DE: Looking for love...

[bjornwilde]

 Quoth the misslucyjane :

Milliways couples. Are any of your pups dating someone not in their canon? How did they meet? Was the pairing planned or did it develop during play? Do you have a plan for them or are you just seeing where things go?

If you have a real life SO, want to share the story of how you met?

Comments

[lifethatisscratched]

Voodoo - nope.

Connor - nope.

John - nope.

Mako - nope.

[camwyn]

Ray - married to Romanadvortrelundar thanks to long-ago RP
Gordon - nope
Shephard - non-canonical, in-universe girlfriend
Ellen - non-canonical, in-universe courting going on (I can't get her to use the word 'boyfriend', I keep trying)
Medic - yep, Cata; they met in Milliways and got off on the right foot when he called assassins a useful and necessary profession in a civilized society, but they didn't get around to actually dating until she kissed him after the were-weiner plot
Varric - nope
Mordin - nope
Santo - nope
Stacker Pentecost - nope

Horribly embarrassed admission time: I would have liked it if something had happened along the way with somebody in Milliways and Ellen, but the part where she's fundamentally ace probably threw that off, plus it never really occurred to me to contact anybody OOCly and suggest it to them instead of just hoping it would come up in the course of RP.

[damncompass]

Helena is going on a few dates with Howard Stark. I did not plan this. However, it is adorable and awesome. :D She also has a fling with Moist. Helena, you are a horrible flirt, miss 'many of my lovers were men'. That was... quasi-planned. Ish. In a Helena-flirts-like-hell way. ... Helena is not ashamed of her lovers. I feel like a heel sometimes. *facepalm*

Joshua has Moist. Er. I was shocked at that one. I don't know what that even is but he likes it.

Fantine... hell no. Not for quite a while.

Valentine, when she was in the bar the first time, was married to Luke Skywalker. I did not even vaguely plan that. Neither did Luke's mun. They just... decided they were in love. What the hell, Milliways. Now she's about eleven. Ew.

Me: I met minkhollow here. I knew about her for a while, but we really started talking when she went 'someone should app Angel!' in crackchat, and we got the vampire instead of the drag queen. Nine years later, I'm really glad I got over the fact that I was intimidated by her. Oh, and I didn't intend that one either.

[katyafeline]

Katya: Skellig-Katya is... not dating. But they rely on each other so heavily it very nearly is? They're complicated. But their partnership so wasn't planned, and we have no idea where this is going. They met... there was a couple times in-bar prior to the Mirror encounter, then mostly afterwards as they both fell under the McCoy-Olga 'we will so kick your asses if you get hurt again' supervision.

Ace: Ace/Spoon, also so not planned - now married and living in Yorkshire. They met when Spoon came into the bar for the first time - she knew about and was not freaked out by the werewolfishness, and considered a hunt for potatoes a fine way to spend an afternoon.

Oswin/Clara: Oswin has Moriarty, which isn't planned and I have no idea where that's going, but she rather likes him. Clara doesn't have anyone.

McCoy: McCoy/Olga, most decidedly not planned, they met when he stumbled in after a long day in surgery and she grumbled about smelly barber-surgeons. Totes love at first sight. Or something. IDEK, they're weird.

Glorfindel: I want to say he has a sweetheart in Aman. Just 'cause I'm evil like that and he's not getting back there any time soon. >.>

Haymitch: Nope. President Snow had her killed.

Balthazar: Balthazar/Veronica forever, totally canonical, if I even thought about breaking that up he'd drop me off of a very very tall building.

[olyabird]

Olga: ~Grumbles something about smiley faces on boxer shorts and flicks a hush puppy at his head~ ~affectionately~

[genarti]

River: Yep! She and Duo have been dating for a few years now. (It's an open relationship, but onscreen at least nothing with anyone else has gone beyond flirtation; maybe it has with OCs in her own universe, but I've been way too lazy to write that if so.) They were friends for a couple of years first, and eventually started going on 'dates' which Jo and I laughed about because they had all the trappings of romantic dates -- going dancing, picnics, etc -- but at that point they were genuinely just friendly hanging out with no flirtatious intent. Eventually, River decided she wanted to change that, and kissed him in the middle of one. It was OOCly discussed before that point, but we certainly didn't start out planning for their friendship to turn into romance. I've never set out with a plan for romance, nor with a more than very tentative prediction for any kind of IC relationship; it doesn't work for me.

