This one is late, but I had to think about it for a little while
1. List your favorite pairings Past or present (5 to 8) Fuck that, I'll likely have more. 2. How long you played the pairing out. 3. What you enjoyed about it.
I'm just guessing here, but 5-8 won't be enough but I promise not to go too overboard. Some of these will get pretty long and span from some of my very first attempts at writing both in general and as a specific person and all have a different reason than another for being on this list. They're really in no particular order past the first and last ones both for different reasons. I also did my best in looking for a specific song that fits each one be it because it's that couple's song or because the song just fit their situation perfectly.
∞ Torrie Wilson & John Cena ℵ 6 months You made me believe the day you surrender to me. The memory will never die. The love that you gave I'll never throw it away. The memory will never die. The tides take a turn, another lesson learned. I'm right here but still you wonder, would you say that you need more and it's not what it was before? It was before your on your own and going under. Deep inside your soul knows I'm always there.∞ Anyone that has seriously gamed with me over the years and subsequently gotten to know me at all whether just on the basis of getting to know my gaming history or more than that knows that this will always be the end all be all pairing for me. It hit me while I was preparing this entry that for only a six-month line these two lived full lives with one another. They went through everything from being friends to falling for one another, all the way to happily ever after. This post is pretty much the most detailed account of their entire history from being the friend there to console her after one failed relationship to the point where Torrie's player just disappeared off the face of the earth almost and how I think things ended up for them.
∞ Ashley Massaro & Allen Jones ℵ 2 Years & 5 Months(and still going) Thanks to: ageofthefall Meet me in outerspace. we could spend the night, watch the earth come up. I've grown tired of that place, wont you come with me? We could start again. How do you do it, make me feel like I do? How do you do it, it's better than I ever knew? ∞ Fun little ditty about these two, this one came about from the very first time time that I tried my hand at writing AJ. I'll be the first to admit that in the beginning he was horribly written, but I like to think that he's one of the most improved guys I've ever written. I wish I had his entries from over on GJ and logs from early on to show how bad, but with the loss of two log folders I don't have those and GJ went belly up before I could save all of his entries. These two are my longest running pairing to date, they've gone from community to PSL and back again two or three times, but no matter what happens they always keep coming back. They are definitely the oddest of the pairings I've had because there's no way in hell I can see these two ever being what they are. They started out as friends, kinda. AJ had just been dumped by Christy for another one of my guys, and he really wasn't looking to jump too quickly into a relationship at the time but he started talking to Ashley anyway who was dating someone else at the time. They started out as friends and blossomed into more than that even while she was dating..I wanna say Kevin Thorn or Helms at the time.
∞ Trish Stratus & Allen Jones ℵ 1 Year & 11 Months(And still going) Thanks to: phantomzone This is the last night you'll spend alone look me in the eyes so I know you know I'm everywhere you want me to be. The last night you'll spend alone, I'll wrap you in my arms and I won't let go, I'm everything you need me to be. ∞ These two came together when I was still pretty bad at writing AJ, but like the other one he's really improved and the pairing is just flat out amazing. They fight over so much, but never have they even come close to splitting up either temporarily or permanently. Right now they're in the middle of an argument because he flat out refuses to go to Wrestlemania and watch her return in the battle royal. As much as they fight, one would think that it would be hard for them to stay together, but for the little things that they fight about there are the huge things that they love about one another that keep them together be it their mutual love for video games or how they choose to raise their children (they have fraternal twins as well as AJ's boys).
∞ Candice Michelle & John Cena ℵ 9 Months(And Still Going) Thanks to: dreamer A thousand times I’ve seen you standing. Gravity like a lunar landing. Make me want to run till I find you. I shut the world away from here drift to you, you’re all I hear. Everything we know fades to black. Half the time the world is ending, truth is I am done pretending. I never thought that I had anymore to give, pushing me so far here I am without you. Drink to all that we have lost, mistakes we have made, everything will change, but love remains the same ∞ What can I really say about these two? They're flat out amazing for being one of my shorter lived pairings that still has life to them. I think a huge part of it is the history that THEY created through scenes from the very first time that they talked in a game. At the time we started these two Candice was kinda fucking around with one Z. Vengeance from A7X while John had fucked around with Shelly Martinez and Kate Beckinsale, eventhough he was doing his thing with two women he was still really jealous and actually hated Vengeance even if he didn't know him very well, and at the time I couldn't figure out why John had such a problem with him either, at least not right away. When Vengeance and Candice nixed their whole thing John and Candice started flirting a little more until talk of the past between the two started up. Now, it was a whole hell of a lot more than just 'oh I wanted you for so long' 'Really? I've wanted you for so long too', this was actually history that went back almost two years when they originally started hooking up. What Candice's writer and I came to find out even later on was that long before Candice and John were superstars on Raw that would hook up from time to time out on the road, Candice and John were two younger kids out in California one fresh out from Wisconsin and the other fresh from Massachusettes that hooked up one night at a club in So Cal for a one night stand that several years later ended up providing a huge 'what the fuck!?' moment for them. They are amazing, when I started this they were one of the very first pairings that came to mind because of the history.
