the arranged marriage meme

[redheels]

Marriage for love is a such a modern concept. In the past, marriage was
recognised as a social contract. Unions were entered into for many
reasons: to obtain property, to unite families, to carry on a bloodline,
et cetera. Whatever the reason, congratulations, you're getting married!

HOW IT WORKS:
❧ Post a comment with your character's name, canon, and any preferences.
❧ If there's a specific set of circumstances you like best, set the scene.
❧ Or leave your comment blank and let others use RNG to choose the scenario. Feel free to mix and match.
❧ Please note the prompts below are merely suggestions and you're more than welcome to come up with your own situation.
❧ Have fun!


POSSIBLE REASONS FOR MARRIAGE:
① Station → You come from a royal, noble, or otherwise distinguished family who has chosen a suitable spouse for you.
② Feud → You are being married to put an end to the bitter enmity between your two families.
③ Economics → Your economic state and/or your station will improve through the union, though one of you may be marrying down.
④ Empire → You and your spouse are merging your businesses and/or property to create something more influential or profitable.
⑤ Tribute → You have been offered as a gift or appeasement, alternately you're the spoils of war.
⑥ Bloodline → Carrying on your distinguished family name has fallen to you and the equally well-bred spouse of your family's selection.
⑦ Disapproval → Your marriage has been arranged to keep you away from the person with whom you truly wish to be.

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS:
① First meeting → This is the very first time you're meeting your future spouse.
② Courtship → To get to know each other and encourage affection, your family has approved of you going on dates.
③ Engagement party → Be it a huge, formal affair or a small, intimate get together, you're celebrating (or pretending).
④ Wedding day → The big day!
⑤ Reception → The big party!
⑥ Wedding night → Every meme needs a smut prompt, right?
⑦ Honeymoon → Where will you go with your new spouse and what will you do there?

Comments

Kurt Hummel | Glee |

[tightgoldpants]

Spock | Post Into Darkness

[your_logic_is_impeccable]

a mix of things? Mirror or other type of Au? Or normal can work to.

[damnitman]

Leo is pushing his fingers through his hair, making sure it's staying in place, the engagement party was getting in full swing.

He really can't believe he is getting married again, let alone to a Vulcan. But it would be good, for station and stability in the Federation.

He leaves his room, he wonders if they would Stay in Georgia or if they would go to New Vulcan... or make their home on a starship, he was a doctor for the felt after all.

He heads into the sitting room and waits to meet his new partner before heading down into the party.

Kyouya Otori | Ouran High School Host Club | ota

[hostclubshadowking]

Sonia Nevermind | Dangan Ronpa | M/F

[princesspool]

Princess Zelda | Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | F/M

[nayruschosen]

Mineva Lao Zabi | Gundam Unicorn | F/M

[searchforpeace]

Lydia Carlton | Earl and Fairy | OTA

[theoldways]

Lydia Martin | Teen Wolf | Ota

[wailinggenius]

nyota uhura | star trek aos

[alwaysexemplary]

3 - 3

[captainbrowncoat]

if you want something, i'm fine with that.

Ichirin Kumoi | Touhou Project | F/F

[cloudnun]

[She'd probably be the one marrying into a relationship, and I'm open to starting the thread and AUs and what-not.]

[shipwrecking]

[AU AU LET'S DO AN AU]

kougyoku ren | magi: the labyrinth of magic | ota

[queencandidate]

3-1....

[hisname]

[ Elliot tugs on the collar of his cravat in a gesture of nervous irritation. It's amazing that he's come this far without erupting out of fury or throwing the nearest chair on the floor, but despite his desire to do just that, he's still standing at his best attention. Anyone watching him would think that the youngest son of the Nightray family is bravely accepting his responsibility. Anyone who knew him well would think differently. ]

[ He looks across the long table at his bride-to-be. It's been five minutes already and neither obviously feel like speaking up. What an awkward silence........ ]

Shadow Yosuke || Persona 4 || no smut please...

[lostwings]

Zeheart Galette | Gundam AGE | M/F; no smut

[endofeden]

James T. Kirk • Star Trek

[caelus]

Rolled a 2-7 xD

[sexy_bluebox]

[Her 'wedding dress' is the same one she always wears. Apparently this planet had some strange ideas about marriage, and upon arrival on the planet, one was matched with their new spouse according to what would benefit the planet. Willing or not.

So here she is, after a rather short and quick ceremony, swinging her legs over the side of the bed idly. She has no idea where the Doctor is, or if he's been paired. But the ring they gave her is quite shiny, at least.]

luke castellan | percy jackson | ota (no smut)

[castellan]

i hope this is ok with you!

