>>6345407>>6345396You actually raise quite an interesting topic which is whether romance or sexual morality manifests differently across fictional genres.
If you write about robots, lasers, cyberpunk heists etc is the romance that manifests in that setting "different" to romance in a setting with witches, or pirates, or vampires, or HR workplaces interns matchmakers and private equity fund managers? Is love truly as universal as people proclaim, or perhaps love is different if you possess cerebral implants or loincloths and chainmail?
So there are certain romantic fictional themes that occur, jealousy, betrayal, love triangles and entanglements, there is also the "forbidden or unrequited love" theme, one which I quite like is the "love at a distance / separation" one or "Princesse lointaine"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princesse_lointaineYou would think it should be theoretically possible to transpose any of these romantic themes into any genre any geography, uprooted from any time and place, to retell Romeo And Juliet as samurai or robot space opera etc but I actually feel it is functionally not true.
So for instance a lot of authors have noted that Romeo and Juliet relies upon timing communication lol essentially a simple text message or calendar notification alert lol would have averted the entire tragedy and dramatic impetus. But even setting aside the technological and historical / societal structures I feel like the rites of courtship are intrinsically bound to a culture a time and a place. Just like you would not be able to translate bizarre animal mating rituals with nests and dances and gifts, the courtship values and hierarchies of a specific era (which sexual assets and statuses possess societal value etc) cannot be as easily re-purposed and exported / imported across genres, without incurring some believability / friction (ie essentially becoming recognisably modern / or contemporary reframings). One example I have of this is the view of some historians that "Love" itself was not even understood in the early medieval eras, "Love" referred to the obedience and duty to one's dread sovereign, only after when chivalric romances developed (also later with Renaissance and printing press, courtly exchange of sonnets and odes etc) did the notion of romantic love behaviour arise. The modern equivalent would be Hollywood intimacy coordinators lol or NFLX reshaping people's perception over how to appropriately conduct a date etc
So I would argue that whilst it may seem that romance themes are universally shared, many romantic stories cannot believably "work" in another time and place
