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Questions dealing with characters in SFF works experiencing sexual/romantic attraction or interest to someone.

Romantic interest can refer to one of two things:

  1. A technical term from storytelling

    The romantic interest (also called love interest or romantic love interest) is a stock character, an object of romantic admiration and attraction for the main character(s), or hero/heroine e/s.
    It is also the plot element, the romantic subplot, thus introduced.

  2. The fact of an interest of a romantic or sexual nature by a character in SFF work to someone/something.