Romantic Trope Generator

Generate romance tropes like Enemies to Lovers, Fake Dating, and Slow Burn, each with a story angle. For romance novels, fanfic, and RPG subplots.

Generates a romance trope paired with a concrete story angle. Pick from 25 tropes, including Enemies to Lovers, Fake Dating, Second Chance, Grumpy/Sunshine, Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity, and Marriage of Convenience, and each result turns the trope into a usable situation, like two rivals forced onto the same side or a fake relationship that stops feeling fake. Every trope has its own pool of angles, and the angles change by genre (fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, horror), so a fantasy enemies-to-lovers reads differently from a horror one. Written for romance novelists, fanfiction writers, and game masters adding a romantic subplot. Pairs with the meet-cute generator, which supplies the first scene while this supplies the shape of the relationship.

Examples: Enemies to Lovers Two people who can't stand each other get forced onto the same side, Fake Dating They agree to pretend for a weekend and the act gets too convincing, Second Chance Years apart and one conversation puts them right back where they were, Forbidden Love The relationship breaks every rule they were raised with, Grumpy / Sunshine One of them is relentlessly warm and the other has been resisting it for weeks, Slow Burn They've been circling each other for months and everyone else noticed before they did, Only One Bed One room and one bed between them, Love Triangle Two people want the same person and someone is going to get hurt, Soulmates They keep running into each other no matter what they do, Marriage of Convenience They married for practical reasons and the practical reasons stopped mattering.

Tags: romance, trope, plot, relationship, love, story

Type: Plot generator

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