Do you have any married couples in your story? What's their importance?

[Lucca_Vendramel]

I really like to include married couples in my stories, mostly as secondary characters and parents, sometimes even as main characters. I love all the narrative doors a marriage can open to a story, and like to include it very often. Do you have any married couples you're particularly fond of in your story? Are they parents, protagonists, secondary characters? If so, post it below!
If you want to, post some drawing prompts for these kind of characters too! I have two in my story and would like to draw a little more. Feel free to post an artwork of them and/or your comic's link!
(this sketch is all i've done of these two in a long time sjdaksdj)

The comic they star in:

Everdream: Stars Hold no Boundaries | Tapas

[Zemoore]

Honestly, i just realized most of the people in my story who are at a marrying age are either single, widowed, or divorced. Kinda depressing now that I noticed xD

I do long strong duos. There is a pair of parents I adore in a story of mine I would like to turn into a comic some day. Roxie and Beale. Roxie's a cop who would do anything for her family (even if its highly illegal/immoral) and Beale a understanding stay at home dad who understand his daughter much better than his wife xD

[yansusu]

I'm not a comic creator so no drawings but I feel the question can be answered for novels as well so let me be shameless

I actually have quite a few married couples in my main series. The most obvious are the MC's parents and he even has two sets of them: One in his actual life as a god (because why shouldn't gods get married and have kids?) and one in his trial where he's reborn as a human.

Two of the main characters have also ended up as a married couple in the first version of the series (still quite a ways off in the revision here on Tapas though but they'll get there!) and they're probably the most fun couple in the series since you see them first hearing about each other, then witness their first meeting and follow one of them very shamelessly pursuing the other one and finally getting married.

Then there are also random side characters that are married (some secretly though where almost nobody knows about it and even the readers will only find out about it in side stories or from very small clues) and even the so-called "antagonist" is married.

I think that all of them are important in so far that their relationship will influence other things. E.g. if the MC's parents weren't married and he only had one of them to take care of him, he would have turned out a completely different person and many things in the plot would have changed because his father and mother go about things very differently.
Then there are marriages that are very unhappy and will be important because of that. One of them is even standing in the way of a happy relationship and screwed up the lives of several people spanning two generations.
So I think the marriage mostly shows traits of the two people in question but influences the people around them and with that do their part for the plot.

Oh. My. Fate?! | Tapas

[monotone_ink]

Project SHaDe | Tapas

No married couples yet, but there will be an engaged one further down the line.

Their role is to act as a measuring stick for the slowly decaying world they live in. Near the end, they are one of the few normal things left, as everything else falls to a living hell.

[Rodimus13]

Yes, but I can't say yet cause SPOILERS

But there is a married couple involved. We see them in Build-a's dreams

[Kiweevil]

Now that I think about it....no. I don't think there are any. Should there be? Of my only ones mentioned, one dies in a car wreck. If that counts, I guess.

[nostalgicroxas]

The daddy's in NTN are both married.
Crow's dad has marital issues and regrets involving his wife and her suffering from an anger disorder when his son was young. It strains his son's and his relationship to present day, and the whereabouts of the wife/mother is unknown. Or if she's even alive.
Will's dad was married, lost his wife and then his memories of her (and by extension, of his son), and ended up remarrying very soon after his amnesia set in to a woman named Mia, and they had a kiddo. This relationship is actually a more central part of the plot. The new wife doesn't like Will very much, but her son loves him. The relationship between Adell (dad) and Mia (wife) is something that I haven't needed to go too far into since the story doesn't revolve around them. I did have the joy recently of having Adell poke a window into the relationship by way of a conversation he has with his childhood friend about her (Mia). Whether Adell will ever really recall his deceased wife or Will is yet to be known however.
As I said they aren't main stars of the show; they're from my novel NTN

Nearly There Nicely | Tapas

[vothnthorvaldson]

I have two married couples in my story. All four individuals are secondary characters, but rather important for the story nonetheless.

One of the couple is the parents of the MC, and at the beginning of the story the MC is a little bit in conflict with them (mostly for being 'boring' adults and for not letting him do stupid things), but during the story he'll come to understand their choices better, etc..

The other couple, they are both already dead at the beginning of the story but they are very important. They made quite a mess 20 years prior, when marrying, because they were of different religions and ethnicities and that was not accepted at all. The next generation still suffers from that.

Both couples have some autobiographical aspects. The relation between the first one and their son certainly has something of the relation between my parents and myself as a teenager
And outbreeding is fairly common in my family and generations earlier, seems to have made enough scandal to result in emmigration. (Fortunately my own mixed marriage was very well accepted but for sure the subject is close to my heart).

[ivanskilling]

I have a few married "couples" in my story.

Since the story is set in ancient China, the Emperor actually has wives and multiple concubines. The MC of my story is the Empress Dowager and her husband, the last Emperor, has passed away. They're bound by a magic stronger than marriage and that causes conflict later in the story when the Empress Dowager's heart wavers.

The other couples are secondary characters like an elderly couple who shelters the Empress as she runs away from enemy soldiers, and a young couple who are undercover spies with a tragic story behind their marriage. In a way, these encounters with commoners cause the Empress to change her perception of love and life in general.

Shackles | Tapas

[IndigoShirtProd]

Their just the parent of some of the main characters in my comic. They dont make an appearance until further in the story. They don't have much significance plot-wise right now, but that could change in the future .

[Cavechan]

In my True Power series, there isn't much marriage because...

But those characters do eventually marry.

There was one couple in their country who were married:

In Celestial Chronicle Shion, there isn't much mention of it. The main characters' parents are married, but they don't do a whole lot in the story.

[Carossmo]

Married ahaha

These two who have a 2 1/2 year old kid. In the story for my comic, this is R's family, more of extended family but they are her current companions atm. They help shape up R's relationship with L in a way, giving it a bit of a helping hand to put things forward or into action.

[silacinnamon]

My comic Narwhal's Song has two secondary characters who are married, both are anthropologists/explorers who work together. They aren't really actively relevant in my comic since they just show up once or twice, but they discovered something that plays a pretty important part in my story... also I started chapter two with an interview with them as an excuse to explain some of my world setting lol

Funnily enough, I also have 3 sisters in my story who are all mothers, but I didn't feel like making husbands/wives so I decided that one of them is going to be divorced, another one a widow and the other never married her daughter's dad (I'll probably never show their background in the comic, but I wrote it just in case someone asks someday)

[Tanako]

emmm NAH...
I like to focus more on single life and relationships not necessarily life long commitments hahah!
we all know it gets there, we just dont need to see it

[arcojawa]

There are.... hmm.... at least two married couples in my comic..... and at least one unmarried couple.

The two married couples are both parents, one of the main character (as an aside, the husband took the wife's surname) and one of the secondary characters. There may be more married couple in the future depending on if I roll with some idea's I've had for the tertiary characters.

The one unmarried couple is a group of secondary characters who... might have a relationship that might make some people uneasy, but are happily together none-the-less.

Surprising Octeal | Tapas

[kaetana]

Several of the protagonists' parents are married couples, but the only ones I've drawn so far would be Bree's parents here. They won't appear in the comic until later, and Bree's relationship with them is...complicated, heh.

I also have a pair of characters that have appeared prominently already and are functionally married, but aren't officially married because their relationship is kept secret from the public.

The Broken Ones | Tapas

[vothnthorvaldson]

I also have a pair of characters that have appeared prominently already and are functionally married, but aren't officially married because their relationship is kept secret from the public

Now I'm really intrigued

[spadesart]

archer and val in my novel draft arent technically married, since fae dont really have a concept of marriage but they ARE bound/"mated for life" and other characters refer to them as husbands

theyre the antagonists so they mostly exist to be the asshole evil duo. i wasnt planning for them to be a couple at first actually, which is why they dont meaningfully interact while together until later in my rough draft (which i kinda reference in my two main characters' bet over if theyre a couple or boss/henchman). but their relationship makes them feel more real for me. it exposes their emotional weaknesses and also characterizes them beyond the general evil king roles i put them in.

they have a kid about 300-ish years post-sundown