Well, perhaps there is an opportunity for a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead sort of interweave. As the_alchemist, this is where the bottomless well of fanfic comes in...
Those little corners of the internet (and Yorkshire) where people are all, yeah, that's a beautiful story of how people are all shit - they want to hear more about how other people are apparently shit to make their own minds shut up about the millions of shitty things they've done. The world becomes complicated, and they become on the wrong side of it, if they drop the assumption that everybody is just some Person A in a game theory problem.
I seem to be subverting that modern romantic trope in a lot of my plot outlines. Ie the protagonist meets someone that is right for them, bar the one 'flaw'(1), tries being with a second person without that flaw, then for whatever reason ends up back with the first person. And my rejected potential-lover characters generally get a reasonably happy ending too, usually staying frends with the protagonist and all that.
(1) where 'flaw' includes being of the previously unpreferred gender, being significantly older or younger than the protagonist, working on the opposite side of the law, etc.
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(1) where 'flaw' includes being of the previously unpreferred gender, being significantly older or younger than the protagonist, working on the opposite side of the law, etc.
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