this is not a meme

[guardiandevil]

Ali's turn to ask a question! :)

Who are your character's love interests? Do they have one true love in their canon? A series of failed relationships and angry exes? Have they sworn off love entirely? Do they have the hots for someone in the City?

Yeah, so basically feel free to tl;dr on the subject on canon and City love interests! If I get bored later, I might even make a chart showing about it!

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[guardiandevil]

Matt has all the girlfriends. He's a lover. He loves women and he can be a romantic person. He's also controlling and sometimes a misogynist and he needs to work on his issues.

Canon romantic partners: Elektra Natchios, Karen Page, Natasha Romanova, Heather Glenn, Yuriko Darkwind, Glorianna O’Breen, Mary Walker, Nyla Skin, Maya Lopez, Milla Donovan, Dakota North and probably someone I am forgetting I can never remember everyone.

He married Milla Donovan but are in the process of getting an annulment at his pull point.

Fandom likes to pair him with dudes. I ship him with dudes in crack-type situations, but he's heterosexual and it would be a drastic shift in his personality to make him consider a romantic relationship with another man. Foggy is his hetero life mate though. And people seem to dig DD/Spidey. I always thought DD/Punisher was a more interesting dynamic myself, but what do I know. All DD/Bullseye ffffffffffffffff. Eff, I say.

In the City, Matt slept with Wanda (she used her magic on him, not cool), Zatanna (friendly hook up!), and Gemma (unresolved infatuation!) He also lives with Natasha (awkward always) and has unresolved emotions for Elektra (multi-verse awkward!)

And then there's Harvey.

[exceptfebruary.livejournal.com]

I am eternally curious as to Matt and Harvey





that is all

[crucifriction.livejournal.com]

MICHAEL was married for a while after his tours in Iraq to this one lady and they had a happy marriage!! c: And then their kid got hit by a car and his wife, after suffering from crushing depression committed suicide and he found her body, so. :c His other love interest in canon was his brother's wife, who after she killed her hubby died, turned to him, and he basically helped raise her two kids! But that relationship got pretty strained after the Azrael thing and she probably broke up with him after the "hey let's burn Gotham" arc he was taken from.

UH IN THE CITY HE DOESN'T HAVE RELATIONSHIPS AND HE NEVER WILL SO

THOMAS has awful love interests! He tried to have a casual-sex-only relationship with Cheshire, but she was only doing it so she could have a baby so YEAH HE WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT BEING TRICKED but he has a kid named Thomas Blake Jr. so uh yeah? AND THEN HE HAD THIS WEIRD INTENSE SORT-OF-RELATIONSHIP WITH HUNTRESS WHICH WAS TOTALLY SEXLESS and after his kid got kidnapped and he murdered a few people he played her into breaking up with him in some weird double-backstab thing? uh

IN THE CITY he's unsuccessfully and awkwardly flirted with a few people but it's never lead anywhere but embarrassment (VIC...) so uh. BUT HE'S ~~LOOKING~~, LADIES...

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

In canon, Eddie has had a lot of flings. This is a relatively newer trend, one that started late eighties/early nineties -- these lovely ladies would never last longer than an arc, though, and sometimes he ended up killing them. Whoops. The height of his promiscuity really peaked during his midlife crisis arc (from LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT, which I inevitably reference) when he definitely had two ladies in five issues WHILE fucking around with Batman and this only happened because it's SO EDGY. He flirts like the dickens, but he so rarely invests in another person. That being said, there are three notable exceptions.

One - Jessica, introduced as retroactive canon. He became obsessed with her BUT REALLY ONLY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE LOVED HER and didn't actually. He only loves mystery.

Two - Query.

Three - Echo.

The latter two are "kindred souls", as described by his own narrative. Their relationship to him basically colors how Eddie relates to people whom he deems special. Obviously anyone he favors is just better than the rest of humanity.

In game, Eddie has slept with Harley, Desire and Felicia. The first is generally ignored by Eddie, the second is delicious mindfuckery and powerplay, and the last is a fairly serious relation for him. Felicia proves reminiscent of his relationships with Query and Echo in terms of her personality and how they interact -- though despite parallels, it is a different creature of a connection.

[ebony-mask.livejournal.com]

he slept with desire

[radiantly]

Angelica had a boyfriend/fiance in canon. She started dating Vance Astrovik (Justice) when she was 15 or 16 years old (he was 18 at the time IIRC.) They were like peas and carrots from then onward for roughly 15 years of canon until it was decided that they should break up. Fans seem split on this, but I personally think it's good for both of their characters. Getting married at age 19 is a big decision and it's not always the smartest one (just ask Ali!) For a long time Angelica mourned the end of her relationship. Literally for years. And then she met Gravity and they seemed to hit it off. Not exactly dating, but flirting, which is nice.

I also ship her with Hellcat, but it can never be. :(

In game, she's now married to Pietro. I wish I could say we put a lot of planning and effort into the decision for them to initially go out, but it was very much a spur of the moment thing. At that point, I'm not sure Yami and I had even talked OOC except to say hi in batchat. We'd ended up tossing them together on a meme and they wound up hitting it off. Anyway, Angelica and Pietro got married in March 2011 after dating for nine months in the City. Sometimes she wonders how the hell this came to be her life, but she's happy. Being married hasn't changed things much, they're still themselves only with rings on.

