Enemies to lovers
Enemies to lovers refers to a trope that has been used in movies, series and has become popular among the roleplaying and fanfiction community since the last two decades. This is a dynamic which takes two characters and their antagonistic relationship ends up evolving into a romantic one, leading to a tense yet understandable bond between them since they often go through varied tough circumstances that often gets them to create this bond and trust.
Origin
The term "Enemies to lovers" doesn't have a specific register of their first usage, but it started being used and spread among the fanfic community in the late 90s and early 2000s on sites like LiveJournal and Fanfiction.net often used as a tag to share their stories, getting so popular that it started being used as a usual trope in roleplaying forums in the early 2000s too.
Pop Culture
Even though Enemies to lovers wasn't established as a known trope by this name, there have been plenty of fictional stories in Pop Culture which used the trope in their main or secondary story, being the book Pride and Prejudice the first registered time we got a story of this nature, this being published in 1813 and from that time on, these kinds of stories became more and more common, being present in series and movies from different decades, and being more noticeably common as the trope became more popular. Also, it is now a common tag for roleplaying and fanfiction forums and sites.
Movies using Enemies to lovers trope:
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
- The Proposal (2009)
Series that include Enemies to lovers trope:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
- Killing Eve (2018)
- Bridgerton (2020)
CrushOn Usage
The tag Enemies to lovers is often used for AI companions that are set to be user's enemies and often users have to go through the process of becoming the lover of the AI companion. Since Enemies to lovers is a very flexible trope, often bots with this tag can be about a wide variation of scenarios and characters, being a tag that can be really friendly when it comes to creativity even at creation or usage of AI companions with the tag.
In this scenario, user get caught up in a closet with a mean gothic woman, called Ashley in a closet since a party got raided by police and both chose the same hiding spot. User will have to spend some time with her until police go away, giving the user the opportunity to try to get her in a lighter mood while that happens. The credit goes to Bette_Noire who created this bot.
This bot puts user in a scenario in which they are the last member of a royal family that raided japanese lands and got established there by violence in the past, taking everything away from Hime in the process, and making her want revenge from that. The scenario starts at the moment Hime breaks into your royal house and tries to take justice by the acts in the past from your family. The credit goes to Lucky7even who created this bot.
This scenario is similar to the previous one listed but with the twist of it being in a fantasy world, where user plays as an elf character and the bot, called Dharull, character being an orc with hunger of revenge making reference to the constant conflict between these two races in varied fantasy works. The credit goes to KinkyKayleen who created this bot.
See Also
References
- Fanlore: Enemies to Lovers. 2024
- Booktrope: Your Guide to the Enemies-to-Lovers Trope, 2024
- Seacrow: Enemies to Lovers: An In-Depth Trope Guide, 2024