Your character falling in love with mine doesn’t mean I owe you a romance.

We agreed to write an adventure. Somewhere along the way, your character caught feelings. That could have been interesting.

Then suddenly every scene became a test of whether mine would finally love yours back.

Mine helps someone else? Yours gets jealous. Mine asks for space? Yours has a breakdown. Mine says they only want friendship? Apparently I’m supposed to write another scene comforting yours until the answer changes.

And now I’m sitting here wondering whether I can write my own character honestly without upsetting the person behind the screen.

That’s where you lose me.

I can write heartbreak. I can write an awkward confession, a friendship that doesn’t survive it, two people who care about each other and still want different things. There’s so much story there.

But I don’t want to spend every reply defending a rejection we already discussed outside the RP.

Especially when I start getting messages like “I thought they had something special” or “I don’t know what to do with my character now.”

What am I meant to do with that? Make mine fall in love so you’ll enjoy writing again? Pretend the chemistry is there because you’ve already planned their wedding?

I was excited about our story too. I wanted to see where they went. Now I’m dreading opening the chat because I know we’re going to have the same conversation again.

And honestly, it makes the earlier scenes feel different. Were you enjoying the friendship? The adventure? The arguments and stupid jokes? Or were those just steps toward the romance you assumed you were getting?

Let your character be rejected. Let them be hurt. Let them do something messy with those feelings. Give me a story we can both participate in.

But if you need a guaranteed romance to enjoy this RP, tell me before I get attached to a completely different story.

Where’s the line for you between enjoying a ship and feeling pressured to make it happen?