For me, it's [user]Souplex[/user]. He's a bull headed dope here, but over in Real Life Land, he's a bull headed dope that's just so nice, funny, and sweet.
I met him after my younger brother decided to put the mouse through my computer monitor, and he offered to give me his old one. After that, we messaged each other back and forth for a while, and eventually he asked me out. In a sense, the relationship didn't start off so good since on our first date, my cat had to be put down.
But in spite of that, we kept going out, and it was a real thrill for me since not only was I enjoying myself, but he was treating like a person, an equal.
A few weeks later though, my mother decided that she had enough of me, so she filed a false police report, saying that I had went after her and the rest of my family with a knife, which ended up with me staying in a mental hospital for 2 1/2 weeks. This was one of the lowest points in my life, as all I wanted to do was to go home, but she kept telling the people in the hospital that she was terrified for her life and that of her kids, and my brothers told me "There's what you believe, and there's what we believe."
Souplex however, stood by me the whole time, offering me support, outside food, and more the whole time I was there. I told him that I'd understand if he'd want to break off the relationship then and there, but he never did. He stuck with me when my family dropped me like a hot coal. After he found out that since my mother refused to let me return home, I would end up in a homeless shelter, he stepped up and offered to let me stay with him.
Since then, things have been a bit rough with us (mainly the extreme difficulty of getting a job and his desire for a bit more space), but other than that, we've been pretty good (even if he does keep leaving his socks all over the floor and stinks out the bathroom), and if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been able to survive the whole ordeal with the mental hospital and the loss of my home and family.
Other than him, the only other Escapist member that I've meet was [user]MiracleOfSound[/user] (not sure if Miss Rachael is a member or not, so I can't count her). Mr. Dunne was a super dude, and I'm surprised that he was able to (seemingly) tolerate me yammering on about stuff with him and Miss Rachael.