To elaborate on the title I hate the childhood friend trope for romance. For me it feels lazy and extremely unsatisfying, like one, or both, of the friends, falls for another during their childhood and the (attempted) romance just begins. Little to no build up to the individual(s) feelings is shown and because of that it’s hard to actually feel for them and any romance stuff they’re going through. It’s like having the climax with a part, half, or sometimes even all of the rising action cut out. Now I’m sure this isn’t the case with every story with childhood friends, some probably pull it off, but this is just my thoughts generally on the ones I’ve seen. Thoughts?
Depends on the focus of the story. If the story is of another genre other than romance and has childhood friend romance trope, then it doesn’t really matter. It’s just a romance undertone. You don’t really need drama, or dramatic arc in that; just a little fluff is enough.
But if you write romance with childhood friend as the main focus, then you can actually play a lot with it. Like maybe, the boy and the girl liked each other when they were young, had been a childhood sweethearts, had been each other’s best friends, but then something happened one day that drifted them apart or made them hate each other. Then, years pass, and they reunite again and become some what of a love-hate relationship.
They fight, they hate each other, but at the same time also care about each other deep down inside. And at the end, something happens, something big, a life-changing moment that gets them to confess their feeling. Follow right after are tears of joy, and then happily every after…
Great! What a wonderful story—I sure as hell wouldn’t read that. Fuck, I hate drama~ lol