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

read this entire thing as forrest gump from "peas and carrots" onward...
this is not a bad thing :'|

clint barton;

[moirae.livejournal.com]

clint █ Clint loves ladies. He likes being in relationships, he likes being physical, and he falls hard and fast. He had one retconned-in girlfriend from his pre-Hawkeye days. Her name was Eden and he turned her over the police for being an accomplice in a murder and theft case, so that was fun. Then there was Natasha, and Clint's relationship with her is arguably one of the most important of his life. He loved her a lot, he probably never stopped actually loving her in some way, but eventually he got over doing things like throwing her new boyfriends through windows (sorry Matt). And now they are on pretty good terms.

Then, Clint met, fell in love with, and married Bobbi in the course of about a week and a half. They went off the West Coast and things were good for awhile and then they weren't and then Bobbi died and Clint was heartbroken. Awhile later, he had a thing with Karla when he led the Thunderbolts. But they had a bunch of problems including but not limited to the fact that he was lying to the team the whole time and also he shot her later on. And now he just sideeyes her existence and is still mad about the whole "why wouldn't you kill Osborn with me" thing.

Clint also had a misbegotten and horrible fling with Janet! It was stupid and shouldn't have happened and no one likes it, ok. There was also a point when Clint was probably in love with Jennifer in some capacity. He also has been attracted to the Scarlet Witch and flirted with a bunch of other lady-vengers (there was also a thing with Echo) and had a few civilian girlfriends or one night stands here and there.

And then he died and then he came back and also Bobbi came back and though they aren't married anymore it was good and awesome! Past his canon point they'll break up and he'll start dating Spider-woman. I guess this is just because Bendis says so.

So, in total: Clint has had a lot of relationships. He tends to go for a certain type--basically super-competent and smart ladies who call him out on being stupid. Some relationships have ended better than others. But basically he likes being in relationships and is quick to fall in love.

In the City, Clint is still dating/living with/etc Bobbi.And that is pretty much the extent of his in-game romantic life.

donna troy;

[moirae.livejournal.com]

donna █ Donna's first boyfriend was Roy Harper, who was known as Speedy at the time. It was a typical "we're thirteen and we don't know what we're doing" romance, but they did love each other a lot. I dislike the retcon that says Donna breaking up with Roy led to his eventual drug addiction (mainly because it plays down the Ollie-Roy relationship a bit), and the fact remains that they both continued to love and care about each other even when they weren't dating.

During the New Teen Titans era, Donna was dating a professor named Terry Long, who was, yes, quite a bit older than her. However, they had a good and mature relationship and eventually got married in-between Donna's superheroing. They had a son named Robert and Donna also pretty much adopted Terry's daughter from his first marriage. However, eventually Terry got freaked out about Donna being a hero and putting Bobby at risk, so he divorced her and it was sad.

Awhile after her divorce, Donna started dating Kyle Rayner (of Green Lantern fame). This went pretty well for awhile, until Terry and Bobby both died in a car crash and Donna freaked out and broke up with him. She briefly went back to Roy a little while after this, and then she died.

After her resurrection as a Titan goddess, Donna was technically married to the star-god Coeus. This is creepy for a number of reasons, one of them being consent issues since the Titans were controlling Donna's memories, and the other being the fact that Coeus and his original wife, Phoebe, were sort of Donna's spiritual Titan parents. So... that was weird. But apparently he did actually love her and he eventually sacrificed himself to right the wrongs he'd done to her and stuff. And after that Donna went back to Roy again for a bit.

In her modern canon Donna hasn't had a steady love interest in awhile, mostly because her life is wrought with tragedy and she doesn't want bad things happening to the people she cares about anymore.

I guess Dick and Kory should also be mentioned her, both as people she loves but has never actually been in a relationship with. Dick could have maybe gone this direction at some point, but they are more like siblings now. Kory is Donna's best friend, but, again, there are some serious love undertones there. And sometimes they aren't even undertones.

In the City, she and Roy were heading in that direction again before he got ported out, and she also was flirting pretty generously with Jenson before the same happened to him. She's open to relationships, they just haven't really happened.

[mocks]

Bobbi once had a thing with Ka-Zar. And before that, she was briefly engaged to Doctor Paul Allen, a co-worker in her scientific studies. Then, of course, there's Hawkeye. Bobbi and Clint got married after knowing each other for about a week, and considering how hideously impulsive that was, they were happy for awhile. Then rape-blame happened and they broke up/reconciled a few times before she was abducted by Skrulls. Then she eventually came home and she and Clint were awkward for awhile before deciding to try dating again. Technically they are no longer married because dead people can't be married. But he's still her husband. It makes sense, okay?

In the City, she's had two serious relationships. Clint, obviously. And Electro. Electro was supposed to be a one time thing, to deal with her loneliness and also to deal with his loneliness. Heh. Yeah, that turned into like, a six month on/off thing that no one was supposed to know about. Whoops. Then Clint arrived and all the emotions happened and now she's sort of unsure what to do with herself. Relationships are hard and boys suck.

Also one time Natasha kissed her in canon.

And one time Bobbi and Tony kissed during kid week. :3

[glowsferatu]

Kanaya's romantic history is wrought with awkwardness and emotional messes, which is pretty spectacular when you consider how little time it's all progressed in. She and Vriska were moirails back in the day, though she'd entered that arrangement more out of necessity due to the messes Vriska was making without one than out of any certain pale feelings. How long she'd had a crush on the other girl is difficult to say, but it could've been a while. Their relationship was fraught with mixed feelings, with Kanaya fussing all the time to make sure Vriska didn't get too out of line in an attempt to curb the same dangerousness that had captivated her while trying to convince herself and others that her feelings really are paler than might be supposed, and Vriska mostly ignoring Kanaya while still thinking she's really cool and boggling over why she even bothers being such a stupid supportive friend to her. She very explicitly refuses to auspisticize between Eridan and Vriska, which he took as an attempt to not get locked into a different quadrant than she wanted, which she'd already done by then. It eventually feel apart when Kanaya caught her pursuing Tavros, though, and Kanaya buried the crush under mountains of bitterness and dissolved their moirallegiance. Eventually, she punched Vriska in the face, kicked Gamzee off a cliff, and chopped Eridan in half, leaving the other girl blushing and flushed. That never got any followup, though, especially since Vriska died not long after.

