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I love trees too, funny that when I left my dream house I was saddest to leave my big gum trees! I will miss looking out at them the most. But on to new things. Just like you, new and wonderful adventures ahead with work and a wedding! I love how you talk about your pooch, I give Holly-Rose cuddles in bed too. Do they truly comprehend how unattainable it is? Are there not as many definitions of Love as there are stars in the universe? We had a connection that I can't explain. It wasn't the result of time, of hours spent together. It wasn't the result of secrets or confidences.

It was something else. It's "What is this thing, called 'love'? You know, the feeling that you're feeling is just what many of us call I know what an erection feels like, Michael. No, it's the opposite - it's like my heart is getting hard. I don't have feelings, but if I did I'd probably have them about Deb.

You don't understand love, ok? You're like some robot who sees a person crying and says "Why is that human leaking? Things I've never known before. Everything's changed for me these last few weeks. The pain of my parents' deaths It's still there, but it seems smaller. And there's a new feeling now. It's a lightness, a sense that things will work out for the best. Anime and Manga Ulquiorra in Bleach , although notably he isn't jealous of it If I shatter your skull, will I see it there?

As he dies, he finally figures it out: Would I see it if I cracked open your chest? If I broke open your skull, what would I see inside? You humans say the word so easily.

This here in my hand. Therefore, he stuck around to see exactly how The Power of Love worked, and also to annoy Nube as the school's physician.

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The interesting part is that he became just as attached to Doumori Elementary and its students without him ever realizing it, and gained the same kind of determination and selflessness as Nube. It came to a head when Tamamo exorcised an emotion-parasite yokai from a little girl, and, still wishing to explore emotions, attached it to himself. He was overcome with human feelings that overwhelmed even his demonic side.

Siva, and any of the other devils involved in making contracts with humans, want to experience this trope because the devils do not have emotions or the emotions that humans have. It starts out as a game to relieve boredom and simply ends that way for most — for some, however, the trope gets played straight. In Kamisama Kiss Tomoe gets rescued by Yukiji actually Nanami posing as Yukiji and starts developing romantic feelings for her, something he had never experienced before. Given his normal attitude towards humans this leaves him rather conflicted and confused.

In [C] - Control , Assets do not feel much emotion and do not understand most human concepts, though Q and Msyu do care deeply for Mikuni and Kimimoro respectively. When Msyu sees a kiss on TV, she's confused and asks Kimimoro about it. He awkwardly says it is what people do when they like each other 30 times as much as normal. In the final episode, Msyu and Kimimoro finally kiss, with her saying she likes him 40 times as much.

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Film - Animated The conversation quoted above in Spirited Away between Lin and Kamaji two spirits as they watched Chihiro speak to the sleeping Haku both plays it straight and inverts it. Film - Live Action The Lord of Darkness in the movie Legend is "distracted" by the captured princess's beauty and innocence and advised by his mysterious 'father' to woo her into temptation. There follows probably the best and most eloquently written scene in the film, where the devil's seduction rather backfires when the newly-darkened Princess plays His Lovesick Evilness like a two string harp.

Literature Subverted in Jaqueline Carey's The Sundering , a story intentionally resembling The Lord of the Rings a great deal, but written from the villains' point of view. Satoris and his followers are just as capable of feeling and understanding love as any other being, they just happen to have made different choices. Lewis ' The Screwtape Letters , the eponymous demon believes that to exist is fundamentally to compete with all other existence, and therefore the concepts of 'love' and 'unity' are dismissed by him and all other demons as nonsense.

Consequently they are utterly unable to comprehend why God would do so much for the humans, because God doesn't appear to be profiting materially from it in any way. At the other end of the spiritual spectrum, this trope causes trouble in Heaven in Neil Gaiman 's short story "Murder Mysteries".

In Stephenie Meyer 's short story "Hell on Earth", demons do know about love, but treat it as a very dangerous and unpleasant thing. They themselves try to avoid it like the plague, but the demon who's a main character is shocked to learn that some demons that are careless can still fall in love with mortals and give up their immortality as a result. At the end of the story, she is trapped in the power of an angel's descendant and begins to feel love as well.

