@TurntAturn To be fair, they even seem to be calling attention to how it's forced. What with Clara just being dumb and thinking "I wanna play with my friend more, but he's hanging out with someone else! Gotta seduce him."
But yeh, there's like no romantic energy between the two of them. Clara's great friend material. I mean, she's Cute. It's just that she's, like, puppy cute.
Also, I have a feeling that the ring-person's gonna end up being a girl and is gonna join the weird harem dynamic.