Then there was the time Kanaya stumbled across the Sburb FAQ Rose wrote and developed a crush on the amazing lady she imagined to be its author. Once they'd traced that author to actually being among the humans in the session following their own, she jumped at the chance to begin a correspondence, and found herself largely disillusioned between the person she imagined and the one she actually conversed with. Mostly because that was John typing at Rose's computer. She was eventually spurred on to continue, and found her to be entirely different in following conversations, though not entirely in line with the individual she'd imagined. She found that Rose was in reality, terribly dangerous. Oops. She's caught herself falling into the same pattern she had with Vriska, but still dealing with a lot of bitterness there, she even tried to hold herself back from moving palefully towards Rose to prevent herself from a repeat performance.

And then Jade calls her pretty and keeps typing <3's at her.

In the City, Vriska's been after her with that crush of hers, but Kanaya's still got a ton of bitterness and no shortage of mixed feelings. Only more so once she found out she'd be dead upon her return. Still quietly crushing on Rose, but the whole grimdark think mostly led that to being a lot of anger, and sometimes she isn't sure if that once worth the bother, either. Her heart can be her own worst enemy sometimes.

She's got a hatecrush on Carrie Kelley, and if she's bad enough at redrom, blackrom is entirely beyond her. It's incredibly awkward ad she has no idea what to do with it.

She was moirails with Karkat for a while, but broke it off with him in order to free him to take care of Gamzee. She'll still mommy him, but the last thing she wants to be is in the way. Since then, she and Terezi have developed a pale romance that finally ended in moirallegiance early in December. Things have been going great there.

Her auspisticisms so far have been trainwrecks, she fought the whole way when Eridan had Equius intervene between the two of them, and she never considered that quadrant legitimate, since she'd sooner kill him than become his kismesis. Her own attempts to auspisticize between Aradia and Julian Keller have been met with mixed reactions.

[nottheanswers]

Vic slept around a loot in his twenties, largely sex with little romance. The last such relationship he had was with fellow reporter Myra Connelly, but that changed when Reverend Hatch took over Hub and Vic was nearly killed, then shipped off to Richard Dragon's to recover.

When he came back a year later, Myra was in a loveless marriage with the mayor, Wesley Fermin, being coerced to stay in line by Hatch, who held her daughter Jackie in custody. Hatch intended to sacrifice Jackie to some kind of dark god, like Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac and blah blah blah, but The Question stopped him. Vic wanted to kill him, but didn't. Myra, who'd just had this guy try to kill herself and her daughter, wasn't a fan of that resolution, and in the heat of the moment jabbed the sacrificial knife in Hatch's heart herself.

So yeah. Things were kinda...awkward between them, but they slowly became friends at least for a while, as his feelings for her started to grow more romantic than they were before. But she was still married, for whatever reason. Eventually, when the mayoral elections came up, Myra decided to run against her husband, but before the campaign went underway, she had a one night stand with Vic, saying they'd be watching her closer after. After she won, he asked if she'd be willing to get into anything longterm now, and she basically told him she was mayor of the worst city in the country and he was silly if he thought she'd even have time. He grumped and skipped out of reporting on her acceptance speech, so he wasn't there to see Wesley turn a gun on her and then the reporter they'd sent in his place before running away, only to wonder into a police shootout later that issue and dying. Myra was in critical condition for a while, but she got better.

They slept together again one time when he was sad that the tenement he squatted in as a kid was being demolished. When he finally left Hub, she stayed behind, but had him take Jackie with him. Jackie got sick sometime later, so he came back to Hub to try to get her to her mom, but she died shortly after. He stuck around for a bit, but you know what they say about going back home again.

He came back one last time a few years later, when he heard there was a threat on her life from a local crime syndicate, but arrived to find that she'd handled it herself, and moreover had married in the time since. She only found out he was dead when she asked for help years later and had Renee show up in his mask.

He had a brief but passionate affair with Huntress that ended badly. He still carries a lot of guilt and regret over how it ended. And don't get me started on Richard Dragon because oh man if only it were canon.

In game, he's flirted a lot, and had some awkwardness with Thomas Blake, but that's about it. He doesn't take much effort to pursue relationships, for the most part.

[hoodalumnus.livejournal.com]

OKAY SO. Parker began as a bit of a romantic -- he impregnated his girlfriend in canon and got into crime mainly to support his girlfriend, his unborn baby and his mother who was descending into senility. The other part of his motivation was to MAKE HIS DAD PROUD (who was a lackey to Kingpin, before he died) and because he was SO DAMN INSPIRED BY ELECTRO FIGHTING DAREDEVIL, which seriously happened. That's seriously his inspiration.

BUT IN ADDITION TO BEING A ROMANIC, Parker's also very... polygamous. He just really loves women, okay. He's had a serious relationship with a Russian sex worker WHILE dating his girlfriend, sort of got in with Satanna WHILE still dating his girlfriend, and then there was Madame Masque. Whitney was someone who really understood him, and he's such a sucker for that. Parker tried to divide his entire life -- and his love life -- between himself and the Hood and it just failed spectacularly. He's a man who's so dependent and so devoted to all his women, that he often forms parts of his personality around them. In many ways, he'd not just addicted to power.

