Constantly finding all these Ninjago and Httyd books where there's always either a harem or love interests that involves the main cast, just solidifies my opinion on not giving my characters any love interest cause there's already so many other books with that.
But actually reading them made me see how rushed the relationships are, like they just wanted to get them together and then sew drama. So rejoice at the fact that my books will have x reader/oc, it'll just be at a slower and more realistic pace.