Interest and Side

Interest

Interest noun - A legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something.

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Side and interest are semantically related In some cases you can use "Side" instead a noun "Interest".

Side noun - A place, space, or direction away from or beyond a central point or line.

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Interest and side are semantically related in opposing person or view topic. Sometimes you can use "Interest" instead a noun "Side".

Nearby Words: sided, sideline, sidewards, sideband

human	human interest	human side
good	good interest	good side
romantic	romantic interest	romantic side
serious	serious interest	serious side
Other adjectives: new, different.

men	interest men	side men
place	interest place	side place

If it's a fight between two people, more than likely over a love interest, and the love interest or a side character intervenes at the wrong moment, this trope can lead to a What Have I Done moment.

Source: Standing Between the Enemies
General: If in the original work a redhead is The Hero's Official Couple, Implied Love Interest or a side of the Love Dodecahedron, the odds are that there will be a ton of fancreations of that work getting them together and therefore invoking the trope.

Source: Heroes Want Redheads
Although it should be noted that unlike most tsunderes where the "tsun" side if often acting violent towards the male love interest, Aika's "tsun" side is more in lines of being a Shrinking Violet.

Source: Light Novel / Shomin Sample

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