In the City, Parker has had a few significant relationships. Poison Ivy and Misty Knight were romantic and then some, and Electro is his PLATONIC DUDE FRIEND. It's Electro, though, who's become the stability force in Parker's City-borne life, and he's more dependent on the guy than he even realizes.

[dreamself.livejournal.com]

oh my god parker

his motivation

[sweetvalleygirl]

Jessica has dated all the boys at Sweet Valley High. Well... almost all of them. Past boyfriends include: AJ Morgan (a generic nice guy), Ken Matthews (the quarterback of the football team and her best friend's boyfriend), Sam Woodruff (her ~one true love~ who died in a car wreck), Todd Wilkins (who was also her sister's boyfriend and he later becomes her third husband!), some guy named James who was murdered by a serial killer, Christian Gorman (who hit his head in a pool and drowned), Professor Miles (one of her teachers), Jonathan Cain (a fake!vampire who was actually a serial killer), Mike McAllery (her abusive first husband-- yay 18 year olds getting married!), etc. etc. This girl has terrible taste in men and it shows. Bad life choices all around.

City-wise, she went out with Harry Osborn for awhile before he was ported out. She also flirted with Gerry a bit. And then Jason showed up and she has declared herself to be his girlfriend (though he probably would not agree with her assessment of their relationship.)

[caprihorn]

Jessica, why.

These are really bad relationships.

[bests]

JIM doesn't do romantic relationships. He's very much a sex with no strings attached, I'm married to the sky kind of a guy. He's got giant commitment issues mostly because of his even bigger family issues, so the thought of something serious that could turn permanent scares the shit out of him. That said, he had a pretty steady friends with benefits thing going with Gaila in canon.

GWEN has only one real love interest in canon, and that's Peter. Which is haha awkward in the City. Oh! Wait! She did flirt with Eddie Brock some at a concert and then went back to his dorm room with him where he was a creeper and thought she wanted to sleep with him, even though she was fifteen at the time. ... Yeah. Anyways. In the City, she doesn't really have any romantic interests. People think she's sleeping with/dating Johnny 'cause they room together and steal each other's pants, but he's her bro. It's very possible she may end up crushing on someone at some point?? But I get all asldkfjas flaily when it comes to ship things so who even knows.

CAROL has a shitty love life in canon. First man she ever loved was Colonel Michael Rossi who was her teacher and partner when she was in AFSO. But he turned out to be a CIA spy who helped kill her on Norman Osborn's orders. 8| She dated her shrink back in the seventies before Mystique killed him. Uh... she had a lot of flirting friends over the years that she would just... flirt with and occasionally mack on. Mar-Vell was one of those, Marvel, he was not some tragic love she lost, gdi. She never actually dated Simon (though she did sleep with him) because when Bendis was trying to do that in Mighty Avengers, Carol was actually just starting to date this guy William who was Maybe-A-Kree?? (See icon) Anyways, the Skrulls killed him or sort of killed him. And then she went on a date with Peter!! And they bonded over hot dogs. It was cute.

In the City, she's in this weird kind of, sort of dating Peter phase where she asked him out for reals in October and they're just now on New Year's Eve getting to their second date. But, yeah. They are adorable and Carol really loves flirting with him/flustering the hell out of him. IT'S NOT REALLY A PAIRING... but Carol also occasionally gets flirty with Kate Kane. Just because it's fun and Kate kind of flirts back sldajfsdfaslkdj

BRUCE almost got married once in canon! To Andrea Beaumont. It was a really serious, he was going to give up being Batman so he could marry her and have a family thing. But then she ran away after they got engaged and Bruce went WELL FUCK and became Batman! And Andrea came back 10 years later as an assassin. THIS IS ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD MOVIE AND YOU SHOULD ALL WATCH MASK OF THE PHANTASM, OKAY.

Outside of that, he's got Selina in canon which is always this weird thing where they obviously like each other, but she doesn't know who he is and... yeah. He dated Lois once and it was a really serious thing. She was going to move to Gotham for him kind of serious. But that is over and he threatened Clark into taking care of her for him, even though he knows she would kick the crap out of him for saying that. He's also pretty much head over heels for Diana and is painfully obvious about it sometimes even though he won't ever let it happen. AND THEN THERE'S TALIA who he is really weirded out by at his current canon point, but he still... kissed that one time... They don't really fall in love until post-JLU and the Near Apocalypse of '09, but then it's a serious thing and he calls her Beloved and jfc Batman Beyond, you break my heart.

In the City, he's kind of like alksdjflaksdjf there is an alternate universe Selina who I owe a date apparently WHAT DO I DO. Except with more linefacing.

OH AND I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BRUCE/BARBARA WAS A THING THAT WAS NOT A THING NOPE NO YOU CAN'T MAKE ME



HOW DID BRUCE'S GET TO BE THE LONGEST OF THESE THAT IS RIDICULOUS

[girlyboywonder.livejournal.com]

damn why hasn't khisanth chatted up jim yet

ALSO /CAMPS OUT WITH YOU IN REFUSAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE BRUCE/BARBARA B(

[gatewhatgate.livejournal.com]

All my dudes are going here but spoiler: the only one that has anything is Sandman



and it's a bit pathetic for him

MONSTER

[gatewhatgate.livejournal.com]

UH

HAS FRIENDS

Whether or not he can feel attraction is really questionable? The only time he ever said anything on the subject was once about Dwarf Sex ("educational") don't ask. Like, he knows what romance and junk is because he told Tsukiko she didn't have a chance with Xykon but

yeah

He has an intense bromance with O-Chul in canon and nothing really in the City.