Regan: Nope; canonical in-universe marriage.

Trowa: Nope; semi-canonical in-universe boyfriend. (I say semi-canonical because you can read them as just friends in canon, but the subtext is really strong.)

Thor: Nope! I don't 100% rule it out, depending on how canon goes with his relationship with Jane Foster, but I do like their relationship, so I see no reason to push for it. He might flirt with other people when and if the chance arises, though. At the moment the amount of time he's known Jane is pretty limited, and so is what they've promised to each other.

Clare: Ahahahaha no. A Milliways BFF, but she has no interest in dating.

Enjolras: AHAHAHAHAHA no. He remains in a monogamous metaphorical relationship with the French republic, and always will.

[bjornwilde]

Ben: Straight up canon. Alicia + Ben=My original OTP. There had been a couple 'what if's that sparked in bar back in Ben's first year; most notably a female wizard from the Dresden canon way back with the first Cubefall I believe, but nothing came of it as I was still shy and new to the game. One pairing that was interesting for me was Ben and Fiona but that wasn't so much romantic as it was awesome.

Val: Sort of had a thing for Sameth when she first met him but again I was still new to the game and by the time I figured out she was serious, Sameth had hooked up with someone else and so Val kept quiet about it.

Jess: Nope, though it could be fun.

Andrea: Nope and she's about to get involved with her canon OTP.

Quin: Young Quin, nope but could be fun. Old Quin is married.

Anton: Has a canon OTP that happens pretty soon. Still, I can't help but wonder if he's so nervous with Sunshine for reasons.

Hank: Nope and Raven is the only person I can see him with for the foreseeable future.

Thalia: William! And I so loved those two together. They met when William got shot with Cupid's love gun (that sounds so bad). After he recovered from the gun's affect, he took her out riding to make up for the awkward and things progressed from there. Then canon happened and they had to break up. And it was sort of planned in that Fi thought William gettign hit by Cupid's bullet would be a lark and I decided to tag in Thalia mistaking WIlliam for Percy for the crack.

[not_my_sandbox]

Amascut... I very highly doubt she is going to find anyone here or in canon before she is voted off the island, in a manner of speaking.

Fairy Fixit is open to it, but she has a size problem. And a species problem. I know there is an applicable kink with tons of material I can pull from out there, but no. NO nono no no. Things can happen, though. Platonic things and silly infatuation things.

[bjornwilde]

Too bad I don't play Jenks anymore. ; p

[a1enzo]

Enzo and Dani, of course. They met in the course of normal greeting when Dani first entered, helped by the fact that Enzo already knew Danny, and their friendship grew when they were stuck under a table together during a brawl caused by her parents. As far as I can recall (I do not guarantee this is accurate), we didn't plan it at first, but once they were friends, the conclusion that awwwww, they are total OTP came pretty quickly, and their actual relationship was planned thereafter. And, yes, we do have Plans. :-)

[bcgphoenix]

The only time I had a non-canonical crossover relationship happen was back when I played Mac -- she and Sam Winchester were together for a little while. And she actually got out of the relationship alive! WONDERS NEVER CEASE.

Currently, the only two of mine who are even in a relationship are Gaeta and the Trickster, who both have an It's Complicated going on with, respectively, Hoshi and Kali.

[sdelmonte]

Herein is the ballad of Knox and Rapunzel. How they met was just a chance conversation. That included her asking him to give her a haircut. Since her hair needs contact trims. It was a simple act, but she surely caught his eye, and it became clear before long the attraction was mutual. That it would blossom into more than just a one night stand was a completely unforeseen development. Rapunzel isn't around anymore - her mun got caught up in life and is sorely missed - but their relationship has endured a lot of time and a lot of Fables canon. And I still think of it as one of the game's great romances, albeit in a minor key.