In a bit of a twist, she still is utterly miserable and horrified to be caught like that and the story ends with her desperately plotting on how to escape. Illyria , having revealed that she can adopt the form and memories of her dead host 'Fred' Burkle, offers to do so for Wesley Fred's former Love Interest in order to understand intimate relationships. Wes is outraged by this suggestion and refuses to speak to her for a while.

The demon Anya in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , after she loses her power and is trapped in human form, falls in love with Xander. And apparently granting wishes to scorned women for thousands of years didn't do much to teach her about love. Although oddly enough it's later revealed that she was originally a normal human - a married one who was in love with her husband before he cheated on her - before becoming a demon. Presumably this was a retcon, since otherwise there seems no explanation for why the series previously treated her as having no idea how humans worked at all.

In Kamen Rider Kiva , Maya grows increasingly curious as to why so many Fangires fall in love with humans, even knowing it'll bring eventual death. As a result, she seduces Otoya, Yuri's lover, but their relationship steadily grows more intimate and she eventually falls in love for real. Her husband, the King, is displeased.

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However, instead of simply killing her, he takes her Queen and Fangire powers. In the end, this ends up in our hero being born. While Sanctus was originally human, he's all but demonic by that point. Laharl from both the Disgaea game and anime goes through this due to his encounter with Love Freak Flonne - the success of his evolution in the game depends entirely upon the state of your Karma Meter during the story, with endings ranging from a somewhat twisted Happily Ever After to downright horrific.

The anime mixes parts of several of the game endings together for a Heroic Sacrifice moment with a twist. The trope is also featured in Disgaea 2 with Rozalin, with her defrosting treated in much the same way. It gets spoofed in Disgaea 3 , when Mao tries a more scientific approach to figuring out love.

You expect me to believe that you set out to kill me and then you fell in love with me? Is that what this is? I don't even know. Live-Action TV Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer , once he's got a government issued microchip in his noggin preventing him from harming humans, finds to his frustration his obsession with Buffy Summers morphing into genuine affection.

True Blood has an interesting variation on this when Eric vampire and Sookie human are discussing his relationship to Godric, who turned him into a vampire. He's your maker, isn't he? When he begins to figure out his feelings, he undergoes major Character Development. As the current Sakurazukamori , he understands it in concept since the role is inherited when the predecessor is killed by the person whom they love most.

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Seishirou questions the previous title holder, his mother, who'll ever kill him as he simply can love no one. Her dying words recall how she once thought the same way until she met him. Despite being The Sociopath and claiming to see no difference between killing a person and breaking an object, his relationship with Subaru ends with him pulling a Thanatos Gambit that forces the kind-hearted Subaru into murdering him.

Dying in Subaru's arms , he admits his feelings. Fan Fiction In A Charmed Life Light Yagami is very emotionally stunted and hadn't even thought himself capable of falling in love with someone, believing that if someone were to write his name in the Death Note for that purpose he would just die of a heart attack. Film - Animated Sleeping Beauty: Fauna points out that the few things Maleficent doesn't understand are love, kindess, and the joys of helping others.

Hence why Flora points out that if they shelter the princess themselves selflessly helping someone at their own risk , Malificent wouldn't be able to expect it so easily. Having been born in a household that encouraged Might Makes Right and Social Darwinism , Prince Hans came to think Love Is a Weakness and that people are only expendable, owing to the abuse and constant belittling he suffered from his father and brothers.

As a result, his reaction to Anna's Heroic Sacrifice and her Kirk Summation regarding being "frozen hearted" confused him. Literature Cathy Ames in East of Eden spends most of her life thinking of herself as superior to everyone else because she's so much smarter and prettier. After meeting Caleb, she realizes that none of that matters because everyone else around her can do something that she can't do. She never quite figures out what that thing is, but she still senses that nothing else is worth taking pride in without this one undefinable ability.

She ends up killing herself because even though she can't figure out what it is she can't do, she still understands that it's the only thing that makes life worth living.

