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chronicbookwormThanks for writing me a story! Should you so want, I can be found at both Tumblr and AO3 also as ChronicBookworm, for any stalking purposes.
In general, I like most things. I’m a multishipper, and I read slash, het, femslash, and gen. I also like most genres: fluff, angst, adventure, case fic, humour, get-together, established relationship, character study, slice of life/domestic, you name it – or a mix of them all! I’m very fond of long, plotty fic, but don't feel pressure, I'll be just as happy with something short and sweet.
The prompts below are there to help, not box you in, so please feel free to write something different if none of my prompts below grab your imagination or inspiration strikes you in a different direction. The length of the sections has nothing to do with how much I want the request, only with how many different ideas/questions I have for each. I want to read them all very badly, so I’m sure I’ll love whatever you write!
Feel free to just read the parts that are relevant to you.
General likes
DNWs
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood/Edward Ferrars
James Norrington/Elizabeth Bennet
James Norrington/Fanny Price
Sansa Stark/Peter Pevensie, Sansa Stark/Edmund Pevensie
Sansa Stark/Tyrion Lannister
Sansa Stark & Loras Tyrell
General likes
• found families
• loyalty
• ride or die friendships
• co-dependency
• “us against the world” plots and relationships (whether it’s true or just what the characters imagine)
• friends to lovers
• arranged marriages (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• marriages of convenience (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• pining
• hurt/comfort
• trauma recovery
• characters with low self-worth being loved and accepted
• characters being shown warmth and kindness when they’re expecting or used to being belittled or abused
• characters uniting forces against a common enemy
• complicated politics and shifting alliances
• complicated relationships (not necessarily romantic)
• secrets (both being kept and being revealed)
• characters working with limited knowledge
• competent characters and characters being recognised for their competence
• women supporting other women
• canon divergence
• outsider POV
• case fic/mission fic (however that applies to the canon in question)
• longfic
DNWs
• smut (fade to black or references to sex are fine)
• incest (except canonical incest in ASoIaF/GoT), teacher/student, mpreg, a/b/o
• adultery, infidelity or jealousy (real or imagined)
• massive age gaps in ships (the rule of “half the older character’s age plus seven” as a limit usually works quite well, although for teenagers a max of 2-year age-gap works better. This DNW does not apply to ASoIaF/GoT)
• sex involving characters under 15
• conflicts between characters entirely due to misunderstandings, miscommunication or a failure to communicate (conflicts due to genuine differences in opinions, wants, and needs are fine and fun!)
• public embarrassment, humiliation
• character bashing
• hopeless endings, grimdark tone
• unrequested setting change AUs (for crossovers, changing things so both canons exist in the same universe or having characters from one canon universe dimension travelling to the other canon universe by either hand-wavey or explained means are all fine)
Specific pairing prompts
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood/Edward Ferrars
Tags:
• Adding another partner to a marriage
• Friend Basically Part of the Marriage at This Point
• Marriage of Convenience
• Married couple both pine for same third person
I’m very fond of sensible people coming to practical solutions! Perhaps a married couple living with a very good “bachelor friend” of theirs would probably be (just) within the bounds of regency propriety. I don’t care whether Brandon and Elinor are married, and Edward is the bachelor friend they both pine for, or whether Elinor and Edward are married, and Brandon is the bachelor.
I’d love to see how they came to the arrangement, and how they live. Perhaps Elinor and Brandon enter into a marriage of convenience for her family’s sake – and then Edward enters back into her life and feelings develop in all directions…
Or perhaps Edward and Elinor marry after he’s been disinherited and move into the unmarried Brandon’s parsonage as in canon – and then he manages to fall for both his good friends at the same time, and worries that he’s taking advantage of them (meanwhile they’re worrying that they’re taking advantage of him)…
Or maybe Edward and Elinor marry before canon starts (maybe he avoids being disinherited, maybe they have to rely on charity from their good friend Brandon), and they console and help Brandon as he’s searching for Eliza Williams, and feelings develop as they mutually support and help one another…
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James Norrington/Elizabeth Bennet
Tags:
• Characters Platonically Marry for the Benefits But Don't Count on Falling in Love
• Courtship
• deciding/discussing whether to marry
• Elaborate courtship
• Formal courtship and proposal
• Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
• Marriage before love
• Marriage of Convenience
• Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
• Married to Save Family/Allies
• Marrying To Avoid Destitution
• Romantic proposal
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
Maybe Mr Bennet dies, and Elizabeth’s choices are to live on fifty pounds per annum with her mother and sisters, marry the odious Mr Collins, or marry Norrington – she’s always been certain she’ll marry for love, but maybe she needs to make the pragmatic choice. How does she deal with that, and how does he feel if she is open about the fact that she doesn’t love him (but she does like him)? Does he still try his best to woo her? How do they fall in love once they’re married?
