History Main / RomanceArc

** FirstKiss

* EveryoneCanSeeIt

* [[SecondActBreakup Second Act Difficulties]]
** [[{{ptitlev20ohdey}} That Didn't Happen]]

** TheMasochismTango
** YourCheatingHeart

* LoveBeforeFirstSight:

* BoyMeetsGirl:

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore:

* RelationshipUpgrade:

* [[SecondActBreakup Second Act Difficulties]]:

* Past the RelationshipCeiling:

* [[WillTheyOrWontthey Will They Or Won't They?]]
** JustFriends

** TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest
** [[{{ptitle5r4ta85h}} I Don't Want To Ruin Our Friendship]]

** EveryoneCanSeeIt, LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone
** RomanceEnsues
** HeldGaze, AlmostKiss

* SecondActBreakup:

** RedStringOfFate

* AnchoredShip Limbo (typical location #1)

* AnchoredShip Limbo (typical location #2)

** AnchoredShip Limbo (typical location #3)

Two people are drawn together romantically. [[RuleOfDramatic Stuff gets in the way]].

** TheBigDamnKiss (ShutUpKiss, SlapSlapKiss, NowOrNeverKiss...)

Comes in a myriad forms and flavors. Employs plenty of tropes to get itself across, though you're probably not going to have all of them, or even most. Like many other tropes, the RomanceArc is looking for a balance: Too many stock derivatives and it's StrictlyFormula; too few, and [[StrangledByTheRedString it's not much of an arc at all]]. Here are some of the central ones, in typical chronological order.

** AlmostKiss

** TheBigDamnKiss (ShutUpKiss, SlapSlapKiss, NowOrNeverKiss...)
** IUhYouToo

* GoingSteady

** WrongGuyFirst
** TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest

* Premonitions of a romance:

** MeetCute (CrashIntoHello, FallingIntoHisArms, ReturningTheHandkerchief...)

** UnresolvedSexualTension (UST)
** RomanticFalseLead

** ObliviousToLove

** AnguishedDeclarationOfLove

** TheBigDamnKiss (ShutUpKiss, SlapSlapKiss...)

* [[WillTheyOrWontThey Will They Or Won't They?]], reprise:

** ThirdActMisunderstanding

* HappilyEverAfter (HappilyMarried, BabiesEverAfter...)

* Before they meet:

* They meet:

** ThirdArcMisunderstanding

* MeetCute
** CrashIntoHello
** FallingIntoHisArms
** ReturningTheHandkerchief
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter
* JustFriends
* WrongGuyFirst
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest
* NotADate
* UnresolvedSexualTension (UST)
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend
* LikeBrotherAndSister
* [[{{ptitle5r4ta85h}} I Don't Want To Ruin Our Friendship]]
* FalseStart

* DatePeepers
* RelationshipUpgrade
* ConvenientSlowDance
* LoveEpiphany

* RomanceSidequest
* [[{{ptitlev20ohdey}} That Didn't Happen]]
* MakeUpOrBreakUp
* [[{{ptitlekmxl4p7e1yni}} Will They Or Won't They]]
* RelationshipResetButton
** DeadSparks
* RomanceEnsues
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther
* MaybeEverAfter

* LastMinuteHookup
* HappilyEverAfter
* DowntimeDowngrade

One of the perennial herbs and spices in the cauldron of storytelling old and new. It's [[OlderThanDirt been around since forever]] and it's not going anywhere. A surefire crowd pleaser; probably the only way to really, ''really'' screw it up is to [[RomanticPlotTumor overdo it]]. Draws [[{{Shipping}} audience participation]] like nothing else.

Comes in a myriad forms and flavors. Employs plenty of tropes to get itself across, though you're probably not going to have all of them, or even most. Like all other tropes, the RomanceArc is looking for a balance: Too many of them and it's StrictlyFormula; too few, and [[StrangledByTheRedString it's not much of an arc at all]]. Here are some of the central ones, in typical chronological order.

One of the perennial herbs and spices in the cauldron of storytelling old and new. It's [[OlderThanDirt been around since forever]] and it's not going anywhere. A surefire crowd pleaser; probably the only way to really, ''really'' screw it up is to [[RomanticPlotTumor overdo it]].

Comes in a myriad forms and flavors. Employs plenty of tropes to get itself across, though you're probably not going to have all of them, or even most. Like all other tropes, the RomanceArc is looking for a balance: Too many of them and it's StrictlyFormulaic; too few, and [[StrangledByTheRedString it's not much of an arc at all]]. Here are some of the central ones, in typical chronological order.

'''The order of entries here is roughly descriptive of the arc.'''

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'''The order of entries here is roughly descriptive of the arc.'''
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[[index]]
* MeetCute
** CrashIntoHello
** FallingIntoHisArms
** ReturningTheHandkerchief
* SamaritanRelationshipStarter
* JustFriends
* WrongGuyFirst
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest
* NotADate
* UnresolvedSexualTension (UST)
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend
* LikeBrotherAndSister
* [[{{ptitle5r4ta85h}} I Don't Want To Ruin Our Friendship]]
* FalseStart
** MomentKiller
* DatePeepers
* RelationshipUpgrade
* ConvenientSlowDance
* LoveEpiphany
** ChicAndAwe
* RomanceSidequest
* [[{{ptitlev20ohdey}} That Didn't Happen]]
* MakeUpOrBreakUp
* [[{{ptitlekmxl4p7e1yni}} Will They Or Won't They]]
* RelationshipResetButton
** DeadSparks
* RomanceEnsues
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds
* LastMinuteHookup
* HappilyEverAfter
* DowntimeDowngrade
[[/index]]
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