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[bjornwilde]

So there is someone your character likes. How do they go about seeing if the other party is interested? Pickup line? A bought drink or food item? A casual invitation to some event with the hope it could turn into more?

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[bjornwilde]

Jess, if we go with straight canon, will act interested and hope the other party comes to her. If she is nervous enough, her pheromones may come into play. See her and Hawkeye's courtship.

Hank just hopes the other party will show an interest, unless he thinks he's been drinking and thus has lowered inhibitions.

I'm not sure about Quin. He's married now and when he fell in love with his wife, he was busy doing Jedi things and didn't even notice until it was too late.

Ethan will be direct. Offering drinks or a free meal with a side order of witty banter.

Andrea will run the other way, while looking back longingly. It's true.

Sam, I think, is the only one of mine who would use one liners. They would be respectful of course.

Mulan does not romance. Neither does Brimstone.

[last_kallig]

"...didn't even notice until it was too late." Oh, Quin. XD. I would like to read/see that story, one of these days.

[lazy_but_loyal]

If Pam is interested in you, she will tell you exactly what she's going to do to you. You don't really have a choice.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

Leering, innuendo, and self-deprecation.

[never_shall_yield]

*cacklesnort*

Gene - leers a bit, insults her, buys her a drink, wait for her to notice his magnificence. (A surprising number do.)

Bruce Wayne - is Bruce Wayne

Bruce Banner - by being awkwardly cute. I suspect his relationship with Betty started over mutual science interests, and he was a lot more confident back then. These days, the question is moot.

Robin - by being charming as fuck, and also making it clear that he can do quite well without you, thanks. Peasant girls, he doesn't really have to make an effort for. Women like Marion? Treat her as an equal, to the point of not being in the least bit chivalrous, make her ask if she needs help and then give it graciously (but with a knowing smirk), but also make it known that he's there and will wait at least a while for her to get over herself and realise what's in front of her. And when she does, continue to be charming as fuck.

Courfeyrac - will be outrageously cute, grin a lot, make jokes and generally be loud to gain attention. Buy drinks, laugh her into bed.

Javert & Valjean - AHAHAHAHA. I have very little idea, because they have little idea. Both are utterly clueless. Watch this space for the most awkward courtship in romantic history. (Saving each other's lives seems to be the current chosen route.)

[varadia]

Lies.

When Bruce Wayne is interested in a lady he flirts with her awkwardly while playing baseball and then even more awkwardly asks her on a date.

[never_shall_yield]

That's only if you're X. With everyone else he is SUPER COOL AND SUAVE OK!?

[varadia]

*eyes canon*

If you say so!

*koff*

[onceaviking]

Eric has several different tactics.
He can be charming, persistently lewd, mysterious, threatening, menacing, a misunderstood monster, a suave vampire, a well-bred gentleman, memory less and adorkable, any combination.

The line, "I used to be a Viking" is surprisingly useful as well.

[lazy_but_loyal]

Or, you know, you could rip the throat out of a potential rapist in front of her and lick the blood off your fingers. That worked once.

[onceaviking]

It takes a special kind of woman for that to work.
You don't come across them often.

[aberration]

Asami asks the person out, unless there's some reason not to (e.g., not a great time emotionally or because of some other issue or etc.). As prone as she is to strategies, this is one case where she doesn't think it has to be more complicated than 'let's go do an activity.'

Katara is not ready to be as forward as Asami is, she would probably take as many opportunities as she could to spend time with the other person, and see if something more happens.

Elle it depends on the word "likes." If it's just physical attraction, she will be super flirtatious and erm... not always great at personal space-y, and see what happens. If it's emotional attraction, she will probably throw things and be annoyed. She's sort of gotten better about the latter, though.

Will apparently asks them to come over to his house in the woods to look for non-existent coyotes, because he's an idiot. And still, I want to point out, not the worst in his canon when it comes to this.

[nita_callahan]

Canonically, Nita either pours beer on you or spends nine years thinking of you as a close friend before being startled into admitting that she likes you likes you.

Millicanonicaly, Nita just goes with the latter strategy.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ahahahaha oh God Ellen was so bad at this. So bad.

Before even trying to find out if the other party was interested, she went to the senior Scribe who kept the Brotherhood archives to find out whether it would constitute fraternization under military law so that she didn't do anything that would get her in trouble. And then she went to go and talk to Jerald because she could not conceive of any reasonable thing to do except ask directly if he were interested, despite having seen other people conduct romances and having read about that kind of thing- fortunately he was in the process of designing a sword to try and impress her because he was almost as bad at these things as her, but still.

(Yes, she married the first guy she took an interest in. When you live in a world where the local fatality rate is such that 4.1 children have to be born to each adult woman in order to simply maintain the population at a stable level, and you are taught from childhood that procreation is a civic duty, and you're in a high-mortality military position, you can't always afford to be picky.)

[all_four_wan]

Sherral, in all likelihood, attempts to pretend nothing is happening. He fails. Badly. There is a lot of blushing. He is even more of an awkward turtle than he usually is. People are alarmed. Everyone under his command also pretends that nothing is happening, because it is his right under Archadian military regulation to headbutt them for disciplinary reasons.

Yugo loudly makes clicking noises while pointing at them. He flirts, but in a way that is both bizarrely over-the-top and totally nonchalant. He gives flowers, but it's confusing because he does that to people he isn't interested in, too. People continue to be alarmed. Monsters are confused and upset by the torrent of mixed signals, and for the duration of the courtship that particular part of Japan experiences an unprecedented peace.

Wan is ridiculous and awkward and starts laughing too much at the other person's jokes and comes up with transparent excuses for them to spend time together. He inquires after how to court them, but everybody he asks isn't human. One of them invariably seems more like they know what they are talking about than the others, and the object of his affections ends up being given a bouquet of mushrooms or something equally strange. People are alarmed. Sadness happens. Eventually someone else knocks some sense into him.

[luvs_yogurt]

Oh man... my pups...

Michael - Is fairly forward, but also pretty good at making it clear that his work comes first and he's not really good at that whole "relationship" thing. Of course, on the rare occasion he's made the leap to actual flirting it's almost kind of sweet, and more or less unnoticeable - even more so if it's a guy he may or may not potentially be interested in. He's also a big fan of the "it just kind of happened" experience.

Gus - Is hopeless. Utterly, horribly hopeless. BAD BAD nerdy pickup lines (canon example: "You hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right?") and attempting to be smooth and failing miserably. It's no shocker he can't really get a girlfriend for more than an episode or so and they're usually involved in a case.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine: Will bluntly ask you if you want to go out back and bang. This is how she operates. Sam was only subject to the slow seduction because she wasn't in a good frame of mind.

Dixie: Will pun and wordplay you to death.

Juliet: Tends to let the guy make the first move? Which is unsuual for her personality.

Eponine: Pine wildly and silently for the person in the background until she finally mentally collapses and hatches a plot involving murder via revolution.

Pinkie Pie: Will smother you in her love. SMOOOTHER.