Talk:Romeo V. Cupid/@comment-30622263-20161216055333

I happened to stumble upon this character today, and I really love the way his personality and backstory have been written. Romeo seems to have developed as something of a flirtatious heartbreaker-type jerk, but at the same time, there's a lot of backstory detail to him where you can sort of catch a glimpse into his mindset, especially as an archetype-yandere.

I'm a particularly big fan of this Cupid variation, where Romeo seems to embody the less pleasant kinds of love as opposed to the "yay shipping" attitude some other Cupids might favor. Since Eros' domain is all types of love, I've always thought that C.A. Cupid seemed to be the inheritor of the domain of unrequited feelings, since almost all of the couples she helps in her introductory episode feature one-sided feelings (where one half isn't paying attention to the other half, or where only one person has a crush, such as when she helps Hopper)-- not even bringing up her whole Dexter issue.

Romeo definitely seems like he could be the future agent of the love-them-but-hate-them kind of love... the kind of love that leads to jealousy, or the kind of love one feels after a serious fight, where they just love the other person so much, they hate that they can't bring themselves to hate them... where things hurt because there's so much love, sometimes to the point of viciousness. I'm voting for this guy to be patron saint of Taylor Swift break-up songs, tbh.

(Also, love the name choice-- "Romeo" is pretty typically romantic, until you remember that the famous "Romeo and Juliet" which gave it that reputation ends with Romeo drinking poison and Juliet stabbing herself. I think it's royally fitting.)