For the most part, I never really plan my pups' romances. Which is how romance and love sometimes seem to be in real life. You never, ever know when your best friend is conspiring to introduce you to another friend and just see what will happen. You never know when a simple conversation is going to run three hours, when it out you've been set up in every sense of the word and when it turns out that you have met the woman you will marry. I am leaving out a lot of details, mind you, but I will never forget that friend saying "I'm going to hang out with some people. Let's see if I can get you in." Funny how life happens and sometimes you find a Batya.

[never_shall_yield]

70s!Gene - no. Well. He's married at home, but is hopelessly non-faithful. 80s!Gene - relationship with canonmate Alex Drake. Their attraction is canon, but they got thwarted from consummation at the last minute. By, er... the devil. Or one of his minions, at the least.

Bruce Banner - no, and unlikely to find anyone, because of the Hulk.

Bruce Wayne - yes, with X. Totally a bar relationship. They met the first time he came in, and while years more passed for him at home, it didn't take them long to click in bar time. He's mad for her. They are adorable.

Javert - HAHAHAHA. No. He's canonically chaste, and lives a life of isolation. I don't think he's asexual; he just likes denying himself anything he doesn't feel he deserves. This includes sex. And also food, and a lit fire in the winter. He is the definition of both self-loathing, and repression.

As for general 'planning' of these things - no, never. If I planned a relationship for one of them, it would never work. I always let everything develop naturally, otherwise it's no fun, and doesn't feel fair on the characters.

[lady_bols]

BAR FIX EVERYTHING. ~adamant~

[minkhollow]

Cata: Medic. Not only did we not plan that, but of all the characters I've apped, I saw her ending up in a relationship coming the least. But they're adorable!
...In that way where they're both terrible, terrible people.
......But they're adorable!

Sam: Canon girlfriend, one of the other people who was on the world-saving quest.

Claudia: Has had one canon relationship and one canon set-of-makeouts (with Fargo); of the two I much more strongly ship Claudia/Fargo. And when RL stops crapping on the WILD CAST THAT HAS APPEARED they should get some bar time. :D
And then there was that time she slept with Helena.

Apollo: Orpheus, in-bar. Quasi-planned and more 'sometimes they sleep together' than anything binding, but the first time was a long time coming (haha). Otherwise, though, he's an incorrigible flirt. In canon he has possibly the most kids of the pantheon.

Imp: Not in a place to look right now.

Regulus: Also not worried about it right now.

Red: Still too fragile from what happened with Peter, but as of Conversations With Dead People has his blessing to move on if the opportunity arises.

me: What Quinn said. That was completely the opposite of planned, though her driving from Indiana to western Mass just so we could watch Rent-the-film and my subsequent freakout when her road trip took a multi-day detour to DC should have been Big Fat Signs.

[misslucyjane]

Bilbo: nope. I'm open to changing that, but, er, species issues.

Merlin: nope. He had a spark with Albus when they met, but that never went anywhere. There's Arthur, but...

Lydia: currently in her in-canon relationship with Jackson. Once we get to the current season in canon, we'll see what happens.

Jack: has an in-canon lover. He's also a huge flirt, so who knows.

The Ice King: well, he wants to marry a princess. Any princess.

Cecil: has Carlos. (Though a line from the last episode makes me wonder if that's going to last, but we'll see.)

Steve: Orpheus. Totally unplanned. Orpheus basically said, "You're cute and I want you," and Steve said, "Let me think about that," and I figured it would be nothing more than a lark for both oh them. Shows what I know--a year later they're still together, and that feels like a century in RP years. (Of course, it's been about that long from Steve's perspective.)

[whatisastiles]

Ten. Year. Plan.

[aberration]

I don't think I've ever had a cross-canon/non-canon romance, exactly, in the game itself. I also play a lot of characters who are either young enough for it to be weird, or are canonically taken and I don't want to mess with it. Or, um, are Elle.

