DE: Exciting and new

[bjornwilde]

 Since tomorrow is that infamous day in America, let's talk romance and love today. How does your character feel about it? Do they have a special someone? Are they comfortable with the present relationship status? What do they look for in a partner? Are they even looking? What is their orientation? Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...

Or, if the above holds no interest for you, and since it is Friday the 13th, are they superstitious? Do they believe in bad luck and such?

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[bjornwilde]

Tybalt is bisexual by canon and head canon. He is hesitant to enter into relationship as he has been hurt badly before. In fact, he doesn't show any interest until he realized he's fallen in love. He did used to be much freer in his affections but that was a long time ago.

Sam Wilson is either bisexual or pansexual, imho and fan opinion, and I support this by watching how often Sam gazed fondly at both Natasha and Steve in Cap2. I don't think he is looking for any relationship right now however. He is very committed once he is in a relationship.

Quinlan is hetero and is in a very committed marriage. They even have a couple of kids and he had plans to leave the Jedi Order for her before Order 66 happened.

Jessica Drew is bisexual and her relationship status is complicated. She still has a lot of feelings for her world's Clint Barton, but she can't take him as he presently is. She is most definitely not looking. I know in canon she has not had relationship with a woman, so the bi thing is all in my head.

Selina Kyle is a kid and lives on the streets. Relationships are not a thing for her, though she shows a hell of a lot of interest in a certain Billionaire boy. I think her relationship status is less about interest and more about not trusting the kids she meets on the street.

Hank is hetero and madly infatuated with Raven. This does develop into a true love but things get complicated.

Ethan Chandler confirmed bisexual thanks to canon. Not looking for anything serious once he meets Brona.

Asajj Ventress is likely aromantic or demisexual, since she flirts a lot with Obi-Wan. All this aside, I do want to give the lady here some fun times. I have hopes of exploring the more passionate side of the Dark Side, rather than just the aggressive side as we always see in the films and such.

Ahsoka Tano is pansexual. Arguments can be made for her being attracted to a male and a female at different times through out the Clone Wars and since neither were her species, I am going with pansexual. She has more things to worry about than romance at the moment and likely is still enough of a jedi to not feel comfortable with a relationship.

(Wait, when did I end up with so many bisexual boys?)

[arkadia]

I would log out of PFSB potentiapup's account, but I'm - I'm very lazy?

Sherral is the easiest one to answer this for, of mine. He's bisexual, although generally he hasn't had much occasion for romantic entanglement, being an emotionally terrible workaholic and so on. He currently has a thing of sorts with Jay, although it's a bit difficult to define precisely what said thing is, and that's not helped along by the fact that Sherral absolutely hates talking about his emotions.

Yugo is either bi or pan, and generally a cheerful advocate of casual hook-ups, although he's less flirty than he is extremely enthusiastic. He probably hasn't had many girlfriends or boyfriends, though: He's from a Yakuza family, and that'll drive any romantic prospects off. Those partners he had may have realised sooner or later that Yugo is kind of emotionally distant.

[arkadia]

Oh, replying to add that while Yugo hasn't had many girlfriends or boyfriends, Phoenix does have probably-unrequited romantic interest in one of the other Greater Phantoms, Dragon, whose host is a footballer.

[i_am_your_host]

I once heard Joel Grey describe the Master of Ceremonies as "everysexual." Which is what I'm going with ;) There really is no limit to the kind of person he can be attracted to.

He's not entirely against the concept of falling in love or being in love, it's just that it's not for him. He's been there, done that, and he'd rather not go down that way again if he can help it. Being as passionate as he is, he can fall really hard for someone, which is why he doesn't want to. So no, he's not looking, and he's much more suited to having multiple partners to whom he has a casual or limited commitment.

[halfemptyglasses]

ahahahahahaha Mirai doesn't even know what time of year it is and Autor's told her he likes her that way. My own headcanon is that she's demisexual and demi- or quoiromantic. As a result, she has little to no idea what to do about Autor. She does have an in-canon significant other by the end of the anime, sort of, but I have Certain Problems with the relationship in question.

Lohengrin is prooooooobably not completely straight but prefers to pass as such rather than dwell on it. Because the Prince would just think it's Weird if he liked him That Way. They are, to the Knight, Better As Friends. And he certainly hasn't forgotten about his late wife. Even if Princess Tutu isn't as bad as he thought.

Lucas is ace in my book. Possibly some flavor of romantic, but it would likely fall under demi- or grayromantic at its strongest. He knows what romantic looks like and could reasonably imitate it if asked, but he might not feel the same force behind it that others do. He's more about other kinds of love.

