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Characters together because:
1 Characters have been BFFs all their lives, hanging out and doing everything together and could not bear the thought of being without their bestie for even a single hour.
2 Characters are really swell friends; so swell that one secretly loves
the other, adoring everything the other says and does, worshipping the very
oith on which he or she walks, but keeps this a close secret for fear of being
spurned.
3 Characters are very distant cousins; very, very distant. These two
branches of the family tree are about as far away from each other as possible
without the tree splitting in half.
4 Characters were both adopted by the same family when they were very
young. They led a happy, relatively carefree life and grew up together as
siblings. When they came of age, their adoptive parents sat them down and told
them the truth.
5 Characters were both adopted by the same family at a young age.
Disaster struck when their adoptive parents got killed by giant slogs; the two
got separated for a long time but have since reunited; the twosome has since
traveled far and wide to find their real parents.
6 Characters are lovers, but time and clashing characters have made the
spark go out of the relationship and now both are secretly trying to find a
better partner; no one has worked up the courage to dump the other yet,
however.
7 Characters are passionate lovers, if you can believe it.
8 Characters were for a time joint together at the hip due to a weirdo
device and got so used to each other that they kept hanging out together after
they were surgically separated.
9 Characters are both distantly related to yet another being, and met at
a family party, which through a little accident on their part turned into a
wake. They managed to slip away unnoticed, but a vague feeling of guilt now
keeps them together.
10 Characters traveled the Oith together for a while and grew attached
to each other during their various exploits.
11 Characters are or originally were pimp and protégé(e).
12 Characters have been hocus-poked to think they are father/mother and
son/daughter, and now go through the motions of a normal family life every day.
13 Characters have been hocus-poked to think they are lovers; actually
found each other disgusting before the charm was placed on then, possibly as a
lark by some hocus-poker they peed off.
14 Characters were in a horrible accident together, involving a wiggly
wiggler, two dozen goozera's and a big hunk of cheese. They both required
extensive blood transfusions and are now considered blood relatives of the
first degree under some obscure, crazy law.
15 Characters met each other at a birthday party of some one neither of
them knew, only being there for the free booze. They met each other stuffing
canapés down their pants and some mutual respect and/or shame now keep them
together.
16 Characters grew up in same village/town, a feud existed between their
families for generations, but they hit it off swimmingly, though they had to
keep their friendship a secret.
17 Characters are friends; one of them only pretends to like the other,
and hangs around the other because he or she suffers from an extremely rare
disease that's slowly liquefying the character's spleen; the other character
being the only viable match for a transplant.
18 Characters recently met each other, one mistook the other for a
friend from the distant past, the other, destitute, opportunistically stuck
around to take advantage of that error.
19 Characters met each other in a brothel, in whichever roles or
positions they fancy.
20 Characters made a drunken, indecent wager involving a rubber chicken,
one now owes the other a (huge) favor or (lotsa) clams.
21 Characters are often thought to be the same person (even if looking
nothing alike); this got them into trouble at one point and led to the
characters actually meeting each other to sort out this mess. They now hang out
together to avoid confusion and getting each other into further trouble.
22 Characters both worship and serve the same gawd and met at a
religious service. They now think they are fated to be together for some grand
scheme or purpose.
23 Characters are siblings, but grew up hating each other. On her
deathbed their momma made them vow to stick together and try to be nicer to
each other.
24 Characters met in a convalescent home; one thinks the other is
his/her imaginary friend, the other thinks the former is a drunken
hallucination. Both agree they are the only sane people around.
25 Characters are object of study and observer; one is an amateur
wisenheimer who for some reason has become entirely fascinated with the other.
26 Characters grew up in the same dodgy hood of a large town, and people
from there always stick together and watch each other's backs.
27 Characters share an obscure hobby, interest or fetish that makes them
stand out from society, and they bonded together in an 'us versus them' kind of
way.
28 Characters share a troubled past. They came from a large
"family" and their "gawdfather" regularly asked certain
"favors" of them, but the sheer amount of euphemisms and quotation
marks made them run off together, assume new identities and forgo their old
life.
29 Characters hardly know each other; one is obsessed with the other and
follows everywhere like a stalker, the other is understandably annoyed and/or
creeped out by this.
30 Characters have a platonic relationship. They don't really like each
other, but it sort of makes sense to hang out together, if you think about it.
31 Characters are rivals and the only reason they hang out is because
they always want to get the better of the other and publicly humiliate him/her.
32 Characters both share the delusion that they once were one being that
split into two separate ones; they are extremely protective of each other,
thinking that if one dies, so will the other.
33 Characters met each other in a game of chance, where one won the
other as a consolation prize, said character may or may not been given back
his/her freedom by now.
34 Characters met each other working the same beat as hoinks. They
experienced many crazy things together and frequently saved each other's
behinds; after their stint they became inseparable.
