Love Stories of Triumph

Hello there Triumph, this is a very special time of year for me especially here in game where I spend many hours a week with good friends and a special somebody. It's kind of funny looking back through the times i've spent here, and how it grew from just a game to keep in touch with my buddy in PA, to being a huge part of my life that brought me great new friends and the love of my life. It's a good story, and feel it's the appropriate time of year to spill my heart here to hopefully brighten your day just a smidgen, so here ya go.

For those that don't know me my name is Marcus, I'm 22 years old, live in Plano Texas, originally from Pittsburgh PA (Go Pens). I came about playing City of Heroes when I moved down to Texas after Culinary School was over, my buddy Travis bugging me all the time to play it since before I came down here. But figured this is a good chance to give it a shot so I can keep in touch and have fun playing game and such. So I dove into a 14 day free trial, and never looked back since. About 6 months into playing the game, having a blast all the time with my friends and new friends I met on here, I came upon a girl in Atlas. Her name was Kay Parfait, just hanging out, as I usually do, I decided to go be nice and introduce myself. We got to talking that day, and eventually teaming up together a lot, joining the same SG, doing MS Raids together, and eventually forming our own SG. She was this amazing girl, 21 years old, living in Lincoln Nebraska going to school for Photography, cute as a button and an amazingly nice personality, not one person had a bad thing to say about her. So we decided to venture forward with this relationship and see if anything would blossom from it. Talking everyday on AIM, sending eachother gifts, and just waiting for that day we could finally meet in person. After much delaying because her parents going through a divorce and moving into a new house, we finally met the last week of September of 2009.

It was nothing short of magical, I got there while she was still at class so I got to get interrogated by her mother in the basement waiting for her to get home. We heard her pulling into the garage and as I walked up the stairs I saw her standing before me, completely speechless and she just ran into my arms. It was the greatest feeling in the world, and that entire weekend you couldn't pry us apart. Over the next few months we'd visit eachother more often, spending some time up there, and having her come down here. This past New Year's I took her up to Pittsburgh to meet all my friends and some of my family, and it's amazing how they all just knew there was something very special taking place. We always do toasts at New Year's and one of my friends actually cried talking about the love he felt between the two of us and it was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I can't wait to spend even more time with her, and when she finally gets out of school next year, for her to move down here and we can start our lives together, because I'm never letting her go.

So I just want to thank my buddy Travis for introducing me to the game, Kristina for being such an understanding, loving, and paitent girlfriend, and every single person that calls Triumph home, because you guys are the reason I stuck around as long as I did and why I continue to come back every single week and have a blast with great people that we have here.

Anybody else have some great tales of Love to share with us, in this festive loving time of year? Has this game brought you close to somebody, or somebody you know? =)

Dude, I am seriously happy for you two... rock on! But you have to put spoiler warnings on these things - or at least "Go get the Kleenex" warnings... Little happy tears leaking into the keyboard does terrible things to the electronics!

Dude know the feeling so does Sidhe Blade, my wife similiar story different game.

I have a love story of my own:

I love lamp.

Grats! My best wishes to you two.

Awwww <3

Time for my side of the story!

Prior to this game I didn't really have any interest in superheroes or comics at all. I was actually more apart of The Sims community and made a lot of friends there, some of which finally brought me over to COH after much prodding. So I did the trial back in like June 2007 and got hooked right away. I ended up getting to 50 really fast, and in the process teamed with all of Triumph without even knowing it and made friends with everyone. Everyone was so nice and helpful so I always tried to return the favor.

Eventually ran into some chick named Magenta Bolt and hit it off like we'd always been friends. I mean we had some pretty sweet costumes, we were friends with all of each others friends, and we saw each other all the time, so we basically didn't have a choice but to be friends too. It was supposed to happen.

After like a year of role-playing as his character of Magenta Bolt, a girl, he eventually tells us all he's really a guy and totally had us all fooled. I mean c'mon, Dawun was picturing some kinda Amazonian woman when MB said he was 6'6".

I don't really know how to explain it but I think I always had feelings for him even when I thought he was a girl, just because we did have a lot in common and really we spent so much time together hanging out and such. When I found out it was like somebody flipped a switch and suddenly he became very attractive to me, lol. It all went downhill from there. We became closer than ever, creating our own SG, making countless leveling pact duos, etc. We knew we wanted to meet in person, but it was delayed a year while I dealt with my family issues. But during that time we talked every day, as we do now, and still just have a blast together. We fell in love with one another, and when we finally saw each other in person, we fell in love all over again in each others arms it was so magical.

We've visited each other a couple times since then, the last time being over New Year's which was simply amazing meeting all his friends and family. Them being so supportive of us and seeing the connection we have was simply amazing and really was one of the most touching things I've witnessed.

