What are your favorite non-traditional romances in fiction?

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1. my all time favorite romance is in a series called The Infernal Devices.

   reason: It’s one of the only book (series) that I’ve read that shows that some people have more than one “love of their life”. I want to elaborate, but I don’t want to spoil anything.

   That series was a great read. The author wrote some other books, but they weren’t as good in my opinion.

2. Elisa and the fish-man in The Shape of Water

   It’s a beautiful love story and a nice conversation with the history of the creature feature, especially The Creature from the Black Lagoon. It’s a fairly easy allegory for the way monsters often represent the other in early creature features and I was more than happy to see fish-man get the girl in this one.

3. Ricky and Lucy Ricardo.

   Interracial relationships are common now, but they were extremely rare at the time, and definitely considered “non-traditional.”

4. Probably a problematic answer, but there is something about Hannibal and Clarice that always really touched me. I understand not liking the way that storyline ended up, but I think it made plenty of sense. At least to me.

5. I always loved Eleanor and Chidi in The Good Place. No matter what happened, they always found each other. They went through an insane number of memory erasure and time fuckery and still always ended up back together. They learned from each other and grew together and complimented each other perfectly. They were soulmates not predestined, but made

6. Guts and Casca

7. I like the overly aggressive girl and soft ball boy

   Like milly and moxie