[annalalaith]

Tegid is heterosexual, just not in a relationahip. He's got way too much to run atm to add a relationship to it.

Daniel is also heterosexual, he's still not really over his wife, I don't ever see him being fully over her. Aside from that he might find another person, wventually.

Valla, she's married. And strangle enough she does care for the guy.

Tasselhoff is a Kender. I don't really know, I have always just played him asexual, cause Kender are strande.

Naruto is heterosexual and still has a huge crush on Sakura.

I have had a bisexual vampire turned asexual Wraith. I mean when his skin was burned off and blue there was nothing there! Also, I have had Kai... enough said.

[calmhrtprevails]

Gordon had very little interest in romance and the like for most of his life, at least partly because his social skills in general were not great. He did manage to snag a girlfriend or two in college, but neither of them lasted all that long, so he more or less gave up on pursuing that kind of thing after Innsbruck post-doc work. The whole thing with Alyx sort of developed as a surprise, really.

Shephard knows what romance is and he knows that women in general are fonder of it than him. This is not to say that he hasn't had girlfriends or that he hasn't put effort into pursuing or pleasing them. It's more that he considers most of the usual stuff presented as 'romantic' to be stupid arbitrary fluff. He vastly prefers talking and shared activities, and his idea of a grand romantic gesture is 'remember how I dropped off the radar for the better part of a month back in January? It's because that's the best time of year to trap the animals I needed to make you the best possible fur coat'.

Edward Kenway prefers using his rakish personality and making grand gestures; it worked on Catherine, his wife. He is not really very good at the whole 'great, you landed her, now you owe it to her to keep her happy with small things, not just big ones' thing. Then again he is not really very good at keeping up relationships with other people he doesn't see on a daily basis either. It takes him most of canon to realize how screwed up his approach to people is.

Stacker Pentecost has OTHER THINGS TO DO.

El Santo tends to have women throwing themselves at him because he's El Santo. Not kidding, it's canon. Nevertheless, if he's interested in a proper relationship instead of a brief fling he is largely of the Gomez Addams school of thought; woo her, pursue her, make her feel like she's the most exquisite creature in the world. And back off if she prefers another man. (I do not think there are many women in his canon who just want to be left alone, unless they are perhaps nuns, and nuns are off limits from the start anyway.)

Varric cheerfully flirts with anything that speaks and isn't a spirit or a Qunari. And I'm pretty sure he'd flirt with a Qunari if he thought he could get away with it, but those guys have no sense of humor. Romance is largely something you do for fun rather than anything serious, because the last time he went for anything serious it just did not work out well, so why do that again.

Fawkes has read a great deal about romance in what amounts to the 2077 computerized version of the encyclopedia. He is not interested in it himself. He's been free of his cell for two, maybe three years now, tops, so he's still working on the whole concept of more than one friend. As far as sex goes, Capital Wasteland supermutants lose all external sexual characteristics as a result of their FEV infection, including any discernible genitalia. (There's a computer terminal in the game that contains autopsy information. I do not suggest you look for it.) I don't think Fawkes has a sex drive and I doubt other Capital Wasteland mutants do either. West Coast supermutants are a different story, but that was a different strain of FEV.

Ellen had, and still has, about as much romantic awareness and interest as Ray Stantz had psychic abilities. Probably the most romantic thing she's ever done for anybody was kill the deathclaw that was about to attack Scribe Cancio with a single Gauss rifle shot to the head. (Not that his idea of romance was exactly conventional, either, since his courtship gift was a working replica of the shocksword of General Jingwei, the Demon of Anchorage.) She proposed to him with "I stink at things between a man and a woman, but I'm reasonably good at practicality. I would prefer to do the responsible adult thing and get married before something out in the Wasteland kills me. Have I completely ruined the possibility yet, or is that an option you might be interested in?".

On the purely sexual front, if the concept existed in her time, it would be safe to identify Ellen as asexual; she herself would not think to do so and would not even consider that question part of her identity. Sex is a thing some people want and enjoy. Reproduction is a civic duty. Responsible adults get married and raise two or more children within the limits of their available resources. Whether sex or romance is involved in that, or visits to a doctor with a modified syringe and a bank of test tubes in the freezer, doesn't particularly make a difference. Nevertheless, she does her best to take an interest in it for Jerald's sake, and I think he appreciates that.

[bcgphoenix]

Gaeta is about a five on the Kinsey scale: predominantly attracted to men, occasionally attracted to women if the situation's right. My headcanon is that he only had the barest handful of partners before he met Louis -- a few boyfriends during his teen years, maybe one girlfriend, one or two one-night stands with either gender that he remains faintly embarrassed about to this day, but he was so focused on school and the Fleet that nothing stuck for too long. (In Millicanon, after a lot of debate, I got rid of his brief relationship with an Eight while on New Caprica; I found myself between the rock of bisexual erasure and the hard place of "the way they're portraying the Eight here is kind of gross and misogynist." I still don't know if I made the right call.)

