Btrouble

I love how literally every character who ever sees Buffy and Angel interact is immediately Cursed with the knowledge that they are soulmates who will never be over each other. Almost no one is happy about it and a lot of them would do almost anything for it to not be true but it just... is. It's so obviously, overwhelmingly true that denying it would just feel too ridiculous even to characters with a vested interest in believing otherwise-- like every single one of their other love interests. It's honestly so funny, especially when there's a mix of characters who Know and characters who Don't (even if it's been explained to them, the never really Know until they witness it), because there's this gigantic, awkward, tragic, deeply inconvenient elephant in every room that only some of them can see.

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.