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Ibani and Quinlan are my current odd couple. An ex-Jedi and a Sith becoming friends? What's next cat and dogs?!?

I loved Thalia Grace and William Evans, even if they didn't get much time together.

Ult. Ben Grimm and Ellen were an interesting pair too, though it was likely more on Ben's part. Big huge tough guy who could shrug off a 40 story fall looking up to a tiny woman who was all too squishy.

Seconding the odd couple thing re Ibani and Quinlan. Definitely unexpected, and it will give Ibani a bit more pause/guilt when she has to deal with Jedi in her canon.

Sam Stewart and Emcee. What. Just. How did this happen, and why is it so awesome? The only thing they have in common on the surface is their respective governments are in the same war... on opposite sides. But dear lord I love their friendship so.

Raven and Ace, who somehow became self-adopted siblings - Raven, who's basically a god, and Ace, who travels with someone who ruins the day of people who call themselves gods, and who has no respect for things greater than her other than the person she travels with. Yeah, that should work, whut? But it does.

I had no idea what was going to happen when Emcee first flounced in on Sam's EP, but I'm glad he did.

I'm not really sure which was more unexpected, Adrian Shephard and the Alternian trolls or Adrian Shephard and Tsu'tey. I don't think I'd have even thought of making contact between Shep and the trolls if John hadn't sent Karkat over that first time; as for Tsu'tey, that was not only a case of 'didn't expect' but also 'almost completely contrary to what I would have imagined based on canon'. Both pretty awesome, though.

(And one of these days I have to get Shephard the chance to watch a troll John Cusack movie. Possibly their equivalent of Better Off Dead, which I am having some trouble titling in an appropriately elaborately Alternian manner.)

Eric doesn't have friends. He doesn't care for humans. They break too easily, they don't keep well, they're weak. Totally doesn't care for humans. At all. Ever.

(Most surprising thing that is totally "not a friendship or anything even resembling that, shut up" is Jemma. Or perhaps Athelstan. He likes it when he gets to talk about his other life sometimes. Apparently. Jay and Emcee, although unclassified, make a little more sense. Not that they are his friends. Or anything one might describe with emotionally loaded terms. Don't be absurd).

Elrond and Clementine was a surprise. Kate Barlow too. And Tommy, even if they are perhaps not quite close enough to be called friends. And Jemma. And people in general.
In conclusion, I have been pleasantly surprised regarding Elrond's ability to form friendships.

Such denial.

At all. Ever.

*glares*

He's mine, Pam

PFFFFT.

That was a question of establishing rights of use in keeping with time honored vampire rules,

Totally was.

(This cracks me up so hard)

...you know, there is a visit to the festivities at Uppsala in Athelstan's future, and he's already letting Dorian Gray come along...

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.... Eric would not mind going. Not for the religious bullshit but it was a great place to - ahem - meet people.

This can be arranged!

Road trip!

(With Eric/Skarsgard in the green. Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Such a doofus

cracks up

Emcee can come too, if he can be persuaded to dress to fit in.

oh my god you guys no

And Gredya! More the merrier! cackling

Gah.

"This party could use a grumpy stressed-out werewolf with limited social skills," said pretty much no one ever.

You mean Gredya wouldn't enjoy a drugged-out Viking orgy? I never would have guessed.

It's all fun and games until someone undergoes a gruesome transformation and starts tearing out people's throats.

No, no, that's when the fun begins.
If you substitute fangs for transformation and allows for the fact that fun will only be experienced by one of the party present.

Okay so that's my new catchphrase, just so you know. /dying

:D!

I still want to have Noriko meet Elrond one day, just so she can be like 'wow, dude, the hair' at him, and of course crack awful dirty jokes.

And she will have a post up in the bar like, today or tomorrow (thursday US or friday).

Elrond could be around for that. Most definitely,

Here she is!

I LOVE Elrond and Clementine's relationship (and she still thinks it's massively cool that she has a quasi father figure in an elf).

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Lady Mary... doesn't have friends. But she finds Mike strange and amusing, which was definitely unexpected. Thayet is probably her closet thing to a friend? They have some similar background as aristocrats, but otherwise their canons are completely unrelated.

Stiles and Grace XD Heather's the one responsible for thinking "Wouldn't it be fun if I threw my weirdo NSFW lady cop at your unsuspecting ADHD child?" And it worked.

Carol's friendships are thus far mostly of the completely predictable "You like being a badass? No way, I like being a badass!" sort.

I love this question as these odd friendships and relationships are one of the reasons I love Milliways. So I'm going to list the first ones I think of but this could be such a long list.

Dean and Jane Austen, its been a while since they threaded but they got along in a wonderful way.

Thalia and William are one of my favorites and I still love how they met, he thought he was Percy Jackson due to IMDB flu, then apologized. And along the way they realized they understood each other. His friendship with Katya is strange and wonderful and how he and Autor get along, they bond over books. Its simple but neither of them are good at having simple interactions so its nice.

Charles and the Emcee, I didn't expect them to get along as well as they did and they were both very honest.

Will and Sariel, their friendship is I think one of the quickest and truest of the various Milliways' friendships I've rped.

Demeter and Malcolm, the way they simply get each other.

Moist and Natasha, it makes sense that they would click but how well they did surprised me. Moist and Claudia, I love their friendship, but it shouldn't have lasted as long as it has.

That's all I can think of for now.

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Absolutely Will and Sariel! They're so vastly different, as are their worlds, and yet they click so wonderfully well.

Sariel and Yrael are a pretty unexpected friendship too, considering. She'd very much be the Charter sort, if she were from that particular world. The pair of them are marvelous together, though.

Sariel and either of the Leelas! XD If for very different reasons.

I neeeeed to get the frak back in the bar.

Yes, you're missed and I'm trying out a new character too over in the sandboxes. I love Will and Sariel, they have so many layers going on in them.

I was not expecting Bossuet to get along so well with Adrian Shephard, but there you go! Nothing like an awkward encounter with video-game monsters to start a friendship.

...and i also want Father Harman's potential army of vampire-hunting werewolves to happen

I love the way Gredya is getting on with both Harman and Hannibal.

Ibani and Garyn Belvedares (The Nerevarine from Morrowind) was definitely unexpected! On the surface they have very little in common, but underneath....

What Alex said, re: Grace and Stiles.

My biggest surprise has always been Raph and Alanna's friendship. They are cantankerous BFFs. Raph even wears tights now. It is awesome.

Tight tights?

Clementine: Has the best and most unusual cr, I swear. Her trolly/sisterly relationship with Enzo; the mildly antagonistic one she has with Autor; her daughterly relationship with Elrond are all tops.

Dixie: I'd say William. He's like the little brother she never had, which isn't a situation she thought she'd be in again - reminds her of the convent.

Juliet: Nancy and Sunshine, both of whom are awesome, neither of whom are the sorts of people she'd be intimate friends with without Milliways.

Pinkie Pie: LESLIE and Tommy Gavin!

Eponine: Sadly have to plead the fifth, since she hasn't met many people.