History Main / LoveConfessor

* In Episode 10 of ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' Stede has an epiphany while listening to his estranged wife Mary describe her love for her painting instructor, and realizes it describes his own feelings toward his new friend Blackbeard.
-->'''Mary:''' I hope you find that some day.\\

-->Mary: I hope you find that some day.\\
Stede: I think I have.\\
Mary: Really? What's her name?\\
Stede. Ed. His name is Ed.\\

-->Mary: I hope you find that some day.
Stede: I think I have.
Mary: Really? What's her name?
Stede. Ed. His name is Ed.

* Chapter 120 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' has Kaguya admit to Hayasaka that she's in love with Shirogane. This comes as a complete shock to Hayasaka. Not the fact that she's in love, but rather the fact that she's actually saying it out loud after spending a whole year constantly denying it.

* ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Nanao falls in LoveAtFirstPunch with Oliver, and in volume 4 she's asked about it by her roommate Katie ([[LoveTriangle who also has an unrequited crush on Oliver]]). Nanao admits she strongly desires to stay near him, but also says her desire for a DuelToTheDeath with him (a product of her {{samurai}} upbringing previously addressed in volume 1) hasn't gone away as everyone hoped.
-->“I feel an urge to hear his voice. To be by his side. To touch and hold him. I have no doubts about any of that. Which is why I’ve stuck to him like a burr since we met.” ({{beat}}) “At the same time, I have a doubt—and a fundamental one. If you truly love someone, can that emotion coexist with an urge to see them dead?”

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* In ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', Robin tells Little John that he's in love with Maid Marian after he gets distracted thinking about her and leaves their food to overcook.

* In ''{{Film/Holiday}}'', Linda quizzes her brother Ned about getting drunk. When he asks her what [[DrowningMySorrows sorrow she is looking to drown]], she confesses that she has fallen in love with their sister Julia's fiancé. Ned advises her to act on her feelings, but Linda refuses to betray Julia.

* In ''{{Theatre/Camelot}}'', Lancelot first confesses his love for Guinevere to his squire, Dap.

* Manga/TokyoGhoul: Mutsuki reveals his romantic obsession with Kaneki/Sasaki to Urie (who ironically might have an unrequited crush on Mutsuki) and declares how he would do anything for it.
* The frequency of this type of confession becomes a running joke in {{LightNovel/Oresuki}}. It’s so frequent that when this doesn't happen during a character’s confession to Joro, it is seen as an aversion of this trope.

* Manga/TokyoGhoul: Mutsuki reveals his romantic obsession on Kaneki/Sasaki to Urie (who ironically might have a unrequited crush on Mutsuki) and declares how he would do anything for it.

* On ''Series/DoctorWho'', Martha Jones confesses her love for he Doctor twice. The first time is in "The Family of Blood" to an amnesiac version of himself:

* [[spoiler: Hitomi Shizuki]] from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' wants to defuse the LoveTriangle between herself, [[spoiler: Sayaka Miki and Kyousuke Kamijou]] though invoking the trope, and goes as far as offering her love rival the chance to confess first, though only for a limited time. Bad thing is, she doesn't know Sayaka hasn't and won't confess because [[spoiler:she think [[SoulJar her soul no longer being in her body]] [[IAmAMonster means she's a monster]]]].

* [[spoiler: Hitomi Shizuki]] from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' wants to defuse the LoveTriangle between herself, [[spoiler: Sayaka Miki and Kyousuke Kamijou]] though invoking the trope, and goes as far as offering her love rival the chance to confess first, [[spoiler: though with a RaceAgainstTheClock catch.]] Bad thing, [[spoiler: she doesn't know that Sayaka ''[[OurLichesAreDifferent really]]'' [[IAmAMonster cannot]] [[BlessedWithSuck confess…]]]]

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Soga very quickly falls for Suzu, and before trying to give her a DeclarationOfProtection (though not a love confession), he tells Suzu's ChildhoodFriend Matsuri to see if he has a problem. As Matsuri refuses to believe his own feelings for Suzu are romantic, he says it's not his business to object.

Dramatically, this serves a few different purposes. It lets the audience know what the lover's feelings are, and/or confirms that the lover is aware of their own feelings. It creates new dramatic potential, since the lover and the third party now share a secret that the beloved is not in on. Most importantly, it buys time for writers who want to delay the LoveConfession till later, though it is possible for the object of affection to overhear the declaration.