Or maybe her Aunt and Uncle take her to the coast rather than to Derbyshire, and she meets Norrington there, and forgets all about Mr Darcy. Here’s someone who is courteous, and handsome, and intelligent, and treats her well right from the start! I think Elizabeth would probably be delighted with his story of ghost crew of the Black Pearl (being as far removed from it as she is), and would help him get over what happened. How does Lydia's elopement affect Elizabeth in these changed circumstances? Does Norrington step in and help her avoid ruin by marrying her, since he doesn't have the knowledge Darcy has to hunt Wickham down and save her that way?
Or maybe their meeting happens before canon, and Lydia's elopement and Mr Darcy's affections for Elizabeth aren't an issue? How does an Elizabeth who hasn't learned to see beyond the surface of people's manners react to Norrington? Does it change anything, since Norrington is very charming and has fine manners (at least early movies Norrington)? Perhaps it's a Norrington from AWE she meets, a jaded Admiral rather than a gallant Commodore?
I’m very fond of the Regency period, and would be delighted with something that leaned into the time era, and the etiquette of courtship and marriage. I’d love plenty of witty banter and amusement at the trappings of society.
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James Norrington/Fanny Price
Tags:
• Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
• Characters Platonically Marry for the Benefits But Don't Count on Falling in Love
• Courtship
• deciding/discussing whether to marry
• Elaborate Courtship
• Formal Courtship and Proposal
• Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
• Marriage Before Love
• Marriage for protection
• Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
• Marriage to save character from abusive family
• Marrying To Avoid Destitution
• Romantic proposal
• Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
Fanny has connections to the Navy, maybe she meets Norrington through her brother? Or maybe they meet by chance in Portsmouth while Norrington is in dock and she’s with her family? Maybe he wants to help her get away from her family and her poverty?
Or maybe Sir Thomas meets him on his trip to the Caribbean, and introduces him to his family in England? Maybe he sees how badly they treat her at Mansfield Park and knows she deserves to be treated much better? Maybe he wants to help her avoid the pressure to marry Henry Crawford, and the best way to do that is to marry her himself?
Norrington would also be in a position to help William, and unlike Henry Crawford, he’d do it because he’s a good person, without any ulterior motives. I feel like she’d be quietly supportive of him and his trauma, and he would appreciate her inner strength. He’d also respect her as a person and listen to and value her opinion, which her family doesn’t.
For the tags involving a prior marriage, I’d be happy for the abusive part to be either Henry Crawford or Edmund Bertram, both of whom I can see put their own wishes ahead of Fanny’s and become controlling and at least emotionally abusive. Maybe he meets her while she’s in the abusive marriage (cue pining), or maybe he only meets her when she’s already widowed and is taken by her endurance and fortitude.
I’m very fond of the Regency period, and would be delighted with something that leaned into the time era, and the etiquette of courtship and marriage.
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Sansa Stark/Peter Pevensie, Sansa Stark/Edmund Pevensie
Tags:
• Arranged marriage
• Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
• Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
• deciding/discussing whether to marry
• elaborate courtship
• marriage before love
• marriage for protection
• marriage of convenience
• marriage of convenience – to avoid marrying someone else
• marriage to confer status
• mutually beneficial arranged marriage that turns to deep love
• spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
I love crossovers between Narnia and ASoIaF/GoT, and both Sansa/Peter and Sansa/Edmund make a lot of sense to me!
Peter is the shining noble knight she always dreamed of, both without and within, in a way that no one in Westeros seems to match: he’s handsome, noble, chivalrous, dependable, and kind. He’s also a very good monarch, and Sansa hasn’t had much experience with those. He might restore her faith in songs, stories, and knights, and she would help him be the best High King he could possibly be.
Sansa and Edmund also have a lot in common, but differently than Sansa and Susan. They both have experience of being slightly resentful of their circumstances and family, being charmed beguiled by a beautiful but terrible Queen and trusting the wrong person, and suffering vastly disproportionate consequences from it. Both Edmund and Sansa value justice very highly, partly due to what happened to them. They would understand each other in a different way than the other Pevensies would understand Sansa, and might even be able to share some of the darker aspects of their pasts with each other.
