AWKWARD ZOMBIE

In honour of me getting to visit Mina for the second time on the 26th (note: I'm now on the fourth time :3), I thought it would be a good time to make a sappy post about the two of us.

So I guess a good place as any to start is the mystical origin story of our relationship. Ironically, the beginning of our relationship can be traced to a game of Monopoly. For once instead of driving friends and family apart, it brought two internet strangers together. Now we weren’t technically strangers, but we were pretty much just acquaintances on Awkward Zombie. It’s likely I hadn’t talked personally to her for several months by the time of that game, and it was only then we upgraded to the “pretty good friends” status.



Anyways, that game was started by another friend, Epona, who had invited me, Mina, and Palenque. After that, he started a skype chat with us because the game was so fun we decided we needed to do more stuff together. We named it the upstanding member of society chat because Mina was the only one who wasn’t a upstanding member of society and upstanding member of society jokes were still totally cool and hilarious back then (no they weren’t). I think even without the dumb jokes though, I would have seeped it into her all the same.

On one fateful July 3rd, we were joking around and I asked Mina if we should be boyfriend and girlfriend. I kind of…don’t even remember the response, so here’s a summary from Mina (who doesn’t know I’m using it for this post right now):

[3:08:40 PM] Unbalanced: do you remember how you responded

[3:08:40 PM] Greylin: yeah

[3:09:00 PM] Greylin: ummm

[3:09:20 PM] Greylin: i think you joked about it and i pushed it off or something and then realized what i did and was like “daisies”

[3:09:55 PM] Greylin: so i pretended to be joking again after that and told you to stop playing with my emotions and you were all “well do you WANT to go out with me then” or something like that



Okay so I pretty much have no memory of anything, but I think you can pretty much tell how we both felt by how we brought it up repeatedly. After awhile of this going back and forth, one day we both realized “wait shit, I guess we weren’t joking!” and found out we both kind of wanted it the entire time.

There’s not much between then and now to mention besides us being sappy to each other, webcamming, etc. except for our visit at Otakon last July. These pictures are of it if you haven’t guessed already. For the first time ever, I was accurately able to pinpoint the best time in my life, and it’s with her. That’s not to say we had a graceful start, though. When she found me outside of the building, we said our hellos and waited for her dad to drive off. That’s when I hugged her and gave her a facebattle on the cheek (just because I said I will no matter what, just to be sure). After that, it was sort of a strange couple of hours. We just went around and did registration business and stuff all casually, and we pretty much had no idea what to say to each other. I was walking around with her really frustrated yelling in my head “SHE’S RIGHT HERE, THE PERSON YOU’VE LOVED FOR A YEAR, SAY SOMETHING”. Fortunately, it didn’t last too long. Eventually we warmed up to the whole idea of actually being with each other in real life and that’s when things got better. I hadn’t even considered until after I left and had asked Mina about it that she felt just as awful as me during the first couple of hours, acting like we’re just good friends. But hey, it all worked out, and we’re pop flyin' now.



It’s been an amazing two years. When I look back at it, I feel awful about some of the ignorant things I had done. There were plenty of times near the beginning when I did things without considering how she would feel or react to it, and I’d just be an oblivious jackass and have no clue why she didn’t want to talk to me later. But at the same time, I’m pop flyin' about the better times we had, and hopeful that I’m not as oblivious now about her feelings.