[wyrre]

[ Clarisse La Rue is good at a lot of things, but very bad at a lot more of them; the subtleties of warfare, for example, are lost on her -- after all, her father embodied the brutality and the majesty of it, not its wisdoms, and when the world begins to fall to pieces around them, even the blessings of Ares hadn't helped matters.

What good are blessings when Olympus starts to crumble?

Clarisse comes to Luke, proud and willful but essentially, as always, under Ares' banner, because here are painful lessons the children of gods must learn: your parents will always let you down, and so very rarely are you more than just a pawn in their games. She learns this the hardest way of all, when she is brokered as a pledge of Ares' alliance to the titan Kronos. Kronos, who knows better than anyone else the ways of manipulation, of breaking the enemy, because the pledge means little to Ares, whose fickle ways are legendary (look what happened at the battle of Troy), and Kronos is more interested in luring more demigods over to his cause; cannon fodder, as far as she's concerned.

Clarisse's pride might overwhelm her good sense often, her anger and temperament quick and fiery, but she takes point from the daughter of Athena, because sometimes strength has to bow to wisdom, and demigods could be versatile in the way their parents aren't. She is here as part of a gambit to take Luke and the other demigods in his sway back, single-handedly shouldering the burden of being a traitor to all at Camp Half Blood and Olympus -- and it doesn't help that she's entirely out of her element, propensity toward violence sheared because as much as she wants to beat some sense into him and the rest of the demigods there is too much still at stake, and Clarisse, at any rate, still owes Annabeth a favour.

Luke, smart, capable, charismatic and compelling, his natural charm so very apparent in camp that up until now, the majority of campers still feel the echo of his absence, a strange hollowness in the wake of his abrupt departure -- the depth of his anger and resentment towards the Olympians surprises even her, and perhaps to a certain extent she even understands it, even if it doesn't excuse all that he's done.

She drops her spear at his feet, a favoured weapon of hers. Tribute, she's told; her own pledge of allegiance. They might be demigods in the twenty first century, but they've always favoured the old ways. ]

Looks like it's you and me, fly boy.

[ ...Well, some of the old ways. ]

Morticia Addams | The Addams Family

[madamemorticia]

[She'll be a king/queenmaker, looking to marry off her children into good homes. And really, who wouldn't want a bride or groom from House Addams?]

2

[all7seas]

Morticia, darling.

[Can the bitter enmity between the Teagues and the Addamses FINALLY be laid to rest in a happy grave?]

Kanji Tatsumi ~ Persona 4 ~ OTA

[realmenknitplushies]

[non-smut please]

Dejah Thoris | John Carter

[aprincessofmars]

[Princess of the great city of Helium on Barsoom, daughter of the Jeddak, Regent of the Halls of Science.]

Christa Renz ◄ Attack on Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin◄ OTA

[my_martyrdom]

6 | 4 also spoilers probably

[deviantlyhates]

[ At any other wedding it would be an honor for those higher-ranking officers of the military to celebrate it.

Hange's not her betrothed. Nor is she her maid of honor. She's not even in the wedding party! Nope, this is, effectively, a political marriage that is all part of some grander plan. A plan that is needed to gain more information from the high-ups, from the very nobles that had abandoned Christa.] Mm. And there's one more thing I have to brief you on-- that is, the possibility of poison in your wine tonight. We have some anti-toxins with us just in case for that, but to use them we need you to act accordingly.

The moment you think your peripheral vision is going, promptly-- and quietly-- excuse yourself from the table. Others must not know what is going on. Then come out to the hallway; there will be a few of us there who will receive you with a greeting, and that is when you'll be injected with the formula to counter the poison.

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf | OTA

[wolftamer_stilinski]

((ooc: Human!Alpha version /crimson_spark/ is available too.))

5-1

[sexyashale]

Well, well. The Prince Stiles. What a handsome young man. [Peter smirks, toying with the hilt of his sword as he walks around Stiles in a circle, where the Prince kneels. His crown is off-kilter, almost a mockery. Peter thinks it looks quite lovely with those pouty lips he intends to use to his satisfaction later.] How very nice to make your acquaintance.

Clint Barton | Marvel

[nexttarget]

Leonard McCoy | Star Trek XI

[damnitman]

Bucky Barnes | Marvel

[not_a_commie]

Marcus Flint | Harry Potter

[plays_dirty]

Henry Sturges | Abraham Lincoln Vampier Hunter

[whichisit]