Maybe the Pevensies get transported to Westeros and find Sansa in the Eyrie, and either Peter or Edmiund has to marry her to protect her from Petyr Baelish’s plot to marry her to Harry Hardyng/Ramsay Snow (depending on whether you follow book or show canon)? Maybe they arrive in King’s Landing, and marry Sansa instead of letting her be married to Tyrion? Or the story could be set afterwards, when she’s returned to Winterfell, preparing for the winter and the war against the Others, and the Pevensies are there? Maybe the Northern lords demand that the Queen in the North marry (thinking she’ll pick one of them), and she picks either Peter or Edmund because they have no claims to land or titles in the North?
Maybe Sansa somehow ends up in Golden Age Narnia, a magical land of summer with good and just rulers where she can heal from her past? Maybe they Peter/Edmund are beset by unsuitable women from Archenland and Calormen who want to ensnare them in marriage and he marries Sansa to avoid that? Maybe she can’t stay in Narnia unless she marries either Peter or Edmund? I’d be especially interested to see what Narnian courtship rituals are like!
Maybe Narnia and the North share a border, and they arrange a marriage to seal an alliance against Cersei/Daenerys/the White Walkers?
Either book or show canon is fine for ASoIaF/GoT and for Narnia.
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Sansa Stark/Tyrion Lannister
Tags:
• Arranged marriage
• Arranged Marriage - Spouses Intend to Stay Platonic But Get Feelings
• Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
• Estranged Spouses forced to Reunite
• Forced Marriage
• Forced marriage works out happily for everyone involved
• Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
• Marriage Before Love
• Marriage for protection
• Marriage of Convenience
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
I like that they’re both very clever and know how to play the game despite their relative lack of physical prowess, and I like how they are both kind, honourable people who will use their kindness and honour for their own ends. I think they’re quite well suited and would like to see how genuine love can grow between them.
Perhaps they were better friends before their marriage, thus setting better conditions for love to grow out of it? Maybe Tyrion is less resentful and demanding and Sansa is more understanding? Maybe they work together to become the power couple of King’s Landing?
Or maybe they reach an understanding later, when Sansa is Lady of Winterfell and Tyrion is Hand to the Queen, and they’ve both grown and matured, and the fact that they never got their marriage annulled or divorced suddenly becomes relevant? In comparison with Ramsay, Tyrion was the epitome of kindness and understanding, so maybe Sansa feels more fondly for him now? If they do fall in love in Winterfell and decide to rekindle their marriage, how does Daenerys react?
Either show or book canon is fine.
DNW exceptions: Canon-typical age gaps are fine for this canon, but I still prefer only faked beddings to occur (if any) if any parties in the relationship are below 15.
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Sansa Stark & Loras Tyrell
Tags:
• Arranged marriage
• Arranged Marriage - Spouses Stay Platonic
• Arranged marriage but actually just friends and in love with other people
• Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
• Falling Deeply in Like With Spouse
• Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
• lavender marriage
• Marriage for protection
• Marriage of Convenience
• Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
What if the Tyrells had managed to marry Sansa and Loras? Sansa gets her gallant knight, and Loras gets to save a pretty damsel! They’re both Romantics, in that they believe in songs and the ideals of chivalry, which might lead to a strong friendship and companionship, but there is still the barrier that Loras can’t love her the way she’s dreamed of.
Would they go to reclaim Winterfell? Would they go to Highgarden for Loras to rule while Mace is in King’s Landing? Or would they stay in King’s Landing and work together to gain status and influence at Court – Sansa with Margaery and the ladies doing the politicking and Loras as a knight and warrior, so that together they cover most aspects that are important to Westeros? Perhaps Sansa might have been able to save Loras at his trial (maybe she would draw attention to the fact that a squire having seen his knight undressed is not incriminating)? Or maybe there wouldn’t have been a trial if they managed to convincingly fake a romantic relationship?
I don’t mind if this goes slightly bittersweet, given their respective situations, dreams, and hopes, but I do have a fondness for arranged marriages that end not in love, but with deep, enduring friendships (or relationships that straddle the line between romantic and platonic love), so please don’t make it too angsty and depressing.
Show canon preferred for this request, given how much the presence of Willas changes things.
DNW exceptions: Canon-typical age gaps are fine for this canon, but I still prefer only faked beddings to occur (if any) if any parties in the relationship are below 15.
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In general, I like most things. I’m a multishipper, and I read slash, het, femslash, and gen. I also like most genres: fluff, angst, adventure, case fic, humour, get-together, established relationship, character study, slice of life/domestic, you name it – or a mix of them all! I’m very fond of long, plotty fic, but don't feel pressure, I'll be just as happy with something short and sweet.
The prompts below are there to help, not box you in, so please feel free to write something different if none of my prompts below grab your imagination or inspiration strikes you in a different direction. The length of the sections has nothing to do with how much I want the request, only with how many different ideas/questions I have for each. I want to read them all very badly, so I’m sure I’ll love whatever you write!
Feel free to just read the parts that are relevant to you.
General likes
DNWs
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood/Edward Ferrars
James Norrington/Elizabeth Bennet
James Norrington/Fanny Price
Sansa Stark/Peter Pevensie, Sansa Stark/Edmund Pevensie
Sansa Stark/Tyrion Lannister
Sansa Stark & Loras Tyrell
General likes
• found families
• loyalty
• ride or die friendships
• co-dependency
• “us against the world” plots and relationships (whether it’s true or just what the characters imagine)
• friends to lovers
• arranged marriages (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• marriages of convenience (that can either lead to love or strong friendship)
• pining
• hurt/comfort
• trauma recovery
• characters with low self-worth being loved and accepted
• characters being shown warmth and kindness when they’re expecting or used to being belittled or abused
• characters uniting forces against a common enemy
• complicated politics and shifting alliances
• complicated relationships (not necessarily romantic)
• secrets (both being kept and being revealed)
• characters working with limited knowledge
• competent characters and characters being recognised for their competence
• women supporting other women
• canon divergence
• outsider POV
• case fic/mission fic (however that applies to the canon in question)
• longfic
DNWs
• smut (fade to black or references to sex are fine)
• incest (except canonical incest in ASoIaF/GoT), teacher/student, mpreg, a/b/o
• adultery, infidelity or jealousy (real or imagined)
• massive age gaps in ships (the rule of “half the older character’s age plus seven” as a limit usually works quite well, although for teenagers a max of 2-year age-gap works better. This DNW does not apply to ASoIaF/GoT)
• sex involving characters under 15
• conflicts between characters entirely due to misunderstandings, miscommunication or a failure to communicate (conflicts due to genuine differences in opinions, wants, and needs are fine and fun!)
• public embarrassment, humiliation
• character bashing
• hopeless endings, grimdark tone
• unrequested setting change AUs (for crossovers, changing things so both canons exist in the same universe or having characters from one canon universe dimension travelling to the other canon universe by either hand-wavey or explained means are all fine)
Specific pairing prompts
Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood/Edward Ferrars
Tags:
• Adding another partner to a marriage
• Friend Basically Part of the Marriage at This Point
• Marriage of Convenience
• Married couple both pine for same third person
I’m very fond of sensible people coming to practical solutions! Perhaps a married couple living with a very good “bachelor friend” of theirs would probably be (just) within the bounds of regency propriety. I don’t care whether Brandon and Elinor are married, and Edward is the bachelor friend they both pine for, or whether Elinor and Edward are married, and Brandon is the bachelor.
I’d love to see how they came to the arrangement, and how they live. Perhaps Elinor and Brandon enter into a marriage of convenience for her family’s sake – and then Edward enters back into her life and feelings develop in all directions…
Or perhaps Edward and Elinor marry after he’s been disinherited and move into the unmarried Brandon’s parsonage as in canon – and then he manages to fall for both his good friends at the same time, and worries that he’s taking advantage of them (meanwhile they’re worrying that they’re taking advantage of him)…
Or maybe Edward and Elinor marry before canon starts (maybe he avoids being disinherited, maybe they have to rely on charity from their good friend Brandon), and they console and help Brandon as he’s searching for Eliza Williams, and feelings develop as they mutually support and help one another…
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James Norrington/Elizabeth Bennet
Tags:
• Characters Platonically Marry for the Benefits But Don't Count on Falling in Love
• Courtship
• deciding/discussing whether to marry
• Elaborate courtship
• Formal courtship and proposal
• Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
• Marriage before love
• Marriage of Convenience
• Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
• Married to Save Family/Allies
• Marrying To Avoid Destitution
• Romantic proposal
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
Maybe Mr Bennet dies, and Elizabeth’s choices are to live on fifty pounds per annum with her mother and sisters, marry the odious Mr Collins, or marry Norrington – she’s always been certain she’ll marry for love, but maybe she needs to make the pragmatic choice. How does she deal with that, and how does he feel if she is open about the fact that she doesn’t love him (but she does like him)? Does he still try his best to woo her? How do they fall in love once they’re married?
