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the aquacerise tropes ^_^
self-indulgent hcs will be italicized bleggh
Aquacerise
- General
- Childhood Friends Romance: Met as kids, started dating as teens
- Coming-Of-Age Queer Romance: Oh my God, these bitches gay! Good for them!
- Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Okay Rachel, now fall in love with the loser next door.
- Birds Of A Feather: When it feels like no one understands me, I remember I have you.
- Everyone Can See It: Everybody else knew they were mutually pining.. except them.
- High-School Sweethearts: We made it past graduation! Sick!
- Night and Day Duo: With Rachel being the night and Cove being the day.

Cove ☆
- General
- Eyes Always Averted: The autistic tendency to avoid eye contact.
- Prone To Tears: Will cry about pretty much anything.
- Endearingly Dorky: So awkward, it's cute!
- Pretty Boy: He's attractive in a genderfluid way.
- Surpisingly Normal Backstory: Fairly normal childhood.
- Step 1
- Age-Appropriate Angst: Goes without saying.
- Step 2
- Enter Stage Window: Stop breaking into my room dude.
- Flowers Of Romance: Most likely to pick a flower and give it to his crush.
- Gibberish Of Love: Absolute loser can't finish his damn sentence.
- Crush Blush: Bro is NOT nonchalant.
- Step 3
- Devoted To You: He's got eyes for Rachel and nobody else.
- Clothing Reflects Personality: Self-explanatory.

Rachel ☆
- General
- Beachcombing: Looks for shells in the sand.
- Mixtape Of Love: Started making playlists for Cove when they were 12, never really stopped
- Step 1 (pre-game)
- Corporal Punishment: 👁
- Blaming the Victim: Victim blaming after COCSA.
- Step 2
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Trauma's a bitch.
- Safety in Indifference: Pretends to be nonchalant when they're actually the opposite.
- Inconvenient Attraction: Into Cove and hates it.
- Prelude to Suicide: The signs were there.
- Girls Like Musicians: VERY into Cove's violin talent.
- Step 3
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Has been doing it since they were kids, but loves ruffling his hair.