Elle... I mean, I haven't bothered trying to keep count of how many people she's flirted with or even kissed, because ... eheh. And by my count, she's had fling-sexual relationships with two people in the bar. And when one of them did try to buy her dinner first... she decided she couldn't deal, because she's the worst. It's really just not something she's found a way to accept so far. She likes flirting, and she likes physical intimacy, and has even reached a point where she can engage in these without an underlying sense of it being about intimidation or power dynamics. But romance is another ballgame. It requires emotional intimacy (which she still has understandable issues with) and, with most people, a kind of normality she's too aware of to have herself. She's just able enough to see how others are and act to also be aware of how far apart she is from it, and for it to taint any idea that she could develop something like that on her own terms. And in addition to that, her primary way of feeling affection is often selfless to the point that it's unhealthy, so. I don't know if there's anyone she could work with that way.

Asami is sort of flirtatious when she wants to be, but she'll have a canon relationship, and then, I think, will probably want a break from boys.

Katara has other things to deal with, and will have a canon relationship eventually.

Leslie is taken. Hiccup... will be? Marceline uh... has lots of relationship issues for not being in one.

Manny is a skeleton... ladieeeeeees???

[themightyspazz]

and then, I think, will probably want a break from boys.

I know that feel, sis.

[lady_mary]

Lady Mary - Nope. But at Aphrodite's party she did manage to flirt with one of the most inappropriate people in the room. XD

Carol - Nope. She's more interested in meddling in other people love lives than having one of her own at the mo.

Stiles - Haha. Nope. He awkwardly hit on Claudia the one time he came here as a teenager though.

[damncompass]

*cackles* Stiles hitting on Claud was the most hilarious thing ever. Just sayin'.

[herr_bookman]

Autor is dating Punie, a magical princess whom he laughed at for being generic--and then she demonstrated she can easily break his arm. He has written an exhaustive crush diary to try and pin down what exactly happened between then and now, when he's building weapons and she's sharing lunches.

[haole_cop]

Danny: is married to dating in love with Steve NOPE. NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS.

Emma: is sleeping with/arguing with/going on missions with Michael Westen. They are super self-destructive and I love it.

Caspian: found himself engaged, quite suddenly and without his prior knowledge, to Lady Cecily. In his prior run, he'd wooed (for lack of a better term) Ivy Walker and married Lucy Pevensie.

Wolfwood: Nope. And he'd be a terrible boyfriend. A fun one night stand, though. Ladies.

Jack: Nope. The most he's done is some heavy flirting with Kate Barlow, but Jack flirts like breathing, so.

Nathan: has not had time to meet any potential SO's, but if he did, it probably wouldn't last, because Audrey.

[luvs_yogurt]

Which reminds me... we need to do some stuff with Michael and your pups again some day. *snort* Any of them, really.

[street_sparrow]

None of mine have ever had a non-canon thing with anyone in Milliways, yet.

Giovanni: At the moment is painfully shy and pining for the girl across the canal. Eventually in canon he marries her, but (spoilers) by that time he's taken over Casanova's life so the real Casanova can run off with Giovanni's twin sister and be an actor. Giovanni and Victoria are both rampantly unfaithful, both know it, and have a happy marriage on that basis. When he gets to there in canon, he will very gallantly hit on anything in skirts.

Sharpe: A widower with two young children. Certainly wouldn't be opposed to anything, either casual or serious.

Harry Callahan: Widowed with two teenage daughters. Would probably be wanting things more on the serious (or platonic dating) side.

Nancy: Single mother of a six-year-old boy. My personal headcanon is Jamie's father fully intended to marry her, but then got called up and killed, and possibly never knew she was pregnant. She would be very cautious about getting involved with anyone.

Jonathan: Single and looking.

Michael: Married. Very, very married.

Roshaun: Jumps about between being a child and a teenager, and I ship him too hard with Dairine to want anything with anyone else.

Norrington: Being a dead man crewing the ship of the dead would probably preclude anything serious. But we'd be willing to try.

Gavroche: Is just starting to think about girls properly. And is just beginning a flirtation with Steph, so we'll see where that goes.

