re: New Romance -- I can think of a few examples that deal with a dead-and-gone romance, usually in the context of learning to let go. (Eg. Inception)
The only example of an ongoing relationship I can think of is Vaarsuvius's arc in The Order of the Stick... which is remarkably unusual in the fantasy genre, now that I think about it. Vaarsuvius starts the comic with a baker spouse* and two kids back home while they're out traveling as the party wizard. Partway through, he causes a dragon to endanger his family, and he gets into a tangle with his own hubris and visits home for the first time in years just to rain down unnatural brutal terror upon this dragon (in front of his kids). His spouse chews him out for being gone all this time only to show up as an evil glory-hog narcissist, and a few sideplots later, his spouse serves him divorce papers.
(* All elves are gender-ambiguous in this comic, but I can't help but perceive V as male and his spouse as female because their narratives so strongly imply a certain gender. As you may have noticed, I accidentally started referring to Vaarsuvius by "he" halfway through this writeup. :p)
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Date: 2016-12-06 01:08 am (UTC)The only example of an ongoing relationship I can think of is Vaarsuvius's arc in The Order of the Stick... which is remarkably unusual in the fantasy genre, now that I think about it. Vaarsuvius starts the comic with a baker spouse* and two kids back home while they're out traveling as the party wizard. Partway through, he causes a dragon to endanger his family, and he gets into a tangle with his own hubris and visits home for the first time in years just to rain down unnatural brutal terror upon this dragon (in front of his kids). His spouse chews him out for being gone all this time only to show up as an evil glory-hog narcissist, and a few sideplots later, his spouse serves him divorce papers.
(* All elves are gender-ambiguous in this comic, but I can't help but perceive V as male and his spouse as female because their narratives so strongly imply a certain gender. As you may have noticed, I accidentally started referring to Vaarsuvius by "he" halfway through this writeup. :p)