i really hate ‘power of love’ stories not because i’m a jaded cynic or whatever but because i always find something deeply offputting and misanthropic in how they are almost always set up in a way that implies that the protagonist is the only person in the world capable of love
for your story to hinge on “our protagonist’s love is powerful enough to conquer all the evils of the world” you kind of have to implicitly make the backdrop “everyone else’s love is garbage, just trash, philosophical zombies the lot of them”
like harry potter is the big modern pop culture template for “the power of love” and even seitting aside yknow any of the modern stuff about jkr i have always found “oh his mother’s love protected him from the killing curse” to be kind of deeply repulsive as a plot point. like oh well i guess the moms all those other kids who died just didnt love them enough, guess it was a skill issue
everyone coming onto this post to argue the technicalities of harry potter lore with me is being sent to the forever gulag