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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[hopelessdreamer]

Gal is kind of tricky, because she's been shaped by her circumstances. And they're...pretty crappy circumstances. (I think Claire is the only non-tragic character I play...) Unlike some other canons where it's ambiguous, Abyss is a decidedly heteronormative world, so she's slightly homophobic in the sense that she just...doesn't really understand same-sex relationships. Simply since she never encountered them. She's adjusted to the idea somewhat from her time in the Gardens, but it still confuses her a little. That said, Gal has distanced herself from the idea of ever having a romantic relationship in the first place, because of another problem:

She kind of has a crippling fear of guys.

And by kind of I mean, when she was five years old, her family was killed and her older brother's body fell on her, trapping her underneath it. She was rescued by a servant after being left for dead, but ever since then, she can't get physically near a man without nearly having a panic attack. This made her life pretty difficult, especially since she insisted on learning swordsmanship in order to honor her brother's sacrifice. As a servant in the Fabre household, she was thankfully assigned to their only daughter as her personal maid, but she still had to answer to the Duke, his knights, and his chief manservant.

She finds men attractive, certainly, but since any advances tended to end in disaster, she almost unconsciously tries to make herself undesirable to them. She never even considered a woman finding her attractive, so there's that. But with the idea presented to her, she resents it a little because she sees it as an insult. As if she'd have to settle for being with a woman simply because she couldn't handle being with a man.

All of this really isn't great for her self-esteem, which is a contrast between her and her male canon counterpart.

tl;dr 21, still a virgin with a lot of internalized self-deprecation. Fun.