Yes! It drives me nuts when stories do these things because honestly if they purposefully wanted a character to be resigned to their fate or have instant sexual attraction to someone, there is very little that would need to be added to frame it in a realistic context or give them motivation for those actions. No matter what the relationship needs growth and I don’t love this trend of pretending that that’s optional. Nothing is romantic if you don’t care about the characters as people (or aliens in this context).
One of the reasons these stories are written is because Amazon KDP allows intimacy between mythical, or alien creatures and humans. Believe me I did check the guidelines, because get it wrong and they can delete or close your author account without notice or the reason why.
Important because my characters are Centaurs, and Centaurides. The guidelines also state that sex should be consensual, and both should be of legal age, (the Harkness test.)
I do see your point about the disconnect, any normal human would be in a traumatised state.
Yes! It drives me nuts when stories do these things because honestly if they purposefully wanted a character to be resigned to their fate or have instant sexual attraction to someone, there is very little that would need to be added to frame it in a realistic context or give them motivation for those actions. No matter what the relationship needs growth and I don’t love this trend of pretending that that’s optional. Nothing is romantic if you don’t care about the characters as people (or aliens in this context).
One of the reasons these stories are written is because Amazon KDP allows intimacy between mythical, or alien creatures and humans. Believe me I did check the guidelines, because get it wrong and they can delete or close your author account without notice or the reason why.
Important because my characters are Centaurs, and Centaurides. The guidelines also state that sex should be consensual, and both should be of legal age, (the Harkness test.)
I do see your point about the disconnect, any normal human would be in a traumatised state.