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Raoul and Christine in Love
Nov. 26th, 2022 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI wrote this back on 14 February 2020 on a general writing forum in response to the question of how to write romance: Do you think it's counterproductive to pin down a specific list of "reasons why X loves Y" and vice versa? The thread recently resurfaced, which reminded me of it.
My instinctive response is that this simply isn't the way that love *works*.
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In canon, we don't know *why* Raoul and Christine love each other; there are various reasons why they *might*, but it's not suggested that any of these are the root cause of their relationship. For example, we're told that Christine grows up to be very beautiful -- but we're also told that Raoul experiences this as an impediment to his affections because he is shy and feels he can't aspire to her, rather than her good looks being the cause of his changed feelings. And we're told that they were inseparable as children, but it's when they meet again as adolescents that they become conscious of an extra charge between them, for no specific reason other than that they are older and aware of one another in a different way.
As adults they fall in love from a distance, and without either of them even consciously admitting it to themselves until circumstances in each case force a separate realisation; there is no 'why' or 'why now', there is just a 'now I know' (without being able to do anything about it at that moment, since the plot keeps them apart).( Read more... )
My instinctive response is that this simply isn't the way that love *works*.
( Read more... )In canon, we don't know *why* Raoul and Christine love each other; there are various reasons why they *might*, but it's not suggested that any of these are the root cause of their relationship. For example, we're told that Christine grows up to be very beautiful -- but we're also told that Raoul experiences this as an impediment to his affections because he is shy and feels he can't aspire to her, rather than her good looks being the cause of his changed feelings. And we're told that they were inseparable as children, but it's when they meet again as adolescents that they become conscious of an extra charge between them, for no specific reason other than that they are older and aware of one another in a different way.
As adults they fall in love from a distance, and without either of them even consciously admitting it to themselves until circumstances in each case force a separate realisation; there is no 'why' or 'why now', there is just a 'now I know' (without being able to do anything about it at that moment, since the plot keeps them apart).
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