Step 1: Meet Your Love Interest

Step 2: Engage in Sappy Dialogue

Step 3: Save the World from Certain Doom

Substep 3.1: Get Captured, Escape, Repeat

Step 4: Declare Your Undying Love

• Excessive angst, tears, and swooning
• Unsolicited advice from well-meaning friends
• Unrelenting feelings of inadequacy

Learn to Live with the Sorrow

It's not about winning, it's about losing.

It's not about being saved, it's about being saved from yourself.

Substep 4.2: The Sorrowful Path

This is where the real heroism begins.

Avoiding eye contact with your love interest, because trust us, they're not worth it.

Epilogue: The Sorrowful Aftermath

A lifetime supply of Kleenex, a therapist's couch, and a bottle of wine.