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If you can find me someone that's not a honeytrap, not crazy, and can handle my issues... And the stress of being uncertain if I'm going to come home, or die on some backwater world she's probably never heard of...

Or better yet, if we're working on an op together. Love a woman that can handle herself and is about it.
 
I’m going to be honest in that I find the concept or writing a romance kind of icky in most ways. I had a former friend beg me to write romance for years and then blow up at me when I wasn’t attracted to them OOC. It just seems so easy to blur the lines between IC and OOC. Then people get so mad if it doesn’t go the right way but realistically people break up… people cheat… and people in actual war are probably so traumatized who knows what happens? To me this makes a story more interesting but in the past I’ve taken shade over a love story not being a storybook romance.

That being said though I have been slowly dipping my toe back into the waters to see if I’d be any good at it. Kat is skating around that area with Connel (it’s a will they/wont they arc that we aren’t even sure which way it will go). To me that’s a good story and since Caltin isn’t a complete creep OOC he’s cool to just let it happen even if it ends in tragedy. It feels like that’s what you really need to make this work, a good partner who isn’t looking to live vicariously through a random love story on a rp site.

I am open to trying to explore it with other chars too. Right now I just don’t feel like I have a lot of core friends that are super close to do that with here yet. But I’m ever searching. I do have a few and my inbox is open coz I wanna make more besties.
100% get this. Seen it happen many times. Seen the lines blur. People catch feelings. Or get mad about OOC stuff. Or get OOC mad about IC stuff. Storybook is fine, but sometimes something more complex or off-axis can be great. Often times it's best to just see where things go. I've currently got a couple things going on in the romance sphere, but have not an inkling of interest in my fellow writers as far as that goes. Friends? Absolutely. I've found a few new friends to write with that I already like a lot.

Takes the right emotional maturity, and being able to keep IC/OOC separate. That's the big one. Communication too with your writing partners. Sharing ideas, what's working, what's not, and what you're enjoying or not. And it doesn't even have to be laid out like that. Follow interest and energy. The rest usually works itself out.
 
rq gonna take this opportunity to say Galen is available ladies!
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