Gus: There's a pretty straightforward ask for once...*chuckles*
Melanie: It's not a super complicated story...we met in Zootopia University.
Gus: We had some overlapping classes despite the different majors, and we also had both signed up for the campus BnB club.
Melanie: The BnB club was pretty big, so we actually had multiple Battle Masters running game along side each other, and Gus was quick to fall into the role of one of them.
Gus: Considering I had been hosting games since I was...probably eight years old, it came naturally. And I had long since made my peace with being a forever BM. *Chuckles*
Melanie: I'm not sure exactly when Gussy joined, but I know it was before me. Because by the time I walked into my first club meeting, he was already spinning quite the session...and honestly that's what drew me in. *Giggles* I mean, Gus and I had seen each other in class before., and I did think he was...a handsome Billy.
Gus: Only you would think that...
Melanie: *Snorting Laugh* Gussie, stop putting yourself down or I will swat you.
Gus: *Holds up his hooves defensively* Alright, alright, I'll try to tamp down my self-depreciation...
Melanie: Anyway, I'd noticed him in class and he was...I mean he was pretty quiet and unassuming. He was always super focused and didn't really chatter with the other students. So while I thought he was cute...I didn't really...I mean...I was kinda shy about pursuing it...
Gus: You? Shy? Noooo.... *The billy bleats sarcastically*
Melly: *Swats at Gus playfully* You know dating and romance stuff is the one thing I'm shy about! At least when it comes to those first moves! *Ahem* Anyway, my point was...I walked in the club for the first time, and at table three I see this same, totally unassuming quiet billy with one leg on a chair, his hooves raised to the sky as he gives this passionate, scenery-chewing monologue for the other players first encounters with his 'big bad' and....*giggles* I'll be honest, I got a little weak in the knees...
Gus: *Blushes* Sweet Sawgrass...I remember that....ugh...I'm getting a retroactive cringe from the memory alone.
Melly: Oh stop! You were awesome, you always are when it comes to painting a scene or roleplaying a character. You're amazing now, and you were then, which Is why I was like 'That's the group I'm joining, no matter what. I need that handsome and charismatic billy in my life right now!'
Gus: Of course, I wasn't going to turn down such a lovely nanny looking to join my group, especially the one I kept stealing glances at in my other classes when she wasn't looking.
Melly: I KNEW it! *Giggles*
Gus: Well I wasn't as great at hiding it as I thought I was in retrospect. Still, despite the mutual attraction...it...took us probably until right up to the end of the term to start going out...
Melly: And I had to be the one to ask him.
Gus: *Laughs* what an awful combo..., a billy too afraid he's misinterpreting signals to ask a nanny out-.
Melly: And a nanny just too shy to ask him out herself for fear he didn't share her feelings.
Gus: To be fair, I am a hard mammal to read...though the fact that we had our characters flirt and start dating a good month before we made the move ourselves...
Melly: I made the move! I was too afraid you might disappear after the holiday break! I couldn't let you head off for Yule without...taking my shot...y'know?
Gus: Gods, I can still remember it was literally the last afternoon before campus closed, and I had stayed behind in club to help clean up...and you just...cornered me. *Laughs* You gave me the most intense stare-down of my life...I was kinda scared for a minute...
Melly: *Cringes* Sweet Cervidwens Hooves... "Doyuwanttogooutwithme!?" *Laughs* That's exactly how I blurted it out...all in one, forced stream of words just to get it out...
Gus: I swallowed hard, but managed to nod back and mutter a weak. "Y-yeah..."
Melly: *Giggles* And so began a relationship that's spanned six years and counting...*Snuggles up to Gus and nuzzles his cheek* And they've been the best six years of my life!
Gus: *Blushes sharply* Heh...M-me too Mellowmar...me too...
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