Companion to Royalty

[thelegendof]

Companion to Royalty Meme


There's one truth you must know of royalty: though power may lay in their hands, the crown is a cage. Whether you've always been noble, came into this position recently by complete surprise, or a simple person caught in the fray, you're realizing that leaders actually lead very little - even down to choosing who they spend their most intimate moments with. From eternal bonds of matrimonies to the distractions provided by courtesans, the people behind the throne make the rules. They cannot risk losing control of their most elevated and strategically placed pawn with a match gone wrong, which could create a domino effect and doom possibly thousands.

So, what part do you play in this game?

• Lifetime Royal: This is what you've been raised to do.
• Sudden Royal: You just learned of your position, which has been secret from you your entire life, or you unexpectedly inherited the job.
• Spouse: You're to be married to nobility.
• Concubine or Courtesan: For the royal, you're to be a sexual diversion.
• Unaffiliated: You're either a lower-ranking noble or a peasant, but you're free from all the machinations of the shadowy cabal...for now.

How willing are you?

• Completely Willing: Either you love the person you know you'll be matched with, or you're excited about the possibilities.
• Wary: There's no choice in the matter for you, so you may as well approach this situation cautiously.
• Unwilling: You didn't want to be matched up with someone. At all. Ever.

What path will you follow, once you're set upon it (there is, after all, little choice for the chosen ones)?

1. Prepared for This: Either you're a royal and have been one since birth, or you knew you'd marry or sexually entertain one.
2. Make Up for Lost Time: This life wasn't the one you lived until now, but times change. You're important or will be a companion to a very important person, like it or not.
3. A Sacrificial Token: Somewhere along the line, your people royally pissed off someone in a key position. So, in an attempt to smooth out relations, you've been given away as a gift to the highest power, either as a spouse for a political alliance or as a concubine or courtesan.
4. Pomp and Circumstance: All proper, this arrangement. You're to be married, as you've been promised to each other by your respective families. Consummation on the wedding night is key. Perhaps it's encouraged that the two of you act as if this is really a love match, to add insult to injury.
5. Genuine Love: Speaking of love matches, congratulations! You're one of the incredible few who gets to marry for love, so your lovemaking should be all the more enthused.
6. Only a Plaything: Heavy is the head who wears the crown, so you're expected to take on some side entertainment even if that's not your preference. Or you could be the courtesan...such a pretty, perfumed word for what the role really is...
7. Volunteered: You wanted this position, either of spouse or concubine. Your reasons are your own.
8. Cruel: You're powerful. You can do what you want to this person, a mere ant in comparison to you.
9. Forbidden: Even the most powerful can't have everything they want, such as someone who's promised to or with another; taking them for your own would create strife and destroy alliances, even to the point of tempting war.
10. Work Your Way Up: There's always a right tool for the job and you find no shame in using your own special tools to better your life.
11. Give Me an Heir: Whether you're legitimate or a concubine used as a surrogate, you must help in continuing the royal line.
12. Mutual Benefit: Both of you are comfortable with this arrangement because you're either compatible or it takes the pressure off of you otherwise.
13. Want to be More: Though you've been relegated to courtesan, you want to be there one and only spouse...no matter if that role is already filled or not.
14. Growing Affection: It may have started as all puppet strings and power plays, but now, you lo- care for them.
15. Loved Before: Before you became so important and powerful, before you became the focus of all the world, it seems, they were there with you. They were with you then, and you want them to be with you now. They ground you and they care about you for you.
16. Because You're Normal: They're outside of all the court's nonsense, and that's appealing to you. It's like a breath of fresh air.
17. WILDCARD

How to Play

• Comment with your character, preference, preferred role, and any other information.
• Reply to others.
• RNG or choose your options.

Comments

Pyra | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 | F/M for smut

[pyroblade]

[[ooc: Pyra offers an interesting option for the role she plays - she's a Blade, the living spirit of the Aegis Sword; in short, whoever gets the incredibly powerful weapon gets the cute girl as a bonus. So she could totally be an artifact passed down by a royal line, whether each generation treats her as an advisor, partner, soldier, or amusement. I don't mind spotty histories (maybe your great-grandfather wasn't as nice as the history books say) but leaning towards more positive/fluffy scenarios for the present, and smut is A-okay!]]

