Chyna's Closet: Love 'n Marriage

Five seasons of "The Tribe" and (if I count this right) 4 marriages.

Into our 6th season of KTDARPG & we've had 1 marriage. But since that one was actually a sham considering it was Lion-F & Brena, under duress, and she killed him within about 20 seconds of the I-do's...let's make that 5-plus seasons & no weddings for the game.

Methinks I know what happened with the series & maybe why the same hasn't happened in our game.

The "Tribe" characters seemed almost desperate at times for some of the normal conventions they were familiar with before all the adults died. They tried creating money, having dance parties, starting a school, having city elections, marriage...none of them seemed to turn out quite right.

Marriage certainly didn't. By the end of season-5 not one marriage was left standing.

> Lex & Zandra - Zandra died on Eagle Mountain.
> Lex & Taisan - Taisan disappeared with the Technos.
> Salene & Ryan - The Guardian made Ryan disappear.
> Ram & Ebony - Ebony got herself a divorce.

But love never did run smooth for our Tribe avatars, with or without marriage. Trudy kept lovin' 'em & losin' 'em. Bray disappeared on Amber. Ved disappeared on Cloe. Pride died on May & Salene. Java died on Ram. And on it went!

Our game isn't too much better. The one wedding we had was a forced affair & the groom didn't survive. Jade was supposed to marry Tom-F, who would up dead. Krystal was engaged to Jason who suddenly went walkabout to parts unknown.

Wait! We did have one "mating" that would've done Pride proud! The lucky couple who went away & did their vows privately seem to be doing very well--Creed & Hawk. They've even picked up a baby boy along the way. Guess we'll have to wait 'n see on this one. But it really seems like, for most of our characters (and their players!) the convention of marriage is just an Old World relic and not really that relevant in this brave New World.

I'm not gonna list the affairs gone wrong or the couples that are now "surviving singles." As for couples & maybe-couples currently active--Arianna & Scarecrow, Zero & Jade, Nightshade & Craven, Villa & Marionette, Vincent & Valentine, Maggie & Johnny, Eris & Ace (i hope i haven't forgot anybody!)--only time will tell.