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{{quote|OK! What is wrong with the two of you?! Seriously! He likes you, and you like him, and you should just be together! Jeez, Louise! Happiness is not THAT difficult!|'''Lily Aldrin''', ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''}}
When two characters are attracted to one another, but are both so [[Shrinking Violet|incredibly shy and awkward]] that neither one of them [[Cannot Spit It Out|has the guts to do anything about it]]. In the end all it usually takes is for [[The Matchmaker|someone else]] (or ''[[In Vino Veritas|something else]]'') to give them a gentle nudge in the right direction and they'll get together.
The pair usually comprises a regular character and a [[Temporary Love Interest]], but it can also be a [[Beta Couple]] with a [[Will They or Won't They?]] plot of their own.
Subtrope of [[Birds of a Feather]]. Compare with [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] which also has trouble getting together, but for different reasons. May be a driving force behind [[Will They or Won't They?]]. [[Not to Be Confused With]] [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]], a trope also described as "once bitten, twice shy."
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' went through this so long, it almost got annoying. Kaoru was too shy to tell Kenshin how she felt, and Kenshin wasn't sure if he deserved someone like her...
* Rito and Haruna in ''[[To
* So are Miyuki Kobayakawa and Ken Nakajima from ''[[You're Under Arrest]]''.
* Let's not forget Ippo Makunouchi and Kumi Mashiba from ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''.
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* Yoshiko Fujisawa and Hikaru Matsuyama from ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]''.
** To a degree, also Sanae and Tsubasa during their [[Relationship Upgrade]] manga chapter.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has [[Shy Blue-Haired Girl]] Mizuno Ami meet a similarly shy genius named Ryo Urawa (who also had [[Psychic Powers]]). Only the intervention of her friends (and her saving him from his [[Enemy Within|inner great monster]]) gets them on a date in one episode... which ended up being Urawa's final appearance in the series.
* Kiri and Elraine from ''[[Double Arts]]''. She's too shy and thinks he's clueless about her feelings, and he's convinced that the boost in sexual tension caused by confessing to her would make life trapped together too awkward.
* Julia and Ran from ''[[Strawberry Shake Sweet]]''.
* Junpei Manaka and Aya Toujo in ''[[Ichigo
* Kind of exists between Kenichi and Miu of ''[[Kenichi:
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', Sōsuke and Kaname fit this trope to the "T" -- ''especially'' later on. Kaname has problems taking on the aggressive role of romantically pursuing Sōsuke (as she's shown to constantly be waiting for Sōsuke to take the initiative, and is constantly disappointed when she finds out she misunderstood his actions as being romantic advances). And Sōsuke... has ''huge'' [[Asexuality|issues with romantic intimacy]]. He's shown to become very nervous when confronted with anything "inappropriate" and too sexual, and has a tendency to clam up or run away. The most he appears to be able to muster with Kaname is to shyly hold her hand, which results in some highly frustrating [[Will They or Won't They?]].
** Examine the freak-out he had in the beautician shop (he didn't at ''all'' like the idea of someone holding blades near him.) Then examine how, with Kaname holding a pair of scissors near his head, he is somehow relaxed enough that he falls asleep while she's trimming his hair. He's not even that relaxed around Tessa, or Kalinin. They Will.
* Similar to the above is Hayate and Hinagiku from ''[[
** Given the seeming epidemic of [[Cannot Spit It Out]] and [[Oblivious to Love]] in this universe, this seems to apply to almost every pairing and for the unrequited ones they merely believed this is the case...except for Kotetsu who just cannot take a hint.
* Sawako and Kazehaya of ''[[Kimi
* Ran and Shinichi of ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Every single time Shinichi turns back, they just keep beating around the bush instead of telling each other how they feel. For 16 years (not in story). Straight. {{spoiler|Shinichi did end up giving Ran an indirect confession in the London Arc, though.}}
* In ''[[
* ''[[I''s]]'' would probably be about half the length if it weren't for this trope.
* Firo and Ennis in ''[[Baccano
* Feldt and Setsuna in the ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' movie show signs of this. Feldt's feelings for him are so obvious [[Everyone Can See It]] but Setsuna has his own [[The Stoic|intimacy]] [[Hates Being Touched|issues]], not to mention {{spoiler|his recent transformation into an [[Psychic Powers|Innovator]]}}. The farthest they get is a hug when Setsuna {{spoiler|wakes up from his ELS [[Mind Rape]]-induced coma}}... at least that's what we see; exactly what happened between the hug and Setsuna calling the bridge that he's taking the 00 Quan[T] (with a teary Feldt following closely) is left up for interpretation.
