bakerstreet | Arranged Marriage

THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE MEME

How to Play
I. Leave a comment with your character's name, canon, and any preferences you might have. You can also write a prompt to set the scene if you wish.
II. When replying, roll for a scenario, come up with your own, or respond to what the other person has already come up with.
III. Tag around and have fun!

Prompts
I. Matchmaker, Matchmaker - You're a commoner, and the matchmaker - whether it be your parents or an actual village matchmaker - has had their say. It's time to meet your spouse-to-be.
II. Do Your Duty - This isn't a normal arranged marriage because your station calls for it. There's some purpose behind it: A political alliance, perhaps, or something else. You don't have much choice but to go through with it, so you might as well meet the other person.
III. Getting to Know You - So the engagement is official, and you've met the other person, but you still don't know them very well. Maybe you've decided to take them out, or maybe it's a chaperoned meeting. But it's good to spend time with someone you'll be spending the rest of your life with, right?
IV. Breaking it Off - Before your engagement, you were with someone else. You're still with someone else, but it's time to change that. Like it or not, you're going to have to break up with your significant other. In this prompt, you're interacting not with your potential bride or groom, but with someone else.
V. Runaway - That's it. You can't take this. There's no way you're going to go through with this - it's just not for you. You're all set to flee.
VI. One Last Chance - You're all set up for an arranged marriage, but you've got lingering regrets. Maybe there's an old flame you're just not willing to let go of yet. In this prompt, you're interacting not with your potential bride or groom, but with someone else.
VII. The Big Day - Do you hear the wedding bells ringing? Everyone else does. It's time to walk down the aisle and make this official.
VIII. Happily Ever After - Surprisingly, the arranged marriage worked out rather well. Live out your days in wedded bliss and laugh about the fact that you would have chosen each other even if someone else hadn't chosen for you.
IX. Not-So-Happy Ending - Yeah, no. This marriage just isn't working, but you can't break it off. There's no wedded bliss here - just conflict. But you can put up with it. Can't you?
X. Wild Card - The "other" option! Use your imagination and come up with something!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ King of Egypt ruling alongside his mother, Isis, after reclaiming the throne from his uncle Seth. permissions. ]

(ooc; all good with au's!)

[He's rich, and quite possibly from an old family; this is a legit possibility for him, so Option II is a logical choice. m/m for it working out, OTA for friendship or mutual suffering.]

[it's canon sooooo...]

[ he of the 600 wives and 300 concubines (+72 demon gods). romance and genuine feelings are difficult for him, who is like a mechanist, but they can be developed in an au-ish/jamjar scenario where he doesn't have god's voice guiding his every action and stiffling his human development. just lmk. ]

( info + permissions. tldr; sappho's rival poet, takes in one of sappho's students after the other woman is exiled and falls in love with her, fighting tooth and nail so that they may become yokemates and not have to marry men. pref for antiquity and/or fantasy settings with similar vibes. f/f for shipping, wide ota for friendship or mutual suffering. )

( is a literal god and a single dad, it wouldn't be too far-fetched for King Linière, his brother, to arrange for Ramie to get married. But will he *stay* married? that is the question... )

(ooc: I looooooovvveeee an AU, it must be said.)

( info in journal. tldr; the son of a rising up and coming rich family in taisho era japan who has been brought up in the house of a count whose daughter he falls in love with as a young adult, despite their relationship being impossible. ota for shipping, no smut. )

[Ex-king, now prince, being married off to keep him busy and locatable. Could be for political alliance, to bring in an advantageous powerful ally, to make sure either party behaves or to strengthen/carry on the bloodline. I'm happy to plot ideas out.]

[ info in journal! ]

[ happy to hash out an au to set up! some options would be straight canon-typical but aged up, something something vuvalini tradition, or princess of the great horde. ]

[trade offer: you promise military support to faraway country of Ylisse in exchange for this princess who is weirdly close in age with the monarchs don't worry about it they absolutely had a say in this (they did not) she would never set this up on her own out of desperation to save her family and country (she would)]

(ooc: Open to all the things!)

( m/m for shipping. open to canon, crosscanon, ocs. detailed prefs / info.

tl;dr your character is in an arranged marriage with "elan ceres" but this person here is the clone/stand-in for the real elan ceres.

A. jump into the thick of the marriage, and something happens that your character finds out he isn't the real elan ceres.
B. same as A but with developed feelings now faced with the problem of 4 not being who they're really marrying and also 4's very short life expectancy due to the permet running through his system (and/or the science used to alter him to be a near perfect carbon copy of elan ceres prime), etc.
C. your choice. throw it down and 99% likely i can find a way to roll with it. )

((ooc; silk construct of a god-queen, made to act as her daughter. arranged marriage for some form of alliance or gain possible.))

Arranged Marriage

Horus | Ennead | ota

rumi || kpop demon hunters || ota

Akashi Seijuro | Kuroko's Basketball

lucy maclean | fallout | ota.

Aether | Genshin Impact | ota

doom | marvel

solomon / fate grand order

gorgo | fragments of sappho / original | ota

Ramie ✧ PSG

clark kent / superman || superman (2025) || ota

sungki | original | ota

kiyoaki matsugae | spring snow | ota

Logan | Fable 3 | OTA

eira [keir] ainsley ( original )

furiosa | mad max

Athrun Zala | Gundam SEED | M/F

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd | Fire Emblem: Three Houses | M/F

no subject

Son Gohan | Dragon Ball Z | M/F

Phainon | Honkai: Star Rail | M/F

zoey | kpop demon hunters | ota

elan ceres ( 4 ) • mobile suit gundam: witch from mercury

Venti | Genshin Impact

Midoriya Izuku | My Hero Academia

lace | hollow knight / silksong