They met when Elizabeth was 9 and Mark was 14. Their families were friends, but they had nothing to do with each other - Elizabeth was even intimidated by him. But in Mark’s words, he was playing the long game. A VERY long game. 13 years later Elizabeth was 22 and a senior in college, and Mark was 27 deployed somewhere (unimportant). Mark swiped up on her instagram story about the vampire diaries and a million reels later they were best friends. Their first date was the hunger games prequel - their favorite activity is watching tv - and their proposal was a beautiful day of shooting where Mark tried to give her a “small” rifle half her size she literally couldn’t hold up to shoot. So if anyone wonders what happens when two introverted weirdos with twisted humor get lucky enough to find each other, the answer is they’ll live happily ever after. Unless one of them kills the other first. The end.