** What is shown is that Feldt declares when the others try to send her back to Setsuna that [[I Will Wait for You|she cares for him which is enough for her]].
** The main problem is that after entering the final battle, Setsuna {{spoiler|goes to the ELS homeworld}} and they never meet again. Even if they were to meet after the epilogue, Feldt is already in her seventies while Setsuna is [[Half-Human Hybrid|most likely]] [[Mayfly-December Romance|immortal]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Spider-Man|Peter Parker]] with many of his early love interests. He just thought no one could be interested in a dweeby little science nerd.
* [[
== Literature ==
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* Piro and Ibronka in ''The Viscount of Adrilankha''.
** Ibronka has got one of the best lines in all of Dragaera on the subject: "My dear Viscount, come over here and kiss me before I die of embarrasment"
* Edward Ferrars and Elinor Dashwood in ''[[Sense and Sensibility (
** And [[Beta Couple]] Jane Bennet and Mr. Bingley in ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''.
* ''[[To Live]]'' has Fengxia and Erxi...and they are both absolutely adorable, [[Red China|especially considering the setting of the novel]].
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* Manny and Roweena in ''[[Black Books]]''.
* Jeff and Julia in ''[[Coupling]]''. (A rare example where the new character actually stuck around, as opposed to mysteriously vanishing by the next episode.)
* Kaylee and Simon in ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''. Although in Kaylee's case, it's less that she's shy (hell, she got her job on the ship thanks to a one-night stand with the previous mechanic), and more that she feels inferior around [[City Mouse|Simon]].
* Andy and Erin in ''[[The Office]]''.
* [[The X
* Alice and Hugo on ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''.
* Barney and Robin in the fourth season of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. The page quote, however, is from season 1, where Robin was pining over Ted (who had been pining over Robin, [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo|but had just gotten over it]] and moved on.)
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== Theater ==
* [[
* In the musical Double Digits, the duet "Oh, no!" is sung by a popular jock-boy and a
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'''Girl:''' He's so cool, I'm so glum.
'''Boy:''' Why would ''she''...
'''Girl:''' Why would ''he''...
'''Together:''' ... have any interest in ''me''? }}
* Rose Maybud and Robin Oakapple in ''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|Ruddigore]]'', making this one [[Older Than Radio]].
* In ''[[
== Video Games ==
* Sora and Kairi from the [[Kingdom Hearts]] series. At least in the first game.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* Some ''[[Fallout]]'' fans speculate that this trope is going on between the Lone Wanderer and Amata in ''[[Fallout 3]]''.
* A cut ending to ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] 2'' would have a female Exile's relationship with Atton resolved to look like this was going on for almost the entire game.
* In ''[[
* Adell and Rozalin from the second half of ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]''.
* Luke and Tear from later on in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''
* Used as a running joke in ''[[
* Shulk and Fiora from ''[[
== Visual Novels ==▼
* Bram and Henrietta in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth (Visual Novel)|Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]''. After a conversation with Mary, Henrietta decides to make her feelings clear. {{spoiler|Too bad Bram dies pretty much immediately after she calls to meet up with him.}}▼
▲=== Visual Novels ===
▲* Bram and Henrietta in ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Marten and Sara in an early ''[[Questionable Content]]'' strip.
** "You almost got a date, but you were dumped in favor of an epiphany."
** Marten and Faye, too. Marten seems to have this issue a lot.
* ''[[
* Varied because they already went together, but fell apart then in [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213214505/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/433 this strip] of ''[[Loserz]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* Ulrich and Yumi from ''[[Code Lyoko]]''.
* Danny and Sam from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Though it comes to a [[Last
* And [[Fanon]] in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' uses this to explain why Phineas and Isabella aren't together yet. While Isabella has very clear attractions to him, she has yet to actually confess her feelings to him. Phineas, on the other hand, [[Oblivious to Love|is so ambiguous towards her]] [[Beyond the Impossible|it rivals sadism.]]
** Candace and Jeremy seem to be a canon example, though for a long time it was hard to tell if Jeremy even liked her back. Season two made it a bit more obvious that he was nervous around her, with the episode "Nerdy Dancing" specifically switching their usual dynamic (''he'' was trying to impress ''her'' rather than the other way around).
* Bright Eyes and Lancer in ''[[My Little Pony Tales]]'' until their friends' failed makeover attempts forced them to come clean and admit their feelings for each other in a [[Be Yourself]] moment.
== Real Life ==
* The Yaghan language, spoken in Tierra del Fuego, is able to express this in one word. [
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