Or maybe her Aunt and Uncle take her to the coast rather than to Derbyshire, and she meets Norrington there, and forgets all about Mr Darcy. Here’s someone who is courteous, and handsome, and intelligent, and treats her well right from the start! I think Elizabeth would probably be delighted with his story of ghost crew of the Black Pearl (being as far removed from it as she is), and would help him get over what happened. How does Lydia's elopement affect Elizabeth in these changed circumstances? Does Norrington step in and help her avoid ruin by marrying her, since he doesn't have the knowledge Darcy has to hunt Wickham down and save her that way?
Or maybe their meeting happens before canon, and Lydia's elopement and Mr Darcy's affections for Elizabeth aren't an issue? How does an Elizabeth who hasn't learned to see beyond the surface of people's manners react to Norrington? Does it change anything, since Norrington is very charming and has fine manners (at least early movies Norrington)? Perhaps it's a Norrington from AWE she meets, a jaded Admiral rather than a gallant Commodore?
I’m very fond of the Regency period, and would be delighted with something that leaned into the time era, and the etiquette of courtship and marriage. I’d love plenty of witty banter and amusement at the trappings of society.
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James Norrington/Fanny Price
Tags:
• Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
• Characters Platonically Marry for the Benefits But Don't Count on Falling in Love
• Courtship
• deciding/discussing whether to marry
• Elaborate Courtship
• Formal Courtship and Proposal
• Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
• Marriage Before Love
• Marriage for protection
• Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
• Marriage to save character from abusive family
• Marrying To Avoid Destitution
• Romantic proposal
• Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
Fanny has connections to the Navy, maybe she meets Norrington through her brother? Or maybe they meet by chance in Portsmouth while Norrington is in dock and she’s with her family? Maybe he wants to help her get away from her family and her poverty?
Or maybe Sir Thomas meets him on his trip to the Caribbean, and introduces him to his family in England? Maybe he sees how badly they treat her at Mansfield Park and knows she deserves to be treated much better? Maybe he wants to help her avoid the pressure to marry Henry Crawford, and the best way to do that is to marry her himself?
Norrington would also be in a position to help William, and unlike Henry Crawford, he’d do it because he’s a good person, without any ulterior motives. I feel like she’d be quietly supportive of him and his trauma, and he would appreciate her inner strength. He’d also respect her as a person and listen to and value her opinion, which her family doesn’t.
For the tags involving a prior marriage, I’d be happy for the abusive part to be either Henry Crawford or Edmund Bertram, both of whom I can see put their own wishes ahead of Fanny’s and become controlling and at least emotionally abusive. Maybe he meets her while she’s in the abusive marriage (cue pining), or maybe he only meets her when she’s already widowed and is taken by her endurance and fortitude.
I’m very fond of the Regency period, and would be delighted with something that leaned into the time era, and the etiquette of courtship and marriage.
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Sansa Stark/Peter Pevensie, Sansa Stark/Edmund Pevensie
Tags:
• Arranged marriage
• Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
• Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
• deciding/discussing whether to marry
• elaborate courtship
• marriage before love
• marriage for protection
• marriage of convenience
• marriage of convenience – to avoid marrying someone else
• marriage to confer status
• mutually beneficial arranged marriage that turns to deep love
• spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
I love crossovers between Narnia and ASoIaF/GoT, and both Sansa/Peter and Sansa/Edmund make a lot of sense to me!
Peter is the shining noble knight she always dreamed of, both without and within, in a way that no one in Westeros seems to match: he’s handsome, noble, chivalrous, dependable, and kind. He’s also a very good monarch, and Sansa hasn’t had much experience with those. He might restore her faith in songs, stories, and knights, and she would help him be the best High King he could possibly be.
Sansa and Edmund also have a lot in common, but differently than Sansa and Susan. They both have experience of being slightly resentful of their circumstances and family, being charmed beguiled by a beautiful but terrible Queen and trusting the wrong person, and suffering vastly disproportionate consequences from it. Both Edmund and Sansa value justice very highly, partly due to what happened to them. They would understand each other in a different way than the other Pevensies would understand Sansa, and might even be able to share some of the darker aspects of their pasts with each other.
