if things hadn't gone the way they did, with the plant, and orin dying and everything, do you think audrey and seymour ever would have come together romantically? this can be answered ic or ooc. or both!
ooc;; thank u for the question!! iāll keep this answer out of character just because itās a little hard for audrey to have all the info to answer without breaking some timeline rules.
iām going to try to break the answer down into different obstacles and whether or not i think they could be managed, but know off the bat: i think itās super unlikely. part of the pain in their story is that they both so OBVIOUSLY love each other but exist in a situation where their sad, meager lives would have kept them at odds without the plant eliminating orin, boosting seymourās self esteem, and giving them the financial power to consider leaving new york. their romance is supposed to make you ache because itās SO OBVIOUS but is just not quite possibleĀ for one reason or another at all times.
one of the most frustrating but absolutely certain facets of audrey and seymourās relationship is that they are both convinced the other could never reciprocate their feelings. in audreyās case, she even seems to deny having feelings for seymour, although itās a half-hearted effort at best. what itās really about, for her, is avoiding feeling like she deserves seymour, which she thinks admitting she cares for him would do. theirĀ ās/he could never love meā game is notorious and HELLA STRONG. i seriously doubt if they would ever have been able to move past friendship because of this factor alone. crystal, ronette, and chiffon could be a potential out, though, so i wonāt say that would ABSOLUTELY prevent it.
orin himself is a pretty big problem, though. audrey is terrified of him, but also has become deeply affected by his abuse, believing he just might be the only man that could ever love her. even if he were to try and dump her, itās questionable how well audrey would take it and if she wouldnāt go crawling right back to him. suppose he stayed with her though, just to explore every possible avenue. if audrey found out seymour had feelings for her while still dating orin it would absolutely tear her up. sheād want to be with seymour, but the idea of orin ever finding out and potentially hurting seymour is too great a risk. she would be afraid even just thinking about seymour, as if orin could somehow read her mind and find out the truth. seymour would have to convince audrey to leave orin, and that wouldnāt be possible unless they could get away from skid row, where audrey could feel safe that he wouldnāt find her. and they couldnāt get that kind of money without the plant. so the plant is essential to audrey leaving orin.
UNLESS orin tried to kill her. if the attempt was ever made then audrey would have no logic in herĀ āthink what heād do if he ever got madā reason for staying; heās escalated as far as he can and she has nothing to lose anymore by making him angry. in this circumstance, she could potentially be convinced to leave him for seymour or accept seymourās help to get away from him and then discover seymourās feelings and reciprocate them. so this oneās a maybe, but itās not a terribly easy one, or a happy one. orinās still alive and could show up again to hurt them, so the only real option is to leave skid row, which they canāt do. a confrontation is bound to happen.
now iām not a seymour expert, but if i can say so much: seymour also definitely feels like he would need to be a wealthier man to be with audrey. while audreyās feeling of insufficiency springs from a moral standpoint (i.e. she thinks sheās aĀ ābad girlā and heās more wholesome than her), seymourās springs from a social/financial standpoint (i.e. he thinks he could never provide for her or beĀ ācoolā to her), and this second problem is a lot harder to solve if true. audreyās not right about herself, of course, but if she were, a simple adjustment in behavior is the fix for them to be together. if seymourās right, though, he would need to become hella rich hella fast and get some of that orin swag to change his social standing. because he has no way for this kind of self-improvement without audrey ii, thereās no way seymour could feel comfortable pursuing audrey under the circumstances set forth at the beginning of the show.
these are the 3 biggest problems i see, and again likeā¦. if the stars aligned and some ex machina nonsense gave them likeā¦. winning lotto tickets and a freight train right to orinās face,then maybe. but i donāt think it would have been super likely.












