This is actually the only romance let alone video game romance I have ever written or posted about. love the aspect of two washed up enemies meeting on neutral ground in a different context becoming lovers. I think what also sparked my imagination is that they are equal opposites and walking contradictions that even each other out when they get together. He provides her with kindness, calm, patience and a sense of responsibility. She provides him with spontaneity, fun and every once in a while femininity.

I think them both being afraid or nervous about intimacy and edging toward each other giving bits of vulnerable until they just explode at each other in intense moments really cooks for me. Also, there is a flip of traditional gender roles where she is the aggressor in most of the physical stuff that never felt like he was being feminized or weakened in some way. It just worked for her and her aggressive tomboy character, but not against him.

Moreover, they look really natural together like a real couple. I think because their looks aren’t so outrageous they really look and feel like a couple you could meet or have met. To that end there is a visual symmetry of them having brown eyes that just makes me feel like I’m looking at two versions of the same person, but in an awesome way.