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Q&A How to prevent "they're falling in love" trope

Kill one off (the other can fall in love with the ghost) Show one dying alone in the future and set up the whole story as a flashback Put them on impossibly different locations (planets) or time (...

posted 5y ago by layton s‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:37:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/44330
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar layton s‭ · 2019-12-08T11:37:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Kill one off (the other can fall in love with the ghost)
- Show one dying alone in the future and set up the whole story as a flashback
- Put them on impossibly different locations (planets) or time (like centuries apart, aka: time traveling or back to the ghost thing)
- Put one or both in a relationship with someone else
- Make them mortal enemies (cultural, values, political)
- Have more than 2 characters
#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-04-03T17:08:52Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 1