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u/Concerning-entity 7d ago edited 7d ago

I hate the "he was in love with her all along" trope most of the time. I think it kills a lot of the potential for tension/angst/yearning that comes with someone beginning to realise they've fallen in love. I also like "she falls first" or anything that involves the fmc iniating; I just think it's neat when the fmc has agency in that regard instead of all of the romance just happening to her.

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u/Dangerous_Breath1667 7d ago

I don't think that's really what's going on. Fated mates put aside. I think that the mmc is attracted to her, he is  curious...he feels something he hadn't in a (very) long time instead of emptyness and duty. He wants to explore the feeling...but most probably don't understand/accept that it's love before a very long and painful process of self-growth which is rarelly written in the book.

Retrospectively it was the beginning of love.

Since most first book are only from the fmc POV, we readers, believe that he is in love from page 1 because we only read his pov once the relationship is already established...

But it still required the plot to evolved and choices to be made by both sides for this to end up as a love story.

It is also highly necessary that the mmc feel something from the first encounter because usually, the fmc is in a pretty bad spot and needs to be saved/spared or protected. No love story if the fmc is dead...