💚: how does my muse feel about love? about falling in love? about being in love?
Agape (unconditional): Does not exist. No relationship forged, romantic or otherwise, comes without conditions. In China’s case especially there’s always some sort of requirement from the other person, even if they don’t mention it.
Eros (romantic): Exists, but is a hefty time investment she’s not sure she’s willing to make. Things change so rapidly from one year to the next that she doesn’t see the use of getting attached, only to drop things so quickly thereafter. She, is, however, an incredibly sentimental and romantic person and would dote, given the proper suitor.
Philia (friendship): A good love! You can’t pick your family but you can pick your friends. Finding common ground with others who she wouldn’t usually creates a special kind of bond. Trust is hard to come by and though it isn’t 100% reciprocated, it is treasured.
Storge (filial): Perhaps Chūn-Yàn’s most valued kind of love, even if it is the one most ridden with strife. If things went her way this would probably be her biggest priority. But to China, philia is the most important.
It happens and it’s hard to stop. Better to be ignored for the most part. However, in this stage there are no real commitments, no real promises and no decisions to be made. It is a quiet and guilty sort of pleasure.
It has its benefits but it’s always a gamble. She can be quite fussy but when the expectations are met consistently it’s hard for her to keep putting up a wall. It’s not all flowers and rainbows and perhaps that’s the real beauty of it, that no matter what one can always return to the initial honeymoon phase, if they try hard enough.