Love Interests

Basic Information

Love Interests are characters whose purpose in a story is that other characters fall in love with them.

List of Love Interests

• Betty And Veronica
• Bokukko
• Broken Bird
• Cake Eater
• Capulet Counterpart
• The Charmer
• Cheryl Blossom
• Clingy Jealous Girl
• Defrosting Ice Queen
• Distressed Damsel
• Dogged Nice Guy — because Single Woman Seeks Good Man
• Dungeonmasters Girlfriend
• Girl Of The Week
• Green Skinned Space Babe
• Hello Nurse
• Heroes Want Red Heads
• Hot Amazon
• Hot Librarian
• Hot Scientist
• Jungle Princess
• Knight In Shining Armor
• The Lois Lane
• Mad Scientists Beautiful Daughter
• Magical Girlfriend
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl
• Master Of The Mixed Message
• Meganekko
• Non Action Guy
• The Obstructive Love Interest
• The Paolo (the love interest of the love interest)
• Pretty Woman
• Rebellious Princess
• Relationship Sue
• Rich Bitch, since All Guys Want Cheerleaders
• Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl
• Settled For Gay
• Shallow Female Love Interest
• Temporary Love Interest
• Troubled But Cute, since All Girls Want Bad Boys
• Tsundere
• Unlucky Childhood Friend
• Unwanted Spouse
• Victorious Childhood Friend
• Well Excuse Me Princess
• Widow Woman
• Yamato Nadeshiko

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

2. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Not all gaming groups are comfortable with romance in their games. And even if they are, actively planning to introduce them is difficult since it is hard to predict whom the player characters are interested in romantically. The best bet is to describe a number of NPCs of the appropriate gender in an interesting way, and wait if any of the player characters show any interest themselves.
• Romance between two different NPCs is easier to handle as a plot device - and it can drive plots if the PCs are asked to either help or hinder the romance.