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Vala
For me, the most common is familial love.
I don't write much romance, per se, although I think that admiration, appreciation, and friendship, and the very first buds of potential love are common for me also.
My current WIP presents a challenge for me because romance/love plays an important role. Three characters, all male. Two fall in love with the same person, but these are two different "types" of love—maybe, because I'm not sure the actual feeling is greatly different. One of the characters is in his mid-teens, so it's the kind of intense, crush-like love, that develops into a sort of absolute dedication toward the beloved. The other is a more adult love from someone in his early twenties, hesitant, surprising, because he starts out hunting the eventual beloved for the purposes of imprisonment and punishment. BUT the common beloved of these two is not someone who can reciprocate. Well, the story on the whole is meant to be a tragedy.
I don't write much romance, per se, although I think that admiration, appreciation, and friendship, and the very first buds of potential love are common for me also.
My current WIP presents a challenge for me because romance/love plays an important role. Three characters, all male. Two fall in love with the same person, but these are two different "types" of love—maybe, because I'm not sure the actual feeling is greatly different. One of the characters is in his mid-teens, so it's the kind of intense, crush-like love, that develops into a sort of absolute dedication toward the beloved. The other is a more adult love from someone in his early twenties, hesitant, surprising, because he starts out hunting the eventual beloved for the purposes of imprisonment and punishment. BUT the common beloved of these two is not someone who can reciprocate. Well, the story on the whole is meant to be a tragedy.