History Literature / Loveless

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[[caption-width-right:325: It was all sinking in. I'd never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I'd ever met. What did that mean?]]

** Rooney delivers a grand one to [[spoiler:Georgia after the latter tells her about her nightmare where her all her friends die and she's left all alone without a romantic partner.]] Rooney assures her that she loves her as a best friend, and she'll stick with her until they grow old together.

* ChekhovsGun: The jacket that Pip leaves in Georgia's room during Fresher's Week. [[spoiler: It's later used as a reason for Georgia and Rooney to talk to her and apologize for driving her away when the former two drunkenly kissed each other at the Bailey Ball..]]

* HasTwoDaddies: Jason is mentioned to have two fathers who fell in love with each other while training in the same field.

* PerformanceArtist: Pip and Sunil are flamboyant in their own ways and big fans of theatre. They immediately sign up for Shakespeare Soc.

* WrongGuyFirst: [[spoiler:Rooney]] is revealed to have had an abusive ex-boyfriend, and she regrets giving up everything [[spoiler:including her OnlyFriend Beth]] for him. She struggles with letting go of the pain from her previous long-term relationship [[spoiler:and wrestling with her feelings for Pip.]]

** Georgia organizes a concert on the river with her friends so she can make a "college proposal" to [[spoiler:Pip in order to win her back at Shakespeare Soc, and also to apologize to her as a friend for driving her away when Pip caught Georgia and Rooney kissing while drunk.]]
** Rooney delivers a grand one to [[spoiler:Georgia after the latter tells her about her nightmare where her all her friends die and she's left all alone without a romantic partner. Rooney assures her that she loves her as a best friend, and she'll stick with her until they grow old together.]]

* RightThroughTheWall: On Georgia's first night at her dorm room, she can't sleep due to the thumping noises caused by the couple having sex in the room above. It's {{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out later on that the sound is from the washing machines in the laundry room instead.

* TitleDrop: Each chapter's title (except for the ones in ''Hands Against Our Hearts'') appears somewhere in the chapter itself.

** Jason calls Georgia out for [[spoiler: using him as an experiment to see if she is straight.]]
** Pip doesn't take Georgia and Rooney [[spoiler: reluctantly kissing to see if Georgia is gay]] very well and leaves the Bailey Ball in a huff after she calls them out.

* WrongGuyFirst: Rooney is revealed to have had [[spoiler:an abusive ex-boyfriend, and she regrets giving up everything including her OnlyFriend Beth for him. She struggles with letting go of the pain from her previous long-term relationship and wrestling with her feelings for Pip.]]

* AmicableExes: After [[spoiler:winning him back at Shakespeare Soc]], Georgia apologizes to [[spoiler:Jason for using him as part of her experimenting phase. Jason accepts the apology and doesn't mind remaining friends with her, even if he was heartbroken that his crush on her wasn't reciprocated.]]

* CelebrityCrush: Rooney and Pip have huge crushes on Creator/HenryCavill and Creator/KeiraKnightley, respectively. Georgia, on the other hand, can't relate to them because she's aroace.
* ChekhovsGun: The jacket that Pip leaves in Georgia's room during Fresher's Week. [[spoiler: It's later used as a reason for Georgia and Rooney to talk to her and apologize.]]

* ComingOutStory: Over the course of the book Georgia realizes she's aroace, comes out to her friends and learns to be accepting of herself.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Pretty much everyone. [[spoiler: Georgia learns to be happy about her lack of romantic or sexual attraction, Pip and Rooney start going out, Sunil decides to take up a Masters Degree in Music and the whole gang moves in together.]]

* ExperimentedInCollege: In a way. [[spoiler: After Georgia tells Rooney that she's definitely not into guys, she assumes she's gay and suggests they kiss 'just to be sure'.]]
* {{Fangirl}}: Georgia likes reading [[invoked]] {{Shipping}} fanfics, but despite [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel knowing the common romance tropes]], she can't understand why she doesn't feel the same attraction as the characters.
* GayAesop: The book talks about the misconceptions about UsefulNotes/{{asexuality}} - both internal and external only to show how they are both wrong and harmful.

* IWantGrandkids: The parents of Georgia's cousin Ellis, who is over 30 and still single, use that rhetoric on her. Ellis doesn't budge.

* PerformanceArtist: Pip and Sunil are big fans of theatre and immediately sign up for Shakespeare Soc.

* RightThroughTheWall: On Georgia's first night at her dorm room, she can't sleep due to the thumping noises caused by the couple having sex in the room above. It's {{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out later on that the sound was from the laundry room instead.