Wedding Anniversary
Today I celebrated with my roleplay partner our 4th year wedding anniversary. Yes, our GAME wedding as our characters got engaged on Final Fantasy XIV May 17th 2015.
We’re not a couple IRL, hell, we don’t even live in the same country or speak the same native language, but over years, we became really close to the point she describes us as being platonic soul mates.
Carina and I met on FFXIV in 2013 and we didn’t speak much at the time. Both part of the same Free Company (= clan, group, etc.) we would meet from time to time during roleplay events. My partner at the time, N, was close friend with her character, which explains the fact we still had the opportunity to meet after I left this FC to form my own in December.
We wouldn’t interact much for almost a year, even though she eventually joined my FC and I regularly accompanied her in dungeons or helped her with her equipment. N was making sure that I wouldn’t have contact with others, isolating me as a good emotional manipulator he was.
Except that even though I was always pretending that everything was OK, Carina saw through it and eventually asked me what was happening.
It took 3 months before I would manage to cut ties with N and Carina was there with me and for me every single step on the way.
It’s been a little more that four years now and while there have been ups and downs, we learned from each other and became better persons both to ourselves and to the others.
This year, FFXIV introduced the vows renewal and we celebrated our friendship by going through the whole wedding ceremony once more.
I’m grateful I met her, It’s the second time I am blessed with the daily company of someone precious thanks to a MMORPG while I didn’t expect such a thing in the first place.
In case you’re curious, the first one is my life partner, we live together since 11 years now and met on Lineage II.
What do you think of game weddings? Did you proceed to one, even with a NPC? Do you believe in online friendship? Did you meet someone important to you through a game? Do you have cute stories to share of people who met online?
Congratulations! It’s always nice to have a really good friend, doesn’t matter if on- or offline.
My boyfriend and me met in a free online dating website and this year we celebrate our fourth anniversary, we live together and we’re going through really hard times because of healthy problems. He’s always there for me and I couldn’t imagine a life without him.
Well, that was more that I firstly wanted to write… I just wanted to say, that I of course believe in online friendships. But, as in real life, be careful and don’t let anyone use you.
I wish you all the best! <3
He’s always there for me and I couldn’t imagine a life without him.
Aww, that’s sweet. He sounds like a really good guy. I hope you get better soon and you both get to do everything you want to do together.
I’m glad you shared with us this adorable story. I really hope your health (or his) will improve soon. If anything, it’s during the hard times that we know if your couple can last, when you’re feeling down, think of this, it helps ♥
Nice, happy virtual anniversary! ❤️
Me, I’m not a big fan of weddings, be it in-game or IRL :D But I did meet a couple of people in games whom I then became quite close with :)
The most important is the relationship, not how you celebrate it ♥
That’s a lovely story! Congratulations on renewing your FF-nuptials and being blessed with such strong relationships.
I think game weddings are as important to the participants as any real-life wedding is. I haven’t played an in-game wedding that was as affecting as I’d like it, though there’s a couple of weddings I’d love to see.
I of course believe in online friendship and, while I didn’t meet her online, the first part of my relationship with my girlfriend was largely online. We met at a theatre summer camp and lived in different parts of the state, so we went to different schools. We could only see each other in real life once every couple of months, so spent a large LARGE LARGE time talking and roleplaying together online. It’s carried us until we went to the same college, and even to today! I’m chatting and rping with her AS WE SPEAK from different parts of the house!
Well, that’s also a super lovely and cute story. You both were pretty young when you met eachother. And you’re still beeing a couple, that’s really sweet.
Your story is amazing, I always thought that RP can help to know the other one in a different light than the every day life situation.
Congratulation to you two for still being together after so many years ♥