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⌈ Secret Post #4230 ⌋

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Comments

Writing characters who have spouses/significant others with other people

[(Anonymous)]

What do you do if both people in your ship are in a relationship with/married to other people? Pretend the significant others/spouses don't exist? Have them break up/get divorced? Kill them off (although that one feels a little weird to me)?

After getting into a new super small, obscure fandom with no fic for my ship, I'm thinking of writing some. I'm not sure how to handle the fact that they're both committed to other people, though.

What do you guys do?

Re: Writing characters who have spouses/significant others with other people

[(Anonymous)]

Either write an AU where they never got together or try to find a credible way to write their break up. By credible, I mean, without character bashing or making them inexplicably and OOC evil.

Re: Writing characters who have spouses/significant others with other people

[(Anonymous)]

Write the story as a non-romantic friendship, as a friendship with "if only" overtones, or actually spend some time having each go through a divorce.

Re: Writing characters who have spouses/significant others with other people

[(Anonymous)]

This actually rarely comes up for me, because I've a tendency to let canon ships stand and focus my shipping energies elsewhere most of the time, but the times it HAS come up ... apparently I mostly solve it with polyamory. That's usually been with three involved parties rather than four, which is easier, but I've had the start of fourway polyamory in a couple of fandoms.

In another fandom, I had the canon pairs break up, paired up the slash ship, and then paired up the femslash ship as well afterwards. Not entirely amicably, but with some work good enough to be going on with. The ladies had some wounds in common by then, which worked to lead them towards each other.

And when all else fails I usually just go AU. Works wonders. I usually try and keep the canon pair as a friendship when I do, just to keep the fact that they're important to each other.

I think I've only ever once killed off a canon spouse, and that was by old age a good while post-canon, because the characters lent themselves well to being two crotchety old men finally falling in with each other in the twilight of their lives.

Re: Writing characters who have spouses/significant others with other people

[(Anonymous)]

I've read lots of fics where the canon relationships break up or end in death, but the story doesn't go into detail about it, that is, the fic takes place in the near future when the relationships are already over. This is all referenced, but it's not what the fic is about. You can end the canon relationships without having to tell that story.

Personally, I don't like character bashing or canon partners being written as really OOC terrible people.

Re: Writing characters who have spouses/significant others with other people

[(Anonymous)]

This is what I do too. The characters have gotten divorced, but there's not much detail about it. Just that things didn't work out.

Depends.

[(Anonymous)]

It really depends on the story, the characters, and the canon.
I have
- made the story completely AU
- set the story in the canon timeline before the relationship
- had them break up
- changed the timeline altogether (for canons where time travel can happen)- had them in a threesome
- had them in an open relationship.

I don't think I've killed any canon significant others off.