[crabulous]

Zoidberg wanted to mate with a female Decapodian named Edna. She thought he was gross and unworthy and after being seduced by Fry, she eventually mated with the Emperor and presumably died. Zoidberg also once lusted after a lobster from a restaurant and he's made out with a few weird space monsters. And also Professor Farnsworth.

He hasn't had any "relations" in the City which is probably for the benefit of us all.

[brevipennate.livejournal.com]

LOL oh god this question

nill: is eternally in love with heine in canon. not in like an "oh gosh i want to have your babies" way but in an "oh wow you definitely saved my life" way. she doesn't have any romantic relationships, mostly because she's ~15 in canon, so. but there is this cute kid named yora who looks like he has one ram's horn who apparently has a crush on her! aywho in the city she super-cares for damian. WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN THEY GET OLDER. oh and she also had that high-school jock douche of a not-boyfriend for about four days.

rikku: definitely dated gippal in canon apparently. in my personal canon-stuff she's had crushes on both tidus and auron, and possibly lulu (heh). otherwise she's probably dated around, mostly al bhed boys. in the city she's happily and forever with santo.

scathach: only loved one person: cu chulainn. BUT YEAH I JUST READ SOME NEWLY-RELEASED CANON IN WHICH HE TRIED TO KILL HER SO SHE KILLED HIM... awkwardddd. she dated alex summers in the city, had a one-night stand with scott summers, and may or may not be crushing on jack bauer at the moment. who knows.

gemma doyle: in canon kartik is apparently her soul-mate. idk why. she was betrothed to simon middleton, who ended up being an almost-rapist douchebag. in the city she hasn't had any relationships, but had a one-night stand with daredevil on her last birthday. she crushed on matt murdock for a while, but she's over it. and that one awkward date with reilly.

[oedipilot.livejournal.com]

If we ever get a Lulu

Santo is going to have to try so hard

to not stare

[sh-consulting.livejournal.com]

SPOILER WARNING FOR NEW SHERLOCK SERIES just, you know, in case. :|

Sherlock is (according to canon, now!) a virgin, and has had no known romantic relationships of any kind.

He is assumed, in his world, to be in a homosexual relationship with John Watson, but they aren't. John is probably the person he cares about the most, but whether or not he feels any romantic attachment to him is entirely left unresolved. He doesn't express his feelings to anyone, basically, but he obviously cares about him.

Had a minor obsession with Irene Adler, and certainly not sexual, and only arguably romantic. More likely simply interested, and then learned very quickly that interest was a complete mistake. That he cares for her is certain, but to what extent isn't.

[girlyboywonder.livejournal.com]

Carrie-- in canon, she's 13 in a cast of adults, so, no one! In the City, she's 16 and surrounded by peers and people of all ages, so, no one! oh that was easy.

WELL I GUESS THERE'S WEIRD POTENTIALS, THOUGH. If you count troll romance, Tavros has declared them moirails, which makes her shift uncomfortably and frown (but she supposes she doesn't mind it that much), and Kanaya has a black crush on her, which makes her unendingly bewildered and want to very quickly leave the room. And she might have had a slowly-orbiting blossoming thing with Trauma-Terry while he was here, but nothing since then.



Khisanth is easier! In canon, she started falling in love with this one human guy, until he betrayed her, and she ate him. She's sworn off silly human things like love since then, which has held true in the City as well! Except for when Aphrodite made her fall in love with Zevran, which was just awful. Overall she would much prefer to enjoy sex with people and have no talk of silly attachments.

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

ugh i shipped carrie/terry i miss it :'(

[purmoncul.livejournal.com]

Sirius: Sirius had a new NPC girlfriend every week when he was at Xavier's, which was good fun but meant nothing. During his youth there were a few nigh-relationships, first with Gemma Doyle (entirely one-sided on his part) and then with Eleanor Lamb. He adored Zee from afar, in a ridiculous, expansive, playful way that was not actually insincere.

Then he grew up, and there was Remus.

Currently, he's waiting for Remus to come back, and will continue to do so...probably forever, honestly, though whether or not he'll get his feet under him enough to have other relationships in the meanwhile remains to be seen.

Tavros: Tavros is completely in pale love with Carrie Kelly, it's adorable. He had some flushed feelings once for Jade, but was turned down, and just...doesn't have any idea what to do with Gamzee, other than wish that Gamzee wasn't like this, and feel really really horrible for thinking that way. :/

AND FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES

The Brucolac: Is a vampire, so the whole love/relationship thing is difficult to apply. He Uther Doul sort of orbited each other in the game until they were...basically married only utterly not. That's the one relationship to which the term "love" could be applied, and nobody ever took off clothes in it, which was totally for the best. He DID take his clothes off and form a close relationship with Poison Ivy, but he mentally referred to as a passionate partnership only. He liked her, she was great, but it would need a few more decades before he'd call it true affection rather than fondness and convenience.

In his second go-round, he definitely got tingly when talking to Callie and Boyd and had been forming plans to woo both. (Or to let Boyd keep wooing him, whichever seemed the most productive.) Neither of these really count as romances, but whatever. WORDS WORDS WORDS.

Kurama: Was both a teenager and a gazillion year old fox demon, and his strict ethics would basically keep him from actually being in a relationship ever, because what the hell are you even, Kurama? He and Hiei were not romantic partners, but they were totally married, Mono back me up here. In game, he developed a crush on Matsuka that was rather alarming to him and something he did his best to keep to himself.

