Okay. Senia and Taryn are pretty much just me and her, right down to the general, uh, genetic makeup. Although if we were being more specific, I should have picked Maya Rudolph, and she should have picked Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds) when she had red hair. Anyway. Irrelevant. Let's talk about these pairings:
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.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that with you. Just a little bit of our craziness.