Hi everyone, my name's Katie. Welcome back to my channel. It is February and as a contemporary romance writer I decided to capitalize on that and do a little like romance couple-y type video So I had put on Twitter not Twitter Instagram asking you guys your favorite couples in books and in TV and movies and Like why you like those types of couples so we're gonna dive into some tropes and the coupled types and kind of just like Explore and analyze why we like that and just kind of celebrate these couples that we've come to love so in books This is what you guys said. We have Megan and Ash from Iron Faye. I have not read that one I haven't read a few of these or seen some of these shows, but I'm just gonna throw these out there because y'all said them So Vin and Eland from Mistborn. So I mean that's all my list I promise. Jude and Carden from the cruel prints Reese, Rysand and Faye Ra from Akatar the series Simon and Emily from Well Met Adrian and Nova from Renegades Finneken and Avangeline from the lumus here Chronicles Jamie and Landon from a walk to remember they are the cutest Magnus and Alec from the Shadowhunter series That was mine They're not my baby Faye but they're one of my favorites and Alex and Henry from Red White and Royal Blue um, I guess we'll I'll just go through the list and then um talk about why these characters work And in the comments below let me know your favorite couples and They're like personality types and why they work for you So going into tv and movies we have Laura Light and Luke from Gilmore Girls. Yes Killing in an Emma from once upon a time. I absolutely love them as well I'm gonna totally butcher this but Mitsuha and Saki from your name Violet and Gilbert from Violet Evergarden. I haven't seen that one. Agent 47 and Nika Boronina, Agent 47 Bell and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast Chuck and Sarah from the show Chuck they were really cute. Um, Haley and Nathan from Lunchery Hill They had a great dynamic going back to Chuck and Sarah. I was absolutely unhappy with how long it took them to get together Like I understood they were doing that for the show purposes, but I hate when shows do that Anyways um drawer. I don't even know how to say his name. Is it girl? Adrault and Jennifer from The Witcher? I'm only on like season oh season I'm on like episode two or three I think so I haven't quite I like just met Jennifer so um Jessica and Aubrey from Demon in my view. I have not watched that or Grysom grrrr Grysom and Sarah from CSI It's not my cup of tea either. So That's the list that you guys gave me um, there are probably like a thousand more I could think of especially I was like shocked. I didn't get more Sarah J mass answers But I know a lot of people have issues with her couples as well. So um, so a lot of the tropes you guys liked Overwhelmingly was enemies to lovers totally understand that It's a lot really really fun trope to have that tension and like bickering Um, and then you know Fall for each other and especially when they're like attempting to not like the other person But they have those feelings and that's totally how I think like Jude and Carden even work because they're like I hate that I like you like he was even he's even said that one of the things So like I hate that I like you. We have friends to lovers, which is a super cute trope uh fake dating which I absolutely love. I'm putting it in my book that was from nano um slow burn but with mutual pining and that like I get it But it aggravates me because I'm just like come on get together come on, but I totally get it um I got one that was annoying each other good nature at least while still being a hundred percent devoted And I think that's a really fun dynamic It helps like keep the humor and like the fun I guess in the relationship. So what I really saw with a lot of these couples was how opposite they are where one like uh luke and lower lie one is cheery one is grumpy Same with a walk to remember. It's kind of like the good girl with the bad boy Recent favor. They're just like power couples. I don't know that they're opposite so much There's a lot of couples too that just compliment each other And even like if I'm thinking of judon cardin like they have similar um violent tendencies But I read the stories the elfheim this one. How the king of elfheim learned to hate stories And cardin was even like this girl is bloodthirstyer than me. I think like so I think he kind of helps like tone her down maybe Magnus and allic like I have loved their relationship I think they worked because um they were both just like mutually um loyal and helpful and they just oh my gosh they just helped each other so much Um and they were just cute about it. They're like so cutesy. Alex and Henry and red white and royal blue were also hysterical um I like the humor. I love when couples have matching humor like that It makes it really fun banter wise which is what I put in my dino novel as well And I'm hoping it's like not like too much We had a lot and especially in fantasy where your characters are at odds with each other or even on opposite sides of um The like clans or politics or whatever but somehow either have to work together or You know, they learn something about either side that has them questioning their side and then they kind of work together And I find that more so in fantasy than I do contemporary But even like in project MMI 2 people were thrown together and an assignment that For romance they have a thing that like it's called the adhesion And it's kind of like a beat where they're forced to be together and they won't be able to be separated until like the end So that's kind of what I think about even when I think at odds about how to work together Um, there's a lot of like type A and type B out there And I think that's a real good balance too and I was joking with my friend Stephanie about it was Juden cardin And then one other forgot which other couple she said but it was basically like it broke it down to sharp blades hiding pain But with mutual understanding and I think that's like a key one out there right now too and Like when you think of like sunshine gromp. There's also that one that's like Like bites on the outside but is like crying on the inside, you know Um, and then there's like cinnamon roll boys that everyone likes writing about and um stabby girls I think that one's one and Adrian and Nova would be a good one for the like On opposite sides. I mean she's kind of like a spy almost But she has to kind of double cross double team. What is that word? Anyways, she has to play for both sides and so that's a very big battle for her While she likes Adrian. She knows she's ultimately gonna hurt him whenever she has to like betray him or whatever for her side So and I like when you take someone like Nathan who's kind of more Not like bad boy, but you know um Nathan And you throw a Haley at him and She like tone some down and helps him get more like centered and Starts like healing him basically, but I just love when couples like make each other better make each other stronger And they become like two individual forces that like unite as one like ultimate force And I find that I like that in a lot of groups as well Which is why I love Sarah J. Mass's books for the night court or for their own of glass their whole group and even the cadre like There's just I love the group dynamics too. Yeah, I think there's different types of couples that work And it depends on the story But I would love to know what y'all think works if you like to similar people getting together to total opposite people getting together What your favorite trope is to read about and to write about I'm gonna be doing a little series It's not a series. It's one video with a bunch of stuff in it about um how to create that Opposites in your story with your characters the tension how to pick an interesting love interest and how to write a great Romance book that's not predictable So look out for that video. It's coming next week and I hope y'all enjoyed this one I just wanted to have a fun little kind of booktube-ish video and analyze characters a little bit But again, let me know all your thoughts down below and I will see y'all in the next video. Bye You