What is your favorite romantic relationship that exists within your cast (main characters or otherwise). What is it like and why do you love it so much?
Bonus: will it work long term, or is it destined to end in tragedy?
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Also this was my only thought of a response when I saw this ask lmao
I have four I wanna talk about because I forgot how much I loved some of them! Also all art I show of the characters is my own :)
Souls of Black:
GoldenGemFlower
This is my main WIP right now, and it's basically... mature fantasy Minecraft? Anyway, I have a main romance I want to do between three ladies of the main cast, named Reaper, Phoebe, and Galisa. Their ship name right now is GoldenGemFlower. And I think I like it so much because polyamory isn't something I've explored much in my writing (since I myself am monogamous) but also it's GAY WHOO! But also for the reasons I'm about to give:
Their relationship started out, uh--complicated, to say the least. A trove of 'I can't talk about my feelings properly' for a variety of different reasons. Emotionally closed off (Reaper) x chronic people pleaser (Phoebe) x does Not know feelings outside of formal settings (Galisa). Reaper meets Phoebe first, then Galisa later on. So naturally (and since Reaper x Phoebe was a thing before the polycule idea), Reaper and Phoebe start catching feelings for each other. But neither of them know what to do about it. Then, Galisa comes along. Reaper already doesn't like her due to her kind of wealthier status, and then she misinterprets Galisa's friendly gestures towards Phoebe as Galisa also having a crush on Phoebe. Meanwhile Galisa doesn't have that yet. Her crushes, on both Phoebe and Reaper, come later. Eventually they do all realize their feelings and talk fully and get together though <3
The thing I like about most (after all the juicy misunderstandings and messy feelings that is) about them though is that they do help each other grow. Reaper and Phoebe (moreso Phoebe) help Galisa learn to express her feelings more, among other things. Reaper and Galisa help teach Phoebe that it's okay to stand up for herself against her friends sometimes. And Phoebe and Galisa help Reaper slowly see that it is okay to trust people, and not everyone is always out to get her. They all sort of heal from their troubles together and it's so beautiful to me :')
Unfortunately there is some tragedy along the way.... but I shan't say more >:)
From left to right: Reaper, Phoebe, and Galisa
Putting a read more so it doesn't clog dashes but do please read more I love rambling hehe (for those that know them, I've got two ships from Call of the Void and then WorldsDuo my beloved <33)
Call of the Void
Ruban
This ship is for the two leads of Call of the Void, which is like Percy Jackson on steroids with extra steps, for the simplest explanation. Said two leads are Ruby Darkshine and Ryan Gunther, and they're. Gosh I forgot how much I loved them.
They start out kinda as grumpy x comedic relief. Ruby has the mentality of never trusting anyone as anyone could betray you and hurt you, and Ryan uses jokes and quips to brush off the seriousness of their 'almost dying daily' lifestyle fighting against an evil magic organization. Ruby reluctantly teams up with Ryan after he saves her life, but eventually starts warming up to him. Ryan has a nasty habit of trying to protect her even at the cost of himself, and she drills it into him to not do that. Ryan also shows his more vulnerable side after a while, to which Ruby is there to be a shoulder to lean on. Overall it's two rather broken people finding safe places to rest within the other, while also being a badass Power Couple.
They have some bumps in the road during their relationship; Ryan reveals a big secret that shatters Ruby's perception of him for a while. Ruby almost dies to an evil entity trying to possess her to kill humanity. Ryan almost dies to a different evil entity later on. But they both live!! They get a happy ending after all of it :) Which, for a while it was Ryan did just die at the end of Legends of the Cosmos (a kind of collection that CoV's the start of). But he doesn't anymore, yippee!!
Art of Ryan and Ruby. Ryan is the brunette on the left, Ruby's with the red highlights on the right. Ignore the middle guy for now he's not important lol
Risabell/ShadowCard (the second name's a new ship name I thought of legit thirty minutes ago lmao)
THIS ship is easily in my top three, maybe even my top two for CoV ships. It's got Riot, a perfectionist jester themed villain who takes joy in manipulating and making wisecracks about people, and Isabell Casimiro, no-nonsense Agent of Chaos (that evil organization that Ruby and Ryan fight) who tries her damnedest to focus on her mission and serve well.
