Marriage is a big decision, isn't it? You think over it. You consider the right person. After all, you don't just jump into this commitment. And nobody enters a marriage by accident.
...right?
RULES ○ Comment with your character, prefs, etc. ○ Tag around. ○ Can you hear the wedding bells?
PROMPTS 1. Drunk Disaster → Ugh, what was in that drink? How'd you sign the right papers? 2. Dare Gone to Far → They said you never would, but you DID. You had to win this bet. 3. False Pretenses → Maybe to make someone angry, maybe to protect yourself, you need to get married. But does your partner know the whole story? 4. Monster Marriage → Summon a demon? Bet you didn't know that means you're their husband/wife now. No take-backsies. Accidentally get bonded with a werewolf/dragon/orc/monster/whatever? Oops, you're married by law in their culture. 5. Fake Dating? Fake Wedding! → You thought this was part of a play or a simple game. Turns out those were real vows you just said. 6. Spoils of War → Your side lost; now, you must pay the price. 7. Culture Shock → Cultures (on this planet and others) can be difficult to navigate. Did you say yes to a second helping of dessert or accidentally acquire a bride? 8. Happy for Now → Huh. Turns out, things worked out after all. You two make a pretty good team, if not a couple. 9. WILDCARD
[There is something to be said about diplomacy that Lucy thinks she probably shouldn't have ever been involved in. Diplomacy is Edmund's game, and their planet - resource-rich, generally peaceful, law-abiding, with most of the fighting being infighting between the smaller provinces and the grand duchy in Cair Paravel - isn't particularly renowned for having pitfalls and traps.
But there are some old (stupid) traditions, and well, this is one of them. Paul Atreides had come with an envoy of his own, serious and dark, and Lucy is neither of those things so she could be forgiven for being curious about him. For instance, taking him out to the original toffee-apple orchard planted by the first Duke, because it was beautiful and she wanted to tease him into smiling.
He is not easy to tease into smiling. How serious can one man be? Honestly, he's worse than Peter.
She is not paying attention when he wanders a little off, when he finds one of the toffee apples from that first tree, the one that stands alone, a little bit wizened but wreathed in white ribbon that is changed every day. In fact, she only finds him after he's already one bite into the apple that only grows here, the one that is a little sweeter and richer with a bite of bitter caramel, and she thinks she can salvage it (just pretend it didn't happen!!) when the keeper pops out of his small cottage not ten yards away like he was alerted by alarm yelling about theft, and Lucy had to really salvage it, which is why she grabbed his arm and said it was alright, he was a member of the Ducal family, it wasn't theft, he's her husband, and then she proved it by snatching the apple from his hand and taking a bite herself, sealing the commitment.
Curse stupid traditions. Curse Narnian law. Because sharing that apple is the sealing of a marriage, and now, well.
The "discussions" have been happening for near an hour between the head of both houses, and Lucy fled into the garden just outside the castle. There is a tree there that is good for climbing and she can't hear Peter getting more insistent on a dowry from here, when she spots Paul coming down the path. He spots her, and she sighs.]
There is space here, if you climb trees.
[She's in a court dress, the silk has ripped, there is a smear of sap on her forehead.]
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But there are some old (stupid) traditions, and well, this is one of them. Paul Atreides had come with an envoy of his own, serious and dark, and Lucy is neither of those things so she could be forgiven for being curious about him. For instance, taking him out to the original toffee-apple orchard planted by the first Duke, because it was beautiful and she wanted to tease him into smiling.
He is not easy to tease into smiling. How serious can one man be? Honestly, he's worse than Peter.
She is not paying attention when he wanders a little off, when he finds one of the toffee apples from that first tree, the one that stands alone, a little bit wizened but wreathed in white ribbon that is changed every day. In fact, she only finds him after he's already one bite into the apple that only grows here, the one that is a little sweeter and richer with a bite of bitter caramel, and she thinks she can salvage it (just pretend it didn't happen!!) when the keeper pops out of his small cottage not ten yards away like he was alerted by alarm yelling about theft, and Lucy had to really salvage it, which is why she grabbed his arm and said it was alright, he was a member of the Ducal family, it wasn't theft, he's her husband, and then she proved it by snatching the apple from his hand and taking a bite herself, sealing the commitment.
Curse stupid traditions. Curse Narnian law. Because sharing that apple is the sealing of a marriage, and now, well.
The "discussions" have been happening for near an hour between the head of both houses, and Lucy fled into the garden just outside the castle. There is a tree there that is good for climbing and she can't hear Peter getting more insistent on a dowry from here, when she spots Paul coming down the path. He spots her, and she sighs.]
There is space here, if you climb trees.
[She's in a court dress, the silk has ripped, there is a smear of sap on her forehead.]
Although I suppose I should say, my lord husband.
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