A guy Elizabeth Howley met a girl on Tinder and offered to send her a picture of his “Gundam,” she thought exactly what you’re thinking: She was sure that he will send an unsolicited di** pic.
It all started when their bio matched, which said: “Buy me anime figures and let me cuddle your pets.” They chatted about anime before switching to Instagram, which is when he dropped the Gundam line.
“I’m bitter and not straight and I was like, oh man, this is going to be some kind of euphemism,” Howley told BuzzFeed News.
She tweeted about it at the time in 2016.
Well, much to her and everyone else’s surprise, the guy wanted to send a picture of his Gundam, from the anime franchise.
“I joked about it on Twitter and it turned out to be a well-constructed Gundam figurine,” she said.
Her tweets got hundreds of likes and people took an interest in her relationship with Gundam Guy, as he became known. They had their first date at a food and wine festival and found out they had attended the same school and had some friends in common.
“We ended up having an incredible time together and the rest is history,” Howley said.
She tweeted about her relationship with Gundam Guy regularly, whose real name is John.
Finally, on their trip to Boston, they went skating and Gundam Guy got down on one knee on the ice and proposed. And they became Mr. and Ms. Gundam.
They got married in a private ceremony in San Francisco, with an officiant they found on the internet that day.
She shared the whole journey in a tweet, which went viral immediately. Turns out they’re not the only ones to have found love with Gundam figurines.
“People are just wishing us the best and the most touching thing is when they say they saw our tweet a couple of years ago and are happy to see we got married,” she said. “It’s just amazing to see people following along with us.”