[knighterrantofthedragon]

[Want a thing with an original fantasy setting Crown Prince? His grandfather had been crown prince once upon a time and ran away to avoid politics, but his son ended up Emperor... so Alric might have grown up not far from where her sword rested in secret, and they could have known each other since he was little, forming a more intimate relationship than previous Crown Princes had with the spirit of the sword. ...although knowing Alric there's probably a lot of UST since he tries hard to be proper.]

Rapunzel ☼ Tangled ☼ m/f

[worthit]

[ Can be the royalty or the companion. None of the following prompts: 6, 8, 10, or "Unwilling". ]

𝒔𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 ( snow white and the huntsman ) ota

[deathfavors]

[ royalty; can be companion to other royalty or have a rough-around-the-edges, common and grizzled companion. bonus points for her court not understanding what draws her to him/her. ]

Eren Jaeger | Shingeki no Kyojin | M/M

[preciousbrat]

Ayeka | Tenchi Muyo! | OVA

[not_so_delicate]

(OoC: the royal)

Wolfgang Mozart | Amadeus | OTA

[18th_century_rockstar]

(one idea: he could be a musician of one of the noble borns)

Ignis Scientia | Final Fantasy XV | M/M

[fairygodspecs]

[Cast mates and cross canon welcome.

As an adviser and care taker of royalty...]

Leo | Fire Emblem: Fates | m/f + Niles and Odin

[sorcererprince]

[The royal, yeah.]

Oberyn Martell | ASOIAF modern AU

[princeofdorne]

[Lifetime royal, ota]

Mary Crawley | Downton Abbey | M/F

[thequitecontrary]

[Could be either role, depending on your character. She's the daughter of an Earl.]

Princess Allura of Altea - Voltron: LD - M/F

[of_mice_and_lions]

*OOC: The Royal*

[ Han Solo ] [ Star Wars ]

[twelve_not_fourteen]

[ If you think he’s not a companion to royalty, fight me. ]

marie antoinette ♡ fate/grand order ♡ ota

[guilloqueen]

( lifetime royal, though i can swing spouse as well! not interested in 6, 8, or 11. totally down with shipping, ask first for smut. )

Osomatsu Matsuno || Osomatsu-san || ota

[relieable]

[hnnng would love to do a concubine/courtesan scenario. but he’s probably not royal. if you’ve got cash, he’s willing]

ooc

[rennotrin]

[I'm completely canon blind, but tell me about this scenario? (If you don't mind OCs, I have Ren's info in his journal. Thinking about making him suddenly!royalty and... idk.) Mostly just throwing this your way before I go sleep. <3]

ooc

[relieable]

[yoooo i've got nothing against OCs and we could possibly work something out! i don't have too much figured out, i mainly just wanted to play courtesan!Oso. he's about 23-24 in his anime, but i can age him down to 19 so they're closer in age. also i think it's fabulous that you're canonblind but poked me anyway. haha]

ooc

[rennotrin]

[I don't mind a bit of an age gap! I can always lift Ren's age up a few years if it's a problem.

[Going with suddenly royal, I was thinking that maybe Osomatsu might show Ren the ropes on being a bit more formal? Or something. Or maybe because he's suddenly in this new family so new fam wants to spoil him (he was kind of raised in a cult that was pretty fucked up and so it's made him rebel pretty hard,) so they give him Osomatsu as a companion?

[Or not. It can always be a "swing by the workplace" thing for Ren and they hit it off over drinks? Maybe Ren up and asks for a lap pillow. Or more. He's pretty quick to want to jump into bed with someone if he likes them.

