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Banter, whether academic, emotional, angsty, bittersweet, or just straightup horny, is exceptional, especially when it is done back and forth and are on equal grounds. This phenomenon creates tension and adds substance along with meaning and room for imagination and critical thinking. In addition, it may show the dynamic and how they show expression in wording and how they think.

Subconsious Devotion is a great mention because the nature of this is already worship. It is just nature for Character A to show empathy and love to Character B without outright being clingy and obvious. "For some reason the universe has let me be met with my perfect other half, and now it's just second nature to let you haunt me and see you as heavenly, and sometimes my mind drifts to you without me letting go of my self restraint, sometimes I don't even realize I'm doing you a favor and sometimes I have to remind myself that you aren't mine." type shit. It's usually one of the most beloved thing in slow burn literature among readers.

Fantasies are a remarkable shout out. Need I say more? It has so much potential and creative direction is left for both the reader and the writer. It can be anything of choice: smutty, soft, slice-of-life, meet-cute, sentimental, etc. Needless to say, this is perfect for any type of dynamic and relationship, platonic, familial and best of all, romantic. It also is pretty well done in asexual fiction, too, especially since it is more than "oh i want to fuck them" and so much more deeper and thoughtful.

people have alot of hobbies and characteristics, usual and weird and funky, it doesn't need to follow a theme (though it'll make sense if your economy major "calm and chill whenever everything comes my way and if not i hyperventilate and pour out my anger in my social media" natalie have some sort of superior complex to your liberal arts major "in love with reading graphic porn with a lot angst and interdisciplinary fields" tommy)! just get messy and it'll work out!

you and i are 50th (or closer) cousins, so the fact that your corporate manager ciaran has a rock band will make sense slowly as you enhance and understand his story more and more. the average human have very complex thoughts and nature always. but in the end, there is some sort of reason to such thoughts and actions. because of which, the thing you really need to work out are their mindset and their background before adding all the seasoning. you need pasta and the sauce first before adding garlic and mint leaves.

Character A can have an ethical dilemma of their lust over Love Interest and how, through trial and error, decided to do, or accidentally did for Plot Twist to happen. This not only gives the audience what they want, but also show Character A's logical thinking, personal ideals, ideology and speech patterns.

Make Character A do their average daily routine but way more sloppily, even the things they are expert at seem to be at beginners level because of their unbearable growing infactuation for Love Interest, making them question everything. This helps to show the impact of the relationship and show what Character A's standards, their way of procedures are, and how they panic and how they deal, or not deal, with said dreadful realization.

Yes, there can be a horny scene, but I recommend adding some sort of long-term consequence, with first-party's or third-party's, appearances, reputation, imagery, and so on. They have sex, cool, but what about the morning after? What about next month? Do they dwell on it and have blue balls forevermore? Or do they just move on, yet still subconsiously viewing the other slightly off?

How do they show signs of affection, or not show signs of affection? Put them into situations where they have to interact. They can be more considerate, be more bastardous, be more depressed, can give the one they desire a cup of tea sweetly to seduce them or splash it into the other's face. This gives you a sweet opportunity to give an analysis of their reactive behavior in newly changed social dynamics. Not only that, this can also let you study other relationships in Character A's life, since Love Interest can obviously affect more than directly.

write a very ambiguous plotline, leaving space to try your best to secretly mansplain about real world problems and fictional world problems (moderately) while also self indulging in some fantasies you'll never try yourself but will let your characters fulfill them for you

give them something to work with people! options, memories, stories, concepts! in fact, make it an entire huge buffet so they all can live tragic lives but really diverse and different

interdisciplinary is key, please give them depth; they are sentient, so they cannot be too plain. i reccomend social media apps with human and raw posts, good choices are tumblr, pinterests, and ao3. anything is up to you, though!

the universe is weird already, so anything unusual your mind can conjure is none of embarassment's worries. there is always a way to fit it into your storyline.

add some sort of homoerotic subtext for tension our hearts all desire, preferably originating from native folklore and vampirism.

I would gouge my eyes to show you my blind loyalty

I would cut my hands to forever bound my last memories of soft, loving touch to you

You could burn my skin off until all that is left are my vulnerable bones and I would call it an act of loving and a novelty

Because all of me is all for you to love and to use

And all you are to me is a god, an owner, and someone I could forever trust.