rassilontdavros asked:
So your official confirmation of the kids’ parents in that strip got me wondering: were there a lot of Ruth/Danny shippers back in the Roomies! days? Knowing certain spoilers meant I was too busy being angry at Danny for his role in the event to really consider the possibility, but if I try to forget about that (and about Billie), I can almost maybe kinda see where they’d be coming from.
It’s hard to say, since my online readership was probably in like the hundreds then, and I didn’t get much feedback! I didn’t even have a comments section until I got picked up by Big Panda, which was around Ruth’s death anyway. And my recollection is that she wasn’t terribly popular until she died. I may have gotten some emails, but I don’t remember them.
I do remember making a conscious decision to not make her a love interest when I introduced her. That she’d have a lot of friendly bonding with Danny, but that it wasn’t supposed to be romantic. And so the introduction of alternate universe future kids of theirs… 15 years later… was a purposeful subversion of my original intentions.