Now two years into Love and Deepspace, there are many limited run companion myths to catch up on. With all this new deep lore, it’s time to follow up on last year’s obsession ranking with a simple question: what kind of a Valentine’s date are all these alternate versions of the cast?
Using the context of each companion myth – and how likely it is to make it out of the date alive – this time we’ll find the most romantic Valentine’s companion.
Think of it as multiversal speed dating. Surely this won’t give me more abandonment issues to discuss in therapy!
Xavier: Luminere
Luminere is a consultant and stunt double for an up and coming movie based and influenced by the famous, hero of Linkon. My cosplaying partner in crime, and he looks like a carbon copy of Luminere. No one tell Xavier that I need to be swept off my feet and saved under the moonlight!
While filming, the filming location is meant to be staging an apocalypse, however the weather seems to want a role and gives its own special effects. As hunters from the Hunters Association, we’re also on call for when wanderers attack. So the date flips between filming and fighting off wanderers. Even if our date is a little dirty and dusty, at least we can make it to a hotpot date before the big premiere.
The date ends with both alive.
Rafayel: God of Tides
Originally we met as a sacrifice from the surface for this sea god. What was once a death sentence, ends up becoming ‘How I Met My Bound to Me Forever God of the Sea.’
We spend hours together, learning of each other’s world and ending up falling “deep” in love. Wait, what do you mean there is a ceremony that requires me to give my full heart as a devoted follower?
The date ends with both of us at an ambiguous end.
Zayne: Master of Fate
Okay, okay so the powers have been a little hard to control. But luckily I have a teacher with great patience who will be there beside me to teach me how to control it, right? We even have a picnic under a tree. Surely, this date will not have anything bad happen.
I can just have a normal date, even if he’s a little bossy at times. I wake the next day to no one being around, with an abundance of flora and an umbrella with un-melting snow. My kind, gentle date is nowhere to be seen along all the beautiful flowers. Don’t mind the tears, it’s just allergies okay?
The date ends with me alone.
Sylus: Abysmal Sovereign
Well, I was hoping my next date would be a little more lively. I didn’t consider that it would be a dragon who is not a fan of me. Granted, being foretold that it’d be his demise, I cannot say I blame him in the slightest.
We go from enemies to lovers in the most gut-wretching way possible. He flys me around and shows me a wonderful time..eventually for me to be used as bait and stabbing my date. My dragon is gone.
The date ends with me alone.
Zayne: God of Annihilation
There seems to be a theme of being drawn to the divine.Much as he is cold externally, there is a hidden gold nugget of deep, caring companionship. We bind our names together, etched into stone. Now I’m a goddess on a date with a god. I could get used to this.
Well, fighting off an incoming cosmic disaster feels like an odd choice for a date, but alas here we are. At least we make it out together, and only some injuries. Offering what little is left, I manage to at least save this date. He makes it out, while I am left coldly frozen in place.
The date ends with him alone.
Rafayel: Lemurian Sea God
I hear that Romirro is pretty this time of year, but much as I would like to explore it more I have to run away from some religious wackos. Apparently, they did not appreciate the hymn that I was singing. They chase me into the sea, and I meet a chained up deity at the bottom of the ocean. Yes, it’s another sea god and withdrawing a blade from their chest to undo their binding is a weird meet-cute.
Most folks go on dates to a park, dinner, but instead we get to go through a tournament arc to fully restore the sea god’s dormant power. Getting to the end of our time, there is one last thing needed to finalize the sea god’s revival. I need to break our covenant, returning his heart to him. Yes, it takes a nice little stab, but he’ll be okay, probably.
The date ends with him alone.
Xavier: King Of Darknight
A king that seeks after his queen, it’s as royal a story as one can get. Eventually I get over the amnesia, and fall back in the arms of the king in a world destined for perpetual ruin. We have to fight our way around monsters stuck in time, phantoms.
Never imagined a date where a king and I would constantly battling while investigating the mystery of a world and how to save it. It turns out unraveling this time paradox requires stopping excessive sacrifices with our own. What is one to do? Undo it of course, and die.
At least the date ends with us together.
Sylus: Silverwing Fiend
I would appreciate it if our first encounters were not always being thrown through the air, but alas. Sylus has a way with throwing me around as if I was a toy. He’s been summoned from the depths of Philo’s underworld and meets me with such vigorous hunger.
The fiend quickly becomes a haughty handful. This date becomes an adventure to end this (my) curse of immortality. Normally, hearing ‘my wife’ in multiple ways would be moving too fast, but it’s hard to ignore. Eventually we make our way through the battlefield to a macabre shared ending.
Once again, a date that ends together – with both dead.
Caleb: X-02
It is an odd parallel where I tend to take a lot from my date in order for him to heal me. Really, being a cyborg with a name A-01 is giving some big Nier: Automata vibes. To his credit,he goes out of his way to make sure I am cared for.Sure, there’s a moment where he wakes up from being unconscious and tries to take me out which is kind of rude, but he’s cute.
We’re able to explore this wasteland and find a spacecraft, to escape into space and explore the outer reaches of the cosmos. Only to be pursued and attacked from the testing facilities’ cronies. As a last ditch effort, X-02 attempts to sacrifice himself but instead is met with surprise as we plummet together.
The date ends in a supernova explosion, dead together.
Okay, so most of the speed dates of Love and Deepspace end up in some form of death. More like Love and Deep Depression. I’ve still had worse Valentine’s dates.
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A medical student who has unhealthy obsessions with games, art and energy drinks. Resident Baldur’s Gate fanatic.
