Kevin being raised by the rooters as a living weapon and falling in love with Gwen, but having no clue what is happening to him and doesn’t understand that girls don’t tend to like guys who try to kill their cousin, but Kevin is emotionally and socially inept and thinks fighting her family is a great way to socialize with her.
What do you think?
A titillating trope, for sure.
I see you 'Kevin antagonizes the Tennysons as courtship' and I rise you, 'Gwen also thinks this is normal.'
From the age of 10 and for the rest of her life, Gwen's life revolves around her cousin and his alien fights. Gwen sees other enemies fall in love with Ben, Looma, Charmcaster, Attea, just to name a few. Even Ben's allies that he becomes romantic with, like Kai and Elena, have antagonistic relationships with him. Gwen looks at her own parents and her mother, Natalie, an average human, is antagonistic about the alien aspects of the family she married into.
Gwen grows up thinking fighting is just a normal part of courtship and she meets Kevin on every battlefield and flirt-fights right back at him.
