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The Bellmaker and The Warrior Mousemaid

It works it works of course it works !!!

I am an unwell. I’m looking at romance story structures and I might be insane but canon Finnbarr Galedeep/Joseph the Bellmaker keeps fitting????

For example, Act 1:

We have the establishing of setting and the groundwork for the plot and the establishing of goals outside of romance etc,

Then the meet-cute where Joseph mentions how muscular Finnbarr is, and then keeps doing it??? For the whole book?? And he mentions how he was once handsome and now scarred (and it’s not like Brian Jacques talked about how handsome the dudes are a whole lot) so we have established the potential for attraction

You’re supposed to keep the protagonist thinking about the love interest and boy does he because these two are besties now and constantly touching each other

Now the first snag is this there is supposed to be a reason why the protagonist thinks rheu can’t be together and there isn’t one explicitly stated in canon for obvious reasons… but my money is on Joseph’s dead wife and his quest to save his daughter being the reason. He feels like it would be a betrayal and he’d have to talk to his daughter about it before hand etc.

Then there’s forcing the protagonist to make a choice. I’m thinking it’s at the second or third brush with death where he’s stressing about it and someone (because let’s face it, everyone knows, these two are not subtle) gives him a some thinly veiled metaphorical advice and convinces him he needs to be happy and Joseph decides whatever happens happens and he’s going to run with it. His wife wouldn’t want him to be miserable his whole life and neither would his daughter. He is going to talk to her though

The thing is it works. IT WORKS. BRIAN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME.