Quote:So you're Trapped in Another World, one that you recognize from fiction back home. And it's a work with a character that you really, really liked. And you've met that character here. Wonder of wonders, after the character gets to know you, they really, really like you, too; when you asked whether they want to get married, They Do. Congratulations! But this story doesn't end there with a Happily Ever After; you and your special other still have a life to live together.

Married Mai Waifu For Real is when what would otherwise be an "Author Avatar gets the character" Wish Fulfillment story continues after the wedding. This is not just about getting the girl (or whoever); that's Happily Ever After. This is about telling stories about full-fledged relationships; the characters have to balance their work and family lives, and they have children if they've been together for long enough.

In many ways, this is a Deconstruction of Happily Ever After, done in a way that doesn't invalidate that trope's basic premise.

(10-10-2023, 07:04 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken.
the Lead Character has gotten married ...

(10-10-2023, 07:04 PM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken.
the Lead Character has gotten married and is happily farming, raising their kid, and avoiding as much cultivator drama as he can while his Disciples go off and have adventures.

(10-10-2023, 05:30 PM)Shepherd Wrote: Of course he does keep picking up more wives along the way, so I'm not entirely certain it counts for this trope.

(10-11-2023, 12:39 PM)Jinx999 Wrote: I believe Twisted Path would count.

(10-11-2023, 12:15 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: Does it count if it's an Overlord (LN/anime) fic where the insert used the game's NPC creation system to make a Rule-63 of a character from other media to be their waifu before the canon plot line even begins? (And continued on into that timeline, of course.) The requested information is escap9ing me for the moment, but it was distinctive enough  - MC got the devs to make him a custoim class that anounts to "be the dragon," with his gal Rule-63 Emiya Shirou, and there were several other features I should be able to use to fish it up, once I'm nopt so sick we were concerned it might be the lamest case of being late to the party ever with COVID-19. Test says no, though, I'm just just regular sick, which is quite enough to have my brain squirreling off in random dir3ections.

Um. Case in point. Yes, sorry about rambling, does that sound like it should count?

(10-11-2023, 12:54 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(10-11-2023, 12:39 PM)Jinx999 Wrote: I believe Twisted Path would count.

It would? Who did Twister marry, in what installment? I don't remember anything like that.

Quote:Halfway between fanfic and literature, in The Beekeeper's Apprentice we are introduced to Mary Russell. It is unrevealed whether her middle name is Sue, but Mary is a Sherlock Holmes fan who runs into the aging detective in Sussex (at a point after where the Conan Doyle stories end). Mary eventually gets a degree in theology and marries Holmes. She is of course written by an author who is a Sherlock Holmes fan with a degree in theology. However, the series is written by a professional author and you can buy it in bookstores.

(10-11-2023, 04:37 PM)Jinx999 Wrote:

(10-11-2023, 12:54 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(10-11-2023, 12:39 PM)Jinx999 Wrote: I believe Twisted Path would count.

It would? Who did Twister marry, in what installment? I don't remember anything like that.

Sorry, I didn't notice that the original post said specifically married (as opposed to committed and going steady).

(10-12-2023, 09:20 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Oh!  How did it take me so long to think of this?  Neon Exodus Evangelion is sortakinda an example, if you're one of those readers who insists DJ Croft is a "disguised" SI despite EPU's claims to the contrary.  The end of Apotheosis Now has DJ basically proposing to Asuka, and the fragmentary "sequel" material that's appeared in the years since make it clear that he made good on it, and they've been together for at least a couple decades after.

EDIT:  Also, I just found this on the Self-Insert Fic page at ATT, from the Literature section:

Quote:Halfway between fanfic and literature, in The Beekeeper's Apprentice we are introduced to Mary Russell. It is unrevealed whether her middle name is Sue, but Mary is a Sherlock Holmes fan who runs into the aging detective in Sussex (at a point after where the Conan Doyle stories end). Mary eventually gets a degree in theology and marries Holmes. She is of course written by an author who is a Sherlock Holmes fan with a degree in theology. However, the series is written by a professional author and you can buy it in bookstores.

It's referring to the "Mary Russell" series by Laurie R. King.

(10-11-2023, 02:51 PM)robkelk Wrote:

(10-11-2023, 12:15 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: Does it count if it's an Overlord (LN/anime) fic where the insert used the game's NPC creation system to make a Rule-63 of a character from other media to be their waifu before the canon plot line even begins? (And continued on into that timeline, of course.)

Well, it does have the required elements: character gets isekaied, known fictional character and isekai character fall for each other, they marry, and the story continues. It just does some playing with the "known fictional character" part and uses the trope in the backstory, from the way you've described it.

I'd say it counts. If you can get me a link to the fic and the name of the isekai character, we'd be good.

(10-14-2023, 12:20 AM)Labster Wrote: Kind of a borderline case, depending on how much you see him as an author avatar, but Harold Shea married Belphebe in the second book of the series, this episode a fanfic of The Faerie Queene called “The Mathematics of Magic”.

(10-13-2023, 07:37 PM)Norgarth Wrote: ... but I don't think any are official characters.