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MEME: Arranged Marriage AU
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.
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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?
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Anne.
Then he falls silent, still breathing hard, eyes still closed, reality already creeping back in, for all he would wish to push it away.
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By God, he should have fled after Anne, and to hell with his duty to his king.
He swallows hard, pain rippling under his skin where, moments ago, he felt pleasure. “She was my wife."
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Porthos has always enjoyed this part more than any other and despite the ache pestering at him, he can ignore that in order to pay attention to Athos properly. "You don't seem to like to talk much at all," he observes, eyeing him with a softness on his face. "Lucky for us, I like to talk plenty."
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He swallows, letting his hand slide down Porthos’ broad back. “Not exactly what I expected out of my afternoon,” he notes with a wry twist of his lips.
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This tryst of theirs can’t last, not when the shame and the consequences are so great. Now that the war is done, former allies already clamber to tear each other apart, and the Comte de la Fere has angered too many powerful men over the years to be left in peace now. Especially when one of those men is the First Minister of France. If any of them were to discover this unexpected result of the Cardinal’s little joke--
But none of that matters now. Now, there is only the heat between, powerful enough to block out everything outside this small room.
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Porthos leans greedily forward to take in every kiss, every touch, every thing he possibly can, given how much he desperately wants it to keep going, but his body is not on the same page, willing himself to give over and to be undone. It's not very long before he finds an end, gasping with it and letting out a remorseful little sigh as he lets his limbs fall with exhaustion on the bed, staring up at Athos with a wary look on his face, mostly for how much he'd enjoyed all of that.
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What now? That is the question he cannot quite articulate.
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And if any betray him, Athos will have to act swiftly and harshly, and still it might destroy him. He finds himself willing to take the risk. Now that he has allowed himself this bit of comfort, the thought of giving it up is more troubling than he would like.
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