And then he met Louis, was COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS to Louis' crush on him for like three or four months, but finally clued in and has been with him ever since. There have been a lllllot of bumps on that particular road, but he's madly in love with the guy and in it for the long haul. Their relationship is one of the few stable points he's had since the destruction of the Colonies; you don't give up on something like that.

Bolin is pretty solidly hetero and a gigantic flirt, but whenever he actually ends up in a relationship, he's kind of like the dog who finally caught its own tail: "Okay...what do I do now?" He falls for women very hard and very easily, but often tends to rebound out of those crushes/relationships just as easily. Basically, he's a gigantic sixteen-year-old dork about that kind of stuff.

Olivia is also reasonably hetero, and also a bit like Gaeta in that she's so focused on her work that she doesn't have a lot of time for relationships. Her two most recent ones ended in disaster (one betrayed the FBI, the other slept with her doppelganger for weeks without realizing it wasn't her), so right now she's kind of like, "fuck it, I WILL MAKE MY OWN FUN, NO BOYS ALLOWED." That could change, but it'll be a slow process.

[starrydome]

Elrond loves his wife, Celebrian. They have been apart for centuries now and he still misses her with every breath he takes.

It took him forever to talk to her, let alone woe her.
Then again, when your future MIl is Galadriel, getting a little anxious is probably to be expected.

[gondolin_noble]

"Elrond, did you at least say hello this time, or did you just sit in the corner making sad eyes at her all evening again? Honestly, one of these days I'm going to tie you up in a sack and leave you at her front door with a note pinned to it explaining that I'm just returning some lost property."
~Glorfindel, who had to endure watching the longest courtship of ever.

[varadia]

X is pretty much demisexual and if it exists, demiromantic, and solidly bi. If someone she likes a lot expresses that particular interest clearly and bluntly, she will think about it and make a decision on whether or not to try to engage with that for dating purposes. She's also a serial monogamist, so with Bruce Wayne in the picture everyone else is out. She doesn't like movie romance stuff, or the classical idea of how romance ought to work. Rom-coms are right out.

She's . . . she likes closeness expressed as understanding, where you do nice things for each other that you know each other will like, and it doesn't have to be dramatic or huge, though it can be if circumstances call for it. She likes cohabitating, and for her hand-holding (and anything involving hands) is much more romantic and exciting than kissing. Not that she doesn't like kissing etc, but hands and hand-holding are the first ways she learned of expressing affection, so it means a lot.

Raven has no biology, and the only romance he needs in his life is his thing with Coyote. Insofar as that is romance, which . . . well. It's weird.

Dean Winchester is terrible at romance and relationships. Just. Terrible. He has no models to base his understanding of it on, and he's so fundamentally damaged by his life that without a significant amount of unpacking work he has neither time nor inclination for . . . . one night stands with willing and enthusiastic people it is! (And by people I mean ladies.)

Wonder Woman is bi, and has a preference for heroic people, with an emphasis on those who are heroic by getting out there and fighting the good fight every day, less emphasis on YAY SUPERHEROES. She likes romance, both the pop cultural version she's learned recently-ish, as well as the romance described by some of the unique customs of the Amazons. So.

Nynaeve is a romantic at heart, covered up by blustery prickly hedgehog temper. She named her horse Loversknot, for the Creator's sake. Yeah.

Ysalwen Surana recognizes Zevran's form of romance, where there's a lot of playful exaggeration and dramatics most of the time, with the quiet moments also existing but with a bit of humor in those as well. We are all self-deprecating here. She has not really explored her sexuality overmuch, because she was super-busy, then distracting herself with sleeping with Zevran, then feelings happened and after that she has so much affection and love for him and for their weird partnership that she has no need to look any more into it. I'm not sure if she's pan or not, from a meta-perspective.

Michael the Archangel has no need for romance. She's got work to do.

Galadan is romantic, in his way. A melodramatic romantic with a tendency toward Gothic behavior. He's getting better. These days his ideas of romance are a lot simpler, or would be, if he had them. Man, it was hard enough getting him to have friends.

