[ SECRET POST #4389 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4389 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I just try not to worry about it and assume that they'll solve it magically with true love, or transhumanism, or vampirism, or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I solved it once with reincarnation! Only... that was actually a lot sadder than I meant it to be, because one half literally kept dying over and over and the immortal half would find him (not always every lifetime) and he wouldn't know him right away--or sometimes ever. :(

[tabaqui]

They will be, yes, but - that doesn't mean they'll be horribly depressed and grieving for all that time. Many people fall in love more than once, and even if they don't have the same kind of/as passionate of a love, they have all kinds of chances to be happy.

Especially if they're immortal - I imagine they've kind of figured out a way to move themselves along to the next phase of their life.

(I think that's a trope i hate the most: Immortal Character's 'True Love' dies and IC proceeds to spend the next 300 years or so mourning them, slumping around in gloomy, depressed attitudes, and generally not moving on. Makes me furious.)

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I know it's a trope, but some people I have seen are so in love that I could honestly see them not loving someone else again. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't be throwing themselves down and weeping spontaneously on furniture every five minutes three hundred years later, but I could see them having just friends and not looking for a romantic relationship.

[tabaqui]

Oh, sure. I mean - my Dad died over 10 years ago, and my mom certainly would never/will never fall in love again, or even want to.

But if you're gonna live forever, you might wanna, you know....do a little grief counseling or something, heh.

[(Anonymous)]

It's okay, my OTP has a hardcore bonding instinct with one half of the ship and the other guy died, so. ;n;

[(Anonymous)]

You want to stay away from "Letters from Lucardo" then.

[nightscale]

I'm fine with immortal or long-lived partner/mortal partner(tbh if I think about I think I have a lot of ships like this) but I get the sadness around that aspect of them so I either headcanon a solution or just don't think about it, lol.

In the case of Bilbo/Thorin the secret I like to think of them meeting up again in Valinor somehow(even though it really doesn't gel with Tolkien lore, screw it, Aule's halls connect ~someway and they get to see each other again in the Undying Lands).

[dahli]

Me too.:(

[(Anonymous)]

I usually feel that way too, but recently I've been reading a webcomic about a vampire where he is shown in different periods of his "life" - I didn't think I'd like it for that reason but it is really very well done. He has interactions and friendships throughout the years but for some reason I don't focus on the fact that the older scenarios are only memories. Perhaps because the artist switches back and forth between eras every once in a while. (It's called Patrik the Vampire)

[rosehiptea]

It used to bother me and then I realized that no matter how much they love each other they might get tired of each other after, say, 250 years or so. I guess I'm just cynical. But I'll admit I don't write stories where the immortal/long-lived love interest moves on with someone else.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like that's the ONLY thing I liked about Only Lovers Left Alive (I mean besides Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston being pretty). The idea that they're married, and forever-in-love, and that she was ready to drop everything to come see him, but that they were content to spend time apart too.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the idea of immortal characters being together for a super long time and, like, they definitely aren't together all the time, and they have flings with other people, and they fight, and they know each other perfectly including all their flaws and they're frequently tired and annoyed with each other, but at the end of the day they're still actual True Loves with each other. I loooooove that very specific thing.

[tabaqui]

Yes! That's much easier to swallow than 'joined at the hip for 500 years'.

[dracocustos]

This is basically unfolding with my D&D character (a relatively young elf) and his new boyfriend (a middle age human). We haven't quite hit the point where elfy realizes that humans don't live as long as elves, but it's going to be glorious.