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Subverted with the non-corporeal First Evil in "Touched". Several Scoobies are having a Pre-Climax Climax. The First talks of its envy of these humans who can touch each other Harry is initially protected from Voldemort by the magical protection his mother's love gave him because Voldemort, who was raised as an orphan and appeared to be heading towards ruthlessness as far back as childhood, could not comprehend love.

In the fifth book, Harry learns from a prophecy that love is the one power he has that Voldemort does not. Furthermore, in a brilliant move, the only reason Voldemort never ever doubted Snape's loyalty was because Snape's staus as a mole was entirely motivated by love, the only thing Voldemort could not understand and would never take into consideration. In the sixth book, it's revealed that Voldemort basically had no love in his life when he grew up. His father was under the influence of a love potion when he was conceived and his mother died instead of using magic to save herself to care for him.

As a result, it is explained that he has absolutely no understanding of love or friendship and loves absolutely no one. It's probably because of this that he fails to realize that Harry's friends and loved ones will continue to fight in his name, even after Harry seemingly dies. A less extreme example is Bellatrix Lestrange who, according to Rowling loved no one except for her twisted obsession with Voldemort. Actually, a major theme in the books is love.

If someone doesn't love or care about anyone at all, chances are they're totally evil. In the first book If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. I'll have "power the Dark Lord knows not", it just means - love? Miss Pauling, you strike me as the sort of person who would have friends. What do they do? Look at gun catalogs Sometimes we just talk Friendship is even worse than I thought. And that thing you call love! Trust is for fools; fear is the only reliable way. Even you fear me Hallucination of Ursa in a mirror: I love you, Azula. It makes perfect sense to get married.

She also freaks out when she receives a Cool Down Hug due to her not knowing what the hell her enemy's doing. Though she could have just been expecting some sort of finishing blow. Iason Mink of Ai no Kusabi is an Artificial Human Elite of a Dystopian society where a Master Computer rules and restricts it's artificially created children from participating in many human behaviors such as exhibiting emotion or indulging in sex.

Eventually, Iason realizes he's in love with his "Pet" and struggles to make sense of his new found emotions. Death Parade has one of the rare examples that's played for horror. This is pretty much the worst possible question to be asked by the judge of the afterlife when you're evaluating how he judged and misunderstood two people to be sent to the void and reincarnation; he doesn't realize the woman he sent to the void actually lied about not loving her husband in order to save him for guilt, meaning he sent her to the wrong place.

The mermaids in Hekikai no AiON seems to have this case, but they know is used by humans to mate. One of them discovered what it is though, and also that Love Hurts. Yakumo decides that's close enough. Comics Played with in Fables ; Bigby Wolf who was willingly infected with a werewolf disease that lets him spend most of his time in human form has feelings for the fully human Snow White which takes him centuries to work out.

He explains that sentient wolves do have a concept of love for each other his own mother pined and died of a broken heart after being abandoned by his father and it's usually triggered by love at first sniff. However, he still spent a long time confused about it because 1 when he first experienced this with Snow it was before he gained his human form, so they truly were totally different species, and 2 he was the self-proclaimed "unrepentant lord of monsters" at that time, who killed and ate people purely on a whim, so dedication to another was totally alien to him.

Fi admits to Sheik at one point that, though she can't feel love herself, she understands the concept perfectly. Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: Patchouli, having spent almost all of her life in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's library with little social interaction outside of Remilia or Sakuya, is completely clueless to Jamie's attempts to sweet-talk her. As such, she's left confused when Koakuma "protects" her by Dope Slapping him.

The characters from this reality, such as Daphne, are very familiar with sex but haven't heard of love. Due to her slightly longer perspective on life, she finds the human obsession with love and sex to be somewhat amusing, and teases Simon mercilessly to this effect. Later, she even goes so far as to break up Simon's would-be tryst with a peasant girl under the pretense of being his "fairy lover". I saw her many years ago. She was a child. Her parents had just been killed.

She crossed my mind. Somehow, she never left it. Will she be safe now? You made her important. She is responsible for the death of one of us.