Two characters. One boy and one girl, the usual trajectory. They fall in love over the course of a few days due to destiny or fate. The boy, every bit the image of the brilliant and obsessive male audience members who drive sales and breath their likeness into art, is stoic yet charming, a perfectly logical person, though he does dabble in emotions - rather, he is a self-insert for the audience.
Something must happen, for a story cannot end at the beginning of a budding romance. Finally, one of the characters initiates the relationship, obfuscating who played the dominant role for stories require mystery. Their amorous ways become sacrosanct in their eyes.
They go on a date to the zoo, then the aquarium, and of course the beach (umi da!). And even a gigantic shopping mall. As time progresses, a moment of revelation occurs where the girl tells the boy about her darkly traumatic past, for that is how a true romance story goes. While driving in a car, her parents crashed into a tree and flipped over, thus killing her parents automatically and scarring her psychologically (though fortunately without physical wounds).
The boy understands the sorrow but suggests stoically that she simply move on. Such a stoic (oblivious) protagonist provides the best self-insert. His rationality is the key factor in their romance in his perspective. He truly loves her but with a strong component of logic to prevent emotion from taking over. Holding emotion at bay as to let logic remain dominant always is the key principle. That is why he cannot comprehend her emotions but acts like he does - switching off feeling is so simple. But the hackneyed happily ever after can't live on because of that lack of emotional resolution. Just as the unemotional but brilliant and obsessive male audience members seem to like it: with people just like themselves.
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