What makes a love interest attractive to you?

Hey y’all, I’m mad curious to see what you guys find most attractive in love interests.

Do you like them to have sad backstories, dark pasts?
Is a childhood best friend turned lover who you’re looking for?
What about the sexy, rich, playboy who falls hard for you?
Or the classic bad boy with a secret sweet spot?

Feel free to spill what makes your heart flutter and keeps you falling for your love interest in romance stories here!

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I definitely have to go with the classic bad boy! I like when they excite me and the scenes with them make me giggle a little. lol it sounds like i’m describing my dream boy in real life.
But as long as it isn’t that one bad boy who is a complete as*hole and then starts to fall for the MC.
Those are over used and never good to begin with.

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Agreed with @Vividly
Someone who is a bad boy but isn’t too much. Another love interest I love is powerful, rich, and mysterious. I love both of them :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

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I’m a simple girl.
Think of Zuko from avatar the last Airbender.
The complexity of a tragic hero with an arc that actually makes you proud of them. You have a love hate relationship with them because you want to see them do better and when they do it’s like a victory.

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Ooo I used to (and lowkey still do) have a crush on Zuko lol. I totally get what your saying

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Zuko is the ultimate bae. I’m still crushing on him :joy::joy::joy:

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Definitively a smart ‘badboy’, though I don’t like the term. He should be rather cold, but he should have his reasons for it and he should have a moral compass. A guy who is too cocky is a turn off for me, instead I want someone who has flaws and sees them as such, someone who is not bragging about how great their abs are. A joking comment is fine, but if all he has to offer is a nice face, that’s a no for me.

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Girl same, he’s got me whipped :joy::weary:

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Also a quirky weird love interest. So sick of bad boys can we get a weirdo.:joy:

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I’m definitely into like the “good” LI instead of the “bad” LI which is very reflective of real life. Like I’m into cute, sweet girls that have layers to them that you don’t really get to see at first glance.

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Intellect, manners and a stunning smile kkk😂

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Nothing. :thinking:

Lmao I don’t read romance to live vicariously, I read it for the character drama and the complexity of human interactions. Which is why I rarely read Episode romance stories lmao.

The only story where I even slightly put myself into the plot was I Married a Millionaire, but it was more for Cara than for Darius, the girl who doesn’t believe in love and discovers her romantic feelings bit by bit. That was the only remotely realistic starting point for me lol.

TL;DR I’m a weirdo. :crazy_face:

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Agreed🤪 #weirdoteam

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For sure, a sweet girl with complex layers like flower petals :two_hearts:

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Their personality, you can’t help but fall in love with how they act :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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the guy who seems like a total dude-bro if that makes any sense at all lol but is also a sweetheart
like joey tribbiani

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My definition of a attractive love interest is - always having MC’s back no matter what and always finding a way back to MC no matter how much the world try to tear them apart… So the Love Interest can be a bad boy or good boy or whatever as long long as he has the above quality…

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I’m watching Friends right now lol, but definitely feel you on that

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I’m into any type of guy - be it mysterious, kind, smart, funny, cold or all of the above. So I’m never too picky with what a guy is like in Episode, but irl, I’m more attracted to smart and/or funny guys.

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humor is a MUST
especially when its light hearted, that shit is adorable

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