Kriss

This one is a bit embarrassing, but it's one of the many mistakes I have made in the relationship game.

I once had a fake relationship with a girl in a MMORPG I played a long time ago.

Final Fantasy was my favorite RPG as a young boy. When I heard that the franchise was going to come out with a MMO, I knew I was going to have to give it a try. Final Fantasy XI was my first ever MMO experience. People say it was not the best MO out on the market, but for the longest time I was enamored with it. It took over my life. It was all that mattered. It was my escape.

Early on in my life inside FFXI I met this person who went by the name Kriss. We became friends early on and in the game we spent a lot of time together. In actuality I was not sure who this person was. It could have been a guy with a girl character, but I was determined to find out.

I've seen friends do weird things when they meet someone in a game like this. The craziest thing I ever saw was one of friends move in with a girl he had met online. I took that to heart and made sure to not ever get that caught up. Oh, by the way, their relationship did not last. I wonder why?
The two of us played the game a lot together. We would join up as a party, kill some monsters, farm loot, unlock new jobs, and all the while we would be getting to know each other better. As it turned out (or from what she told me) her real name was Kristine and she was Canadian living in that country as well. I would go home, jump on this game, and play with this girl for the rest of the night.

Still, I was not even sure if this was even a girl. So, I can say I am a tad bit more bold online. I asked her for her number, and she gave it to me. Hey, any time I get a girl's number I consider it a success, regardless of the situation!

So we talked on the phone, and lo and behold it was an actual girl! Wooot! From that point on we spent a lot of time together in the game. It sounds cheesy, but I was real lonely at the time. Spending time with this chick in the game relieved me of some of the loneliness I was feeling. We talked about everything, and before I knew it she asked me to be her digital boyfriend. I guess I was happy, but I was embarrassed too. She reminded me that it was just a game, and not to let my emotions get the best of me, because the two of us would never meet in real life. I agreed, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

This Kriss chick was something else. She did not ant me to get my emotions mixed into this fake couple thing, but she was a sexual freak. She liked for me to talk dirty to her and asked me what my sexual fantasies were. She told me about her sexual escapades and even started sending me pictures of her in risque outfits. Who knows if those pictures were actually her, but whoever it was, she was a blond bombshell. She also told me she liked getting choked during sex. That entire notion was new to me. I for one, enjoyed breathing. Silly Canadians and their crazy fetishes.

Beyond all the strange sexual conversations we exchanged we would travel around the digital world and experienced the games beauty together. I would by her flowers or rings or necklaces and the two of us would sit in some are and talk the night away. I know it was not a real relationship, but it was nice to imagine that it was. It was definitely my escape from the reality of being single.

The one thing I got out of this relationship that was not a swift kick in the gonads was that Kriss had good taste in books. She introduced me to the Sword of Truth series, and I went on to read the entire series (eventually) and pass it on to my friends and family. Nothing else from this experience lasted, so at least I had something come out of it.

We would set up times to meet and play together. I would grind extra hard and buy her items she wanted. She was a very needy in the game and wanted all the best and most expensive gear. She wanted certain gear, not because it was good for her, but because it was super expensive and she wanted to showcase owning that particular loot. I was her slave, but to some degree I was happy.

Then, something changed. She started doing things with other people, and started leaving me behind in the game. Other players were more adept at collecting money in the game then I was. Kriss started demanding gear I did not have the means to get at the time and that became a problem for her. What she wanted, she wanted at that moment and she did not want to wait for me to farm for a couple of days in order to acquire it. She started showing up with very nice gear and at first I thought it was cool that people were buying her gear, but then she started to play with me less and less.

I could not afford her in the game and she left me for someone who could. Ha! I even got dumped in a video game, how pathetic. Kriss had used me. I was upset, sure. But she told me that it was just a game and that she told me not to get my emotions mixed into to it all. I suppose, but that was a lot of time and energy I spent with her to keep her happy and for what?

After that FFXI almost became an embarrassment to me. I still played, but I avoided Kriss at all cost. It must not have worked out with her sugar daddy because she would every now and then try to talk to me, but I was done with her. I was not going to waste another minute on someone who treated me like that. Game or not.

As it turns out, after Kriss started to text and talk to me less and less it seems she was tired of the entire male species. She told me one last time before we stopped talking completely that she had turned bisexual and was dating some girl with a crazy body.

Sure, I looked at the pictures when she sent them, but come on...who wouldn't!