#And then rial being a very romantic person and also being aromantic and wanting a relationship

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Okay so. Fictional fantasy world, the first trio is set a little before the outlawing of magic as a practice. Daniel, character A, is a blue eyed, blond, pansexual nobleborn human from the north who ran away from home/his responsibilities as heir when he was in his late teens. He ran away with Emyr, character B, his first boyfriend. (Emyr’s a latira, so hes very short and red/gray—kinda the color of clay and stone)

they decide to travel south with a trading caravan, end up in the centerlands, decide that they have some traditional education in combat and should try their hand at being mercenaries

after a while they kinda fall into an on again, off again sort of relationship bc they work better as friends but they still love each other. Weird but it works for them

they end up meeting another human who joins the guild, Alex. Fae ends up joining their team and it takes faer a while to meld well with the two of them but it works out after a while. Fae’s aroace

they get a little older, daniel and emyr decide that theyre better off as friends. Theyre still kinda in love w each other tho

Then Rial comes along! (Character C) Dark brown hair, black eyes, light brown skin, kathay (shes a catgirl. Ill own up to kathays just being cat people.) Shes cupioromantic! Also super hesitant to connect and be emotionally vulnerable w the others bc magic is kinda taboo at this point in time and she doesnt want them to find out that she has it, so she acts p aloof at the beginning

daniel kinda osmosis-es her into the group despite her hesitation. There’s obvious pining on his part that rial kinda misreads as general friendliness, but emyr kinda helps to push them together, in his own jokey teasing sorta way

one near-death experience later, daniel and rial end up getting into a romantic relationship. Alex is back to miming throwing up every time daniel and his partner display excessive pda in front of faer

im contemplating having like. A moment later on when daniel tells rial abt emyr being his ex and still liking him and shes like “ok cool why not have TWO significant others” and having them like. Sit down to have a conversation abt bein a throuple

also rial and alex bonding over being aro in different ways my beloved

and then the other set is like. A thousand years later, after magic has died out in almost all of Edivitaer. Also in the centerlands but on the northern side, where the previous trio is on the southern side

MiKayla is character A in the second trio—kathay, blue hair, cool colored lighter skin, purple eyes, transmasc bi lesbian (lull uses they/he/lull) that got outed as trans while they were dating character B, Ariyana!

ari is a human from the southern most coastal city—dark skin, really curly hair, track star and stealth trans girl lesbian—and moved there when she was little. She met MiKayla through track (but he also plays basketball) and they dated for a little while, little under a year, before Ariyana realized that she was aromantic and that a romantic relationship wasnt really what she wanted, so they had a talk, broke up on good terms, still remain best friends. Ari is exceptionally fond of him bc of that time that they spent in a relationship making them super close, and while she might consider being in a qpr w MiKayla, she doesnt feel like its the right time for that so theyve settled on close friends

The following year character C, Kia—half kathay half human, black hair, really short, currently a junior, generally a quiet person—moves to town. Ariyana, then a senior, is assigned as Kia’s guide to the new school. MiKayla tags along

now, miki is the kind of person to fall in love with a lot of people really fast, so lull’s instantly enamored with this new, interesting person and immediately tries to become her friend. Extrovert adopting an introvert style.

its not a very long time until they end up going out, and ari is more than happy to see her friend in a happy relationship w someone they like

MiKayla, as the only openly trans person at school (even if it was against their will. Rip bad friends) and a friendly upperclassman (lulls a junior) ends up adopting a pair of queer sophomores into their friend group. Cas is questioning his gender at the time (ends up being a trans dude) and his friend, Bell, is genderqueer, aromantic, and bi! And very romance replused

theres like a little mini plot abt bell having a lot of angst over her romance repulsion, talking w ari abt it and figuring out she’s aromantic through ariyana naming the term. And cas has a crush on her, and ends up falling in love with her after they graduate, get an apartment together while cas goes to college, become fwb. Bell has a hard time after cas says hes in love with her, but they come to an understanding that cas doesnt expect anything but her friendship, and they end up staying fwb

if i had a nickel for every trio of ocs ive created where character A—mspec, has a light and/or colorful color palette, charismatic, tall, and masculine—used to date character B—also athletic, but shorter, with a darker color scheme, and longer hair—and they broke up but stayed on good terms and remained friends, and then A met character C—shorter than A, dark hair, more reserved—got a crush on C, B helped them get together BUT theres lingering feelings on B’s end partially bc it was their first real relationship but theyre still happy for A. AND ive considered making them a throuple. AND one of them is arospec. AND they have a romance averse aro friend. i would have two nickels. Which isnt a lot but its weird that ots happened twice