35 Characters met each other while traveling the dusty trails; they both
could use the company and started traveling together; during the long, lonely
nights with nothing to do but talking a mutual respect/friendship grew.
36 Characters met each other during an exciting event in a fighting pit;
either as spectators, fighters or first the one, then the other, as these
things usually go.
37 Characters met each other on a caper; both were part of a different
heap, burglarizing the same joint in the same night. The characters hit it off
immediately, preferring each other over their fellow heapsters.
38 Characters met each other while buying some kickass gear at Wacky
Wongo's Wondrous Weapon Workshop.
39 Characters met in a petrified forest, both running their legs off
escaping enslavement and/or being eaten by horrible savages and bumping into
each other by chance. One tried to screw the other over to increase his/her
chances of escape; the plan misfired but this ended up saving the both of them.
40 Characters met when one fell into a nest of scary ass muthas and the
other heroically saved the former. In reality the heroic character didn't know
that the other was there, but he/she sort of went along with it once the
rescued character started heaping up the adulation.
41 Characters met while hired for the same job, but the whole thing was
a set-up. By sheer luck, both managed to get out of dodge and together went
after their double-crossing employer.
42 Characters met while hired for the same job, but one was secretly
working for a competing employer. Just when the job was about finished, the
latter betrayed the other character and ran off with the spoils; the two met
again years later. The wronged character pretends to harbor no bad feelings,
but secretly looks for an opportunity to screw the other over.
43 Characters are friends; one character is actually paid by a good
Samaritan to hang out with the other character for a while, because said good
Samiratan took pity on the latter character because he/she is so unlovable.
44 Characters share the mutual delusion that they are the last two
Hoomanracians on Oith; the characters must of course stay together to
repopulate.
45 Characters both suffer from amnesia; both of them had a hand painted portrait of the other on him/her, and now try to figure out how they might have known each other.
46 Characters met in a dodgy dockside bar when a no holds barred brawl broke loose; characters were innocent (for once) but both met on the receiving end of a horc's fists. Together they turned the tables on their assailants and make quite the show of it, somehow.
45 Characters both suffer from amnesia; both of them had a hand painted portrait of the other on him/her, and now try to figure out how they might have known each other.
46 Characters met in a dodgy dockside bar when a no holds barred brawl broke loose; characters were innocent (for once) but both met on the receiving end of a horc's fists. Together they turned the tables on their assailants and make quite the show of it, somehow.
47 Characters met in a raucous bar. One challenged the other to a
drinking contest, but after hours of chugging fermented slog milk and
eventually passing out, they agreed to call it a draw.
48 Characters met in a big friggin’ storm, sought shelter in the same
hollowed-out mushroom. The characters had to huddle very close together to stay
warm; now things are sort of complicated.
49 Characters were hired for the same ill-fated caper; the both of them
barely escaped with their lives and royally screwed up their assignment, much
to the ire of their employer.
50 Characters met in a filthy jail, sitting out a two year sentence; their
imprisonment may or may not have been justified.
51 Characters met in a high security prison; their imprisonment may or
may not have been justified. They were busted out during a spectacular
jailbreak together with some other inmates by a mutual friend, who died during
the escape.
52 Characters met each other in a back alley game of chance; one of the
characters lost big and couldn't pay up. When the card sharp threatened to cut
off some valued body parts, the other character fronted the loser some clams;
his/her motives for doing so remain unknown for now.
53 Characters met each other at the craps table in a casino and suddenly
scored big, now they stick together because they think they bring each other
luck.
54 Characters secretly hate each other, and plot each other’s demise.
Both are staunch believers in ‘keep your friends close, but your enemies in
stabbing distance’.
55 Characters met on a disastrous adventure; they were the only two
heapsters to survive.
56 Characters met on a luxury cruise; for different reasons both were
stowaways, but were discovered and kicked overboard. The characters stranded on
a deserted island and had to survive with just each other for company for two
years before being rescued.
57 Characters met on an Agog-bound ship, chained together as rowers;
both had been captured by horcish price-o-corns in a raid two days past.
58 Characters are tethered together by an invisible, hocus-poked rubber
band, which has a length of about ten yorts, the punishment for successfully
playing a prank on a dweeb.
59 Characters met on a disastrous adventure, in an act of extraordinary
cowardice both deserted the heap to a certain doom (or was it?).
60 Characters met on a dangerous adventure; through some clever thinking
and good teamwork they got out unharmed and saved each other’s lives.
61 Characters share a not uncommon birthmark; one of them was once told
by a doddering weisenheimer that it would be of great significance in his/her
life; now he/she hangs around the other character waiting for some mysterious
destiny to kick in.
62 Characters met during a bad time in their lives. Both were members of
a suicide cult, but even something as simple as drinking from a poisoned cup
they managed to bung up, being the only ones to survive.
63 Characters met on the streets, running an elaborate swindle to trick
gullible passers-by out of their clams.
