Being an older guy who's been doing 'all this' for quite a while, your scenario sounds far, far too damn familiar!  Have the kid bring up an ancient God/dess of Love, or a Love/Lust 'Elemental'(?!) would be fine, especially if you made the being true to =ITS= 'time and place'!  "Love" as we know it =today= is =not= the same as it was in the past, especially the 'far past'.  What kids think of today, with all the crap on TV and romance novels, is just as foreign to entities of ancient times as some of the stuff on the SciFi channel is to us.  Not necessarily "better" or "worse" - just different.

For example, wasn't one of the Near Eastern goddesses, Inanna?, the Goddess of both Love =and= War?  How would that square with little Miss Fluff-Bunny's 'world-view'?   Even if you didn't make the 'magical entity' "authentic" (whatever the hell that is), it could still trigger one hell of a 'reality check'!


Uncle Draggi