Line #10 PlayingWith/FromRoommatesToRomance

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2	'''Basic Trope''': Characters develop feelings for each other as a result of living together.
3	* '''Straight''': Nina moves into the spare bedroom of her friend Josh. After a few months sharing a living space, the mutual attraction between them becomes evident.
4	* '''Exaggerated''': Nina moves in with Josh, a stranger. They fall in LoveAtFirstSight and are married after a week.
5	* '''Downplayed''': Nina admits that she occasionally sees Josh in a romantic or sexual light due to their living arrangement, but nothing ever comes of it.
6	* '''Justified''': ???
7	* '''Inverted''': Nina and Josh have crushes on each other and move in together hoping something more with come of it. But living together causes them to realize they are BetterAsFriends.
8	* '''Subverted''': Nina's family is aghast that she's moving in with a guy she's not dating, thinking that it will result in relationship drama. Nina reassures them that their relationship is totally platonic.
9	* '''Double Subverted''': Nina expects some attraction to happen between her and her new male roommate, but to her surprise, their relationship is completely platonic. However, a year into living together, Josh suddenly confesses that he is in love with her.
10	* '''Parodied''': Nina chooses her potential roommates like Tinder matches, only agreeing to meet up with ones she thinks she'll be attracted to.
11	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Nina and Josh are in a WillTheyOrWontThey cycle, and they're also moving in and out of the apartment.
12	* '''Averted''':
13	** Nina and Josh are roommates and there is no suggestion of anything happening between them.
14	** Nina and Josh are dating, but not as a result of living together.
15	* '''Enforced''': The screenwriter has a script for a RomanticComedy that wasn't initially about roommates falling in love. UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic-related filming restrictions resulted in the need for a confined filming space, and so the characters of Nina and Josh are retooled into a pair of roommates.
16	* '''Lampshaded''': "Of course Nina has a crush on her roommate. She's probably seen him naked!"
17	* '''Invoked''': Nina, having read several romance novels about roommates falling in love, completely expects to fall in love with Josh.
18	* '''Exploited''': Josh only invites women to live with him in the hopes of getting a girlfriend or a [[FriendsWithBenefits roommate with benefits]].
19	* '''Defied''': Everyone thinks Nina and Josh will fall for each other because they are roommates, but they shut it down at every opportunity.
20	* '''Discussed''': ???
21	* '''Conversed''': ???
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25	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
26	%% * '''Implied''': ???
27	%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
28	%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
29	%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
30	%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???

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