[katyafeline]

Katya: So, I will ship Katya/Bear for forever, Bear being her partner in the Night Watch in Moscow, so disappointed the books didn't elaborate on this, c'mon, just a short story of Katya/Bear, would that be so hard, I know you can do messed up romance sir there's Olga/Gesar and Anton/Svetlana and totally Gesar/Zavulon that is a thing and I will stand by it. >.> I have Night Watch feels, yes. Anyway, Katya/Bear is definitely a thing but they're both such stubborn idiots they never really do anything about it other than make eyes at each other and avoid the topic until its too late. Otherwise, Katya is bi, and definitely not looking for anyone long-term, but doesn't mind a little fun now and then.

Sam: Right now, Sam doesn't have anyone (the cute not!really!Italian!but!evidently!Italian!enough boy hasn't written back for months, she tries not to think about it), though she keeps running in to her boss's son, and even though he's a tiny bit of a jackass (and RAF, double whammy of bad news bears there) he's kind of adorable. She is canonically hetero. Mostly she's looking for someone who won't expect her to be the vicar's daughter, and won't expect her to be the quiet homekeeping type after the war is over.

Oswin: Is from the FUTURE which is impressive in DW-verse because somehow all times are now and social norms don't change shockingly much over the centuries actually that's kind of weird. Anyway. She's from the FUTURE and... well. Think Jack Harkness if he was tiny and female. She'll flirt with anything sentient, srs. And she thinks anyone who has a problem with that is hilarious and kinda weird.

Clara: Is, as far as I can tell, hetero, and SPOILERS.
She is most assuredly 100% IN LOVE WITH DANNY PINK. And she's really really not okay without him, seriously, the last non-Christmas episode messed her up but good. And dear lord Moffet bring back Pink you bring him back right now you horrible man and while you're at it bring back Osgood too, that was effing cold.

Jemma: Mostly she's in love with Science but I feel pretty safe in asserting that Jemma is canonically bi (just look at her face when Skye comes on board the bus, seriously, and she has such a crush on Bobbi Morse it's ridiculous). She's not really looking for anything super serious at the moment, mostly because she has Things To Do.

Glorfindel: Isn't saying anything at all, he's a brat.

William: Isn't really sure what to do with a woman, other than be super adorably awkward at one because he's kinda clueless and figures there's RULES. He's actually just fine being a sailor and officer right now and that's all really cool and takes up most of his time anyway.

Bones: Is currently divorced and has the world's worst luck in romance, seriously, his canon relationships almost 100% blow up in his face. He really doesn't get how Jim does it, that boy should give lessons or something because it's seriously ridiculous.

Ace: Has a Spoon, and she's pretty settled on that.

[i_am_your_host]

Jemma's face when she's in Bobbi's presence is the best face.

[misslucyjane]

Bilbo...okay, so I really like the Thorin/Bilbo fanon and I can buy that he remained a lifelong bachelor because the love of his life died, but I'm not sure I want to play him that way.

Merlin is bisexual. He loves Arthur, enough to wait for him through the ages until Arthur returns. He also fell in love with a Druid girl once, but of course she died.

Cecil is gay and in love with Carlos. Their relationship is adorable, though with Carlos stuck in another plane of existence it's been very difficult, and Cecil misses him terribly.

Groot: as far as I can figure, his people reproduce asexually. Like trees do. I probably shouldn't even refer to him as a him, really.

Jack is gay but closeted. He loves a man named Joseph but pushes him away because plot, and is engaged to a woman by the end of a series while also having an affair with his bodyguard and carrying a thing for David, too. Oh, my screwed-up prince.

Steve: bisexual Steve Rogers, yo. He's even a little polyromantic--had circumstances been different he would have been with Peggy--but he doesn't quite know how to deal with that and so has chosen monogamy with Orpheus.

Sadie: mostly straight, loves Frank to pieces, and they have a good time on date night.

[onceaviking]

Eric grew up as a very heterosexual Viking who canonically would rather do the girl minding the goats than pay attention to how to become a good King. Some of his last words were that where he was there would always be women.

Then he became a vampire and all those things stopped mattering because vampires have no feelings.

... ha.

[runningred]

I like to think of Eric as sanguine-sexual. It has blood in it, therefore I will have sex if it involves getting the blood out of it.

[student_of_impossibility]

Henry - too young for this to apply to his canon point. Henry is more prone to believe in magic-like things than most.

Eriond - is asexual. And happens to look male but I think that's mildly an accident; while his brothers all seem to be Male No Really, Eriond kind of strikes me as 'not actually neuter, just male by accident and it doesn't signify.' He probably just smiles tolerantly at things like 'bad luck' and gently point out superstitions are just that.

Lois - Monogamous, heterosexual, cisfemale, currently between relationships, and she likes to pretend she's a hardass and cynical. She is, actually. Problem is she's also a closet romantic and loves the grand gesture and while she doesn't need a man in her life or anything, and is utterly career-driven? She gets lonely. And when she falls in love, it's very, very deep. ......And in at least one case, it's a very good thing they're both dominant personalities or it would be the worst co-dependent mess ever.