∞ Amy Dumas & Phil Brooks ℵ 5 Months Thanks to: lookitsria I'm never alone, i'm alone all the time. Are you at one, or do you lie? We live in a wheel where everyone steals, but when we rise it's like strawberry fields. If i treated you bad you bruise my face, couldn't love you more you got a beautiful taste. Don't let the days go by could have been easier on you I couldn't change though i wanted to. Could have been easier by three our old friend fear and you and me. Glycerine. Don't let the days go by. Glycerine ∞ This one here is more of a sentimental favorite of mine, specifically because this was not just the first time I ever wrote Punk, but it was because he was only the second guy I'd written after I briefly tried my hand at writing Samoa Joe for the first time. Be damned if I can remember much about how they got together in the first place right now, but I do know that during the middle of the tour of Japan in the fall of 06 they just started spending a lot of time together. Part of it had to do with the group they were apart of that included a lot of people Punk didn't expect to get along with. It all just clicked though and one night Amy fell asleep with her head in Punk's lap and caught him talking to Lisa (Marie) about who he had his eye on. They eventually got together and got married, she told him that she was pregnant just weeks before their wedding and he broke the surprise to the groomsmen before the wedding. Seeing pictures and reading on different sheet'sites that they are actually friends and hang out together keep this one in my mind quite a bit.
∞ Shelly Martinez & Mark Jindrak ℵ 10 Months Thanks to: ageofthefall She'll be right here in my arms so in Love. She'll be right here in these arms she can't let go. So hard she's trying, but her heart won't turn to stone oh no. She keeps on crying, but I won't leave her alone. She'll never be alone ∞ Oh the REALLY batshit crazy couple. If AJ and Ashley weren't strange enough, do I really need to tell you a whole lot about these two? They absofuckinglutely HATED eachother when they first started out. I cannot even begin to describe how much he hated Shelly, but what surprises me is that I actually remember why they couldn't stand eachother. Other than the fact that Mark was a manwhore who say Shelly as a judgmental over-opinionated bitch, they clashed because Mark had hooked up with Barbie who Shelly hated and publically bashed in the community. Shelly had several people on her side (Cody and Shannon being the two I remember most) and they pretty much ripped Barbie a new asshole because of how she got her start and Mark stood out by sticking by Barbie's side in it, part of the reason being that he was banging her at the time and the other part was that he didn't like Shelly and wanted to see her eat shit basically. In the middle of a post aimed at Shelly shooting back at her for stuff she said about Barbie they suddenly started agreeing and talking more and more on a civil level. Eventually all of their hate was washed away around the same time that Mark and Shelly started posting pictures of themselves to tease one another. They were both fucking nuts and they ALWAYS had something going on whether it was Mark telling Shelly that he had feelings for her on her birthday just days before he had to go back to Mexico to April Fool's Day when they ribbed EVERYONE in the community by staging posts with Mark finding out that Shelly and Shannon had slept together and Shelly was pregnant. They were fucking nuts, if I remember correctly Shelly once threatened his life or at the very least physical harm.
∞ Jamie Szantyr & Adam Birch ℵ 6 Months(And Still Going) Thanks to: dreamer No need to medicate cause I know you're strong without it, you got me through the days when I thought I couldn't face it. Let me count the ways the love we have you can't replace it. Just hold on, I'm not that strong. There's a little piece of heaven right here where you are. The fact that you keep trying is what sets you apart. Help me find the reason and I'll help you find the way to get rid of all your pain little by little, day by day ∞ Another one who's history wrote itself, I think it's that reason and all of the angst between the two that makes them one that I'm so fond of. Their history goes back several years since Adam and Jamie for the most part is apart of that little NCkliq , when Adam had all of his drug problems. With their history it was easy to pick them up and write as it doesn't ever take a lot to work something up between them. The only downside to writing him now is I have no idea what the man's real life counterpart is up to.
