So you might be confused by the title, that's fine it doesn't hold significance. This is more like an early morning realization than a fact but still, it kinda is one with how I write so hear me out. The amount of female leads I've written with Aj is a few this goes for both the pre-originality era and the modern day of my writing. I realized that if I intend to give Aj a specific love interest for a certain series I must fill certain requirements otherwise I will just outright discontinue the series.
1.)Akane's existence
-I realize that whenever she gets involved or brought into a story at any point it already dismisses the main heroine as a love interest because I cater to writing Aj and Akane together so much. This is why she does not exist in the My Idiot series otherwise Aj would've never gotten with Hana in the end
2.)Character dynamic
-A lot of my characters have either a consistent personality depending on how I write them or consistent dynamics with others which means that some characters might just not be able to have a relationship. A good example being Aj and Hua with the dynamic of "I'll kill you!" So unless I make that work well towards building a relationship then I won't have them end up together
3.)Third party existence/Caretaker role
-This one is really important because I will give Aj a certain character with him from the start or bring them in later. This coincides with the Akane condition because that relationship will get relatively more focus than the relationship that I have to build with the love interest. Like I'm currently rewriting Grudge Love which is basically just supposed to be for Aj x Hua which I never really write. The first version was discontinued after I just stopped giving it attention for a year or two then I remastered it and took out Akane but there was some other changes such as Aj's personality, overwhelming power, his relationship with other characters (had this really good antagonistic buildup with one of the female side characters, she was like my Mahito) but it's harder to write that against an Aj that's like Nagi from Blue Lock compared to an Aj that's like Itadori from Jujutsu Kaisen
So uh yeah, that's it for this fact hope you check it out, I have more stuff planned just busy with college stuff and it's making me lazy so we'll see whenever I get to it before I start working on my real manga. Anyway, see ya!