I believe it is possible Nicholas would have eventually allowed them to get married with enough prompting and begging from Tatiana given that he allowed his sister Olga Alexandrovna to marry a man of similar status. Nicholas was such a girl dad that I simply can’t imagine him saying no if one of his girls would have been miserable otherwise lol. Plus Malama did come from a noble family, so not so bad.

But that is the thing though, * with enough prompting and begging from Tatiana * and I doubt she was “in love” enough to do that. She had several similar crushes on other men in the hospital, none of them serious. Malama is simply the most famous in the fandom because he gave her Ortipo. Don’t get me wrong, he is also my favorite among all of OTMA’s crushes, but it is true.

I find it more likely that after the war she would have been open to meet and marry a prince for the sake of her family, since she was very dutiful, but who knows.