed to a 10-year-old), but for a large part of the story he remains unaware that his female companions all harbor a degree of attraction towards him. It takes him being kidnapped by Sabrina and then rescued and a chat with Pikachu to finally internalize that, indeed, they've all had crushes on him for quite a while.
• From this Professor Sycamore-and-Lysandre-themed ask blog◊, Lysandre sees Sycamore shirtless for the first time and blushes so hard that Sycamore asks if he's sick. Cut to Lysandre in bed with a mug of hot drink and a thermometer, thinking, "Thank Arceus I have all those blankets to cover my crotch..."

RWBY

• Cinderella And Prince Charming: Jaune, as always. In addition to his utter failure to recognize Pyrrha's feelings for him, he mentions a time when his sister had to explain that a girl liked him... after she kissed him on the cheek and said she enjoyed their date. At least it's justified by him being devoted to his unknown soulmate. And he does realize Cinder's feelings for him immediately, though that's mostly due to the soulmate bond.

Sherlock

• In Baker School Blitz, Jim, despite picking up nonexistent hints that John may be in love with Sherlock, is frustratingly oblivious to the fact that his best friend Sebastian has been nursing a painful crush on him for years.

Star Trek

• In Doctor Ghemor, I Presume?, Bashir believes Garak is sarcastic or concussed when the Cardassian comments on his beauty and ogles his chest and neck. It takes his (adoptive, kinda) father awkwardly explaining that caressing someone's shoulders is not innocent for him to get a hint. Might be a slight deconstruction as Bashir has no self-esteem whatsoever — he cannot see Garak's interest for him as he doesn't believe there's something attractive about him.

Star Wars

• By the Sea: Obi-Wan spends the first half of the first story desperately convincing himself that Cody could not possibly return his feelings, telling himself that they're both men, they're different species, Cody's royalty and Obi-Wan's a commoner, etc., and he totally misses the value of the merfolk Headbutt of Love and mistakes Cody's bioluminescence for a pain response (it is not); it goes on and on. Cody tries his best to make his feelings clear, but he's not entirely innocent, either- he mistakes the constantly extended state of Obi-Wan's normal human penis for Obi-Wan trying to come onto him, mistakes Obi-Wan blushing down to his chest at being seen naked for an indication of arousal and reciprocation, and assumes Obi-Wan understands all of Cody's merfolk culture-specific courtship rituals and is just being cool about it. It isn't until Cody is about to give Obi-Wan a handjob that either one realizes what was actually going on with the other; it's incredibly fortunate that both wanted each other the same way at that time, at least.

Supergirl

• Subverted in Kara of Rokyn. Van-Ol believes Kara is oblivious to his feelings; but when she confesses, Kara states she was aware of them because "women can tell".

Sword Art Online

• Nightblade: As a sociopath, Rythin has no real understanding of love. He figures out he's in love through process of elimination.

Teen Wolf

• In Fly a Little Faster Stiles is extremely oblivious as to with whom it is Derek is actually in love with, until the evidence becomes too much for him to ignore. Unfortunately, at that moment, Ennis attacks.

Tomb Raider

• In this fanfiction, Lara is this trope (as opposed to her mostly asexual portrayal in canon). Lara admits in her own narration that she 'needs' Sam, the two sleep in the same bed every night, she feels jealous when a boy pays attention to Sam, and yet it takes several weeks before she realizes that her feelings for Sam might be romantic. Sam's response to Lara's eventual Love Confession:
  Sam: I told myself I wouldn’t say 'finally.' But—god—finally!

Worm

• In Silencio: It takes three dates and the other Undersiders taking pity on her before Taylor figures out that Amy is in love with her.

X-Men

• X-Men: The Early Years: Scott Summers is amazingly dense. Jean Grey spent years pining for him, and Scott didn't get it. Jean ends telling him point blank she wants to date him, and they still have to fight once more until Scott finally gets it.
• The Darwin Chronicles: Back when he was a teenager, Scott was the only person who didn't know Jean was crazy about him.
  Scott: Plenty of good things come out of my camping trips. Jean and I finally got together on a camping trip, remember?
  Logan: Jesus Christ. Tell me you weren't wearing a Boy Scout uniform.
  Scott: Shut up, Hairball. She wanted to go camping, and things just kind of happened. The whole thing was kind of an accident.[...]
  Warren: Actually, it was a plot. Scott and Emma had just broken up, and Jean was all set to make her move. So she invited him camping to get him alone. But because Scott was oblivious to all this – to this day he insists their relationship was all his idea – he invited Bobby to go camping, too.

Youjo Senki

• In A Young Woman's Political Record, Tanya often looks at the strange behavior of her devoted subordinate Visha, who's fought and endured war and spend much of her life alongside her and generally strives to be at her side at every point, and wonders why, so long after becoming a woman, she still doesn't understand them. This lasts until Chapter 39, in which Francois, Yugoslavia, Ildoa and the Russy Union all declare war against OZEV, the union of republics Tanya spearheads, and in the middle of a Heroic BSoD in which she makes desperate plans for Visha to apply for clemency abroad, she instead gets a "Shut Up" Kiss, finally cluing her to Visha's feelings. Distracted as she is by the prospect of war, she makes sure to tell Visha they will talk again about their feelings once the war is over.
• It gets worse in A Young Girl's Delinquency Record, inspired by the above, in which Visha keeps showing Tanya time after time she wants a relationship with her, and Tanya keeps engaging in the most absurd mental gymnastics routines in order to keep thinking she's just a valuable subordinate who couldn't possibly want anything to do with her outside work. Even when she's shown, forcefully, via magic, that she has feelings for Visha, she remains blissfully oblivious to the utterly transparent and absolute crush Visha has on her.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

• The Judgement of the World (5Ds): Judai suffers from this even more so than in canon. Aside from being unaware of Asuka's crush on him, he might be the only person who doesn't recognize the mutual attraction between Aki and Yusei. Moreover, despite Judai's interest in Aki being non-romantic, he doesn't appear to realize that many of his actions concerning her (grabbing her hands while talking animatedly to her, constantly trying to get her attention, and asking her to be his partner in a Valentine's Day lovers tag team duel) could imply otherwise.

Yuri! On Ice

• Rivals Series: Yuuri is completely blind to any and all romantic interest in him due to a combination of insecurity and single-minded focus on ice skating. This goes double for Viktor's interest in him, as his image of Viktor is almost irreversibly tainted by his contempt for and obsession with the man, and even getting to know the real Viktor doesn't change that until the last chapter. He's so oblivious, that he's understandably shocked later when he learns that Viktor has been in love with him for five years.

Zorro

• All the Wasted Time: Diego de la Vega is very surprised when Esperanza Montoya reveals that she loves him instead of their mutual friend, Ricardo due to him being interested in Anna-Maria Verdugo. Fortunately for both of them, it all works out

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