Kerry's People

[hellionated]

julianhellion is a Marvel Comics character, so his relationships are more full of angst than happiness unfortunately. Originally he had a crush on Sofia Mantega, and spent a lot of time chasing her and trying to get her to go out with him. She kept him hanging because he was a douche to all her friends she was playing hard to get. Eventually, though, they got together and he was delighted about this. Then M-Day happened, most of the world's mutant population lost their powers, and Sofia was revealed to have misplaced her X-gene. She overheard Julian being a general asshat to another depowered student (who also happened to be one of her friends, David Alleyne), and accused him of no longer thinking her beautiful because she'd lost her powers. She stormed off. He later tried to apologise, but she wouldn't let him in her room. Then a bus full of other depowered mutants got blown up (I'm sure you're glad you started reading this), including Julian's best friend Brian. While he was at the funeral, he found out that Sofia had disappeared. She hadn't been on the bus, she'd just left and never said goodbye. He later told his friend Sooraya that 'the girl I thought I loved is gone'. Sofia obviously meant a lot to him. Around that time, Laura Kinney showed up at the school. Julian at first thought she was weird, but after a few life or death situations which included Julian breaking the sound barrier to get Laura home for healing, he changed his mind and they got closer. Laura followed him around in a stalking way, and the two of them seemed to have a connection. This continued as a kind of background thing when their teams were broken up, and they ended up in different places. They weren't a couple, and Julian is shown flirting with random waitresses and inviting them to have sex with him because he's really classy. Despite that, he and Laura seemed to worry about each other when one heard the other was in danger. Then there's a whole big mess involving a Mutant Messiah and a bunch of evil Sentinels from the future, which ends with Julian getting both his hands blown off, and Laura going on a suicide mission (which she comes back from because what are suicide missions anyway). The next time they're together, Julian tells Laura she's his best friend, but she leaves the compound again. Later still, she returns to New York and he actively pursues a relationship with her for the first time. This time though, the feelings between them seem to be one-sided. Laura seems to have lost interest, and is mostly cold rather than friendly towards him. He does kiss her, but she tells him things have changed and says goodbye. That takes us right up to the current comics! So at present, Julian is single, and...probably isn't feeling the most positive about relationships tbh.

In the City, things are different. Julian came in fresh from that arc where he was soliciting waitresses, and then got captured by the Leper Queen and almost died. Laura had tried to save him but ended up getting captured by Weapon X instead, and Julian came to the City thinking she was missing. Things were all the awkward between him and Laura. Then Sofia arrived in the City, and things were even more awkward. In the end, Julian talked to Sofia about what had happened before, and with the issues between them resolved they decided to get back together. Julian is more guarded and a hell of a lot angrier than he was when they were together before, though, and because of that he half expects things to come crashing down round their ears one of these days. So far it's going well, though.

LJ HOW DARE YOU SAY MY COMMENT WAS TOO LONG X(

[batbogeyed]

ginnydor has a couple of boyfriends in canon. She spends her first few school years crushing badly on local legend the 'Boy Who Lived', Harry Potter. She's painfully shy around him, despite being the basic opposite of that with absolutely everyone else. As she gets older Harry is constantly around her house, because he's best friends with her brother Ron, and she finds it hard to talk to him. But then their other friend Hermione advises her to chill out and try to be herself around Harry. She did that, and started dating other boys. She went to the Yule Ball with Neville Longbottom, although there was never more between them than friendship. Then later she dated first Michael Corner, who she later broke up with because of Quidditch rivalry (totally understandable obviously) and quickly got together with Dean Thomas instead. By this stage, Harry had a crush on her and showed signs of jealousy when he saw her with Dean. Eventually Ginny broke up with Dean as well, and then finally she and Harry got together after Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup (sport is the MOST important). Of course, then Harry had to go off and save the world or something, so he ended things with Ginny for her own good. At some point in the future, Harry and Ginny will get back together, marry, and have three children called James, Albus and Lily. So, basically, she gets a happy ending with the first boy she ever loved.

At her canon point in the City, Harry has done the world-saving thing, but he's basically just finished doing that so he and Ginny weren't together when she got pulled here. So as far as the City's concerned, she's single.

Oh, uh, edited to add that Percy Jackson is a lovely boy, and he reminds Ginny of Harry an awful lot. And maybe he's sort of cute, but they're just friends. For the record.

[paints-lanterns.livejournal.com]

I shall place a hold on this and return to it later.

...maybe.

[oedipilot.livejournal.com]

Santo has never had a canon girlfriend - at least since becoming a mutant, as far as anyone knows - and in my headcanon had never done a lot more than clumsily flirt with women way out of his league (HEY CAROL) until coming to the City. He kind of had a thing with Jubilee in the Wolverine and Jubilee mini and at the least seemed to genuinely like her, but due to Schism that's unlikely to ever get followed up on.

In the City, Santo has been dating Rikku for almost two years and is dedicated to her, but not enough to occasionally "subtly" flirt with other hot ladies because hot ladies.

Shinji...uh...wow. Shinji's love life is about as much of a mess as everything else about the kid. The closest thing he has to a legitimate love interest is Asuka, and they both like each other in an angry, dysfunctional, not-entirely-healthy way, though they're unable to admit it to each other or themselves. There's Rei, which is kiiinda of a romantic situation but Shinji repeatedly states that he doesn't think of her in "that way" and I always interpreted as more of a sibling relationship. Then there's Misato which is SUPER ILLEGAL and mainly Shinji's mom issues being thrown around. Nothing really there, End of Eva kiss or not. Kaworu is a creeper and doesn't really count in the manga.

