More than the arrangement

[sockula_untold]

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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kylo ren ( STAR WARS ) ota

[vaderstan]

Todoroki Shouto | BnHA | m/m

[tempcontrol]

Ikaruga | Senran Kagura | F/M

[ikaruga]

[[Ikaruga was adopted into a prestigious family in a loveless arrangement of convenience already, so it's easy to believe her marriage will follow suit. She really would prefer someone she likes, so she would try to open up no matter how she felt about the arrangement. She's also suited to a modern take on the idea, as her adoptive family are implied to be wealthy business tycoons so she's been married off under those pretences.]]

Konoka Konoe | Mahou Sensei Negima | OTA

[im_gonna_heal_u]

[[Gets thrown into arranged dates, maybe she got (un)lucky enough that one suitor 'clicked'.]]

Sansa Stark | GoT | f/m

[queenofthenorth]

[let's give her something happy this time]

[viciousmaukeries]

((ooc: I think these two could be cute together, but do you mind a canon AU with nonhumans?))

[queenofthenorth]

((I don't mind a bit! In fact, I'd love it! ))

[viciousmaukeries]

[Zemni was a small but well-fortified kingdom, with good land that had helped maintain a comparatively sizeable army. It was an open secret that the current ruling king was the leader of a band of mercenaries that had overthrown the last king by force and installed themselves in power, but the smallfolk had soon stopped discussing that, because there was no denying from their perspective that the kingdom was running better than it had in decades.

The king had turned down the offer of Sansa's hand in exchange for his army's support, but had apparently talked one of his courtiers into accepting the match instead. Caleb had no family of his own, and so instead had appointed his six friends and allies into important positions around the kingdom, as well as naming them his heirs and having no apparent intention of having a child of his own to disrupt the matter.

Mollymauk Tealeaf was fourth in line for the throne of Zemni and happy to be there and it was only because he loved Caleb dearly that he had accepted this proposal at all.

So now here he was, waiting by the gates of the castle courtyard, and watching the Lady Sansa's procession making its way up the road.]

beth greene | the walking dead | ota

[littlemissfutility]

[Within her canon, it'd be easy to justify an arranged marriage to settle a feud between survivors, solidify a merger of communities, a matter of tribute/capture, or to help ensure everyone's got skin in the game for some kind of longterm deal (our meds for your food or w/e). (It'd also probably be be easiest if it's Dawn/Grady Hospital making the deal rather than Rick & co.!) If you've got another idea, or if there's something in your canon that you like the idea of, I'm all in favor! Interested in both canon and cross-canon CR, happy to do things in her world, your character's world, some kind of forced-marriage jamjar, or a complete AU! This is one of my favourite tropes, and I'll gladly play it any way I can.]

obito uchiha ( naruto )

[eyedust]

[ In his canon, Obito belongs to an elite/prestigious/powerful military family. He's also the most useless/least promising member of said family, so it makes sense for him to be married off for some political reason or other to finally be of use to the family. Certain powers/abilities can also only be passed down through his bloodline, so there's enough room to marry for power so the future descendants of someone or other can inherit the abilities that the Uchiha clan possesses.

OF COURSE FEEL FREE TO IGNORE ALL OF THIS AND MAKE AUS OF YOUR OWN/CONDITIONS OF YOUR OWN. I'm all for it! Obito will probably be pretty upset about it deep down at first, but he knows his duty to his clan and won't try to fight the decision. He'll probably even try to be enthusiastic about it! If it's an "arranged marriage since he was a kid and he's close to his fiance/e" deal, however, he'll probably be genuinely happy.

Open to all prompts/ideas, OTA re: crosscanon/medium, canonmates, OCs, M/M or M/F or M/*. Also willing to age Obito up as you'd like, but for the canon-familiar I'm assuming he survives the Kannabi Bridge mission with Team Minato. ]

Luke Skywalker | Star Wars | OTA

[neverjoinyou]

[Settle a galactic feud? Strange alien ritual? Who wants a Jedi farmboy virgin twink?]

Prince Valryn Melana || Dungeons & Dragons OC || m/m

[curseborn]

[ very reluctantly getting married off and possibly as punishment for resistant and audacious behavior, and possibly as an excuse to send Valryn out of the underdark and out of his mother's presence. can work with d&d or a malleable, open fantasy setting, or modern fantasy. can do early/first meeting but would prefer assumed cr to jump right in with, pm me to hash that out. info + permissions on journal. ]

[witchbolt]

[ Truth be told, Ayla is a little annoyed with her brother at the moment. He's been even more stand offish and distant than usual, short tempered, and restless. She can sympathize to a point. He has good reason to resent being cloistered in the house of their childhood, and she wouldn't be happy to be thrust into an arranged marriage either. In fact, she's very narrowly avoided just that more than once. But she's since met Mishal's intended, and she quite likes Valryn.

With Mishal absent, it had fallen to her to act as hostess, and despite her initial misgivings, she'd taken to the drow prince almost immediately. He's smart, cunning, and they share a passion for political intrigue that one might argue is more than strictly healthy. They even, much to Ayla's delight, share an interest in music, and having someone to accompany her on cello has been lovely.

