Doug Colden

**Doug Colden** is an available match in Winked.

He is a seasonal character who was first available from 8 December 2021 to 8 January 2022 and again from 6 December 2022 to 5 January 2023.

## Profile

**Quote:**

“You’re never too old for fairytales.”

**About me:**

How can gingerbread house making be a career? You have to be the best at it, that's how! Swipe right and I'll tell you all about the sweetest profession in the world. You'll spend your best Christmas with me!

## Biography

Doug is a gingerbread artist. He is in town to participate in the National Gingerbread House Championship for a fourth time.

## Story

**SPOILER WARNING! ->**

**The following is a summary of the story where the premium option was chosen every time.**

During their first chat, Doug reveals that he is in town for the National Gingerbread House Championship. This is his fourth time at the Nationals and he is hoping to finally beat current champion and his former friend Gary "Gingerbread" Gergovich. The rest of the year, he runs a gingerbread business.

They talk about their favourite Christmas memories. Doug tells the story of how he got stuck on a roof at night when he was six years old because he wanted to see Santa.
Doug convinces MC to put up her Christmas tree despite being alone this year for the holidays. After a short while, Doug messages MC again and asks, if she would like help with her tree. She agrees and sends him her address. Doug brings with him a sample of his gingerbread and has MC try some. Then they begin decorating MC's place. After they're done, Doug suggests to watch a Christmas movie together, so they watch Home Alone. They eventually kiss. After the movie, Doug goes home.

Back at his place, Doug sees a video of his competitor's gingerbread house and realises Gary stole his idea for a mechanism that makes it look like sugar is snowing on his gingerbread house. Doug explains that this is not the first time this has happened. However, he has no idea how Gary managed to steal his design.

He invites MC over to his place to come by after he drops off a gingerbread delivery that his most loyal customer Max had ordered and also asks her to come to the gingerbread competition.

MC arrives at Doug's place at 7 pm. She enters his apartment and finds him cooking shirtless in the kitchen. He hugs her and they kiss. They eat the dinner Doug cooked and then start baking cookies but don't get far before they head to Doug's bedroom where Doug goes down on MC. Afterwards, they continue baking cookies before MC eventually heads home.

Doug wants to meet MC again the night before the Nationals and also asks her, if she wants to spend Christmas day with him. She agrees and invites him to sleep over at her place on Christmas Eve.

MC tells Doug to make a candy version of himself and put it on the roof of his gingerbread house for the competition as his new showstopper and bring the article about how he got stuck on a roof as a kid with him. He loves the idea.

They go to a restaurant. As they wait for their food, Doug gets up and walks over to a little stage where he stars singing "All I want for Christmas". He then asks MC for a dance.
While waiting for their dessert, they sneak away to the bathroom where MC goes down on him.

In the very early morning of the Nationals, Doug texts MC because he's nervous about the competition. MC gives him a pep talk.

To be continued...

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### Dates

First DateSecond Date (2021)Second Date (2022)Third DateFourth DateExtra Scene 1Bonus Scene 1
## Voice Messages

**Doug's Christmas story:**

Okay, so... When I was six years old, I was determined to get a glimpse of Santa... very determined. And I was a pretty stubborn child! So stubborn that on Christmas Eve, I snuck out of my room and onto the roof. I know, it was incredibly dumb of me! And to make matters worse, it had just snowed, so the roof was all slippery and very dangerous, even for adults, let alone six years old in their superhero pajamas... And while I didn’t fall off the roof... I did kind of get stuck there. I just couldn’t find my way down! Thankfully, my neighbors happened to see me struggling, so they called the fire department, and my parents were mortified... I even made the paper the next morning!

**Doug's secret weapon:**

I want to tell you the whole story, so you can better understand why I am so upset...
For the past few years I’ve worked with an ingenious engineer. Her name is Pearl and she helps me with all my mechanical components. Yes, gingerbread houses sometimes have mechanical components... Anyway, Pearl and I have been working for the past year on my secret weapon... Snow! I had this idea to make it snow over my gingerbread house, and Pearl managed to fashion a device that I can attach right above the house—it even looks like a cloud, by the way! I fill it with powdered and really fine crystallized sugar... and it looks magical... like it’s actually snowing!

**Doug's next few days:**

It pains me to say it, especially after tonight... but I’m going to be kinda busy for the next few days. I’ll still text you and everything! I just have to buckle down and practice for Nationals.
So I was thinking... We go on a date, a real date, sometime soon. Somewhere special, to make it up to you.

I’ve been around town and everything is so beautiful... I just keep imagining walking around with you, laughing, having a cup of mulled wine or sharing some roasted chestnuts... Kissing you under every single mistletoe... How does that sound to you?

**Doug's surprise:**

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never done anything like this. It’s honestly been magical to get to know you and share all my Christmas cheer with someone... and you know how much I love Christmas!

So I thought, why not go along with it? If my life suddenly starts to resemble a Christmas movie, I’ll do what I can to go full throttle! You want to go ice-skating? Let’s go. You want to have a cute snowball fight? Because I’m down. You need help decorating a tree? Oh wait, we’ve already done that.

But seriously, I want to get to know you completely... and I’m working on letting you know me, too.

**Doug's thank you:**

You are really something else, you know that? I mean... I’m actually kind of embarrassed that I haven’t thought of this before! It just never occurred to me! Wow.

When we first started talking, I was just happy to get to know you, befriend someone in town and spend Christmas day together... But you’ve been so much more than that. You got me thinking about things in a completely new way, and you allowed me to see them in a different light, and... I want to thank you for that. I really do mean it when I say you’re something else... You’re special. To me, at least.

**Doug's carol:**

Dashing through the snow

In a one-horse open sleigh,

O'er the fields we go,

Laughing all the way.

Bells on bob-tails ring,

Making spirits bright.

What fun it is to ride and sing

A sleighing song tonight, oh!

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way.

Oh what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh, hey!

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way.

Oh what fun it is to ride,

In a one-horse open sleigh.

Good morning!

**Doug's "friend":**

I was so wrapped up in the competition I didn’t even see his jacket... But if Max knows Gary and was cheering for him, right there in front of me... why would he buy gingerbread houses from me every year? I mean, I’ve been to his house, I’ve met his family... And the kind of gingerbread mansions he always orders can be, you know, quite expensive. There’s just no way he’d go through all that trouble just to get some information out of me and feed it to Gary... right? That would be crazy. Wow. I just can’t believe he would do that. Has he really been pretending to be my friend for... For years?

**Doug's wish:**

I called it a secret, yeah, but I haven’t really been shy about saying it... I like you a lot. These past few weeks have been incredible. So good, in fact, that... That I wish I could ask you to be my girlfriend. I know it doesn’t change anything about our situation, and I’m not asking you to help me change it... But you’re everything I want. I just... I can’t help but wish you could be mine, for real... and not just for Christmas.

I don’t know why I’m even saying this... I guess I just wanted you to know.

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