The last two quotations and end of the first are not my own. I read them in a book last night and I just couldn't do it. I was finally getting the character depth I wanted (compromised at this point of the book) and I was getting in the zone for the character core to absolutely sing a belter and elevate everything so far into an understanding. No. it came across as the cheesiest out of place chat up line and it played out as a dramatic declaration of love. I read it through a few times and I get what the Author was trying to do, the emotional points hit and how this relationship between characters works. But It was all trying to be an allegory of being gay and for the character and world its set in, it just doesn't work (sexuality, gender, race, species, hologram, robot, dead, alive, all a non issue - mostly). It took away any meaning from the character and the interaction for me because it felt like a generalised box tick. Its not so much not having the characters voice but not having the characters words. The allegory could have worked but it didn't because it lacked the characters words.

So this is my half arsed attempt of what I wanted while trying to do the author's box tick.

Also wanted to try this quotation with paragraphs thing, i keep seeing it.

Personally, I would have had the final quote as "Who I am." followed by "Who's that?" "I don't yet know." "What do you know?" then do the big 'will they wont they' finally revealed with a kiss. but for Tara and Willow and out of context from the original work with different characters, doesn't make complete sense for this.

It wasn't even advertised as a romance!