However, after a week or so of everyone tiptoeing around each other uncertainly, Mishal and Valryn staring coldly at each from opposite sides of the dinner table, and the two of them pointedly avoiding each other, Ayla has had enough. She won't be playing the role of matchmaker anytime soon, but by the gods, the two of them could stand to say more than two words to each other before one or the other inevitably excused himself and left the room they were sharing.

So she looks up from tuning her cello, and fixes her gaze on Valryn, who sits in a chair, by the lattice, looking out at the moonlit sky. Impossible to read his thoughts or mood, but she can make an educated guess. ]

You're going to have to talk to him eventually, you know. I know my brother is a stubborn ass, but your options are to break the engagement or move forward. You can't avoid each other forever.

[curseborn]

[ Valryn knows the arrangement was made against his favor. Valryn knows his mother had him sent to the surface as punishment. Valryn knows the marriage selection itself was made as a move of mockery to him; 'usstan orn neitar tlu zil ulu natha j'nesst,' he had hissed to the revered matron, seething with a cold anger. She apparently never forgot his declaration made in defiance. This was an absolutely unprecedented move. It was spiteful and astonishing.

Never say it to Valryn's face, but he certainly did inherit that very aspect from his mother.

He has since chosen to fight spite with spite. Valryn has made himself quite content here on the surface, although Calimshan would see a fair bit more sun than he would like, it seems as though those native to this area too avoid it, primarily at its most aggressive in the mid-day, so living withdrawn indoors has not afforded the drow prince any ill remark. Well, no ill remarks from his will-be sister-by-law, and remarks from his betrothed not at all. Valryn has become quite comfortable, as much as he can make himself, an endeavor made easier with the presence of the heiress who has the task of playing their chaperone. Valryn has taken to her quite well, which was a surprise to him, but not one worthy of suspect.

When Ayla bursts with her newest comment, it snaps Valryn's attention laid elsewhere and he turns his head to look at her, perplexed, telling her that her words are unexpected. He watches her face and reads her concern, and for a moment, he seems as if he has trouble translating it.

Until his expression breaks and he smiles, then laughs, the sound low and inky. ]

My lady, we find once again another cultural difference between you and I. From where I hail, this would be just as harmonious as your idea of neutrality. [ Valryn absolutely realizes where the potential margin of error lies. Not many people risk having their husband combust into flame based on a delicate temper. At least Valryn has been paired with an interesting one.

He reaches for his goblet or wine and takes a drink. ] Do you think I despise Mishal? Hardly. I'm more interested to see how much he may hate me. I'm curious of it, I admit I would like to see what it culminates in. [ But that he can say with full awareness of the disaster that could bring, and his smile is almost conceding. A marital feud might serve no one. Valryn, unfortunately, doesn't look to serve anyone. ] I suppose you, in fact, would not.

[witchbolt]

Yes, having a drow brother in law to be has been quite the cultural exchange. Ayla remains somewhat bewildered by some of the customs Valryn describes, but she's also fascinated by them. She listens when he speaks of his home, and in return, she does her best to fill him in on the differences of life on the surface, and the subtleties of Calishite society in particular.

"I would rather go without either of you getting blood on my carpet, or my brother burning down the house in a fit of pique if that's what you mean," she says drily though not without humor. She's becoming all too familiar with Valryn's penchant for disaster. She's not altogether innocent of it herself. She stirs the pot simply for the sake of seeing what will happen fairly often. All she has to do afterward is smile sweetly afterward and deny it. It works on the vast majority of people.

She hesitates visibly before continuing. It's not her place to speak for her brother or reveal his secrets. She couldn't forgive herself if she did. There's an unspoken bond between the siblings forged by the upbringing they've shared. They are not as close as they once were, but there's love and loyalty there, fierce and uncompromising. But Valryn is not stupid. He'd have noticed that there's no love lost for their late mother and absent father. Ayla doesn't speak of either except in passing, her expression gone cold, and then changes the subject quickly when they inevitably come up.

"...I don't know his feelings, but it may not be so personal as that. I believe he's avoiding the house as much as he is you. There are no happy memories here for him here."

sakura haruno | naruto | ota

[slugly]

[it can be a mission in another country is you want narutoverse or some kind of au I AM FLEXIBLE]

Alfred ( Vikings ) OTA

[devilsandangels]

Peregrin Took | Lord of the Rings | OTA

[pippins]

Mary Crawley | Downton Abbey | M/F

[thequitecontrary]

rey | star wars

[purpose]

nuada silverlance | hellboy

[faebles]

[m/f default, open to m/m. 18+ please.]

betty cooper | RIVERDALE

[pinkperfection]

[ down for doing a fantasy AU for this one! ]

Ben Solo | Star Wars AU | OTA

[vaders_grandson]

((The problem with marrying Leia Organa Solo's son to prevent a political dispute from escalating into open warfare (or under any other circumstances) is that it's Ben. Good luck.))

Nico Acosta | OC | M/F

[anoranza]

Evie Montgomery | OC | F/M

[la_bonne_chose]