75 & 15 for that self ship game! ^^
75: Luis Sera (Resident Evil 4, 2005) - romantic/crush
(specified for the og game bc ik they changed him in the remake and i have yet to play it </3)
YAY i get to be mentally ill about resident evil
after my s/i ilona powers (she/her) was forcefully retired from STARS just like every other agent, she ended up pursuing her own rogue career in anti-BOW research, since she had a STEM background from before her time in STARS. this involves a lot of global monitoring for potential BOWs so that she can study any potential commonalities among all encountered viruses to see if there is a way to create an end-all vaccination to prevent infections, known and unknown
this is what eventually leads her to learn about las plagas, a mind-controlling parasite originating in spain. while trying to look into it, she manages to intercept and contact someone called "joaquin". in order to not draw too much suspicion, she used a fake name (clara becker) and presented herself as interested in collaboration. joaquin agreed, and ilona made her way to spain so she could extract her own test subject
over time, the two kept in touch solely through email. their emails slowly started to drift, however, from professional to personal, and when her email buddy learned that she was a single woman, he grew a little more flirtatious over the emails. ilona, still getting over leaving wesker at arklay and also being dumped by jill not long before first contacting this joaquin guy, was fairly receptive to the change in tone
once deep enough in their situationship, ilona and "joaquin" end up revealing their true identities to each other (surprise! joaquin was luis all along!), and the two do tread a line where they debate risking their current deal just to finally meet each other in person. this eventually does happen, and they get to have a romantic night together in some random rural part of the village, but then once they part ways ilona gets one final email that for safety reasons they could no longer work together
that was the last ilona ever heard from him, and even as she eventually moved on over the years, she held the memory of him near and dear
15: Truffles (Chowder) - romantic/crush
i don't have anything super solid so i'll give a gist! :D
a small note of context for my s/i gelato (any pronouns) is that they ended up in a polycule custody arrangement where every week they switch between endive's and mung daal's kitchens. this includes both for work and for dating. someone along the way lost a bet and now endive and mung daal split gelato
initially, truffles was not at all involved in this nonsense nor did she really care; honestly, gelato never fought for it at first, either. both of them were content just being metamours who were friendly with each other
however, gelato's a bit of a charmer and eventually starts to fluster truffles a little with how sincere and caring they are as a companion despite the two of them just being partners-in-law or whatever. truffles does have her secret mushy side, so gelato sporadically indulging her does woo her a bit
they haven't really made anything official, but the two of them are at a flirtatious level with each other, where gelato is the instigator and truffles gladly accepts it with her own verbal affections back at them
(they'd probably eventually date, they're just in pining phase for the main part of the selfship stuff ^^)
