Now it's time for my ROMANTIC dream!

[shanghaiworld]

this place really needs to be used more

So, we all play in a game based on the ideas of romance. So, I was thinking, why don't we all talk about that?

By that I mean why not tell us about your characters and romance. Do they have someone they fancy/are with? Do you have plans for them in this sense? How into ladies are they? Do they enjoy longs walks, dinners or something else entirely? What would they want from a relationship? Or do they just want nothing to do with it all?

So, come on, speak up and talk about romanticism and relationships!

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[esoteric_rose]

Grell and romance-at surface level, it is another element to be added to the great stage play of life, for Love and Death are so closely intertwined-see Romeo and Juliet, which she has memorised completely. Love and being in love are passions she considers exquisitely divine, however the common forms of natural love, like the ways of her time of showing little affection, are something she has absolutely no desire to work with or accept as her life. She wants to be pulled to the side in a darkened corridor and kissed passionately, wants someone who will get jealous and defend her honour, wants arguments resolved with embracing in the rain, wants to tango on a dance floor while the world looks on with disapproving propriety-veiled eyes. To that end, she would do the exact same to her true love, being fiercely protective and doing whatever they wished as long as they stayed close to her. Love is something she considers necessary to a fulfilling life, and in that regard, something she needs to have in her life.

My use of gender-neutral pronouns is no coincidence, I firmly believe Grell is pansexual, in part to both her race and her own gender. Reapers seem more advanced than humanity in canon, and so it's not a stretch to think that they would have different codes and social rules than the present day Victorian England. Why does it matter who is in love with who, as long as you get your job done? Certainly there might be some funny looks, but at the end of the day, do you really care that the fellow working in Dispatch goes home to another man? Adding onto that mindset, reapers aren't supposed to bring their emotions into their job, love being one of them, so love is in general valued little. (Grell is an exception to this, as she is to pretty much everything.) Now, with all of that influencing her, Grell is also transgender. Having to come to terms with herself and knowing exactly how hard that would be, I believe she would not see herself in a position to judge anyone for who they loved or happened to think was sexy, or judge herself for falling for someone no matter what their body looked like. Even with her body matching her mind at last, she'll not discard the life lessons she learned from that. She fell in love with Angelina completely, in spite of her attraction to her superior officer-something I see as more of a power dynamic at the core, even though it doesn't hurt that William's ridiculously attractive, and had a crush on Sebastian for his violence and cool ways. I don't think she would deem any of these a "fake" love necessarily (though that flirting? Watch how it only revs up as a battle tactic-and only after Angelina is dead.) though some are more fleeting than others. In the Gardens, Grell has definitely shifted over to more homosexual inclinations than her base neutrality, but rather to be expected after having relationships with both Dot and Zenobia. I have no more plans for the future, but am entirely open to her falling in love again-she has a whole list of people she'd love to kiss.

Don't take that to mean she'd flutter about from person to person-she's flirty with a whole host of people-but as far as acting on it? Heck no. Loyalty is a prime virtue for her, and she wouldn't cheat unless for some reason her relationship was going horribly, horribly wrong (and even then, she'd prefer to break it off before becoming unfaithful). She falls in love easily, but again, it wraps about to true lovers in fiction, who stay together with their burning affections even with other temptations. Her love is scattered about until she can focus it on one person with returned affections. Juliet didn't marry Paris even though her husband was dead to her. Devotion to one person, far enough to break rules and codes both legal and social, is at the core of her love. As much as they give to her, she'll give in return, and likely even more. Because no matter what the world throws at her as far as reality, she'll still believe in true love.

[pinokosthewife]

Awwwwwww. ♥

From one believer in true love (and whose mind works like a romance novel) to another, PREACH IT, SISTER.

Seriously, though, that's very well thought out! ;3;

[esoteric_rose]

TRUE LOVE IS THE BEST LOVE

and thank you very much! ^^

[britainsbiscuits]

She wants to be pulled to the side in a darkened corridor and kissed passionately, wants someone who will get jealous and defend her honour, wants arguments resolved with embracing in the rain, wants to tango on a dance floor while the world looks on with disapproving propriety-veiled eyes.

This is just like england. hehehe. come to mommy~

[esoteric_rose]

/comes ;_;

Mama I want my great romance someday

[britainsbiscuits]

*embraces and pets*

We'll wish for one together