finding love in the crab bucket like. is adjacent and has overlap with enemies to lovers but like it’s about the bucket. the bucket is essential
the crux of finding love in the crab bucket is that two or more characters have been put in a crab bucket. they are in an environment that sets them up to not only fail individually but treat each other with cruelty. and despite the bucket, grow to care for each other deeply. likely not in a way that anyone would frame as “healthy” but the thing is, they are still in the goddamn bucket. it’s not necessarily about getting out of the bucket. sometimes it’s not a bucket they can escape in their lifetime. but they do eventually choose to be kind to each other in the way that they can.