Maybe the Pevensies get transported to Westeros and find Sansa in the Eyrie, and either Peter or Edmiund has to marry her to protect her from Petyr Baelish’s plot to marry her to Harry Hardyng/Ramsay Snow (depending on whether you follow book or show canon)? Maybe they arrive in King’s Landing, and marry Sansa instead of letting her be married to Tyrion? Or the story could be set afterwards, when she’s returned to Winterfell, preparing for the winter and the war against the Others, and the Pevensies are there? Maybe the Northern lords demand that the Queen in the North marry (thinking she’ll pick one of them), and she picks either Peter or Edmund because they have no claims to land or titles in the North?
Maybe Sansa somehow ends up in Golden Age Narnia, a magical land of summer with good and just rulers where she can heal from her past? Maybe they Peter/Edmund are beset by unsuitable women from Archenland and Calormen who want to ensnare them in marriage and he marries Sansa to avoid that? Maybe she can’t stay in Narnia unless she marries either Peter or Edmund? I’d be especially interested to see what Narnian courtship rituals are like!
Maybe Narnia and the North share a border, and they arrange a marriage to seal an alliance against Cersei/Daenerys/the White Walkers?
Either book or show canon is fine for ASoIaF/GoT and for Narnia.
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Sansa Stark/Tyrion Lannister
Tags:
• Arranged marriage
• Arranged Marriage - Spouses Intend to Stay Platonic But Get Feelings
• Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
• Estranged Spouses forced to Reunite
• Forced Marriage
• Forced marriage works out happily for everyone involved
• Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
• Marriage Before Love
• Marriage for protection
• Marriage of Convenience
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
I like that they’re both very clever and know how to play the game despite their relative lack of physical prowess, and I like how they are both kind, honourable people who will use their kindness and honour for their own ends. I think they’re quite well suited and would like to see how genuine love can grow between them.
Perhaps they were better friends before their marriage, thus setting better conditions for love to grow out of it? Maybe Tyrion is less resentful and demanding and Sansa is more understanding? Maybe they work together to become the power couple of King’s Landing?
Or maybe they reach an understanding later, when Sansa is Lady of Winterfell and Tyrion is Hand to the Queen, and they’ve both grown and matured, and the fact that they never got their marriage annulled or divorced suddenly becomes relevant? In comparison with Ramsay, Tyrion was the epitome of kindness and understanding, so maybe Sansa feels more fondly for him now? If they do fall in love in Winterfell and decide to rekindle their marriage, how does Daenerys react?
Either show or book canon is fine.
DNW exceptions: Canon-typical age gaps are fine for this canon, but I still prefer only faked beddings to occur (if any) if any parties in the relationship are below 15.
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Sansa Stark & Loras Tyrell
Tags:
• Arranged marriage
• Arranged Marriage - Spouses Stay Platonic
• Arranged marriage but actually just friends and in love with other people
• Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
• Falling Deeply in Like With Spouse
• Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
• lavender marriage
• Marriage for protection
• Marriage of Convenience
• Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Marriage to Someone Else
• Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
What if the Tyrells had managed to marry Sansa and Loras? Sansa gets her gallant knight, and Loras gets to save a pretty damsel! They’re both Romantics, in that they believe in songs and the ideals of chivalry, which might lead to a strong friendship and companionship, but there is still the barrier that Loras can’t love her the way she’s dreamed of.
Would they go to reclaim Winterfell? Would they go to Highgarden for Loras to rule while Mace is in King’s Landing? Or would they stay in King’s Landing and work together to gain status and influence at Court – Sansa with Margaery and the ladies doing the politicking and Loras as a knight and warrior, so that together they cover most aspects that are important to Westeros? Perhaps Sansa might have been able to save Loras at his trial (maybe she would draw attention to the fact that a squire having seen his knight undressed is not incriminating)? Or maybe there wouldn’t have been a trial if they managed to convincingly fake a romantic relationship?
I don’t mind if this goes slightly bittersweet, given their respective situations, dreams, and hopes, but I do have a fondness for arranged marriages that end not in love, but with deep, enduring friendships (or relationships that straddle the line between romantic and platonic love), so please don’t make it too angsty and depressing.
Show canon preferred for this request, given how much the presence of Willas changes things.
DNW exceptions: Canon-typical age gaps are fine for this canon, but I still prefer only faked beddings to occur (if any) if any parties in the relationship are below 15.
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