User blog:SapphosDaughter/Quasi Love Interests

I think we should create a page about quasi-love interests. After speaking to Fearless Diva, she told me to make a blog post about this and see what frequent editors thought.

Quasi LIs are basically LIs you can flirt with and/or have romantic interactions with but for all intents and purposes you can’t end up with them, for whatever reason. They seem to be a interesting feature, though slightly pointless at times.

(SPOILERS FOR AME BOOK 2 FINALE AHEAD) For example, in America's Most Eligible: Season 10, Bianca Sandoval is an LI as much as Mackenzie, Adam or Drake. You can even go on the holiday with her, provided you had romanced her earlier in the book and won AME Season 10. However, in Book 2, she is no longer an LI (past you greeting her and spending romantic time with her if you spent diamonds in Chapter 1). She will remain friends with you and be super nice (if you’ve got her to that stage) but she’s kicked out the house and doesn’t get to propose to you in the final chapter, entirely what Book 3 is based on. Therefore, you can’t end up with her in the end.

Or a choice that’s a lot less fleshed out, and to an extent that makes more sense, Kyle Garza from It Lives Beneath. He was presented as an LI, you could flirt with him, and he is even categorised as an LI. Yet, he died in Chapter 1, the same chapter you meet him. I’m not sure what PB’s intention for this was, possibly to represent real life? I don’t truly see the point in this quasi LI, but I’ll leave that up to you to decide. Besides for every miss Choices/Pixelberry lands (cough cough Rules of Engagement and Veil of Secrets), it lands more hits (The Royal Romance, Book 1, The Elementalists, Book 1, Desire & Decorum, Book 1 to name a few).

There’s a few more to name but I won’t drone on with all the examples I could name. The point is, quasi love interests, for good or for bad (PB, I’m still mad about Bianca 😤😂) or for pointless, they are definitely interesting. I think we should add it to the wikia, what do you guys think? x