Anyway I'm just so lucky to have met him and to have such a special connection, because we really are so much alike and think so similarly, we just seem to have that spark. I mean c'mon, you want to know what really solidified everything for us? Finding out we both wear our socks inside-out.

I fell head over heels with a guy with a similar screenname as mine, but he was gay and I was straight, and we lived happily ever after.

All kidding aside, I've met some amazing friends in game! So not romantic love, per se' but there's definitely been some fun times meeting people in RL and getting to know them outside the game. Az'rial, Colder, Baba Kanoosh, mintmiki, DeepFryd, Kitten of Chaos, Tzadkiel, Seethe.... so many....

AWWW Kay, Mag! I am trying not to cry here and mess up my face before work. (2 hour snow delay fun).

I have to say your story is so much like mine and Trolls, though it was a different game.

Troll also played a girl on the other game, WhiteWolf's DigiChat, and when I finaly got to meet him I thought that I was meeting a girl that I had so much in common with, a few days before meeting I find out that I am meeting up with a boy! Well like your story it went downhill from there.

I wish you both all the luck in the world and I am so going to work on something for you guys...*grins evily* I did it once before and Troll knows that I can make people cry. I will just let you wonder what my love gift will be to you guys.

This thread is full of win!

I have not met anyone IRL from the game (yet) but have met some great people online. I've teamed with most everyone here at some point over the years and you are all great (except for Turbo).

To be honest, the people I have met in-game are 100% of the reason why I don't move on to another MMO, even though I want to try STO so I can make Mini Vulcans and Klingons and a Mini Shatner toon. It would not be the same though because all of you are not there!

Triumph peeps FTW!! (except Turbo... and Foley... Shocker too).


P.S. All hawt, single women please feel free to PM me (must love Monkeys tho)

P.S.S. This is funny;

MB & Kay, I hope you two are printing out these little posts and putting them in an album or something. Many, many years from now it could be a nice way of showing the little Kay Bolts, er, Magenta Parfaits, or whatever they will be called, as well as reminding yourselves, what made it all so special.

You don't want to end up like me when people ask "How did you two end up together?": "Well, um, 18 years ago I was tending bar in my Frat and this hot girl came in. It was love at first sight. I got her drunk...blah,blah,blah...2 great years together...graduation...10 years alternately chasing/driving her away...married her 6 years ago...and poof, happily ever after!" I'm such a romantic. My wife's version is much better.

In all seriousness, tuck these away someplace. I hope there are never any rough patches for the two of you in the future but most folks hit a few. Having these can go a long way in making a rough patch shorter and smoother.

You two are great fun to team with and I wish ya's all the best.

Group hug everyone, it seems like we need one. I'm glad there are so many other caring people on this server that love the time they spend here as much as I do. So many great friendships came because of this game, and I hope they last forever for all of you guys. If i'm ever not stuck in Texas and get money to travel around we'll deffinetly be bugging some of you guys to hang out. =P

pfft I don't know any of you guys.

wtf, who's this mojo guy?

i dunno, but seems like he has a scrapper fetish

Around the middle of 2004 I was in the military and I was in charge of some soldiers. We were all talking one day and I mentioned that I used to collect comic books when I was young. One female soldier that was one of the prettiest I had ever seen in uniform told me that she just got into a comic book game named CoH. I was interested in this game so we talked and that evening I purchased the game and I had no clue what I was doing. The next day I asked her to show me around in game and she told me her character’s name and said she would meet me in Atlas under the globe. That night I did and we began to team together every day. It got to the point that I couldn’t wait to get off work to team with her. Because of the position I held it was totally frowned upon to have a relationship with another soldier of a lower rank; however how can we tell our own hearts what to feel? What started out as a game play turned into a 2 year relationship hidden from the world. I thought it was a miracle that I met the most amazing woman over an online game.

The beginning of 2007 she got orders to a new duty station and I got orders to go home since my contract was over. We talked about marriage once I became a civilian; however life threw us a curve ball and she was scheduled to deploy. We spent her last 3 months before deployment together. She gave me her account info and asked me to lvl her Invul/SS tanker so we can team up when she got back. I moved back to my state and we e-mailed each other 2-3 times a day, then it went to once a day, then every other day and so on.... I know what happens when deployed and I knew she was coming back and we can begin where we left off.

While I was home my father passed away and taking care of the stuff at home took most of my time. When I moved I lost her families information and her e-mail doesn’t seem to work anymore and we lost contact with each other. I did everything I could to find her. I tried to find her by contacting her unit they wouldnt talk to me since I wasnt a family member.

I still pay for her account and every day I look at the tanker I leveled to 50 for her. The character has not been logged on in over 886 day. Every time I log in I am hoping with all my heart to see that “ 0 Days” last logged so I know she is on and I can send her a tell and find my lost love. Until then I am on Triumph a shadow in the streets arresting baddies and waiting for another miracle.