Tropescilloscope: Stalker with a Crush

Character has an unhealthy obsession with following or spying on the person they're attracted to. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Setting Update Stalker with a Crush Dirty Coward Bar Brawl Vomit Indiscretion Shot Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Gun Safety No Ending Historical In-Joke Bond Villain Stupidity Names to Run Away from Really Fast Groin Attack Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Exactly What It Says on the Tin Break the Haughty Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping No-Sell Unusually Uninteresting Sight Red Herring This Is Gonna Suck Expository Hairstyle Change Contrived Coincidence Adaptation Name Change Action Prologue Our Vampires Are Different Heel Realization Gold Digger Face Death with Dignity Roger Ebert: Great Movies List From Bad to Worse Heel–Face Turn Plot Hole "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bury Your Gays Dramatic Irony Book-Ends Be Careful What You Wish For Meet Cute Dies Wide Open Unresolved Sexual Tension Silent Movie Frame-Up Cat Fight Spanner in the Works In the Back Refuge in Audacity Good Is Not Nice What Happened to the Mouse? 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