Goodreads asked F.C. Schaefer:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

F.C. Schaefer I've never read much romantic fiction, but I've read stacks of fantasy books, most of whom have love stories of some kind in them, which is true of the fantasy novel I am attempting to write at the present time. And so my favorite fictional couple comes from an epic work of fiction by the great Stephen R. Donaldson. They would be Terisa and Geraden from his Mordant's Need series, which is a great portal fantasy that too few people have read. Terisa is a shy young woman from the modern world who is mistaken for a powerful Sorceress by an inexperienced young wizard from the land of Mordant, a country badly in need of her help. The reader realizes from the beginning that these two are perfect for each other because they are marginalized and unappreciated in the world's they come from, but together, they bring out the best in each other, so much so that they are able to take on the formidable evil that plagues the land of Mordant and find happiness. It's the inverse of opposites attract, and I love Donaldson makes it work in these books.

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