In the City, well, Shinji just got back but another party and myself have been EVER SO SUBTLY SETTING UP A SHIP FOR HIM

SO SUBTLE YOU GUYS

[brevipennate.livejournal.com]

it's okay rikku would probably flirt with hot ladies too

[neverwasanyone.livejournal.com]

Hrgh, okay. I know I've answered a variation on this before several times but not this particular one, so here goes. EXPECT ALL THE TALKING. Also, this will apply to Trowa of all ages, both in canon and in the City, past and present.

All right, so. In general, I have often held the view that Trowa is the sort of person who can't be bothered with finding love-type relationships 99% of the time; if he is drawn into one or is given reason by someone else to think about what one would be like, he'll show as much interest as he can given his emotional state at the time, but being a Sanji is always completely out of the question. Also, I don't think he has any particular give-a-damn as far as who's packing what parts.

Canonly, I don't think he had enough emotional freedom (or maturity) at the time that he knew Midii to really become quite as attached to her as she did him, or that what he did manage was in the same sense. Perhaps with a lot more time under his belt, yes. Unfortunately, she betrayed the hell out of him, and I can't see him wanting anything to do with her for a long, long time afterward. It was, I think, doomed to fail from the start. However, some minor good did come out of that, as far as shaking up his world.

I do mostly ship Trowa and Quatre in canon, and there's enough of me babbling about that in various places over the past few years to fill a minor book. If someone doesn't remember any of said babbling, I suppose I could dig up some old stuff and add new things, but for now that'll do.

In the City, he did have a brief and unrequited interest in Abby (Cloud 9) before realizing she was with Jaime and forever assigning her the position of good friend. Eventually, he got pulled into a relationship with Quatre, which he stayed in for some 1.5 years? They were good for each other, taught each other a lot, and then there's a lot more babble that goes here that I've also spread around GDS/the game itself, and honestly we played so much stuff together I could spend the better part of a day typing and not cover everything that relationship affected. However, the Major was a constant thorn in their side and so for a while, Trowa tried to push Quatre away to keep him from being hurt.

He discovered shortly after that a long-time friend of his, Hiruma, had a thing for him, and so decided to try that out. It worked pretty well, and there were definitely differences between the two guys that intrigued him, but he'd never actually lost his feelings toward Quatre. He split to stop Hiruma from having to be in the unfair position of Always Second and eventually he and Quatre returned to the way they were (just before being Exported for good).

Now that he's back as a child, and there's a Midii in-game, we have an extremely interesting opportunity to play something new that doesn't have the limitations that made it a bust in canon. As he will get to know Midii at age 6 rather than age 10, he will be able to form a friendship with her long before he becomes too hardened by life as a soldier, and does not know what she did (in her past)/will do (in his future), meaning that there is nothing to get in the way of said friendship.

Once he's eventually updated to 10 and before the betrayal, he'd be older and tougher, but with a backlog of memories and feelings from when he was City-6, which would modify his behavior a great deal. He'd also be old enough to be able to return any attentions she'd pay him in that sense, if he felt like it, and still not have been betrayed. Any updates beyond that would be a delightful little gamble, since that would finally involve all the horrible parts of his Episode Zero days going down, and all the anger/goawayihateyou/argh but I have memories of liking you/fuck my life would pile on like a highway full of 18-wheelers heading into oncoming traffic.

Which would be fun. :)

Still, I don't intend to plan too far ahead, because where's the fun in that? As it stands, he's just a stunted six year old kid with a girl for a good friend and too many dangerous adult influences.

[neverwasanyone.livejournal.com]

PS: PROOF THAT IT'S ALWAYS THE BLOND(E)S.

[terra]

I very strongly feel that Natasha doesn't have a one true love, despite multiple sets of shippers camping out in her canon without bothering to read very much of it. She goes all in with regards to relationships, even though they are a dangerous thing for her to have and even though they often end badly, either due to them dying or due to the other party being Matt Murdock. One of her Bronze Age motifs that recurs is the idea of a "Widow's Curse" — that everyone she finds herself caring about is doomed to die. This is obviously a bit of Marvel high melodrama, but it does, in its tremendously unsubtle way, highlight a central theme of her character, which is that she chooses to love people despite the costs of it. And there are costs, because she's often dealing with espionage-thriller genre cliches, and the idea that in order to succeed, you must be this dispassionate automaton figure. Intimacy is a huge danger in a world of lies and secrets.

For this reason she isn't very good at casual relationships, because she really can't be casual about anything. There are a few exceptions (I think Hercules was a rebound fling, and that one awful 90s comic with Tony Stark) but in general she gets into overly dramatic love affairs. She's been married twice, and she was genuine both times, but her husbands died, heh heh. And she was absolutely genuine in her desire to create a new life with Matt when they moved to San Francisco, she chose to defect rather than hurt Clint when they were together— and even though those were both relationships she ended it was never because she didn't genuinely love them.

Natasha is on good terms with most of her exes and two of them are in the City and she is foolishly living with one of them who she still finds really hot heh. She does go though moody phases where she swears off romantic involvement but that's, in the end, very contrary to who she is.

Oh and she's also in a p. serious relationship with Bucky in her canon right now.

FOR BUCKY

[terra]

Bucky actually has a few canon love interests, you just sort of have to dig around for them!!

He had a crush on Gwenny Lou Sabuki back in Invaders that wasn't reciprocated. But I thought this plotline was a bit stupid, and it was back when he was being written as like, 14, so !!!

