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LOVE & ROMANCE MEME

Love is in the air and Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and we all love shipping nonsense so, I mean, why beat around the bush? Use this meme to talk ships and romance and maybe you'll even find your characters a Valentine. 💘

Name:
What do they look for in a person?: What kind of people do they fall for? Do they have a type?
What do they find romantic?: Describe their idea of romance.
Who do they have a crush on?: List 'em!
Are they seeing someone right now?: Yes or no, and how is it going?
What are they like in a relationship?: How do they behave in a relationship?
Anything else?: What other romance-themed things do you want to share about your character?
GIF Challenge: Post a romantic gif!!!

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Name: Micah Vincent St. Clair

What do they look for in a person?: Micah claims to be into everybody, and he is pretty open to the possibility of attraction to almost anyone. But he strongly gravitates to people who are his opposite in personality. More practical, more restrained, runs cold rather than hot. He finds that personality type challenging (and therefore attractive), and we're really cooking with gas if they've got a sharp sense of humour that keeps him on his toes. He's joked before that rejection is one of his turn-ons, which was honestly a joke, but Micah does need someone who won't let him get away with everything. He's always trying to push his luck with people, so it's good when Micah's matched with someone who's down to earth and won't let themselves get stepped on.

What do they find romantic?: Words. Talking. Verbal sparring, even. Micah's pretentious enough to want to disdain "traditional" romance, i.e. flowers, chocolates, candlelit dinners, etc., but he's still a teenage boy who can get worked up by not having a date to the dance. Micah's a romantic insofar as he really likes the idea of being in love (the universal trope, according to movies), but things and doing things is less important to him than just the knowledge that he has someone who'll listen to him and take him seriously (even when Micah's not acting serious), and the ability to do the same for someone else.

Who do they have a crush on?: Micah's had a very public crush on Calvin since freshman year, so them dating now is just a terrible development. Everyone in junior year has had to suffer at least one (1) conversation where Micah tells them about his ~~boyfriend~~. More if you are friends with both of them, or had to work in Micah's play, or are blatantly disinterested in hearing about Micah's love life.

Are they seeing someone right now?: AUGH THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT QUESTIONS... Micah's over the moon about Calvin, obviously. He has some of the normal anxieties but Micah's "all the fuck in" attitude means most of it doesn't emotionally register ~~and won't until the mimic event~~. They were close friends before now, and really their relationship hasn't changed a whole lot except that now Micah gets rewarded for his obnoxious flirting. He's a bit too delighted that Calvin's parents think he's weird and not good enough for their perfect son, but Micah's also too confident that he can win them over eventually. I think Micah's even recently told Calvin about his brother but I need to... finish that log oops.

What are they like in a relationship?: The mean answer is "no different than how Micah acts with everyone else," but uh. He's publicly flirty, yeah, and likes to tease and make a lot of irreverent jokes, but he'll also show more of his quiet side. He struggles with emotional honesty and vulnerability even with his closest friends (e.g. the chickabros), and while it's not really any easier to achieve that with an S.O., he makes more of an effort for it. Micah thinks of (romantic) love as being intimately understood by someone else, so that's the ideal he's working towards even if he struggles with it. Micah enjoys the moments when he can just sit with someone and not feel like he has to do anything. He wants to feel like he can be his ""true self"" with someone, and they feel the same with him. As a boyfriend, Micah's a little difficult, insofar as he's easily distracted and insists on a lot of independence (he has a ton of friends and projects to lavish attention on). But he tries his best to be reliable, especially so since his last relationship crashed and burned because Micah was so unreliable. It's something he's very conscious of. Oh yeah, and there's a lot of horror movie marathons, which is unfortunate for Calvin "I Hate Scary Movies" Evercreech.

Anything else?: can't believe you're all making me break in the meme

GIF Challenge: god. no. i refuse. no one needs to see that.

LOVE & ROMANCE MEME

Micah St. Clair