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(Tropes from TV tropes 📺)
Everyone Wants Bad Boys: It tends to be more exciting and dramatic if the character falls for the rebellious, rough-hewn outsider.
Arranged Marriage: A common technique in historicals to force the main characters to deal with each other.
Authoritative in Public, Docile in Private: A character with a domineering personality is depicted as submissive in their romantic relationships.
Beautiful All Along: The character will often be described as plain (or think of themself as plain), then gets a make-over that reveals them as stunningly beautiful.
Broken Bird: Characters love to see the healing power of love.
Cannot Spit It Out: In some novels, an extreme importance is placed on the act of uttering the words "I love you".
Cinderella Plot: The main character has fallen on rough times, often with an abusive and uncaring guardian/employer.
Costume Porn: If a character's outfits are described, they will be in extreme detail.
Crazy in the Head, Crazy in the Bed: A character's eccentricity or outright insanity adds to their romantic and sexual appeal.
Damsel in Distress: Character A often gets into some sort of trouble so that Character B can rescue them.
Damsel out of Distress: In some cases, Character A will actually try to get themself out of trouble; it varies as to whether they’re successful.
Faux Action Girl: A character who is either blatantly lying or in deep denial when they insist they can "take care of themselves".
First Love: The main couple will often be this to each other; if they had other relationships prior to this, it will often be stated they didn't truly love their exes.
The Grovel: A character has hurt or betrayed another, usually their love interest. The offender eventually decides that they cannot live without their love interest or learns that they were terribly mistaken about them. But how to make it up to them? How to convince them to take you back? By groveling
Happily Ever After: The characters get to live happily in the end.
The Four Loves - Agape (Unconditional Love): Love that brings forth caring for the other regardless of circumstance.
The Four Loves - Eros (Romance): Love in the sense of "being in love". (This is distinct from sexuality — platonic Courtly Love is also Eros.)
The Four Loves - Philia (Friendship) : Friendship is a strong bond existing between people who share a common interest or activity.
The Four Loves - Storge (Affection/Family) : This is fondness through familiarity, especially among family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance.
The Ingenue: A character portrayed as innocent and kind-hearted, but also sheltered and unworldly with a tendency to get into danger.
Lovable Rogue: This character is simultaneously desirable and off-putting or threatening.
One-Hour Work Week: The leads usually spend more time making googly eyes at each other than working, which doesn't seem to affect their job performance.
One True Love: The couple are often presented as this, as it's the ultimate romantic ideal.
Perilous Marriage Proposal: The protagonist will often be proposed to in dangerous or nonideal circumstances, whether or not it's the one they’re supposed to marry.
Pretty Boy: If the hero's not a hunk, they’ll probably be this; handsome in a delicate, youthful manner. Particularly in historical romance, there's a good chance they'll be a Long-haired Pretty Boy too.
Roll in the Hay: A couple on a farm will make love in a hay barrack.
Romantic Fake–Real Turn: One person pretends to love another, or two pretend to love each other, then they fall in love for real.
Star-Crossed Lovers: The universe seems to be conspiring to keep the leads apart, though it's unusual for them to not end up together anyway.
Summer Romance: Frequently employed, sometimes as an entire plot or the trigger of one.
True Love Is a Kink: When romantic attraction and carnal attraction are one and the same.
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