[edit because I get forgetful when I'm about to sleep: I mean, I'm only as not canonblind as far as a wiki goes, and that's it. XD; But I enjoy hitting up characters that I'm unfamiliar with, and I'd seen your toplevels every so often before, so I figured "well, I keep getting curious, so why not? Worst that'll happen is no answer!" :)]

Sansa Stark | ASOIAF

[atalkingbird]

[ prefs in journal. ]

Lucrezia Borgia | The Borgias | f/m

[envyof]

[ prefs in journal. ]

erik killmonger | mcu

[scarcastically]

( au where he's the royal )

Hannah | Kuroshitsuji II | M/F

[palindrome]

[ooc: Wary or Unwilling for Hannah, she can be either royal or not (she’s a maid in canon). If she’s royal, I’d be especially interested in 3, where she’s married off to a monster-type (werewolf, vampire, demon, mythical beast, etc as long as he’s anthropomorphic).]

Sebastian Vael | Dragon Age | OTA

[prevaeling]

[Sudden Royal, of the Unexpectedly Inherited the Job variety, if you want canon flavor. If you have an idea for an AU, hit me up. I'm open to anything but path number 8. M/F or M/M both welcome for any prompt (yes, even 11).]

spouse, 3/4/fml

[purple_af]

[So first of all, fuck this.

Second of all, fuck the Inquisition.

Third of all, double fuck Maxwell Trevelyan.

And while we're at it, a nice hefty triple fuck to Leliana Orlesianwhore and her stupid Divine hat and her stupid ideas about peace and Starkhaven and shit. Like, when she and Varric approached some of their powerful friends asking for a solution to the power struggles in the Free Marches, this is not what they fucking had in mind. "My sources tell me the nobles would be desperate to name a Viscount, no matter the background or heritage of the candidate," she says. "Starkhaven needs a compelling reason to pull back its forces," she says. "Starkhaven's prince needs someone to keep him in check," she says.

Apparently, Hawke's eternal penance for helping blow up the world is to spend the rest of her life with the most boring self-righteous fucking prick in it. Kirkwall's conquest is a mess of your own making, they said. You must be seen helping to fix it, they said. A royal match will bring enough conflict to Starkhaven's politics that they will have no time to seek it in Kirkwall, they said. A mage as Princess of Starkhaven will advance the cause of mage peace and be a beacon of hope for all, they said.

Motherfucker. Way to finally make an argument she actually cares about.

Hawke might be here, but she sure the fuck isn't happy about it. They're buying her name and her twat, not her good spirits. Today her always-sharp wit is a dagger instead of a quill, bleeding all who feel it. She's been in Starkhaven for a few weeks, miraculously managing to avoid Sebastian through a series of increasingly ridiculous stunts and bullshit, but today is the actual wedding day and she's pretty sure she can't punk out of that one.

Still, they can't tame an open flame. She slips away from her attendants and their stupid foofy dress and sneaks off to try and find Varric. Pretty sure Varric's gonna attend this thing, since he's basically Kirkwall's Sweetheart at this point. He's gotta be seen at the wedding, and the Divine herself plans to officiate. Fucking Orlesian bitch.

Try as she might, though, Hawke (while admittedly very practiced at the art of hiding and sneaking) is no rogue, and she can't hide forever.]

[prevaeling]

[It's Sebastian's wedding day. A day that he had never expected to come, really. Or when it did, he certainly hoped he would have had more choice in the matter. Maybe made a match that was founded on love. Or at least, you know, respect.

Given the circumstances, he's been more than happy to be avoided by his fiancee, essentially giving her free reign of the castle that she would soon be expected to, well, reign. She's had a few weeks to get acclimated, while he spoke with the nobles and pretended like the union was his own idea, smoothed things over and got the household used to the idea of a mage Princess. The Amells were once a great noble family in Kirkwall, so at least it wasn't a match completely out of nowhere. Just mostly.

There was still plenty of smoothing to do. But he'd done enough, at least for the wedding to go off on schedule.

Except that the bride had gone missing. He suspected she had an easy time with the guard schedules (he really had to tell Granger to make those less regular), but unfortunately for her, she wasn't counting on the fact that she was marrying the man who'd grown up with the title of Head Mischief-Maker of Starkhaven several years running.

When she turned a corner, he was standing there, leaning casually against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest.]

