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⌈ Secret Post #3320 ⌋

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(Rick and Morty)

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03. http://i.imgur.com/u0ymbUk.gifv
[moving gif]

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[Steven Universe]

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[Hanna Barbera Comics Reboot]

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[The Flash]

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[Renaud]

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[The Shannara Chronicles]

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11. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]

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12. [WARNING for incest / underage]

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13. [WARNING for rape]

[Okane Ga Nai]

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14. [WARNING for rape]

[Hockey RPF]

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This. Also, there are some things that characters go through that mean they really would have difficulties in other relationships -- because nobody else would "get it". I didn't care much for Peeta in the Hunger Games series, but I understood why Katniss ended up with him. They'd been through so much together at that point that I could understand why they chose each other. Nobody else would get what they'd been through, not on that level.

So that's one option, putting your characters through the type of situation that means they can't really have a healthy relationship with someone else. While this by all means does not go for all vets, I've heard a LOT of vets and wives/husbands of vets talk about not being able to cope with PTSD/their partner's PTSD upon coming home from a war zone. Civilians can't understand (logically, maybe, but not on the gut-deep emotional level), and sometimes their attempts to help make things worse. Never mind that the vet often comes home changed and not always recognizably the same person... it's heavy stuff. It's part of why you'll sometimes see married servicemembers... because they get it.

So for a three day romance? I'd put them through hell and back. I'm having trouble thinking of other ways to make it realistic, unless you're writing a romance and want to handwave it. Even then, some readers will point out it's not realistic. The "love at first sight" trope has fallen out of favor.

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Re: Characters falling in love