// an: self's name // ap: self's pronouns // bn: other's name // bp: other's pronouns // a: self's affection // b: other's affection // da: coefficient for self's affection // db: coefficient for other's affection transitions = (an, ap, bn, bp, a, b, da, db) => [ // HERMIT // { desc: 'Hermit in mutual hatred', predicate: a <= 0 && b <= 0 && da <= 0 && db <= 0, text: [ `But ${an} hated that they hated each other; ${ap[0]} knew it could just as well be otherwise, and just imagining it made it real for ${ap[1]}.`, `${an} was enough of a contrarian that ${ap[0]} could talk ${ap[1]}self into forgiving and forgetting.`, `Guiltily, ${ap[0]} offered an olive branch.` ] }, { desc: 'Hermit in unrequited love, disgusted by his love', predicate: a > 0 && b <= 0 && da <= 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `${cap(ap[0])} hated that ${ap[0]} loved ${bp[1]}; ${ap[0]} knew it was unrequited, and couldn’t stand ${ap[2]} desperation.`, `${an} was embarrassed by the true and sincere things ${ap[0]}’d said, and resolved not to repeat them.`, `What was once ${an}’s only certainty eventually became unimaginable.` ] }, { desc: 'Hermit in unrequited love, trying ever harder', predicate: a > 0 && b <= 0 && da <= 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `${an} wasn’t proud of ${ap[2]} chase, but took ${bn}’s rejection as an embarrassment ${ap[0]} couldn’t ignore, and wanted to do better.`, `_Sweet ${bn}, now I understand_, ${ap[0]} thought; _I will love you better._`, ] }, { desc: 'Hermit being pursued, recoiling', predicate: a <= 0 && b > 0 && da <= 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `${an} recoiled from ${bn}’s pursuit.`, `Ignoring the copious evidence of ${bp[2]} true love, ${an} fixated on the scant evidence that ${bn} didn’t know what ${bp[0]} was doing.`, `${bn} tried coaxing ${ap[1]}, appealing to ${bp[2]} imperfect notions of ${ap[2]} interests and tastes, but ${bp[0]} couldn’t tell that ${ap[0]}’d changed.`, `${bn} told ${ap[1]} ${ap[0]}’d love a movie; ${ap[0]} watched and hated it.`, `${an} could see the gears of reductivism turn in ${bp[2]} head, strip-mining ${ap[2]} statements for useful fragments and feeding them into ${bp[2]} abacus, fitting them into ridiculous patterns and models to use against ${ap[1]}.` ] }, { desc: 'Hermit being pursued, relenting', predicate: a <= 0 && b > 0 && da <= 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `${an} didn’t know why ${ap[0]} was hesitating; it felt silly.`, `${cap(ap[0])} let ${ap[1]}self be moved by ${bn}’s attention.`, `${cap(ap[0])} wanted to give ${bp[1]} a chance.`, `${bn} sounded startled to hear from ${ap[1]}, but pleased.` ] }, { desc: 'Hermit in mutual love', predicate: a > 0 && b > 0 && da <= 0 && db <= 0, text: [ `Their love felt saccharine.`, `Looking at ${bp[2]} posts on Instagram, ${an} couldn’t believe that this was their relationship; from afar it felt cheap and fake.`, `It was all too fast for ${an}.`, `One time ${bn} misquoted a memory, or a fact about ${an}’s past, or misjudged ${ap[2]} reaction to something, and ${an} took it as a sign that this was a sham, a mistake.`, `${an} felt like ${ap[0]} had reformed ${ap[2]}self into just what ${bn} had wanted to see, and hated that it had worked.`, `${cap(bp[0])} waited patiently for ${ap[1]} — too patiently, it turned out; ${ap[0]} felt trapped by ${bp[2]} patience, it hung over ${ap[1]}, like ${bp[0]} was ${ap[2]} charge.`, `${an} felt trapped in ${bp[2]} metaphors and motifs. ${cap(ap[0])} found they shattered like the images reflected in a stream into which a stone had been cast.` ] }, // CAUTIOUS { desc: 'Cautious in mutual hatred, falling in love despite themself', predicate: a <= 0 && b <= 0 && da <= 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `But love starts with attention, and ${an} paid attention to the way ${bp[0]} irked ${ap[1]}, meticulously turning over ${ap[2]} reasons in ${ap[2]} head and picking them apart.`, `Prudence had failed ${ap[1]}; ${ap[0]} felt dizzy.`, `${cap(ap[2])} only love sprung from ${ap[2]} only hate.` ] }, { desc: 'Cautious in mutual hatred, amplifying other’s hate', predicate: a <= 0 && b <= 0 && da <= 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `As ${an} paid careful attention to the ways ${bn} disliked ${ap[1]}, ${ap[0]} reflected and amplified them back at ${bp[1]}.