* In ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', [[spoiler: Kumi]] has planned to confess to her crush [[spoiler: Tsubasa]] before he had to go abroads. At some point she tells her friend and other prospect love interest for the guy, [[spoiler: Sanae]], that she will tell him about her feelings, even apologizing to the other girl and saying that she understands if she isn't happy with all of this. [[spoiler: When Tsubasa gently but firmly turns Kumi's LoveConfession, she immediately [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy tells him to go to Sanae]].]]

* Chapter 110 of ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' ,"Confession", has Elizabeth confessing to Diane she's in love with Meliodas and in return Diane confesses she has realized she's in love with King.

* In the sequel to ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Carol admits to her grandmother (who is completely unsurprised because EveryoneCanSeeIt) that she's in love with [[spoiler: Harry]], and that it's not just platonic, which is all she'd previously been prepared to admit. She's also both miserable and angry because he's probably going through hell (and he's in that position because he did something both very noble and very stupid). For his part, he had more than platonic feelings for her, and he was keeping them to himself because [[IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship he didn't want to ruin their friendship]] and knew she wanted to be JustFriends, at least for the time being, making an indirect LoveConfession to her 25 chapters later.

* Catherine Earnshaw gets one of the best examples of AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in literature in ''Literature/WutheringHeights.'' Unfortunately she doesn't make it ''to'' Heathcliff. And even more unfortunately, an eavesdropping Heathcliff [[OutOfContextEavesdropping overhears only the part]] where it would degrade her to marry him and not the part about her passionate love for him; cue a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and decades of misery for everyone in the book.

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** She tries to play it off later as a bit of hyperbole, but they both know she's lying. The second time is in "Last of the Time Lords", when Martha is telling people about the Doctor and how wonderful he is. She never tells him her feelings directly, but by the end of their time together it's implicitly understood that he knows.

* A kind of weird, prevaricating version happens between Sandy and Liz in the stage version of ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''. Sandy asks Liz if she's in love with Mike. Liz doesn't answer directly, but when he goes on to ask why she doesn't marry him, she admits that she's waiting for him to grow up, and that she'd be ''very'' upset if another girl tried to claim him first. It's the clearest insight we get into Liz's feelings for Mike. The scene plays slightly differently in the 1940 film, but is preserved in the 1956 musical ''Film/HighSociety'' (this time between [[CompositeCharacter Dexter]] and Liz).
* In ''Theatre/CyranodeBergerac'', Le Bret is the first and only person to whom Cyrano confesses his love for Roxane. Christian and later Roxane have to figure it out themselves, and have Cyrano reluctantly confirm.

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* In ''{{Film/Holiday}}'', Linda quizzes her brother Ned about getting drunk. When he asks her what [[DrowningMySorrows sorrow she is looking to drown]], she confesses that she has just fallen in love with their sister Julia's fiancé. Ned advises her to act on her feelings, but Linda refuses to betray Julia.

* Catherine Earnshaw gets one of the best AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in literature in ''Literature/WutheringHeights.'' Unfortunately she doesn't make it ''to'' Heathcliff. And even more unfortunately, an eavesdropping Heathcliff [[OutOfContextEavesdropping overhears only the part]] where it would degrade her to marry him and not the part about her passionate love for him; cue a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and decades of misery for everyone in the book.

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* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid:'' "DADDY, I LOVE HIM!"
* In ''Disney/RobinHood'', Robin tells Little John that he's in love with Maid Marian after he gets distracted thinking about her and leaves their food to overcook.

* In Chapter 110 of ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' ,"Confession", has Elizabeth confessing to Diane she's in love with Meliodas and in return Diane confesses she has realized she's in love with King.

* In the sequel to ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Carol admits to her grandmother that she's in love with [[spoiler: Harry]], and that it's not just platonic, which is all she'd previously been prepared to admit, and is rather upset because he's probably going through hell (and he's in that position because he did something very noble, and very stupid). For his part, he had more than platonic feelings for her, and he was keeping them to himself because [[IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship he didn't want to ruin their friendship]] and knew she wanted to be JustFriends, at least for the time being, making an indirect LoveConfession 25 chapters later.

Dramatically, this serves a few different purposes. It lets the audience know what the lover's feelings are, and/or confirms that the lover is aware of their own feelings. It creates new dramatic potential, since the lover and the third party now share a secret that the beloved is not in on. Most importantly, it buys time for writers who want to delay the LoveConfession till later.

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* [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid "DADDY, I LOVE HIM!"]]

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