They're great.
Riot has a habit of getting in people's personal space, and Isabell is no exception during the brief period the two work together. And she does it especially more since Riot quickly develops a crush on Isabell. Isabell kind of indulges in Riot's half advances, but she doesn't let it get more than that as relationships are often dangerous in the Agents of Chaos.
Then later, when they work together way more, it's more of them ignoring feelings and trying to not say things out loud. It devolves into messy on and offs of them bantering and flirting, then suddenly Isabell not seeming to want to do anything with Riot at all (often to put more focus on work/her job as an Agent), and then back again, all with the occasional (more than occasional) secret sex.
Eventually they do get their shit together and actually start dating, when they're in a safer place to do so. But I love the secretness and 'will they wont they' part of their relationship a lot, it's fun :D
Art of both Riot and Isabell. Riot has the purple jacket and mask, and Isabell has the black and bronze outfit <3
WorldsDuo
WorldsDuo isn't a part of any sort of WIP I'm making; it's moreso me mashing my and my partner's Minecraft OCs together for funsies. WorldsDuo is the ship for Reaper x Yoda (no, not the green guy. But fret not, Yoda is due for a name change soon as my partner reworks him. I just have no clue what it is.)
'Reaper?' you might be wondering. 'From Souls of Black?"
Yes, in fact. Only, this Reaper is a version further into the future from her SoB self. She meets Yoda after Souls of Black takes place.
And their entire aesthetic is 'doomed immortal soulmates'.
Reaper and Yoda have been through a lot of shit, both together and separately. Reaper has the entirety of Souls of Black. Yoda has the entirety of his origin story, currently called Recreance. Both face heavy losses, and when they meet, it just gets worse. They start off rocky--Reaper still has her distrustful tendencies, and unfortunately no memory of SoB or its lessons-- so they're not exactly friends. But later they slowly start becoming it. They go on a mining trip, Yoda gets possessed by sculk; Reaper has to kill him to save him. She hates and faults herself for it. She befriends his ghost. His ghost kills himself after finding out about Yoda from a book from a mysterious entity called The Game Master. Yoda doesn't hate her. She ends up accidentally helping someone who hates Yoda have him killed again. Later Yoda gets possessed by a much worse, much more evil and cunning entity, and then kills all of Reaper's friends in that World, and himself, and leaves her alone under its influence.
Then, in a new World, they actually start dating. Things go well, Reaper gets her SoB memories. They live in a nice quaint cabin together. Then it's revealed Yoda has secrets he isn't willing to share, while Reaper wants to share everything between them because she's worried about secrets getting them killed. It's a never ending argument and she breaks up with him. She hates herself for this and is nigh suicidal yet she can't die. Yoda hates himself for losing her and descends into alcoholism.
In a newer World, things still suck. Reaper's trying to forget about Yoda and has adopted a son, but Yoda shows up in that World again. They are always destined to find each other. They kind of co-parent Reaper's adopted son. When said son gets infected with a parasite they argue about who will kill him if the need arises. Reaper and Yoda start mending again. Later it's revealed Yoda made a deal with the evil entity that possessed him, called The Origin, for it to handle threats in his life so he could try and live normally after never having been able to, and that's one of the big secrets he was keeping from Reaper. The Game Master's back, and both he and The Origin are taking turns whacking Reaper with the Trauma stick. Reaper hallucinating Yoda's ghost, and wanting her friend back, gets possessed and tricked into killing Yoda permanently. Reaper doesn't trust herself anymore and hates herself further for killing Yoda again. She can't ever not kill the people she loves. Yoda's ghost doesn't even remember her, and later history repeats, and he finds the book from The Game Master again and dies again to bring Yoda back. Yoda helps Reaper from a breakdown, and finally tells her his other secret: that he had a wife and son before but his wife died and he unwillingly was torn from his son. They've slowly started mending again and confronting their feelings.