`, `${an} acted as if they were torn apart by the whirlwind of history; it wasn’t true, but it was kind.`, ] }, { desc: 'Cautious in unrequited love, disgusted by his love & echoing other’s hate', predicate: a > 0 && b <= 0 && da <= 0 && db > 0, text: [ `Sheepishly, ${an} buried ${ap[2]} feelings; ${bp[0]} was probably right about them.`, `${an} marveled at the paradox that ${ap[0]} could both feel something and know it was wrong. But it was.`, `${an}’s love proved as variable as the phases of the moon.`, `But one day ${an} learned what a hypocrite ${bp[0]} was.`, ] }, { desc: 'Cautious being pursued, and into it', predicate: a <= 0 && b > 0 && da <= 0 && db > 0, text: [ `${an} didn’t know if ${ap[0]} loved ${bp[1]}, but ${ap[0]} loved ${bp[2]} attention, and craved it.`, `_Is that what it means to “play hard-to-get”_, ${ap[0]} wondered.`, `${cap(bp[0])} felt ${bp[1]}self winning ${ap[1]} over.`, `But whatever ${bn} wanted of ${ap[1]} ${ap[0]} wanted too, solely because ${bp[0]} was asking it of ${ap[1]}.`, `“What?” said ${an}, “You too? I thought I was the only one!”` ] }, { desc: 'Cautious in mutual love, encouraged', predicate: a > 0 && b > 0 && da <= 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `${an} felt validated and emboldened.`, `It was what ${an} had been waiting for.`, `${cap(ap[0])} let ${ap[1]}self believe.`, `Love goes toward love, and ${an} went toward ${bn}.`, ] }, { desc: 'Cautious in mutual love, retreating', predicate: a > 0 && b > 0 && da <= 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `${an} was scared ${ap[0]}’d gone too far, that this could go somewhere that would ruin it.`, `They fought in the car.`, `Some difficult piece of ${bp[1]} past came up; ${bp[0]} felt ${bp[0]}’d been totally honest about it, but just didn’t like to talk about it; ${an} was surprised, and unnverved that ${bp[0]} didn’t even seem to realize ${bp[0]}’d hidden it from ${ap[1]}.`, `${bn} had waited too long.`, `${an} tried to give it a minute before ${ap[0]} admitted that they were through.`, `The diminishing terms of endearment in ${ap[2]} messages left no room for doubt in ${bn}’s mind.`, `They were full of sadness at their parting. That wasn’t what they themselves wanted: it was circumstances.`, `As fate parted them it froze and saved for ${bn} the more youthful, innocent image of ${ap[1]}.`, ] }, // EAGER { desc: 'Eager in mutual hatred, intensifying', predicate: a <= 0 && b <= 0 && da > 0 && db > 0, text: [ `The reasons they would never work became more solid and definite every time ${an} repeated them.`, `They didn’t talk anymore.`, `${cap(bp[0])} thought someone had turned ${ap[1]} against ${bp[1]}; but it was just ${ap[1]}.`, `The image of ${bn} inside of ${an} had tumbled down and shattered.`, ] }, { desc: 'Eager in unrequited love, amplifying other’s hate', predicate: a > 0 && b <= 0 && da > 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `When ${bn} tried to criticize ${ap[2]} behavior the other night, ${an} turned it into an attack on ${bp[2]} whole character and being, that ${bp[0]} would even be bothered by that.`, `${bn} figured ${ap[0]} just couldn’t stand to see ${bp[1]} happy.` ] }, { desc: 'Eager in unrequited love, growing ever more obsessed', predicate: a > 0 && b <= 0 && da > 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `${cap(ap[2])} obsession left little room to even notice ${bn}’s disinterest.`, `Like the sea gets deeper the further you go into it, every encounter ${an} initiated only affirmed and magnified ${ap[2]} affection.`, `${cap(ap[0])} did not want to bring ${bn} back to ${ap[1]}self by force; ${ap[0]} wanted understanding to rise from ${bp[2]} innermost being and incline ${bp[1]} gently towards ${ap[1]}.` ] }, { desc: 'Eager being pursued, and not having it', predicate: a <= 0 && b > 0 && da > 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `${an} was too self-assured to be moved.`, `${an}’s considerable passion and energy was focused elsewhere.`, `${an} wanted out of this story.`, `${bn} realized ${bp[0]} had never really had ${ap[1]}.`, ] }, { desc: 'Eager being pursued, and into it', predicate: a <= 0 && b > 0 && da > 0 && db > 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `Though ${ap[0]} hadn’t always wanted it to be, going along with ${bn} was easy and natural.`, `${cap(ap[0])} found ${ap[1]}self replying to ${bn}’s texts faster.