She is a mix anti-superstitious and occasionally very much so, basically as humor calls for.

Tavi - Engaged to Kitai, who is pregnant with their first child. Tavi would say he's never been happier, except he's cleaning up a war. Wait until the baby's born and they're married, and he'll be good. Prior to Kitai, he was monogamous, cismale, heterosexual. All still true, except he is 100% Kitaisexual. He literally does not grasp the concept of non-Kitai.

That said, he sucks at romance. So much. Needs to be beat over the head into realizing he should make gestures at all. Once he learns, he might be better about it. ...Maybe. When he's not distracted.

And he does not comprehend superstition, either.

[adiva_calandia]

Everyone I play is at least little bit bisexual! But they are all also either casual about relationships or actively uninterested.

Epimetheus will be in love with Pandora until the end of days, and he's not looking for anything long term. But hookups are fun! And being an Ancient Greek, he's into both pretty dudes and pretty gals.

Nita has a lot of trauma in her background from Milliways, so she's really leery of romance in general and sex in particular; I don't think it'd be accurate to say she's asexual, but her head's pretty fucked up about the subject. If she were less fucked up, she might also figure out that she's totally bi/pan. (Although I think she is less interested in non-humanoids than Carmela Rodriguez is.) Maybe one day!

Beverly is a solid three on the Kinsey scale, in an understated way, and super bad at long-term stuff. She's a career-oriented woman! She doesn't have time for dating! I expect she gave it a shot early on when she started at the Bureau and then discovered that she had trouble relating to a lot of people outside her field. That said, she's another one who enjoys the occasional one-night stand, for the purposes of tension relief if nothing else.

Kim has her sexuality under EXTREMELY tight lock and key. Like, it's gonna take forever before she figures out that she's attracted to a guy. And I am convinced that eventually she'll figure out she's attracted to Renee D'Auber too. But, you know, between the pre-Victorian society and her long-term survival strategy of avoiding even getting close to sex . . . she's got some baggage.

Kim also totally believes in bad luck. Even a skilled thief needs luck to avoid getting caught.

[street_sparrow]

Athelstan is bisexual (which is only sort of implied in canon, where he's only been with one woman who died weeks later). He's currently exploring and coming to terms with this, and not at all coming to terms with or even mostly acknowledging the fact that he's half in love with Ragnar.

Giovanni is straight, and when I get him to the end of canon is going to embark on a life of doing every willing woman in Venice. He's also going to be married, but it's really a marriage of convenience to a woman who's as promiscuous as he is.

Michael Carpenter is straight, married and completely and utterly faithful. The idea of so much as flirting with anybody but Charity just never crosses his mind.

Jonathan is mostly straight, but I think wouldn't be averse to the idea of being with a man.

Nancy is straight, but not looking. She has Jamie, and her life revolves around him more than anything.

Cadfael is straight but celibate, because monk. The greatest love of his life was Olivier's mother.

Roshaun is probably straight, but who really knows. He's still a teenager, and has his thing with Dairine, whatever it actually is.

Gavroche is straight but hasn't actually ever had a girlfriend. I should fix that.

Ichabod is straight, married, and deeply in love with his wife... but that doesn't mean he hasn't been physically attracted to other women. Possibly including Abbie, but he loves her too much platonically to go there in the near future.

Norrington is straight but not particularly interested in looking, though he wouldn't turn down sex if a woman offered. He's dead and only in the bar occasionally, he knows there's only so much he could give in terms of commitment.

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

I like the honesty of "he's dead and knows there's only so much he could give in terms of commitment!"

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark Grayson is so straight that you could use him in architectural drafting. He is, however, neither a homophone nor someone who judges other persons' ideas of sex and romance, as long as it's consensual. He's also a pretty traditional romantic, taking some of the tropes to the super powered logical progression (moonlit flights instead of strolls, flying to Paris for dinner instead of the local French restaurant, etc.).

[tire_moi_mes_bottes]

Oh man, another Friday the 13th? That's Bossuet's special day! Yes, he believes in Bad Luck. He and Bad Luck go way back, total BFFs. He is also comfortable in a variety of relationship statuses, which generally more or less include Joly. And Bad Luck.

Feuilly is not quite a Victor Hugo Symbolic Virgin, but he's an abstract-plane kind of guy. I'm playing him as rather socially awkward in a lot of situations, including romance, and it's something he chose to put aside in favor of political action. No one wants to be that guy who gets sent home from certain death on the barricade because he has a wife and kids! As far as Milliways goes, if there's chemistry with someone, awesome, and if not he'll be very happy with Poland in the Library.

