#fictional relationships

[hezekiahwakely]

Um. I've been thinking about fictional romantic relationships and how I identify and. I have a question as someone struggling to identify as aromantic.

[bloodtiesstilllives]

Let's Talk About Henry And Lestat Pt 3: Stubborn Loves

In the last two segments we got into a bit about both of them and their personal family histories. (This is show only, but if anyone can put together analyzing them together from the books, please feel free. I will post it immediately. Just notify me.)

Today we are going to talk about something very important to these characters and what they do.

They are both in love with some VERY stubborn people.

Henry is in love with Vicki Nelson. Her dad left when she was young, so she developed a tough shell. This served her well when she was a police officer. But then her genetics exploded and her eyes are failing her. Note the glasses in the picture. That stubborn pride forced her to pick herself up and go into business for herself as a private investigator.

Lestat is in love with Louis. Stubborn. Developed a tough shell. He had to. Not only is he a man who is the head of his family, he is a black man in the south who is the head of his whole family. This toughness served him well in his career as a pimp. He was tough, but he seemed fair.

Take a vampire with life experience, baggage, and a certain detachment from humanity, and a stubborn human with all sorts of emotional baggage, mix it together and see what happens.

Both Vicki and Louis have gotten so far under their respective vampires skin, that both at one point or another had a break in composure, to say the least.

It is what it is.

Both of the gifs above were times they got frustrated when their loves were doing something totally in character. LoL just because you love someone doesn't mean they don't get on your nerves.

Also, their loves are badasses in their own right, even if their vampire is way stronger then them. That badassery is what attracted the vampires to them in the first place. Neither of these stubborn loves care about limitations, and will dive into the shit head first if their mind is set on it.

[bizarreaizen]

i'm aroace who isn't really a fan of romance in real life but i absolutely love romance in fiction like with ships especially with rareships, i absolutely love rareships and just general romance in fiction :3 /gen

[lifenconcepts]

He’s your “baby girl”?… your ‘baby girl’ smells like cigarettes and stale bread pookie, I don’t think you are even legally allowed to be within arms length of him.

[aejiee]

Mind you I will be spending the rest of this valentine's evening obsessing over fictional character's relationships instead of my nonexistent one 😍

[idiototheinternet]

These are all things that make me go FERAL to think about my ships and my partner and I doing

The 3 most popular ill draw fanart for with one of the ships chosen in a different poll

(btw I'm getting really into Danganronpa bc of my partner @addi-the-boxhead524 )

[ohmyplasticstars]

Fuck life I confess enjoying Giant X tiny romance

Nothing makes me kick my feet harder than fuckin,,, GIANT x tiny y'all my heart

Tragical giant x ray of sunshine tiny

I'll eat up and leave no crumbs and come back for more yall

Tragical tiny x Happy gaint while not my first choice still mwah

Because the fluff is immaculate, I love hugs, I love getting hugs I love hugging, who can be great at hugging? a mountain sized beef cake of any gender ofcourse

And personally, I must confess, I feel disappointed every time I find a giant tiny fanfic and it's just a human dude x tiny fairy, if you love it, good for you! ^^❤️

BUT HEAR ME OUT The pizzaz of having it be an actual giant (the type that can rip a tree out with it's single bare hand) x a lil small guy just,,, mwah I eat it up like it's the last drop of food on earth

Like like,,, they can cuddle and have fluffy moments,,, walk around, tease eachother lightheartedly, nose booping, petting

Aaaaa-

Like please please please please scary dog privileges giant x little guy please please please like tame big scary beast ass shit

Omnomnomonlmknkmnhsjsgdks-

Please someone agree with me I'm very shy about this love of mine I think too much about this someone save me someone agree with me please talk with me about this shit recommend me stuff (best recommendations are Scary AHH big giant x tiny lil guy) meowmoewmoemwowm-

[9ofspades]

I saw some of the notes on the other poll and it made me curious about the actual breakdown.

[nobleclover]

Oh man, I really love wholesome AUs where my OTPs have happy lives together - with or without kids. Which is strange because I don't want kids and am ambivalent about finding a partner. Idk, maybe, because I kinda like to imagine some of them as stable, which is unfortunately something that I want but can't realistically have for many reasons. So, I just draw or write them out.

Something like what is shown below.

[sweet-cuddlebug]

I just realized I don't have a healthy mlm relationship in my stories (and no toxic wlw)

I used to have a healthy and toxic relationship for both mlm and wlw (unplanned, but fun)

In the toxic wlw relationship one of the characters ended up being aromantic and became unrequited love

And in the healthy mlm relationship one of the characters ended up being not a man so I guess it doesn't count as mlm anymore

Now I have this beautiful relationship with an air of cottage core between Lizzy, a dressmaker with dreams of greatness and a powerful maternal instinct, and her fiancée Jessie, a librarian trying to enjoy her life while supporting her beloved to fulfill her dreams (friends to lovers style, Lizzy supported Jessie during her transition and getting back on her feet, Jessie supports Lizzy in taking care of her two adopted children and fulfilling her dreams of becoming a famous fashionista)

And then

This toxic radioactive manipulative predatory relationship between Ezekiel, a trumatized fugitive man with the ability to create and control ice, who ended up idolizing and eventually falling in love (It is *not* love) with Murray, a sick individual with the ability to create and control darkness who discovered a way to extend his lifespan through very dark hehe methods. (In this case Ezekiel was forced to get away from his family, being seen as a murderer, he ended up meeting Murray who decided to help him not out of pity but because he knew what Ezekiel was capable of. Murray manipulates and takes advantage of Eze's trauma using him as a tool to achieve his goal, while Eze sees Murray as his savior and the only person he would give his life for, and the person for whom he has sacrificed many other lives (plus they are pirates, forgot about that))

[livin-in-fantasy]

You realize that a fictional relationship is toxic only when you try and put yourself in their place (aside from the really obvious ones).

Books promote unrealistic relationship ideals, the key is communication. Find out what works for you, if a particular guy or girl makes you feel insignificant, anxious or stressed, remember that's not how a relationship works.

It's important for us to know the difference between fantasy and reality. Toxic relationships do not make you look cool, they just ruin you from within.

The tall, dark and mysterious guy only gets you excited in a book. Thee controlling one, you would get really pissed if your boyfriend kept a track of all your activities when you have been dating for a month.

Be in healthy relationships people, don't hesitate to leave ur toxic partner.

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

"I want my fictional relationships to be healthy." "I want my fictional relationships to be fucked up."

I want whatever the fuck's more interesting for the story at hand. Some stories lend themselves well to fucked up interpersonal relationships. Others better to healthy relationships. But i want whichever is gonna make it more interesting.

A couple battling a beast while having a relationship argument is meh maybe a heavy handed metaphor. A healthy couple getting married while in the middle of a sea battle (ala pirate) is absolutely delightful.

A couple making goo goo eyes at each other at a family dinner that's going well is meh. A couple passive aggressively having an argument in the middle of a dinner that everyone is trying to remain polite through that's fantastic.

Fucked up v. healthy is a stupid as dynamic for fiction. It's is this shit interesting and that's all that matters.

[deliciouskeys]

Just curious 🧐

[wrong-turn-ronald]

I think in the same way there's a 90/10 rule with horror and comedy (horror works best when it's 90% horror and 10% comedy and vice versa) there's a 90/10 rule for some relationships in fiction that's like. Wholesome and fucked up. A good friendship is at its most compelling when it's also 10% a bit fucked up. Fucked up relationship is at its most compelling when there's at least 10% of something actually sweet and substantive within. Do you get me

[aesethewitch]

When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.