`, `${cap(ap[0])} was not in love with ${bn}, but ${ap[0]} felt herself kindled by ${bp[1]}, giving out more light and amounting to more, when ${ap[0]} was near ${bp[1]}.` ] }, { desc: 'Eager in mutual love', predicate: a > 0 && b > 0 && da > 0 && db > 0, text: [ `Maybe there was an epiphany, a confession, a breakthrough — or maybe ${an} had passed the event horizon long before ${ap[0]} realized it.`, `Maybe they were drunk, maybe they were stressed, maybe they were feeling bold, or maybe just honest.`, `One night something changed, and in the morning ${an} skipped down the black-and-white street with David Bowie playing in ${ap[2]} head. _So this is what it feels like._`, `When ${bn} summed up their circumstances in an extraordinary idea, it was etched into ${an}’s memory like poetry.` ] }, // NARCISSIST { desc: 'Narcissist in mutual hatred, falling in love despite themself', predicate: a <= 0 && b <= 0 && da > 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `${cap(ap[0])} didn’t understand ${bp[2]} disapproval; even ${ap[0]} could see that they’d be great together.`, `${cap(ap[0])} took ${bp[2]} scorn as an affront and a challenge.`, ] }, { desc: 'Narcissist in mutual hatred, amplifying own hate', predicate: a <= 0 && b <= 0 && da > 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `${an} told friends about every stupid comment ${bp[0]}’d made behind ${ap[2]} back, speculating about ${bp[2]} motivations and ambitions and conspiracies.`, `${cap(ap[0])} thought ${ap[0]} understood ${bp[1]} now, and saw through ${bp[2]} tricks and games.`, `${cap(ap[0])} won every mental argument against the version of ${bn} ${ap[0]}’d constructed in ${ap[2]} head, stacking imagined trophies.`, `${an} said certain things ${ap[0]} couldn’t un-say. “What was that all about?” “Don’t lie to me.” “Now you know how it feels.” (No, that doesn’t sound like ${ap[1]}; ${ap[0]} wouldn’t!)` ] }, { desc: 'Narcissist in unrequited love, loving own love & hating other’s hate', predicate: a > 0 && b <= 0 && da > 0 && db <= 0, text: [ `${an} impressed ${ap[1]}self with ${ap[2]} romantics, as if ${ap[0]} were ${ap[2]} own audience.`, `${cap(ap[0])} thought about ${bp[1]} more than ${ap[0]} listened to ${bp[1]}.`, `When ${bp[0]} ignored ${ap[1]}, ${an} invented excuses for ${bp[2]} behavior that somehow exonerated ${ap[1]}self.`, `${cap(ap[0])} imagined every possible reason for ${bn}’s minor slights except ${ap[2]} own behavior.`, `When ${bp[0]} ignored ${ap[1]}, ${ap[0]} took it as an invitation; when ${bp[0]} was mean to ${ap[1]}, ${ap[0]} took it as flirtation; and if ${bp[0]} was ever kind, ${ap[0]} took it as proof.` ] }, { desc: 'Narcissist being pursued, and rejecting it', predicate: a <= 0 && b > 0 && da > 0 && db <= 0, text: [ `The more ${bn} tried, the more pathetic ${bp[0]} seemed to ${ap[1]}.`, `${cap(ap[0])} didn’t want to belong to any club that would have ${ap[1]}.`, `${cap(bp[2])} affection didn’t seem equal to ${ap[2]} idea of affection in degree or even kind, and ${ap[0]} couldn’t imagine reciprocating.`, `When ${ap[0]} saw how wrong about ${ap[1]} ${bn} was, ${bp[2]} attention lost any grip on ${ap[1]}.`, `${an} felt like ${bp[2]} love was not for ${ap[1]} so much as for an idealized image to which ${ap[0]} felt no loyalty.` ] }, { desc: 'Narcissist in mutual love, encouraged', predicate: a > 0 && b > 0 && da > 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db > 0), text: [ `${cap(bp[0])} won.`, `${cap(ap[0])} talked as if it was right on schedule, just as ${ap[0]}’d planned.`, `What was past was prologue, and what was to come would make the struggle worthwhile.`, ] }, { desc: 'Narcissist in mutual love, retreating', predicate: a > 0 && b > 0 && da > 0 && db <= 0 && (a * da + b * db < 0), text: [ `As ridiculous as it sounds, ${bn}’s affection felt like evidence against ${ap[2]} own.`, `${cap(bp[2])} reciprocation of ${ap[2]} affection cheapened it.`, `${cap(ap[0])} retreated from ${bn}’s love as if attaining it had been ${ap[2]} only goal.`, `But ${an} increasingly felt that ${bn}’s love was based on misunderstanding.`, `After all this time ${an} knew ${bp[0]} still didn’t understand ${ap[1]}.`, `Does getting on well together drive people into hatred?`, `When ${bp[0]} went out with old friends, ${an} insisted that to divide was to take away.` ] } ]