Gredya, uh, well, canonically the Wyr have a wolf-like heat cycle so, whatever, I dunno what else they do, but they seem like people who know how to make their own fun. She's also hella busy, though. Single mother of five, likes long walks in the woods and eating raw deer before it cools, iso long-term commitment to establish and protect a territory. Non-smoking Wyr only.

[never_shall_yield]

70s!Gene is married, and sleeps around. 80s!Gene is all about Alex, and still sleeps around when he gets the chance. So straight you could use him to draw lines. His philosophy is typically misogynistic on the surface, apart from the fact he really likes strong women who stand up to him as an equal. He gets right off on that, but could never admit it in front of the lads.

Javert and Valjean are both middle-aged virgins (or Javert was until Milliways; sorry, bro!). Javert always raised himself above such human concerns as love and relationships; partly because he was obsessed with being irreproachable, and partly because he thinks he's so firmly outside of society that it's Not For Him. Valjean was working too hard to support his family as a young man for a girlfriend, and then went to prison for nineteen years where everything a normal human might feel was worked out of him. He came out thinking he wasn't fit for anything or anyone, and then he was saved for God and knew he had to set himself apart, and never sin or be a man, and so...ugh, I could go on, but the upshot is that for both of them, love is for Other People.

Which is why they obviously have to end up together.

Courfeyrac....alllll about Valentines Day, bb. If he were at home, and it were a thing the way it is now, he'd have the chocolates and flowers and bad Romantic poetry and pull out all the stops in his quest to get laid for love. He's a proper lady's man. Single at the moment, due to being dead and in Milliways, but he'll get out there as soon as I pull my finger out.

Bruce Wayne - entirely X orientated. Women are to maintain the playboy cover, but he won't touch anybody else. Without M'ways influence, he'd have remained in love with Rachel and probs ended up with Selina, but not now. X is it. He'll probably buy flowers and chocolates, though it's mainly to see the look she'll give him when he does.

Bruce Banner - straight, single, and likely to remain so. He's afraid of hurting another woman by Hulking out, he wants to maintain control and is nervous of sex making him lose it. Still in love with Betty too, though he knows it can never happen as things stand. So mainly just depressed about inevitable loneliness. He'd do something understated for V-Day if he were in a relationship.

Pearly Soames - Valentines Day. *cackle* Well...he might produce a real-live (or...until-recently live) heart for someone, if he was trying to make a point? He's not the romantic type. He likes sleeping with women, and is entirely incapable of emotional connection.

Jim Moriarty - canon plays him as openly flirtatious with both sexes, and camp enough that it's easy to assume he leans towards men. He's just charming to everyone, when he wants to be. Mainly he can't be bothered with 'normals', so I imagine he might use people for sex, and never ask their name and never see them again. And not very often, either; I see him as getting his kicks from power plays and manipulation more than sex. Relationships don't mean anything to him. He's another who's not capable.

[cutting_edgex23]

X is going to take two of those flowers that are the same, tuck one behind his ear and one behind her ear, and then put the rest in the colored glass bottles in the window.

I have no idea what she will do with the chocolate. If only fish ate it. *solemnest*

[herr_bookman]

Technically Valentine's day started being celebrated commercially in Germany after WWII, so Autor wouldn't know about any of the traditional customs--which there include flowers, chocolates, pigs, and ginger cookies with salacious messages. The more you know!

As for love... *cackles* Autor is bi, possibly pan, and just figuring that out with the help of Jay. The boy is in dokis with Rue and Mirai, and is absolutely miserable about it since he thinks neither one wants him.

Tahno is as pan as they come, and will shack up with anyone. He'd go all out for Valentine's day, for several people at once.

[runningred]

I can see Tahno's idea of a romantic gesture being a bouquet of chocolate flavoured condoms and a grin!

[hadyougoing]

Poking my head out from under a rock to say that Ava's secret is that she's bisexual. But she's way, WAY in the closet about it; she's actually sort of a Midwestern conservative (circa 2007), it's just that most of her less tolerant political opinions don't have so much relevance at the end of the universe so they don't come up very often.

Ladies she has been into/flirted with without realizing it include: Barbara Gordon, Noriko, Elle, Bela Talbot, COYOTE, Beverly Katz.

Oops!

Uh, Ava likes boys as well. Interestingly, while the women she's been into are kickass, capable, often-superpowered types, the men she's into are all fairly normal sweethearts-- and uh, to get weirdly specific, they tend to be conversationally clever but observationally kinda ... not.