[jothra]

Coyote sleeps with all your crossovers!! Significant relationships included Antigone and Raguel, who both ended up knowing about each other and being okay with it. Luckily. There were also short flings with many others, including Puck. She macks on Nita Callahan pretty hard, too.

Gen covered Duo and River pretty well. He is too busy to chase anyone else at the moment. A while back, after he and his from-same-canon boyfriend broke up, he had a rebound fling with Lilly Kane. No one else knows about this, which I continue to find hilarious.

Donatello is a turtle. He plans to remain that way. He also identifies somewhere on the ace spectrum, so that's just not happening no matter how you look at it.

Ambriel's biology (or lack thereof) doesn't match up with anyone else. Also, this angel just isn't wired the right way for romance. Deep friendships, definitely.

My personal favorite cross-canon relationship was Elda (the griffin) and Brooklyn (the gargoyle), back in the LJ days. That was completely unplanned, but they were so adorable it just couldn't be helped.

[mnt_mike]

Yeah, I can see that about Don. Which makes the New Toon Version's crush on April just...weird. Really weird.

Very really truly weird.

[gavin62truck]

I should answer this one. Tommy met Kate Barlow the day after Cubefall last year, at the bar, like you do, and of course he flirted with her, like he does. Then a little later she taught him how to ride a horse, and during the course of that day FEELINGS HAPPENED, and then Tommy tried to kiss her, it went horribly wrong, and then MOAR FEELINGS HAPPENED. Absolutely nothing was planned. I had always thought it was a bad idea for Tommy to get into a Milliways relationship like this because of his canon (he's still married) and his basic nature (he's prone to sleeping around, he can't commit, and also he's an asshole), but sometimes you have to let your pups do what they want. So it's been more than a year now full of ups and downs, and Tommy still hasn't let go.

[mnr_splinter]

This guy here has NO IDEA what you're talking about.
*cough*

Sallie and Splinter met through Mike. Something that was bound to happen when one shares a mental link with another's one's youngest son. It was not a planned relationship, though it was one totally joked about before it actually happened. There's very little planned, and we're just kind of following where it goes.

Raph and Abigail was something I planned, and then like many of my plans, it took on a life of its own. More so when Heater started playing her.
Heater = <3.

We have a bit of a plan for them, but mostly they're just kind of ridiculously in love.

The Loompas have crushed, and crushed hard. The Little Guy once had an adorable affection for Sunnie Baudelaire, and Braids is kind of sweet on River Tam.

Ida loves no one.
Except maybe Zed of the MIB, who she wouldn't kick out of bed for eating crackers. (Zed, she has 385 different vibrate settings. Call her!)

Aang is kind of so wrapped up in his lurve for Katara that it would take a special lady to shift his gaze elsewhere.

Bumi if fond of this saying involving "ports" and "storms."

[jothra]

Zed, for the sake of everyone's sanity, DO NOT CALL HER.

[the_lioness]

Elizabeth is very happily married to Will Turner. It's Will, it has always been Will -- there was never any attraction to Jack, on her honor as a pirate.

Thayet is married to Jonathan. Any other relationship would be a right royal scandal. Also, she loves him madly.

Doctor Evil had a thing for Fleur. Anything else makes my brain hurt.

Grace has had many Milliways hook-ups (Tommy being the one that got to her the most, purely on a 'I can relate to you' level), but the nearest she will ever get to an actual relationship is with her partner, Ham. It's sort of a necessary character flaw.

Alanna is the one I like to play around with most. She is digging her interactions with Mac, mostly because he reminds her of George. I think she could develop a healthy crush on Steve Rogers... mostly because he reminds her of Jon. Er.

Lj!Alanna... Heh. Well, she married the Antichrist. Meanwhile her twin had a "relationship" with Lucifer. Family dinners were AWESOME. Or something. XD

Anyway, Alanna met Adam early on and they didn't get along AT ALL. There was the time she gave him stable duty for threatening Galahad in the Bar, and of course the time he had his tongue down someone's throat while Lucifer was torturing Alanna right in front of him. So, yeah, rocky start. Then they got to be friends, slept together by mistake, "dated" other people in denial, etc. until Captain Jack stole Alanna away (again) and things managed to work out -- much to Thom's eternal chagrin. Next thing I knew they had triplets. :D?


