Married Mai Waifu For Real

So you're Trapped in Another World, one that you recognize from fiction back home. And it's a work with a character that you really, really liked. And you've met that character here. Wonder of wonders, after the character gets to know you, they really, really like you, too; when you asked whether they want to get married, They Do. Congratulations! But this story doesn't end there with a Happily Ever After; you and your special other still have a life to live together.

Married Mai Waifu For Real is when what would otherwise be an "Author Avatar gets the character" Wish Fulfillment story continues after the wedding. This is not just about getting the girl (or whoever); that's Happily Ever After. This is about telling stories about full-fledged relationships; the characters have to balance their work and family lives, and they have children if they've been together for long enough.

In many ways, this is a Deconstruction of Happily Ever After, done in a way that doesn't invalidate that trope's basic premise.

The Trope Maker is Undocumented Features, where five of the Author Avatars form families with who in Real Life would be considered to be fictional characters.

Examples of Married Mai Waifu For Real include:

Fan Works

As mentioned above, the Trope Maker is Undocumented Features:
- Gryphon and Kei (...and Skuld, and Sumire Kanzaki, and ...)
- Megazone and Yuri
- Rob Shannon and Ayeka
- Redneck and Wasyuu
- Hammer and Eiko
The only reason the Official Couple in Isekai by Moonlight (Robu and Makoto) isn't married is because her guardian has told them to wait. They're otherwise an example of this trope, wearing each other's rings, scheduling fun times around work, shopping for groceries together, sharing the household chores, and supporting each other in combat.
In the New Beginnings fanfic cycle by Hiver (based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) the Author Avatar - who awakened as a unicorn - marries Princess Luna (and a few others). They're deeply in love, and they have to work their private time around their jobs as rulers.
Neon Exodus Evangelion, if you insist that DJ Croft is a "disguised" SI despite Eyrie Productions, Unlimited's claims to the contrary. The end of Apotheosis Now has DJ basically proposing to Asuka, and the fragmentary "sequel" material that's appeared in the years since make it clear that they've been married for at least a couple decades afterward.
Taking Sean Gaffney's Sailor Moon stories Made of Stone and Trials and Errors as a single narrative gives us Sean and Hotaru as a couple.

Literature

The "Mary Russell" series by Laurie R. King: Halfway between fanfic and literature, in The Beekeeper's Apprentice we are introduced to Mary Russell. It is unrevealed whether her middle name is Sue, but Mary is a Sherlock Holmes fan who runs into the aging detective in Sussex (at a point after where the Conan Doyle stories end). Mary eventually gets a degree in theology and marries Holmes. She is of course written by an author who is a Sherlock Holmes fan with a degree in theology. However, the series is written by a professional author and you can buy it in bookstores.
Harold Shea, who from what little description we have of him looks like his writer L. Sprague de Camp, married Belphebe from The Faerie Queene in "The Mathematics of Magic". They went on to have adventures together the subsequent novels of the Compleat Enchanter series

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{{trope}} Character gets isekaied to a work they like, known fictional character and isekai character fall for each other, they marry, and the story continues. {{laconicfooter}}