The one exception might be Septimus. She would have dated him SO HARD.

[shortofcrazy]

they tend to be conversationally clever but observationally kinda ... not.

*cracks up*

[aberration]

Asami is (canonically!) bisexual. I tend to think that of the main four Team Avatar characters, she probably has the most experience with dating and romance. (Except maybe Bolin? I don't know.) She tends to see it as something fun and enjoyable, sort of like another aspect of meeting and getting to know people. Which she already likes to do! But that sort of view of romance indicates she doesn't have a lot of experience with the kind of love that can mean a lot of longing and pain and misery. My headcanon is that the closest thing she's had with regard to that was a crush on someone who was older than her – in other words, a distant crush, rather than "unrequited love" really, but it was still that crush-experience of having an attraction that's kind of beyond your control, that you feel whether you like or not, and can get a little flustered over. And not being in control of herself, and feeling flustered, are both things Asami doesn't usually do. But in general, her romantic relationships have just been kind of nice and fun, and she enjoys dating. She's into people whom she finds attractive, and who have experiences that are very different from hers – she likes being around people who have new things to show and teach her, and for whom she can offer the same. I'd also say, particularly for romance, she tends to prefer people who are very straightforward and direct (whether that makes them self-assured or awkward), to those who like to be a little more showy and… really charm-invested. (Probably why she likes Tahno well enough personally but isn't super into him romantically. Sorry Tahno!)

At her point in canon she's dating Mako, and she likes him! He's handsome and interesting, and he's not (really, he's not) a jerk to her the way her last boyfriend could be. But their relationship was probably better suited to how they were before their lives were completely upended, and pretty soon Asami just really won't have a lot of time to deal with romance.

And then there's her second partner, which – definitely includes some longing and pain, but also a lot of wonder and joy.


Will, um. I was trying to find this thing I saw on tumblr, and I can't now, but – basically it was a form where someone was supposed to describe their gender and orientation, and in both cases they'd put a "ehhhhhn, vague hand wavy gesture" kind of answer. And that's pretty much how I feel about Will on both counts. I don't… have a lot … of specific definitions for him… because he doesn't have a lot of them for himself. I've written about how Will's perception and understanding of love is inevitably influenced and shaped by those around him, and it's the same for romantic love. It's difficult for him to process his own feelings on it when he's going to have to, to some extent, perceive it through the eyes of another.

One particular thing he knows about love, though, is that though people try to carefully demarcate different types of love, these often bleed into one another much more than others will recognize or admit. This doesn't mean that people are secretly romantically in love with their friends all the time, so much that what is considered part of "romantic" love and what is considered part of "platonic" love often run very close, or even intersect or fade into one another. Basically, while these distinctions have a real effect for those who use and experience them, they can also be structural/artificial, which. Will already has a lot of problems with mental boundaries.

I guess to give some answer to the question – he doesn't usually, but has occasionally, pursued some kind of romantic interest. (I do sort of think part of the reason he may have pursued Alana to the extent that he did in season 1 was that she was not uninterested, but clearly setting herself apart from him, which had… increasingly worse implications as the season went on.) He's not really any better at it than he is at any kind of social engagement. There are things he's good at – he can anticipate needs and avoid arguments. Sometimes. If he's feeling up to it. Or he can seem either directionless and/or redundant for a relationship, so. As much as it's relevant, my headcanon (very-much-not-canon, but whatever) is that his past romantic-sexual relationships have included people of different genders.


Katara is a person with a romantic view of the world, but who isn't actually that interested in romance herself. Aside from quickly falling for (and then even more quickly getting over) Jet, she doesn't actually express a whole lot of overt romantic interest in almost anyone, until her ending with Aang. Everyone kind of assumed it of her, but I thiiiiiink Toph has actually expressed more crush-worthy behavior toward others than Katara did. She can enjoy the idea of romance, but especially in much of the time when A:TLA takes place, she just has a lot more going on her life that she has to prioritize above that. She does sort of realize along the way that she's fallen in love with Aang, and that she can't really see her life without him very prominently in it. But it really takes the end of the war for her to confirm that to herself and act on it.

She's straight, and I think what she tends to look for (or maybe more admire) in a romantic partner is competence, and understanding. And compassion! Okay, it's Aang. She really loves Aang.


Elle is pansexual and very bad at romance. Because it involves emotional intimacy and there's almost no one she trusts enough to be that emotionally intimate with them. Also she sort of views romance as a normal-person thing that she just isn't capable of having, that she'd probably be terrible at, and that maybe doesn't deserve. :\\\\\\\\\\\ That sounded sadder than I meant it to. But generally when people have been romantic toward her she's kind of nope'd out of it.

