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[kite2013]

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[dragynkeep]

I like your takes on rwby. There's nothing more delightful than someone who loves something roasting it. People who would judge you as a "hater" are being deliberately obtuse. You cannot have this depth of analysis for something unless you cared for it. Unless you were intimately aware of it. Someone with a passing interest in this series who just wanted to crap on it wouldn't know so much. It's why the best critique of anything is from former or current fans. Will you do more posts about MHA?

we're glad you like them!

as for mha, both of us have kind of fallen out of watching / reading it so if there's something that catches our eye & we want to talk about it then we probably will but outside of that, more than likely not.

[autumn-foxfire]

You were completely correct

Authors accept Guy and Girl getting together as a given.

It's going to happen, so they don't need to put any real work into having it happen. It could even be handled in an epilogue.

But to have a rival, the other guy needs to DO something. It can't be played out after the series, because it only means something if we see it happen.

So there needs to be tension, drama, an exchange of energy, arguments, and people having clear ideals and standing by them.

Which would make any romance incredibly potent and powerful, but people are writing a love interest and not a rival.

Again, they already decided on the pairing, and they can just come up with a random excuse to get these two people together.

Or decide that they're dating now, and then push this person off to the side.

Them simply telling you that they're in a relationship means they don't need to show it.

It's how you end up with these empty, flat characters that the author puts no work or development into. They already achieve their goal in the story by existing. But a rival is allowed to matter. He's allowed to have goals, aspirations, desires, and everything else that makes up a character. He's allowed to have a real impact on the hero and accomplish things in the narrative. These female love interests are boring because they're rarely characters: they're love interest archetypes who check a box on a list of desirable traits and what's required to get them together with the main character as his default pairing. Everything about how love interests are written is backwards.

^^ Exactly

And we constantly allow these authors to create flat characters as the love interest, especially in shonen when romance isn't the focus and yet they still need to give the main character a love interest.

It's no wonder in fandom that many people end up shipping the rivals together over the canon romance because there is just so much more substance with the rivalry pairing.

It's why I say these authors should write a rivalry first and then make them a love interest :p