Cast of Characters
I've decided to post a cast of characters who have been featured in this blog, so that my signature is no longer a million lines long and still missing people. I'll post a link to this instead, and repost it whenever new people need to be added. This way I can more easily refer to people by name without having to give an explanation of who they are.
Blog cast of characters through 8/2015
Alex: 34m/bi/poly/married. An early Reverie date (6/2014) that quickly turned platonic due to no spark and jealousy on his partner’s part, and then fizzled to nothing. Still FB friends.
Al: 36m/straight/mono/partnered. One of R&R's platonic music buddies. Partnered with Shana.
Allie: 33f/bi/single. R&R’s FWB since 10/2014. The sweetest girl.
Anna: 29f/bi/mono/partnered. Reverie’s roommate (since 10/2014) and Rider’s former fling (3/2013).
Arturo: 30m/straight/polyflexible/partnered. An early Reverie date (7/2014) who was a nice guy but there was no spark. Since then, we have become friends, and he has become the cat-sitter.
Aurora: 23f/bi. Reverie's questionably too-young girlcrush.
Beckett: 35m/heteroflexible/mono/single. Reverie's megacrush since 5/2015. Connection recently ended (by him) after a month of dating (7/2015–8/2015) but remain FB friends. Bandmates with Caleb.
Brandon: 33m/straight/cheater. An early Reverie date (7/2014–9/2014) who was charming but turned out to be cheating on his girlfriend. Hooked up a few times but was ultimately too flaky and then discovered to be cheating. Still FB friends.
Caleb: 37m/straight/partnered. Reverie’s former FWB (9/2014 to 11/2014)—good sex, not so great personality, as it turned out. Bandmates with Beckett.
Candace: 29f/bi/single. R&R’s elusive crush-girl who is impossible to pin down for plans.
Claire: 28f/bi/poly. Rider's ex-girlfriend (2007–2009, 2013–2015) and the person who introduced him to poly in 2013. They have not remained friends except for on FB.
Desiree: 38f/straight/single. Rider’s former longtime crush (2011–2015) who he was just on the verge of hooking up with when she viciously bullied Reverie one night while blackout drunk, which changed his mind about her.
Emily: 27f/bi/OPP/partnered. Reverie’s brief girl crush and now platonic friend. The crush part lasted only like a week.
Erica: 35f/bi/single. R&R’s friend who was married but had a falling out with her husband over a threesome-lite she had with us and all hell broke loose.
Evan: 39m/straight/single. Rider's friend from childhood and Kelly's current roommate. Lives in Football Town, about 4.5 hours away.
The Ex: 36m/straight/mono/single. Reverie's last relationship before Rider (2010–2014). Convinced Reverie to give mono/OPP another try after she tried to be poly in 2010. Relationship ended, in part, because Reverie-initiated talks of opening further made him paranoid, controlling, and convinced he was being cheated on. Recently re-friended on FB after a year and a half of no contact. Now lives on Opposite Coast.
Georgia: 35f/straight/married: Reverie’s platonic friend—sister-in-law to The Ex.
Gray: 30m. An early Reverie date that was the most boring date ever. Reverie’s avowed last internet date in this town.
Jake: 34m/heteroflexible/poly. Reverie's high school crush and hometown lover, living about 1,000 miles away. Hooking up on and off since 7/2014, with lots of visits between 10/2014 and 3/2015. This has cooled off considerably due to distance and sexual incompatibility, but the love and friendship is still there.
Kelly: 25f/bi/poly. Rider's FWB+ (LDR) since 10/2014. Reverie’s friend since 1/2015. Lives in Football Town about 4.5 hours away.
Laura: 29f/bi/single. Hippie painter girl that Rider is crushing on and Reverie is "maybe" about.
Molly: 36f/bi/single. R&R had a threesome with her once (7/2014) and hung out platonically a few more times. She’s fun but a little crazy and we tend to keep our options open with her but not get too close. Rider is more into her than Reverie is.
Moss: 40m/straight/mono/single. Reverie's ex-husband (together 2007–2010) and recent ex-boyfriend (2014–2015). Lives on Opposite Coast. Reconnected in a long-distance fashion until he decided he wanted to try to go monogamous with someone else. When that ended, this did not resume.
Oona: 37f/bi/monogamish/partnered. Reverie's BFF. Friends since 1999, on and off FWB since 2002. Has hooked up with R&R in a threesome before. Currently lives in on Opposite Coast, in the city where R&R will be moving come January. Has been dating Toby monogamously since 9/2014 but is currently trying to negotiate openness with women.
Pablo: 35m/bi/single. R&R's FWB, and the guy who was Rider’s first M/M sexual experience.
Ramsey: Reina’s husband, and an old friend of Rider’s.
Reina: 38f/bi/OPP/married. An old friend of Rider’s and a long-distance FWB of Reverie’s since 11/2013. Married to Ramsey. Lives in a far corner of Opposite Coast so we don’t get to see her much.
Reverie: 33f/bi/poly. Me! Currently engaged to Rider and recovering from vague heartbreak over things ending with Beckett. Additional loose connections of varying places on the FWB-to-romance spectrum with Sam, Jake, Allie, Oona, and Pablo.
Rider: 39m/bi/poly. Reverie's fiancé, together since 2/2014, friends since 6/2013. Has a long-distance “FWB+” relationship with Kelly. Also is FWB with Allie and Pablo and has a seemingly infinite constellation of crushes and sparks with people.
Shana: 33f/straight/mono/partnered: One of R&R's platonic music buddies. Partnered with Al.
Shane: An early Reverie date (11/2014) that went nowhere.
Sherry: 44f/mono. A former FWB (very long distance) of Rider’s (5/2013–5/2014), whose expectations that their relationship would eventually turn exclusive ended up breaking her heart.
Sam: 39m/straight/polyflexible/single. Rider's BFF since college in 1994. Reverie's sometime lover since 7/2014—a loose “it happens when it happens” connection that is mostly affectionate with some sex thrown in there every once in a while. He lives in College Town about 3.5 hours away, so it’s all long distance.
Tasha: 33/f/bi/open/engaged. Reverie’s FWB (since 2011) on Opposite Coast.
Toby: 38m/straight/mono/partnered. Oona’s boyfriend since 9/2014.