[last_kallig]

Very late, but I'll answer this one.

I decided on Ibani being bisexual as a tip of the hat to the fact that the Sith Inqisitor can be male or female in game. She's in a committed relationship right now and quite comfortable with that. (Well, comfortable when she's not wondering how in the Force love happened to *her* of all people.)

Ibani believes in the Force, which is sort of like believing in luck? She tries not to think things like 'nothing can wrong' or 'it can't possibly get worse'.

[ceitfianna]

Will is straight and this post reminds me I meant to research medieval takes on St. Valentine. He's romantic and someone who's not great at casual encounters, since he's so loyal. At the moment, he's planning on figuring out how to make tomorrow lovely for Minx. He wants someone to spend a future with and now that Robin's been pardoned, its been easier to imagine but he's not used to it yet.

Charles is bisexual and currently in love with Erik. I can see him finding a sappy card to give to Erik, but since he's not in Bar and timelines are weird. I will imagine them being odd. Erik rolling his eyes at the sappiness but liking it.

Quentin is bisexual but he's not looking for any sort of romance after the entire crash and burn of Katie. He's also a teenage boy who's part of a culture with weird ideas about love, it tends to be courtly and elegant or ends in madness in blood.

William is straight and has basically sat on any romantic inclinations because his family comes first. He wants happiness and a partner who supports him and loves him as he saw his parents did but like Will, he's a pessimist about it. The way he sees it, finding someone who wants him and fits is complicated and might not happen so for now he'll work.

Sameth is straight and still in love with Kait. He misses her but has been talking to the various friends that his sister introduces him to. Its just that his family has this problem of tending to fall in love all at once and so he focuses on work, looks for her in Milliways and lets Nick do the flirting as he's better at it. He also ships Nick and Ava.

Moist is bisexual and wants to have fun. He's always traveling and is constantly looking for fun and possibly profit. What he wants from encounters is fun, good sex and someone who understands that he won't be around tomorrow.

Jane is straight and in love with Tom Lefroy but at the moment, that isn't going to happen. Her ideas of romance are complicated as she tries to find a place between reality and hope. In her writing is where she's working out if that place can exist.

Ivan is straight but I think he does have some bisexual leanings that if he hadn't been raised in such a hidebound masculine culture, he might have tested. At the moment, he is happily married and enjoys getting to be romantic with Tej.

Demeter is straight, thinks sex is one of the best things in the world and encourages everyone to find what they need and who they need in their life.

Tumnus in my mind is basically asexual because of the world he's from and since I personally have a hard time imagining him being sexual. He's in love with Narnia.

[hadyougoing]

He also ships Nick and Ava.

Omg, weren't we joking one time about how he was gonna lock them in a closet so they could work out their issues? XD

[shinyhappygoth]

Enzo: Do you need to ask? He is happily engaged to Dani Phantom, heterosexual, and extremely monogamous by nature (or programming, if you'd rather). I can't say for certain that he's demiromantic, but both he and Matrix were best friends with their respective womenfolk before romantic relationships ensued, so it's a distinct possibility. What is certain is that his criteria of attraction include "fun to hang out with" and "totally capable of kicking my butt if she felt like it." (He's not into S&M, he's just attracted to the capacity for butt-kicking.) Bonus points for superpowers.

I'm surer of Zecora's demiromantic status,
though within that she's panromantic—that is,
having first made a strong emotional connection,
she would not let gender restrict her affection.
She is not seeking this, though, as the world she does travel,
since that might cause a relationship to unravel.

[runningred]

Jay is openly bi and has several casual (and some not so casual) relationships going in the bar. He's been in love twice - the first unrequited, the second ended tragically.

David is gay, has been in love once and only once. Until he came to the bar, Kit was the only person he'd ever been with. He carried the scars of Kit's death very deeply and is slow to share his feelings with anyone.

Minx is straight but experimented in her teen years. She's had several casual relationships and although she loves both Charlie and Will, hasn't really reached the point of being in love. Yet.

Olivier is unswervingly straight and just got engaged to the love of his life (thread to follow soon.)

Diaval is (at least in my head-canon,) Maleficent's consort (read - fucktoy) but is utterly innocent beyond that. And even that, he doesn't have a lot of understanding of beyond the physical. I would have someone to seduce him! He's very fast to make friends and I suspect would fall very fast into uncomplicated puppy love.

[ceitfianna]

Aww, Diaval, I want to snuggle him up as I love him so. Demeter and he might be fun as she'd want to care for him and would also be all about what do you like about sex? He and Charles would also be interesting.

We should thread more now that I'm back from travels.