Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20150519033235/@comment-25857155-20150519051103

My A-Team OC ships have been set since a good time before they became RWBY OC's, honestly - but I will give them a rundown here, for fun, I suppose. :3 Of course, there's an OT3 involved because reasons. Aurum is about as far from me as it gets, so that is not the reason, just to clarify (looking at Live and Surana there).


 * Aurum x Celeste. This one is pretty well established.  They have ... the best way I can describe it is a brother-sister relationship with a decent helping of romance.  Note that they are not actually related.  They work pretty well together - they are both fairly cheerful individuals who like to joke around and have fun, but Aurum has a serious side to keep things reigned in, and is good at pulling Celeste out of her occasional depressions.


 * Aurum x Cerise. This one is established, though has not happened yet in my RWBYfic canon.  What starts as Aurum trying to pull Cerise out of her shell ends up with them getting a bit closer than expected - very much a cliché "cheerful relaxed suave guy meets shy cute smart girl" Hollywood romance story.  While there are hints of dog/mistress relations here (see Inu x Boku SS manga for a vague example), it is mostly Aurum giving her an outlet and much-needed emotional release/support.


 * Celeste x Cerise. This started as Celeste's usual flirting with anything that is self aware, and progressed with Celeste's finding Cerise's flustered reactions attractive and pushing more as a result.  When Cerise and Aurum became involved, it was part jealousy and part playfully competitive nature that made Celeste try for the same.  Cerise found Celeste's playful nature enjoyable, and Celeste was pleasantly surprised by the passion Cerise devotes to the things she loves.


 * Ash x Cerise. This does not really exist.  Ash is very protective of Cerise, and does find her attractive, but he holds back due to his history of bad romantic relationships.  While reluctant to accept her relationship with their other teammates at first (especially with Aurum), Ash eventually wholeheartedly accepts Cerise's relationship with the two Faunus.


 * Celeste x Cerise x Aurum. Yes, it's an OT3.  No, Aurum is not a projection of myself.  Cerise originally found herself quite overwhelmed by the combined affections of the other two, but gradually became an equal participant.  The relationship frequently has strong elements of competition between two members over the third.  (Originally, in the three's original story, the relationship was going to end with Cerise's death before it could become fully established.  Instead, I realizes another of my characters was perfectly placed to intervene for an inadvertent sort of deus ex machina - thus, my OT3 was born.)


 * Ash x Celeste. Nope.  They get along well enough, but he is exasperated by her always playful attitude and does not know how to handle her depressive phases, while she finds him far too serious and difficult to pin down (figuratively speaking).


 * Ash x Aurum. Also nope.  Though they work well together and do not always argue, their methods of thinking are very contradictory, and they will never be close friends.  Also, Ash is entirely heterosexual.

Wow. That took up waay too much space, didn't it?  Well, I suppose I should have seen that coming. I'm a bit of a romance fan, I guess. You should've seen what I had cooked up for some of my other characters in my original work... >.>  No harems, just... convolutions.

Of course, not every character is paired off - the world I write for that story is far too imperfect for that, a fact which is emphasized quite frequently. Not crapsack, just... not far off, either.