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I love my character's canon ship to death. I'd play it all day every day if I could.

But unfortunately no one plays his love interest that I've seen, and I've tried to find someone ATP/bakerstreet to no avail for months now, so I've given up on finding anyone to play her. I'm still really in the mood for shippy/smutty stuff with this character, though, and have been considering a few games.

However, he's really loyal and dedicated to his canon girlfriend. He literally died for her and the end of the canon ultimately presented their relationship as unbreakable true love. I don't want to erase the canon love interest (because, like I said, I do really love the ship) or have him behave OOCly, but I also don't want him to be a guilty mopey sadsack because that's no fun. I'm not too fond of memes, and the character is obscure enough that my top levels pretty much never get replies and my tag-outs have a pretty poor response rate, too.

Am I just out of luck with this particular character or has anyone made something like this work?

You might be out of luck, but it also depends on how flexible you're willing to be with them. Is there an earlier canon point where they weren't as obsessed with her? Is there a point in time you can take him from where his romantic interests aren't all about her? Are you willing to, if you bring him into a game, work around the fact that you may not get a canon love interest and therefore might have to deal with "YOU'RE SO OOC BECAUSE X LOVES Y AND OMG" from ignorant assholes who can't understand needing to bend icness to fit in to certain places if you happen to maybe play out him moving on or understanding that game =/= home and have him embrace that?

Like, it'd be great if you could get your canon ship mate, but games are one of the places that crosscanon pairings are usually ok. And if you play a char where it's obscure enough that the idea of you getting a castmate or your char's partner coming in is so low, I don't really think anyone could fault you for moving past that, particularly in a smut/shipping game. There's kind of a lot more leeway for things like that in smut games, but even then, you'll find some random person that'll have a bug up their butt if you don't play out x exactly as their canon portrays. I was brought up on WG not too long ago for not playing out my canon pairing in a smut game, even though both myself and the player of the love interest had no love for the ship and had agreed not to bother playing it. Outside parties are always going to be your weirdest judges, but, if you feel like having something like that pointed out is something you can deal with and not get upset by it, then by all means, app them in. The idea that someone's going to shit on you for shipping your character in a shipping game with their not partner when their partner's not in game is something I can totally understand, but I also don't think you should worry about it. Smut games are generally more tolerable, both in terms of shipping and orientation.

what games are you considering, anon? because shipping/sex games are usually more willing to overlook this kind of thing for the sake of the premise.

Have him fall for someone who is a lot like his canon girlfriend.

I've seen this work before, anon. You're basically going to have to hope that your character is practical enough to know they need to fit in in the short term if they want any hope of reuniting in the long term. Most of the smut games have some kind of a mechanic that makes it a required thing, so especially if you go for one of those, your character will have to be able to do a little rationalizing/separating physical sex from the emotional attachment they have to their partners.

Not all characters will really work out great for this. You'll just have to figure out if your character can swing it.

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