MEME: Arranged Marriage AU

[frozenfractals]

We were craving a meme, so after some digging around, we've got something new and different for you guys, with a huge hat-tip to the bakerstreet RP memes comm (original post here). Let's get some of those marriage feels sorted.

Time to get your faux-historical/fantasy novel on. For today's meme, your pup is getting married, whether they want to or not. It's arranged marriages time!

HOW IT WORKS
❧ Post a comment with your character's name and any preferences. This should include whether you're open to full threads or mostly dialogue, Test Drive-style, if you have a preference.
❧ If there's a specific set of circumstances you like best, set the scene.
❧ Or leave your comment blank and let others use RNG to choose the scenario. Feel free to mix and match.
❧ Or even just write drabbles to any (or none) of the prompts.
❧ Please note the prompts below are merely suggestions and you're more than welcome to come up with your own situation.
❧ Have fun!

POSSIBLE REASONS FOR MARRIAGE
1) Station → You come from a royal, noble, or otherwise distinguished family who has chosen a suitable spouse for you.
2) Feud → You are being married to put an end to the bitter enmity between your two families.
3) Economics → Your economic state and/or your station will improve through the union, though one of you may be marrying down.
4) Empire → You and your spouse are merging your businesses and/or property to create something more influential or profitable.
5) Tribute → You have been offered as a gift or appeasement; alternately you're the spoils of war.
6) Bloodline → Carrying on your distinguished family name has fallen to you and the equally well-bred spouse of your family's selection.
7) Disapproval → Your marriage has been arranged to keep you away from the person with whom you truly wish to be.

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
1) First meeting → This is the very first time you're meeting your future spouse.
2) Courtship → To get to know each other and encourage affection, your family has approved of you going on dates.
3) Engagement party → Be it a huge, formal affair or a small, intimate get together, you're celebrating (or pretending).
4) Wedding day → The big day!
5) Reception → The big party!
6) Wedding night → Every meme needs a smut prompt, right?
7) Honeymoon → Where will you go with your new spouse and what will you do there?

Comments

[beyoncepadthai]

Mindy Lahiri

[Give me historical or modern day AUs, arranged or ~true love, drabbles or dialogue, e v e r y t h i n g. This is the meme of Mindy Lahiri's dreams.]

[stake]

Buffy Summers

[rulesofthewild]

Malia Tate. Possibly drabbles :3 arranged-to-true love type?

[and_proud]

Raven Darkholme | Mystique

[Dialogue or drabbles are fine! Any reason is cool, but if you want to tie it in with the mutant cause (feud/bloodline, maybe?), that might be interesting!]

[manwithaplan]

Steve Rogers

Station? Feud? DON'T CARE. XD

[withhiseverybreath]

Call me crazy, but I didn't realize 'til the end of the line' was the same as 'til death do us part'.

It's not too late to tell them you changed your mind, you know.

[bredandbuttered]

Ree Dolly

[Drabbles or dialogue. If you want a surly–as–fuck bride, Ree's your gal.]

[crashlikethunder]

Luke Glanton

(Gimme regular, not-arranged marriage unless you can figure out an AU where he'd actually go with it.)

[norelief]

Finnick Odair

[This just feels mean. Dialogue or drabbles are fine. Arranged/forced or not.]

[swing]

Peter Parker

[warmandsad]

Abby

[Drabbles or dialogue. Maybe marriage due to circumstances such as young, ill-advised pregnancy? Or just normal marriage. Whatever. Gimme.]

[unseentides]

Kathy H

[AU in which donors are paired up and married off so that society can convince themselves they've crammed life into their ~30 years before completion. OR SOMETHING. Dialogue or drabbles, give me.]

[spirit_of_vitriol]

Flavia de Luce is twelve, yes, but maybe this is set in the future or it's a really long betrothal like in ye olde times, we can work with this

7) 3) set to at least an age of 18

[imcoraline]

There were four hundred and twenty three guests congratulating the happy couple. There were seventeen shades of puce- puce (Ophelia was practically having kittens because it clashed with her distinct chartreuse colour theme.) There were two bowls of punches (one not poisoned and one...) And there was one lovestruck girl mooning over her object of affection. Or rather the person, the person she was not engaged to in the slightest.

Sighing miserably Coraline looked over the balcony, staring down at Malia before she twiddled with the key round her neck. It wasn't like it was the end of the world, she really did like Flavia and it was a very sensible match. Flavia's chemistry, Coraline's biology- they made the perfect team. She just couldn't imagine wanting to hold her hand as desperately as she wanted to hold Malia's.