Reaper reminds him of his wife. Yoda reminds Reaper of both Phoebe and Galisa. They each see both their past joys and past biggest mistakes in the other yet still want so desperately to be loved, to finally have rest from the torment that is their lives.
Many such things are left out because I'm going off the top of my head, but least of all to say their history and relationship is so complicated and sad. And I love it! :D
WorldsDuo is just... they're destined to find each other but never stay together. One of them will always die. One of them will always kill the other. Both of them wish for an end that will never come. Both of them simply want a quiet peaceful life with the other, but the Worlds seem to not want to give it to them sob
Look. They even have matching thematic art with the titles the Universe and their lives have given them. I'm gonna throw up.
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Well, I hope that answer sufficed for you! Any followup questions from anybody are always welcome! Also, I think it's obvious which of these ships is my utmost favorite, pfft.
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I'd draw Iron Lung fanart because the movie fucking slapped but unfortunately I have the Disease of Only Putting My OCs in Things. I've drawn like 3 pieces of fanart in my whole life. Don't think I didn't love Iron Lung it was SO GREAT!!
But it may very well end up me drawing Reaper parallels with some of the quites because whewww boy if there aren't some parallels
I just finished writing Chapter 3 of my new RDR2 Online OC fic!!! Who knew when the chapters are a lot shorter, you can get more done faster 😅
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Fifteen months ago, Reaper and Theodore lost the one thing they cared about most: each other. Reaper wanted a life of honesty between them, while Theo thought some things were better left unsaid.
Eventually, they broke off, and in no way was it clean. But the scar left behind is one of the most painful either has had to deal with.
Now, Awakened in an unfamiliar world, Reaper and Theo meet yet again unexpectedly, entangled in a setup and framed for a murder neither had any chance to commit. Worse yet, the world thinks it knows both of them, as both mysteriously share faces with two people it seems to hate.
With no way out and no one else to fully trust, the two must work together to escape the web of mysteries and secrets they've found themselves in...ones that both dredge up old memories, and threaten to put bullets in both of their heads.
Read In Desolate Pastures on AO3 now! As of right now, I plan for updates every Monday :)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Been playing a lot of Red Dead Redemption II with my partner recently, and so of course we made WorldsDuo (Yoda and Reaper) in it. I'll get the pictures of us together later since the above were all just screenshots.
The game's been pretty neat so far--at least, the online mode lmao. I've yet to play the proper campaign. Western Reaper thoughts are very silly indeed; I'll likely draw the first two if not all of the screenshots here later.
Back to the WorldsDuo bit: having fun with the ideas of a fic about Reaper and Yoda being in Red Dead suddenly. Either its A) during both of their origin story times, or B) after the break up they have. Both ideas have chances to be great and silly but the latter appeals to me because:
Post Breakup Angst
Both of them are tbh in their primes still (they're so Fucking Cool(TM)), and Western setting will honestly just crank that to 20!!!
Possible fluff in the form of hopefully they talk about their feelings (they are both super bad at this)
I dunno, I might write a lil somethin somethin, who knows. Admittedly I've got more ideas for post breakup than origin-story-time. BUT that one could also be cool
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WorldsDuo makes me SICK will you two just MAKE UP AND KISS ALREADY
(Screenshots taken from the compilation document I have of oneshots regarding Reaper, mostly in her time after Souls of Black. Trigger Warnings for death/murder.)
"Look at me." Yoda's voice was firm, and Reaper latched onto it, looking up even as she trembled, tears streaming down her face. Yoda set his hands on her shoulders, meeting her eyes.
"I don't care what happened, I need you to breathe." His grip tightened slightly, and she flinched. It instantly loosened again. "We can worry about whatever the fuck happened while I was gone, after you breathe. That is the only thing that matters right now."
It took her a few minutes, her brain still reeling even as she gasped for the futile, deep breaths to try and calm herself down.
"Okay..." Her voice broke on the word, choked between small, quiet sobs.
