: A plot device where a protagonist must choose between two potential romantic interests, often used to create external and internal conflict.
Forced closeness, such as fake dating or sharing a confined space, accelerating intimacy.
Consider a 2003 anime fansite that hosted a text-based dating game featuring original characters. To unlock Character A’s confession scene, a user needed to choose specific dialogue options across five chapters. That scene exists only in a database state—not as a static HTML page. A standard web crawl won’t capture it. But a targeted siterip, which mimics the actions of a player triggering every relationship flag, can extract every romantic permutation.