DE: First Love

[yakalskovich]

I know I had that subject line before, but today, I'm taking it literally.

Who, or what, was the first great all-encompassing love in the adult live of your charries? That could be person, an idea, a place, an object -- I don't mean it romantically.

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[genarti]

Enjolras: France.

...Yep. First, last, and constant!

Cosette: Marius Pontmercy. I confess to not entirely understanding her taste in men, but it works for them, so there you go, I guess! It worked out pretty well for her, although better in Milliways where we kicked the end of canon AU with earlier wake-up calls.

Thor: Huh. I'm gonna have to think on that! Asgard is the easy answer, of course, but it feels like a cop-out here in a way it doesn't with M. Patria Is My Mistress up there. Ditto honor. And Earth is true now, but it comes rather too late to be his first, given that he's been an adult for centuries; I don't think I can say that it was a great all-encompassing love in the Viking Age, fond though he was of it, because I'm not sure he stepped outside his own arrogance for that at the time, and I can't see him leaving it alone for centuries if so, though one could make a case for it. I dunno, he probably had a massive teenaged crush on somebody. Not Sif; I'm going to say he had the good sense or good luck to have it be somebody significantly older, who was amused and kind about it instead of trying to play political power games. That's not quite the question, but here, have a bunch of waffling half-answers anyway.

Kazul: I'm gonna have to think about this one.

(Bonus answers: Trowa: Quatre. River: I am also going to have to think about that one. Serenity, maybe.)

[yinyangwizard]

Keeping in mind that I've developed a lot of the background for Seimei on my own...his first (and so far only) great love was Minamoto no Tsuyu, his second wife.

[bjornwilde]

Rollo: Lagertha. I think it's shifting from the romantic passion he once had (which also fueled his brotherly jealousy) but he will always have a place in his heart for her.

Izana: I am honestly not sure. Sidonia seems a bit obvious but I'm getting nothing else from them.

Hank: Knowing and learning.

Eliot: Magic and/or Margo Hanson.

ETA - Amelia: I'm guessing arcane lore.

I am not getting an answer for Sam and Selina is not an adult, which leaves Sabine and Ahsoka.

Star Wars is an interesting place as far as the age of majority goes. I know I see a lot of fans bemoaning how many characters are kids and how much trauma they go through, but I honestly think that the age of majority in the SW universe is much more like pre-Industrial ages on our world, i.e. the age of majority is much younger than we like to think and they don't really have teenagers.

With this in mind, I am going to assume Ahsoka and Sabine are young adults or on the cusp of adulthood; though in the first season many questioned if Ahsoka was old enough to be a padawan.

Ahsoka: The Jedi Order and it's philosophies. Note I am saying philosophies and not dogmas.

Sabine: Art.

[varadia]

For X it was Elle.

Ysalwen -- a tossup between freedom and Zevran, in a weird way. They hit at kind of the same time, so a lot of one is wrapped up in the other.

For Raven it was his mother. Weird, huh? Loving her made it easier to remember to love everyone else, too.

[harryhotspur]

I'm not sure about this for a lot of mine, but the ones that do come to mind...

Harry: ...yeah probably his first time in battle. Being good at something! People thinking you're great because of it! That ridiculous adrenaline rush!

Viola: Hmmmm, I think probably her family, and her brother especially. Not like that.

Marius: His dad, and by proxy, Napoleon. ...again, not like that. But it was his first time loving something to the point of idealization, and feeling that he was loved in return, even if it was from afar.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry is a kid and doesn't count. Eriond I honestly can't answer this for, because he's kind of just chill benevolent god, so I don't know, the world? Evelyn I honestly also don't really know how to articulate it, because I'm not really sure that's something she experiences until DA:I hits and then romantic love is not the one I'd pick for that, and I'm not sure what to call hers.

Lois' first great love is, of course, journalism. Not that there isn't an equal romantic one eventually, but Truth and Justice Through Writing, all the way.

R2, quite unfortunately for him, really does love Padme and Anakin, and in great part out of love for them develops his drive to fight for the ideals they hold dear.

Anakin... well, he's obsessed with Padme. Debatable how much is really love and how much is just possessiveness and obsession and attraction. But certainly all-encompassing is the word.

Tavi is complicated. He is undoubtedly Kitai's first great all-encompassing love, but as much as his love for her is certainly equal to hers for him, and he would never harm her purely for the sake of Alera... Alera is what he pours himself into and has since he was fifteen. Alera, I guess, but Kitai is part of that future. It's kind of separate.

[maid_of_tarth]

Brienne: I'd say Renly, except really I think she fell in love with Renly because he seemed to embody knightly/kingly ideals, so...let's go with knightly ideals.

Fantine: Tholomyès (Cosette's awful bio-father), sadly enough. A totally unworthy love, but all-encompassing. And then she got Cosette from it, and Cosette was the first and only really true encompassing love of her life.

Combeferre: LEARNING ALL THE THINGS, but it was first brought home to him when he entered his first library at age six or so and stayed there for hours and no one could find him and he got hit for it but it was worth it and he regrets nothing.

Jean Prouvaire: words. The power of words to describe things. In speech, in text, in song...anywhere.

[clayforthedevil]

Joly- Musichetta, his first and only sweetheart, totally and head-over-heels and unabashedly. (If Joly had grown up in a different society, with a different self conception, it would be Legle. But he didn't, and it isn't.)


Bahorel- Paris, first and forever. He had other lovers (and so does she!) but she was always the first priority. And it was reciprocal, in its way-- he had a good life from Paris, and the city treated him well, until it literally tore his heart out. But he's a Romantic, after all, that's totally playing fair in love by him.

[rudderless]

Clementine: Life as a showgirl. Then there was Steed, which didn't turn out well.

Dixie: God. Then her love of Doc superseded the love of God

Juliet: Justice. Then Scooter, which didn't end well.

Eponine: Marius, since she was only a teen when she died that's all canon really gave her.

Pinkie: Joy! And laughter and fun of course.