"I think Feely is actually turning purple herself," Coraline called out to Flavia. Trying not to moon over Malia quite so obviously.

[wildasever]

Arya Stark

[Let her icon do the talking. Dialogue or drabbles, ageing her up to fifteen or sixteen in the AU of your choice.]

[spectacularly]

Aimee Finecky

[Drabbles or dialogue, arranged (disapproval, economics?) or maybe give this one a shot at true love. Just keep her away from Sutter Keely.]

[silenttrainbaby]

(ooc: what ifffff there's an AU version of the Train where everyone totally doesn't die and Aimee was farther forward and becomes a spoil of war?)

[beyondtheblonde]

Elle Woods! is totally some kind of a princess or at least nobility. All options welcome for me and mine.

idk where this came from but here you go :D

[withhiseverybreath]

Their marriage had been arranged when they were little, when they were too young to do more than bow and curtsy as their parents directed. He remembers her as a bright, bubbly child, eager for her parents' affection, if not always as well behaved as they would have liked.

He thinks he might have liked her too, if he'd had the chance. But that was before the war, before he was captured, tortured, and sent back broken.

He's had time to recover; it hasn't helped. Now his grace period is over, and he's been summoned to the palace to present himself, to find out if Elle-- and more importantly, her parents-- still find him a suitable match.

He's not stupid. He knows how this is going to end. His heart is beating jackrabbit-fast as he stands in the antechamber waiting for his name to be called, and suddenly it's too much. He turns on his heel and stalks out the door into the adjoining garden, tugging at his starched uniform collar, feeling like he can't breathe. There's a fountain; he scoops his hands into it and splashes the chilly water on his face, shaking his head like a dog, blinking droplets out of his eyes.

There's a sound behind him-- he turns, and it's her. He doesn't know what to say (words don't come so easy to him, these days) so he just stands there, water dripping down his neck, staring.

[bloodycrescents]

Harley Altmeyer is undoubtedly marrying up no matter who he marries, he is a terrible match

[a_littlefaith]

Beth Greene

EVERYTHING

[silenttrainbaby]

Surely, someone wants to marry Grey? :D OTA!

[everyonetakes]

Kate Gregson

[Thinks this is bullshit, so probably has to be offered as some kind of disgruntled tribute.]

[notaretriever]

Luke Garroway

[Marry off the werewolf to get rid of the embarrassment of having one around? D:]

[floozyfacade]

Olive Penderghast would never get involved in something like this with the parents she has, but we're creative people, you can come up with something

[gloriouscurse]

Regina Mills

[Seriously anything, she's a princess when she's younger or a widowed queen if you prefer! Totally willing to go the full length RP route :D]

[frozenfractals]

Elsa of Arendelle is not interested, thank you

[somepoorsoul]

[Because the AU all but writes itself. I'm sorry, Elsa.]

It all happens so quickly.

Olivier de la Fere will not be marrying the woman he loves. It doesn’t matter that he is a grown man of twenty-three, and knows himself well enough to realize that he makes a better soldier on the battlefield than lord of a county, he does not have the strength he thought he had to refuse his father’s demand to break off his engagement with Anne, and the Comte de la Fere had acted quickly to ensure that his son did nothing so rash: marry a common girl from the village, and ruin their family’s reputation.

This girl is some sort of Swedish noblewoman; her family has more money and lands than her intended’s, if perhaps not more influence, but no one seems to ask too many questions about why Arendelle is so quick to marry off his eldest daughter and only heir. They come with servants and entourage of their own - they are trying to impress - and the de la Fere’s country estate feels full even before the guests arrive for the engagement party. The engaged couple barely has time to exchange hellos, though Olivier watches her in silence over dinner; appropriately, she is nothing like Anne, slight and pale, unsmiling and carefully controlled. Though, he supposes, she has as little reason to be happy as he does.

When the interminable dinner is finally over, a select few are ushered into the slightly more relaxed atmosphere of the drawing room, and the couple is as close to alone as they are likely to be until they are wed, as close as they can be with half a dozen servants and family members close at hand.

Finally, Olivier breaks the maddening, awkward silence between them. “One does begin to wonder what they expect us to do, exactly, with all of them watching us so closely.”

[makeafairfight]

Cameron Winklevoss probably would have been stuck with this a couple hundred years ago anyway. OR MAKE AN EMPIRE.

[cassidyneal]

Neal Cassidy

[someone love him please, lol. ]