64 Characters met when one of them, completely by accident, released the
other from a charm that had been placed on him/her by a bad-tempered
hocus-poker, which made the character act like a lovelorn schnooble.
65 Characters met when one caught the other running from the hoinks.
When the hoinks found the both of them they assumed they were accomplices and
proceeded to clobber the twosome; they then both ran away together.
66 Characters met when one character found the other breaking into
his/her house at night. After a stern talking to the latter repented and turned
away from his/her life of crime, and is now very thankful and feels he/she owes
the other character one.
67 Characters met when one freed the other from the bunghole of a giant
slog. Why he/she had his/her head there, gawds only know.
68 Characters met when one ran the other down with his/her wiggly
wiggler.
69 Characters are friends; hang out together because both secretly think
the other is dumber and uglier, and thus make him/her look better by
comparison.
70 Characters met when one was out of clams and life-threateningly sober
and the other bought him/her a drink.
71 Characters met when both went to get even with a slickster who had
scammed them.
72 Characters were part of a heap which got lost in the Phesterance and
eventually resorted to cannibalism; they rarely talk about it, but to this day
sometimes get a certain ravenous craving.
73 Characters are sent on a divinely-inspired quest together by the same
gawd.
74 Characters are sent on a procurement-focused quest together by the
same snoot.
75 Characters briefly worked together as goons. It quickly became clear
the characters weren't cut out for the work however, but by then they had
become fast chums.
76 Characters served the same snoot. Eventually they got tired of being
treated like peed-ons and quit together to start up their own enterprise.
77 Characters woke up in the same bed together this morning. Neither
remembers the other, but no one is willing to admit it (yet).
78 Characters share a tragic death; one deliberately/accidentally killed
the other character’s great-aunt, but everyone involved decided it was for the
best and there are no hard feelings, quite to the contrary.
79 Characters were slave and lashmaster, but a sudden change of heart or
event made them run off together.
80 Characters are goon and master. It's not always clear who the real
brains behind the operation is, however.
81 Characters are legally bound to stay within 50 yorts distance of each
other, the result of a previous misdemeanor and the experimental ruling of some
hippilicious judge.
82 Characters were both in love with the same being, which got
tragically killed, being crushed by a giant wheel of cheese cut in the shape of
a heart, as the two characters kept staging increasingly grandiose spectacles
to win his/her.its affections.
83 Characters were both in love with the same being, but he/she/it
dumped both of them for a much more attractive specimen.
84 Characters were both slaves; they escaped together and have been on
the run ever since, afraid their lashmasters haven't forgotten about them.
85 Characters were both slaves. During a daring escape they killed their
lashmasters and ran far away; their past is now a mutual secret, a source of
shared pain, shame and trust.
86 Characters were both slaves. When one earned his/her freedom he
eventually came back after saving enough clams to purchase the other
character's freedom as well.
87 Characters were in a love triangle, but after being treated quite
badly they dumped the third wheel and became fast friends.
88 Characters were from the same village, the only survivors of a horde
of savages who pillaged and burned the place.
89 Characters were from the same village, only survivors of a horribly
lethal and physically embarrassing disease.
90 Characters were hired muscle for a gangsta; said gangsta turned on
one of their mutual friends and out of a sense of loyalty or because he owed
them a lot of clams, the two betrayed their employer to save their friend.
91 Characters were hired muscle for a snoot. In a very ill-considered
move, one of them slept with the snoot's wife, which peed off the snoot to no
small extent of course. He now uses his considerable resources to hunt the
characters down; both are now on the run.
92 Characters were good friends once; one now secretly hates the other,
being jealous of the other’s real or perceived popularity, wealth or good
fortune.
93 Characters were good friends once; one now secretly hates the other
for some perceived slight.
94 Characters think the other is his/her evil/good twin, cleverly
disguised as to not arouse suspicion, and pretend to be friends, each planning
to kill the other when least expected.
95 Characters are worshipper and object of worship, for real or
perceived reasons.
96 Characters met wearing exactly the same outfit, which considering the
outfit and the characters is pretty unlikely and both took it for an omen or
something.
97 Characters were originally goon and master; after the former
spectacularly saved the latter's life, the goon character is now treated like a
friend and equal by the other.
98 Characters were originally booty hunter and prey. During the hunt the
latter gave the former such sport that out of respect and admiration the booty
hunter let the prey go without turning him/her in; this turned into a weird
friendship of sorts, when they decided to start working together.
99 Characters for a time were both lowly peed-ons stuck in a dead-end
job. One of them gained a small measure of success later on; the other now
hangs around trying to score freebies and harp the former’s conscience.
100 Characters worked together in a shady business; one character then
betrayed the other. This caused quite some problems for the other character;
recently he/she tracked down the other character, who now no longer recognizes
the haggard shell of his/her former business partner.