I heard that my fiancee had vanished from under the nose of her ladies in waiting.

[purple_af]

[There are a great many things she would like to say to Sebastian Vael. None of them are flattering, none of them are warm, none of them are kind. There are a great many punches she would like to throw at Sebastian Vael. Most of them are eyeball, stomach, or testicle-related. Seeing him for the first time in years is both unwanted and an unpleasant reminder that, shit, this is real.

So at first, his eyes and his accent make the bottom drop out of her stomach. Laying eyes on the Prince, the invader, the shithead she's been promised to marry- seeing him after weeks of avoidance sharpens the reality of her situation.

However, after a moment of displeased staring, her gaze drops to the rest of him, and she snorts unattractively.]

Really? That looks silly.

[prevaeling]

[His initial expression had been more bemused than anything. It was, of course, perfectly Hawke to be trying to sneak away from her own wedding day (he had heard of the "beesting" incident). And it had always been amusing to see the look on her face at his catlike ability to appear seemingly out of nowhere.

Her displeased stare sours his own expression quickly, deepening into a full frown when she eyes his dress and snorts.]

It is a customary formal dress. And this is the tartan that has represented the Vael family for longer than we have ruled Starkhaven.

[purple_af]

[She eyes it, because criticizing his fashion sense is far, far easier than dealing with the complicated tangle of hate, betrayal, disdain, and feelings-that-were that is Sebastian.]

Hm. Too bad they don't make a tartan of dead mages and wet dog. That'd be my legacy all over.

[prevaeling]

[His expression softens a little in sympathy.]

Well, it would be my honor if you would consider yourself a Vael.

[He says it earnestly. He wants this marriage to work, as much as she apparently does not. There was no reason for them both to be miserable for the rest of their lives. Not when they used to be friends.]

[purple_af]

[She snorts unpleasantly, still looking at his vivid red tartan.]

Isn't the name 'Hawke' the whole point of this? Attaching my famous name to your office?

[Her jaw clenches.]

That's what Trevelyan told me, anyway.

[A name she spits like a curse.]

[prevaeling]

In a manner of speaking. But you're still joining my household, regardless.

[He holds out a conciliatory hand, though he hardly expects her to take it.]

Occasionally, the royal family of Starkhaven would grant a tartan to families from other cities as a gesture of goodwill. I can... check the family library, see if any such boon was ever granted to an Amell.

[purple_af]

Thrilling.

[Nothing he can say can make her any less pissy about this. She feels like a prize. A spoil of war. She's been given to him to convince him to leave Kirkwall, and she fucking remembers how he used to look at her. She remembers.

Marian fixes him with a sour look.]

Does my Prince want his prize with hair up or down? The ladies were arguing up a storm about it when I snuck out.

[prevaeling]

[His jaw tightens a little, but he forces a smile in the face of that sour look.]

I'm certain my princess will look beautiful however she chooses to wear her hair.

May I walk you back to your room?

[purple_af]

[He's trying too hard to be nice. It makes her itch.]

Sure. Your wish is my command.

[Alcohol. Alcohol will get her through this. She turns on her heel and starts back towards her room, sure that he's following (or keeping pace, he's always had a long stride).]

You know, all I wanted was to find Varric.

Teddy Altman | Marvel | m/m

[analienprince]

[An alien prince who's sort of reluctant to accept the role.]

beth greene | the walking dead | ota

[littlemissfutility]

[If you don't mind an AU, I'd be all for this with Beth in either role. Interested in both canon and cross-canon CR, happy to do things in your character's world, a jamjar/full AU setting, or some kind of mashup (your character's world plus zombie apocalypse?). LMK!]

Jyn Erso | Rogue One | OTA

[wherehopegoes]

[ooc: Always down for AU's.]

Nico Acosta | OC | M/F

[anoranza]

carver hawke | dragon age | ota

[ohmakerwhatnow]

[He basically canonly fits into Sudden Royal or Unaffiliated. He'd likely be wary all the way, but his attitude really depends. On what? I don't know. :D Pretty much open to whatever.]