Rescue Romance: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Warrior Cats]]'': Silverstream rescues Graystripe from drowning, and he's barely out of the water before he's flirting with her. Bonus points for being [[Star-Crossed Lovers]].

** An Firestar stopped Sandstorm from falling off a gorge, and Crowfeather managed to save Leafpool from falling off a cliff, and... Never mind. If one character saves another, they're probably going to end up in a relationship at some point.

{{quote|'''Juliet:''' He saved my life!

'''Glenda:''' That's no basis for a relationship! A polite thank you would have sufficed!" }}

** In ''A Fighting Man of Mars'', Tan Handron stumbles across Tavia and rescues her. It takes him a while to figure out the romance part, though.

** In ''[[The Monster Men]]'', Bulan and Virginia met when he rescues her from the title monsters.

* Subverted in Leslie Barringer's [[Low Fantasy]] ''Gerfalcon''. Raoul rescued Dionysia de Saint-Aunay from brigands, and his [[Action Girl]] friend Reine suggests now that he's become Count of Ger '''and''' a legendary [[Badass]], he might marry Dionysia, who's quite good-looking. Raoul flatly says No, explaining that twelve hours before meeting Dionysia, he gave her father, who'd been brutally tortured and mutilated, a [[Mercy Kill|merciful death]]. He doesn't spell it out further, but Reine understands at once that marrying a girl whose father he killed would creep him out. (He hasn't yet realized that it's Reine he truly wants, anyway.)

 

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