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Arranged Marriage Turned More

To have and to hold, you said, till death do us part, all while the sharp, swinging pendulum of obligation hung overhead. But how could you have truly meant those words? This union has been tainted from the start, forever bearing the chains of an arranged marriage. It would be understandable if you couldn't bear to look at your new life partner, eternal reminder of your stolen future that they are, much less like them.
Much less love them...

Still, things can change.

You could realize that they are in the same boat as you or, that when compared to others around you,
they are the lesser of evils. Perhaps you even open up to the idea of a friendship; at the very least,
an alliance may be in order to become a power couple in a perilous world. From that innocent decision or sense of self-preservation, a new feelings sparks. Something like affection.

Something, you realize in the wake of speeding heartbeats, like love.

Will you acknowledge this? Can the two of you have a happily ever after - happier than if you'd met in another fashion - or will you hold firm in your distaste?

how to play.

- Everybody loves "couples forged by less-than-ideal circumstances" tropes!
- Comment with your character, prefs, all that good stuff.
- Reply to others.
- IDEC where you set your threads, it's wide open. Fantasy world with hairy hobbits, old-timey lands, future AUs, do a space marriage for all I care. I'm sure they're still getting married in Star Wars or whatever.

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[OOC: * exception = Lunafreya]

no smut.

Edited 2018-02-12 03:44 (UTC)

_{[How would you feel about a demon husband?]}

(Jamjars fine. No Heroes of Ferelden, please.)

[ Her big brother isn't the only one who can form alliances to protect the family honour.

Cross-canon super welcome, castmates should be aware that I am only familiar with the netflix series and all my book knowledge stems from googling. ]

[this is one of my favorite tropes. I welcome it all!]

{ *m/m for standard shipping pref for him but it is arranged marriage, meaning this guy doesn't get a say. open to being surprised, honestly, if you've got an idea kicking around.

being as he's a vampire, i'm interested in playing with how this would work amongst their inner culture (if yours is a vampire or you want to AU yours, i can retcon Ambrose's sire and the situation could have been arranged before he was turned by yours; or, he could have been arranged to turn your character; or maybe sires pair out their fledglings, i can do this all day), or working with a vampire being arranged to marry a non-pire if that's something you're into. info + permissions on journal. throw some ideas at me in a PM or hit me with a tag, i don't bite. /boo }

Edited (not editing my bad pun that's for sure) 2018-02-12 16:42 (UTC)

[ Aged up to 18, happy to go older; down for au's into other time periods. Either way, she will hate this and everything about it! ]

[ It's only been a few days since Angel and her father have arrived to Pthia and Achilles hasn't gotten the chance to sit down alone with the princess. He has seen her in passing, catching glimpses of the girl as she tries to duck behind her attendants, or when she'd be peeking through the window of her room on the second story of his father's palace.

It's endearing, really. He was expecting someone more regal, elegant, maybe slightly uptight. This one is as bashful as one of the handmaidens that spy on him.

Today he's hoping to catch her by her lonesome somewhere in the courtyard. She's been following him for sometime now and he's made an effort to seem like he hasn't noticed.

When she isn't looking, he'll disappear into the greenery of the garden. She won't be able to see him when she turns around the column she's been hiding behind, since he's inching up to her from behind.

Sorry to spook ya. ]

Hey.

[ It isn't even a week yet - of creeping about like this. She isn't allowed to go anywhere, after all, without the say-so of her Father King. To play her part in his presence like a finely crafted instrument. Sweet when needed, hollow when it's more pleasing. Doe-eyed and hands set in front of her like she doesn't have a thought in her head otherwise. As she had been instructed all her life at her father's wishes.

Because there would be no end, to what Jack would do, if she ruined this for him. Ruined a chance at an alliance such as this bought off his daughter's back. But... but it was one thing to be thought of as vapid and stupid. The way she heard the servants talk as they changed her clothes, piled up the length of her hair - does she even know what she was doing?

She didn't, but that was what it came down to. It was one thing to be thought of like a doll to have her face turned about, her clothes picked and her words especially stolen out of her mouth before she ever got a chance - and another to think it would somehow be enough. That it wasn't her life that was making this possible.

... A daughter of a wretched King she might be, but she wasn't stupid. Nor would she be able to get a husband and keep him as anything more than a bauble to him if she didn't know what he was like. How he behaved. But she wasn't going to learn locked up a room away, no matter how Jack insisted she would be better off not knowing any better and just what he told her. Jack couldn't have eyes everywhere, and whilst her servants just thought she was dull and easily contented, it meant she had their trust. Something she was happy to abuse when they wondered off assuming she wasn't going anywhere.

Wrong of course. The second they turned their backs, she'd been sneaking out of her room. Leaving her weaving and her lyre and a hundred other things she wasn't interested in half so much as she was him, behind her.

Achilles. Brave Achilles. Murderer and lover and his hair shone so when he trained in the sun. Did Apollo grow envious? He must. For she certainly did. At least she thought it was envy. That prickling feeling that seized up in her limbs. Sent her fingers gripping hard against her chiton. The heat in her face and her fingers as she did her best to not look at him quite so much when they were in company otherwise. Not sure on earth what the envy was to even know where to start. Except, right at the beginning of trying to learn anything about him that might make her know how to be with him. All turned out and leaning around a corner - looking for him. Clutching to the heavy pillar in her light fingers. The gold and jewels her father insisted she wore to show their wealth woven in her hair as she leans - ever so carefully so he wouldn't see - from her hiding spot, to - ]

Fuc-k!

[ The voice behind her catches her off guard, his voice - what was he doing here? He wasn't supposed to be here, he was supposed to be with his cousin or with his mother, not near her. She stumbles back straight into the pillar, her hand coming up to her mouth. Oh no, oh no. If Jack - if Achilles - if Achilles' mother. ]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean too - I -

Edited 2018-02-17 03:29 (UTC)

[Would work pretty well with either King Alistair or Inquisitor AU!]

Edited 2018-02-13 22:58 (UTC)

[ota, cross canon welcome]

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