Thread: Character question: About love and betrayal

Hello there, folks!
I'm new to the site, so I apologize if there's some other place this question should be. I looked around, and this seemed the best place to put it. I hope you all can help!

I'm working on a fantasy story right now which (without going into too much detail) involves two people, directly involved in opposing sides of a war, and yet they fall in love.
My question is: Would it be unrealistic for the A and B to still love each other...
If A tried to kill B on an order?
If A knew about an order to kill B and said nothing to B about it in warning?
If A tried to kill a close comrade of B's?

How long do you think it would take a person to sort out that type of betrayal, if they ever did? What would it take, if you were B, for A to set things straight?
Both male and female perspectives are welcome! I'm not sure which of the pair will end up attacking the other yet.

Thank you in advance!

This type of thing can happen, have you read Romeo and Juliet? >.<

A lot of people ask about character reactions on this site and I say the same thing to all of them.
I cant help because it depends on the characters personality.
I mean if the girl is the type to fall deeply and irrevocably in love with someone then perhaps she would accept him for who he is and not care that his people/he is killing her people.

Love is a very complicated thing, I personally find it ridiculously hard to write and to get right.

Good luck

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If it is a fantasy story things are as realistic as you make them. If you make Elves different in their emotiona make up, nobody is going to believe it because they don't believe in elves, but if you write it well enough and cover enough angles they will suspend their disbelief for the story. The answer to any question "Could this work in fantasy" is always yes, the real questions are, can you make it work? Are you going to bother putting the work in to do that?

That is a good question. I also am working with a theme with betrayal and I don't have an answer other than to say the redemption is needfully going to be most of his story, in the story. The kind of betrayal I'm working on and the kind you've stated are huge and will not be forgotten easily. How do you trust someone that had the chance to choose you, and chose otherwise?
All I can say is so far, my mc earns her friendship, but probably not her loyalty.
Once as a child, I was forsaken for fear of pizzing off the organizatioln that brought an exchange student to my school. It was small in comparison, but I just realized thinking on this question, that my story situation echoes that blow though I had not conciously connected the two before. Thanks.

What Olly said. It can all work. It's been done. The devil though, is in the details.

Thank you all so much!
Fantasy does lend itself to bending reality, so I suppose it really is all about how it's written.

This story reminds me of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)