#gave me the dokis as a kid
meet-cutes are great and all but honestly no first interaction setup will ever have the power of that scene in princess mononoke where san pins ashitaka down with a blade to his neck and screams “i’ll cut your throat! that’ll shut you up!” and he justs looks up into her eyes in dazed awe and murmurs “you’re beautiful”
every writer wants the mind hayao miyazaki has