My original June 2014 post:
1. Natalia & Gavin: We planned for them to grow up and get married. But by the time they were about twelve we hated the idea. Instead, we decided to just make it a little ongoing joke between the families, that it was Senia and Taryn who wanted them to get together. Ask either of the four of them about it, they'll tell ya.
2. Chelsea & Gavin: They hooked up a few times, but in the end, she went back to Axel.
3. Troy & Darcy: This was brief because we weren't feeling it once it started, and it became far more of 'backstory' rp than anything we actually played out. Also...
4. Troy & Tyler: This was actually something we planned from the day Kara first added Tyler to her account. It was supposed to be more dramatic. Troy confuses Tyler for Darcy, starts falling for her instead, blah blah blah. Then we changed that and just made them friends with benefits. They were supposed to get married eventually too. Just like a, 'Well, we've been sleeping together all this time. We're 40. Let's just do it.'
5. Nate & Tyler: The plan was that they went to a wild party and woke up married. They weren't dating or anything, though of course they knew each other. We engaged them and had the wedding set up, then we ditched the plan and broke the engagement.
6. Maddi & Avery: Yes. You read that right. It was either going to be something they experimented with in their teens or it was going to be legit and long-term. We hadn't committed to either one, but it didn't matter because we abandoned it.
7. Olivia & Zack: They're supposed to be dating now. But then Alex Baklanov came along. Zack is still insanely jealous, and Olivia still notices another person. The love triangle that Kara and (_____) and I planned out might be a love square now. Nope, still not giving that other person away.
And then the January 2016 additions from K:
8. Gia and Amelia: For a very brief moment, we thought about this. It had added historical drama, since Amelia is Chelsea's kid, and Chelsea and Gavin had that fling that led Nadia to believe that Amelia might be Gavin's. (It turned out to be less than Gavin thought it was, because he had whiskey dick. So he thought he railed Chelsea for hours, but in reality he was kind of humping her leg. However, it was the fact that he tried at all. But that's a different story.) So... this would mean that she might be dating her half-sister, in Nadia's suspicions, anyway. It was a great story in theory, but we didn't know how to play up the 'they might be related!' angle without Nadia, and since that player isn't around... Fail.
9. Gia and Logan: This was one where we were both like, hey, these two actually have no lives yet! Gia was pretty much a blank slate until just a few months ago. As far as I know, Mel hadn't even started playing Logan yet at all. So it just seemed reasonable for us to throw them together and figure it out. But then Logan started playing soccer and Gia went to med school and made some new friends. And now...who knows. This isn't failed yet, but I don't think it's gonna happen.
10. Rachel and Logan: Once I wasn't sure about Gia, I threw Rachel into the mix. At the time, the twins were going to be identified as Tyler's biological kids. Thought it would make some fun storyline, Gia getting all hurt because Logan slept with her cousin. But then I decided the Tates are a separate entity, and it loses some of that drama. And now that I'm actually playing the twins, this could change too.
11. My crime char and her crime char: Yes, I finally caved and made one. And this just seemed to make sense! Bonnie & Clyde type stuff. But they just weren't a match. Besides, they both found others. (She doesn't name her crime char publicly, and I'm following her lead with that. It's kind of like a fresh start, even if it might only be temporary.)
9-a. I'm happy to announce that Logan and Gia are engaged. They were on the back burner for us for a long time, we just had them as click-based FWB for awhile, while Logan got friendly with a handful of other girls, and I know Gia had a hot and heavy fling or two. But then when Nadia and everyone died, it made Logan realize how much he cared for her - she was with her family, was in the accident as well, so he almost lost her - and they began dating seriously, now they're engaged.
11-a. Amelia actually had a brief fling with Kara's crime character, which you can read about in the fifth paragraph in her bio. On the flips side, my crime character married Zack. Both crime characters are currently deceased.
Now, we may be out of potential hookups. She has Max and Darcy's twins. Max is related to mine, so that's out the window, and I don't know if any of my young ones would cross paths with the twins. Logan and Gia might be our only success story. How wild.