History Main / FallingForSomeoneNeverMet

-->''I miss you\\

-->--'''Bjork, ''I Miss You'''''

* This was why Luke Skywalker was so eager to save Princess Leia after seeing [=R2D2=] project her message in ANewHope.

--->'''Mr. Bernstein:''' A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.

* [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Geordi LaForge]] falls in love with starship designer Leah Brahms after working with a holographic version of her. It makes things really awkward when he meets the real (and already-married) Dr. Brahms (especially after she finds out about the hologram), but the final episode suggests they end up getting married in at least one timeline.

* {{NCIS}} has an episode where Tony falls for a victim's sister without meeting her.

* [[KingsQuest Graham]] sees Valanice in the magic mirror in the second game, and set off to find and marry her without having met her. (The FanRemake adds an element of MindlinkMates to this). Being as King's Quest is as bad as {{Shrek}} when it comes to [[ZigZaggingTrope screwing with Fairy Tale Tropes]], this is pretty easy to shrug off.

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* Real-life example: Mark Twain fell in love with his future wife on seeing a portrait of her. Their courtship was largely through the mail.
* Quite a lot of people have done this historically, and because of the internet it's happening even ''more.''
* Zhuge Liang had fallen in love with Yue Ying when she had started spreading rumors about herself that she was highly unattractive, but very smart ([[ValuesDissonance This'd be in late 2nd Century, early 3rd Century China]]). Upon finally besting the few other suitors, Zhuge Liang fell even more deeply in love with her and [[EngagingConversation proposed to her on the spot when he finally met her]].
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* Revealed to be the case in RedString [[http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=555 with Makoto.]]
* Professor Madblood of {{Narbonic}} fell in love with Helen when he read about her development as a clone as a project. [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10217 He went mad as a teenager.]]

* The TMBG song ''Ana Ng''.

* Plot point of ''You've Got Mail'', where the couple fall in love through letters/email depending on the version.

* Professor Madblood of {{Narbonic}} fell in love with Helen when he read about her development as a clone as a project. [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10217 He went mad as a teenager.]]

* Professor Madblood of {{Narbonic}} fell in love with Helen when he read about her development as a clone as a project. He went mad as a teenager.

* In {{Homestuck}}, there's Kanaya's red feelings for Rose based entirely around a GameFAQs Walkthrough.

* Revealed to be the case in RedString [[http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=555 with Matoko.]]

* In Eva Ibbotson's ''Magic Flutes'' has David Tremayne falling for a princess he's never met, just from pictures of her and others' anecdotes about her kindness and bravery. Thing is, he's the assistant of said princess's LoveInterest, so his love goes unrequited.

Have you ever fallen a bit in love without ever having met a person face to face? Perhaps with a singing voice, with a beautiful portrait or photograph, with the tone of a letter or simply with what others say about someone who left an impression? In real life this is just a tiny pang and we get over it quickly; that, or we become part of a celebrity's {{Fandom}}.

* ''NCIS'' has an episode where Tony falls for a victim's sister without meeting her.

* This is the storyline of the DavidBowie video "As the World Falls Down": In a woman's apartment, her copier mysteriously prints out a single image of Bowie's face; she pins one up to her wall, ponders it, and tries to deny she's falling for him. As it turns out, elsewhere Bowie is singing to a ''painting'' of this woman. She figures out where he is, but only gets as far as opening the door before turning back.

* Its "brother game" SpaceQuest also plays this, though. After a big mess involving TimeTravel, Roger's KidFromTheFuture shows him a holographic projection of Beatrice Wankmeister. Roger is instantly smitten, and (contrary to what his kid states) doesn't forget his trip to the future. At the opening of SpaceQuestV, Roger still can't quite get Beatrice out of his mind. In the course of the game he meets her, and the pair start up a romance.

** Quite a lot of people have done this historically, and because of the internet it's happening even ''more.''
* {{Real Life}} subversion: Zhuge Liang had fallen in love with Yue Ying when she had started spreading rumors about herself that she was highly unattractive, but very smart ([[ValuesDissonance This'd be in late 2nd Century, early 3rd Century China]]). Upon finally besting the few other suitors, Zhuge Liang fell even more deeply in love with her and [[EngagingConversation proposed to her on the spot when he finally met her]].

* The story Culhwch and Olwen in the ''Mabinogion'' centers around King Arthur and his knights trying to fulfill the incredible laundry list of tasks the giant Ysbaddaden handed Cwlych (who's...twelve or so when the story starts) in order to marry his daughter Olwen. They're horrible and violent and most of Ireland and half of England get totally ravaged, but they're stuck. Arthur ''promised'' to do whatever the kid asked, and the kid wants to marry Olwen...because his stepmother who hated him told him she was very beautiful and cast a little spell to help him get obsessed. It takes a few years, so he's at least a teenager by the time he marries her. This is, so far as I know, also when he meets her.

* The trigger for the plot of ''SomewhereInTime'', where the main character falls in love with an actress after seeing an old picture of her, making him use TimeTravel through hypnosis to meet her after he learned that she'd already died of old age.

* The story Culhwch and Olwen in the ''Mabinogion'' centers around King Arthur and his knights trying to fulfill the incredible laundry list of tasks the giant Ysbaddaden handed Cwlych (who's...twelve or so when the story starts) in order to marry his daughter Olwen. They're horrible and violent and most of Ireland and half of England get totally ravaged, but they're stuck. Arthur ''promised'' to do whatever the kid asked, and the kid wants to marry Olwen...because his stepmother who hated him told him she was very beautiful and cast a little spell to help him get obsessed. It takes a few years, so he's at least a teenager by the time he marries her.

* With a fantasy twist that allows the trope to work for ''both'' parties involved, this is the storyline of the DavidBowie video "As the World Falls Down": In a woman's apartment, her copier mysteriously prints out a single image of Bowie's face; she pins one up to her wall, ponders it, and tries to deny she's falling for him. As it turns out, elsewhere Bowie is singing to a ''painting'' of this woman. She figures out where he is, but only gets as far as opening the door before turning back.

* With a fantasy twist, this is the storyline of the DavidBowie video "As the World Falls Down": In a woman's apartment, her copier mysteriously prints out copies of a single image of Bowie's face; she pins one up to her wall, ponders it, and tries to deny she's falling for him. As it turns out, elsewhere, perhaps not far away, Bowie is singing to a ''painting'' of this woman. She figures out where he is, but only gets as far as opening the door before turning back.

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