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books similar to the selection (royal is presented with a bunch of people of the opposite sex to choose a life partner from (usually a male royal presented with girls. they get married at the end) usually end up with a part where the two people are like ‘lets be friends’ and thus starts the slow burn from friends to lovers HOWEVER such a book could be improved if instead they never left the friend stage and bond over both of them being aromantic (and maybe also asexual or on the ace-spec) and the rest of the book is just them whispering jokes to each other over group dinners and working on solving problems and the royal realizes that their new BFF is not only the funniest person they’ve ever met they also have an amazing mind for politics and they eventually get married (because thats the whole point of this ‘selection’ and they realize that 1. if they don’t the country will get upset and the royal will be pushed into another relationship or something, 2. it would be weird to just keep you’re new best friend around after ending the ‘selection’ and either royal’s parents or some other government authority would want BFF out of the castle, and 3. they want to spend the rest of their purely platonic lives together) and eventually they adopt some kids and maybe some animals as well and live out their best lives.
idk i just think it’d be neat