bakerstreet | adopted fiancé

adopted fiancé

There is a centuries-old tradition in Japan of well-to-do families with no or only female children to adopt a male heir to carry on the family name and business. In cases where there are only daughters, the male is usually a non-relative who takes the adopting family's surname and marries the (oldest) daughter.

Your family is in trouble. It's at a dead end, with no one to possibly carry on the line and the family name. Well, there's you, but you don't really count. At least, you can't do those tasks alone. That's why, when you were young, your family adopted an heir: someone promising, yet less fortunate, alone in this world, or with less prospects on their own. When both of you are ready, you're to be married. In fact, that time is approaching - or, oh, it's already here! So, how do you feel about all of this? Was it awkward growing up with someone you knew you'd eventually spend your life with in that way? And how you relate to them has to have been shaped by your upbringing. Surely, you view them as a brother or a sister.

...unless you actually do have feelings for them, and matter turns out to be much more difficult than you'd think with a pre-prepared spouse! You don't want it to be a relationship of convenience, despite the fact that it's always been that.

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Comment to others, using the RNG to determine your character's role and the prompt.

role

the true born
the adopted

prompts

confused: what they are to you is still a mystery to both of you.
ideal love: you two have the best relationship one could imagine, but is it as perfect as it seems on the surface?
fake it to make it: pretend you want this, pretend you love them like that, and maybe it will come true.
forbidden: you're supposed to get married for appearances only. any actual intimacy and love is forbade by your family...yet here you are.
like brother and sister: you can't do this! you still see them as your annoying but lovable little sibling.
someone else: there's a teensy dilemma here: both of you are involved with other people on the side, outside your familial obligations.
don't get along: this set-up should work out well, except for the fact that you've always gotten along like cats and dogs.
one-sided: one of you is utterly smitten, always has been. the other? jury's still out.