∞ Mickie James & John Cena ℵ 1 year 5 months (And Still Going) Thanks to: phantomzone You send me to a broken state, where I can take the pain. Just long enough that I am numb, that I just disappear. So go on and fight me, go on and scare me to death. Tell me I asked for it tell me I'll never forget. You could give me anything but love. ∞ Oh these two, hell there's a lot that I can say about them. These two have had counterparts in the same game that they started in, but the original pairing is the one that this is about in the first place. When pitching the idea to Mickie's writer I remembered seeing one one of the 'sheet'sites that there was an ad to another site while John was out injured (pec tear not neck) that said 'Mickie James shows up to John Cena's hospital wearing WHAT!?' and we were pretty much off to the races. This John was carried over from the one that was married to Torrie, but in game when Torrie left so did their relationship, and from there he'd been with Ashley and even had a daughter with Stephanie so there was a lot to come into with these two. Mickie and John quickly grew to be one of my very favorite pairings almost for the same reason that Torrie and John were, there was absolutely ZERO approval from anyone towards their relationship no matter how hard they tried. Sadly, their in-game relationship came to an end when Mickie slept with AJ, which...was a humongous clusterfuck. John fucking loved Mickie so much that when he tried talking to her after she broke up with him that he cried and rushed off to where she had a signing the next morning to try and fix things by proposing. Eventually I let him go and kinda hit the 'reset button' with him, there was just way too much history there that no one wanted to deal with. He was constantly getting pissed at Hunter, and for good reason, he was arguing with Stephanie, he didn't want to be with anyone seriously which made him out to be an asshole to so many. They were revived as a PSL where Mickie later told him that she left him because she found out she was pregnant and had slept around (never specified with who) and didn't know if the baby was his. They got back together eventually and through the wonders of being a PSL now have a one-year old son.
∞ Ashley Massaro & Paul London ℵ 1 Month Thanks to: ageofthefall Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this? Well here we go now one more time. I tried to climb your steps, I tried to chase you down, I tried to see how low I could get it down to the ground,I tried to earn my way,I tried to tame this mind. You better believe that I tried to beat this. So when will this end it goes on and on? Over and over and over again. Keep spinning around I know that it won't stop 'till I step down from this for good. ∞ This is another one that I've had two different times with the same writer. One that kinda had a happy ending to it, and the most recent (the one that this is about) that was pretty fucked up from the beginning. This is the one that really seems to be what I imagine Paul and Ashley's RL counterparts relationship mirroring, also the same one that made me love the RL heat between Matt Hardy and Paul London all the more. They skirted around the issue of being together while Ashley and Paul lived together in Austin until Christmas Eve, but even then it was never really set in stone that they were together but when Paul saw Matt flirting with Ashley through comments and Ashley telling Matt how much she missed him he went fucking ballistic and told Ashley basically to fuck off. He hung out with Bayless, dated and broke up with Mickie, and for some reason ended up in Ashley's hotel room the night of birhday after they had spent half the night arguing about what happened between them. They were back on a friendly basis and seemed to be on the way to being more for about a day when Paul ended up back with Mickie and Ashley ended up back with Matt and engaged just a week or two later. By the time I got tired of it and eventually pulled him for good Paul hated Ashley, and we imagine that it was pretty much returned.
∞ Candice Michelle & Phil Brooks ℵ 2 years & 1 month (And Still Going) Thanks to: northcarolina She exhales vanilla lace, I barely dreamt her, yesterday. Read the lines in the mirror through, the lipstick trace.bShe said "It seems you're somewhere, far away" to his face.It's in the blood, it's in the blood. I met my love before I was born. She wanted love, I taste of blood. She bit my lip, and drank my war, From years before, from years before ∞ These two, I'm actually at a loss for words with these two but I'll do my best anyways. What makes them so amazing to me is that they're clearly fully dedicated to one another but Punk is painfully honest about the fact that there are times when his and Candice's relationship 'drives him up a fucking wall and makes him wanna rip his hair out', they've been off and on for two years and are the only way that I'll ever play Punk in a game again. They are right up there with Torrie and John as the end all be all pairings for me, I fucking love them.