[ Aoba doesn't need to convince the alien to launch into a lengthy discussion about the complexities of troll romance. His love of the genre hasn't waned, even if adulthood has cooled him down (a little). ]

Human romance centers around the idea of reproductive and usually positive feelings of affection between two individuals. Usually.

My species punts that up a few levels. We split our romance between those relationships based on hate from those that are based on pity. For you humans, these are relationships that are based on positive versus negative affections.

Then we split them again into those feelings of hate or pity that are conciliatory or concupiscent in nature, forming the quadrant system.

PLEASE tell me you're getting this through your porous, calcium-based cranial plates.