His first (and only at the point where I'm playing him from) love is Gretchen Zeller, who is a snappy young woman in the German resistance. He fell pretty hard for her and the first thing he did when he got unfrozen and got his memories back was go and visit her grave— he was seriously, in his head, going to go back and marry her after the war was over. THIS IS MAYBE UNREALISTIC OF HIM, but it makes sense when you consider how young he really is and the altered circumstances of war. He's actually known Gretchen for like a week or two tops, but thinking about her gives him something romantic to hold onto. He never talked about her or wrote to her because that might give her away to the Germans, but also because it was just an intensely serious, private thing and he's actually shit about being open with that kind of thing sometimes.

Anyway, his sort of hopeless, futile dedication to Gretchen has sort of blinded him to love prospects in the City!! Giving up on her, to my mind, sort of represents symbolically giving up on having the happy ending he wants back home, which is a hard thing for him to come round to. ALAS!! Because he could be happier if he just… did that.

And yes in current canon when he's older Bucky is w/Natasha and I think his perspective on relationships is more grounded because he's actually been in one that's worked long-term.

[backatthehotel.livejournal.com]

OH WOW that took longer than I expected. Missing the bus sucks. :(

ANYWAY.

An important part of Pink's canon is his romantic relationships (or... relationship) and his difficulty with them.  You can blame that on his mother, in large part. She was very smothering, and he ended up having kind of freudian thing going on, and a lot of difficulty relating to women in non-mother terms.

It may not shock you that there is a song about it. (HTTP://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvIUHw31js)

I figure he was only really able to have a relationship of substance once she died (and even then, not very well) and wasn't there to disapprove of his choices anymore. His wife, Judy, was a family friend, and when he had his first breakdown back in 68, she heard about it and helped get him back in an even keel. (Replacement mother figure, anyone?) They started seeing each other after that, and married within a couple years. She initiated most of it.

We aren't shown a lot of their relationship in its better times, only as it goes sour. I like to assume they were happy, though, when Pink was in a better state of mind. But as he got more stressed out and burnt out, he grew distant, uncommunicative.  He took more drugs and cheated on her while touring.  They probably argued, and he probably got violent during those arguments.

I really cannot, at all, blame Judy for cheating on him.

He, of course, did, though. He perceived that there was a problem with the relstionship, but was too absorbed with his own issues to face up to it, hoping that if he ignored it, it would go away, and not seriously expecting her to leave him. When he finds out she's cheated on him, that's the big event that leads him to giving up (however briefly?) on other people, and completing his Wall.

In the City, he has pursued no romantic attachments, and very likely will not, for a very long time. He's still recovering from a hell of a psychologically shattering breakup, after all. I would like him to, eventually, but it's not really something I can expect to happen anytime soon.  Poorly-thought-out drunken flings are a go, though! :D

(On a related note, I tend to treat him as a slight bisexual/heteroflexible, who usually denies and represses his attraction to guys, and is more than a little homophobic. There is no canonical basis for this (beyond the homophobia), but the psychology of that sort of thing interests me.)

[purmoncul.livejournal.com]

...Okay so no wonder these two get along pretty well. (Although thank goodness things with Remus were never that bad.)

[lovedthesun.livejournal.com]

Tara is canonically gay and it's been implied that she's been with a few ladies before Willow. I always imagined it never worked out thanks to her lack of confidence and believing she was part demon.

Willow is depicted time and time again to be her true love. Even when they didn't have their memories the attraction between them was very powerful. It's the same in the City now that they have more or less worked things out. Tara got over the fact Willow will violate her mind someday but, hasn't yet at this point in Willow's life. She can't hold something against her that hasn't happened. Despite that they are due to work things out anyways even though canon gets in the way.

Shahrazad is... something. We never find out what. The bond between Esther and Shahrazad is very close in the series despite the two only knowing each other two days. Most people assume that to mean she is a lesbian but, honestly we just don't know. If she ever were to have a love interest though it'd definitely be Esther since she straight up tells her she loves her before everything goes to hell.

In the City she has a cute friendship with Kate Kane. I imagine if she ever crushes on anyone it'd be her.... but, like who doesn't have a crush on Batwoman here? Seriously. :|

Elektra is sort of dating the Matt of her universe? It'll end in disaster soon regardless. We don't know anything about her love life before that. I imagine there was a couple guys her dad probably terrorized until they left her alone while she was in college. Again we don't really know.

In the City, she's probably forever alone since getting her to put herself out there is kind of a thing. Elektra doesn't trust easily and rather be alone than risk getting hurt. If she did have great chemistry with someone and they could deal with her closed off ways she could come around though. Yep. Had to edit that in.

[whatmuttiforgot.livejournal.com]

In canon, Momiji has only been shown to have one big event in his love life and that was Tohru. He fell for her pretty early on after meeting her but never did anything about it. He realized his cousin was in love with her before the boy even did and backed down to let them be happy.

City wise, Momiji spent a while getting over his feelings for Tohru and eventually started to gain feelings for Lily. They went to prom together and acted like silly teenagers, but it never went anywhere. Lily was ported out before anything could happen and Momiji's been out of the dating game ever since.

[cardassian]

Dukat is married in canon, to an unnamed Cardassian wife with whom he has seven children. He's a pretty crappy husband though, since he repeatedly cheats on his wife with a series of named and unnamed Bajoran women. He has a daughter with Tora Naprem, he later takes on Kira Meru as a mistress, he later impregnates Mika, and there are others too. And let's not forget his creepy suggestiveness directed at Major Kira...

Pretty much all the Bajoran women ever. :|

[cardassian]

Also he has no City-romances. No one wants that. :|