Man, that was fun.

This time around, who knows? I wish I had a George, because I do love canonical Alanna/George.

As for me, I am happily dating a former (current, if we ever manage to bring Archer and Lana in) Milli-player. He is my best friend. It's pretty amazing. :DDD

[inlovewithwords]

Do not tempt me to reread Song of the Lioness.

edit: oh yeah, also, I partly blame you for the below response. Just so you know.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry's a childlet. No.

Lois: I did actually want to take time taking her through Smallville, see if a non-canon Milliways 'ship popped up, probably as temporary but excellent for her growth (and hopefully replacing goddamn Grant Gabriel, who sucked). Nothing really happened, and as I am an advocate of 'canon unless organic growth intervenes,' this means there is a short window of my playing Smallville!Lois before that just closes. I honestly don't know what to do with her right now, as vague ideas got derailed. I'm working on it.

Tavi is very canonically taken and you will die if you try to interfere. No. Really. And sadly, it is plot relevant, and from 15 on he's incapable of conceiving of liking anyone but Kitai. Dorp. Both RP and long conversations suggest if Tavi weren't magnetized to Kitai, he'd have a serious weakness for adorable, snarky, badass, combative redheads who could kick his ass if they really wanted to. Manipulativeness and/or identity concealing purely optional. I have multiple datapoints on this. This may have been passed onto his son, with slight variant on exactly what Des likes personality wise. Uh.

Other than that, of the three potential characters waiting to ambush me, one is probably asexual and the other two have friendships in canon which I heavily push toward outright romantic relationship.

[calls_him_sam]

Oh, do go on.

[cameoflage]

I have neither a pup with a significant other nor a SO of my own. I have some thoughts on the topic, though: When I'm arranging a romance for my characters I have to consciously switch tracks from platonic to romantic at some point. It's also usually my characters being pursued rather than doing the pursuing; the main exception is when a ship takes my fancy and I decide to direct the character I control to go for it.

Writing romance doesn't come naturally to me at all (I assume this has a lot to do with me being aromantic asexual), but I enjoy shipping.

I don't plan it out much beyond consciously directing my character to take a romantic interest in the other character, though, I kinda go with the flow in every other respect.

[ceitfianna]

Late to this but I love this question as I play pups that really like getting into relationships.

Will has had three in bar relationships; Kara Zor El, Molly Carpenter and Kate Bishop and is now single and enjoying flirting. None of them have been planned and I love when stuff just happens.

Charles is in a relationship with Iris, which I love but he also has confusing feelings for Erik. In canon, he flirts and has something with Moira McTaggert but I think its light on his side, because once Erik appears, their interactions change. I have no idea what's going to happen with either of his relationships. He also is a bit of a flirt but not as much as Moist or Demeter.

Sameth had a relationship with Kait but then canons happened and now he's missing her but giving her space. At one point, Ashie and I had planned out that she would go to his world after canon, but that's paused for now. We threaded them in a sandbox and they clicked in a fascinating way so we wanted to see what happened in Bar and again they clicked.

Moist flirts with everyone because he loves to flirt. He had a relationship with Urquhart that ended when Urquhart wasn't respecting some of Moist's boundaries and now he's in a fun, light thing with Joshua. I've lost track of all the people he's slept with and kissed.

William was Thalia's boyfriend until canon and I love how they just got each other. At the moment, he's not looking for anyone but I think he should be set up or do something since Katya teased him about setting him up.

Demeter is in a something with Malcolm Crowe, its very open and fun. She also flirts a lot because that's how she works.

Jane recently had her heart broken in canon by Tom Lefroy and he's her one and only love. I'm going to try and fix canon, well canon/life for her because I love them so much.

Tumnus and romantic relationships make my head hurt so not thinking about them.

The Pirate King is another major flirt and he had a sort of thing with Leela from Futurama for a while.