JUST MARRIED EXCHANGE 2020

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JUST MARRIED EXCHANGE Letter

General likes:

• Canon divergences – characters making different decisions at critical points, small changes butterflying to bigger ones, people reacting to slightly changed circumstances, characters meeting earlier or differently.
• Time Travel – all kinds! Time Loops, Groundhog day, Peggy Sue, physical time travel, accidental or purposeful.
• Fix its – any kind of story that leads to characters being better off or happier (or more alive) than unfortunate canon events left them. Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies AU’s.
• Arranged marriage / marriage of convenience tropes, matchmaking services, political alliances.
• Mission fic/Casefic is great but so are Slice of Life fics and Outside POVs (the more bewildered and misunderstanding the better). Hurt/comfort is great, Canadian Shack/hypothermia/huddling’n’cuddling for warmth fic is great, secret identity tropes are great, found family and team-as-family tropes are excellent. Characters having positive and supportive (and snarky) friendships is amazing.

Shipping: my shipping bar is so low. I’m happy to read subtext into anything – if I’ve prompted a / relationship, I’ll read it that way, even if nothing overtly shippy happens. And, honestly, I would also be happy with a & reading (in a lot of places, I have both / and &); I just want characters to interact, or think about it other, or exist relative to each other!

DNW: Non-con (including rape roleplay and rape kink), poly/threesomes, permanent character death of requested characters, tragic endings,

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

• Liǔ Qīnggē/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS)
• Shàng Qīnghuá/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū (SVSSS)

• Ghost Marriage
• Character A Marries Character B's Ghost To Resurrect Them

Ghost Marriage

In Chinese tradition, a ghost marriage is a marriage in which one or both parties are deceased.

Given that SQQ spends several years of canon deceased, this was too tempting to pass up. Since they’re unable to retrieve his body, does Cang Qiong Mountain decide to try safeguard his spirit instead? Tie it to the sect again and ensure LBH can’t get at it? Some other reason?

Does it help or hinder SQQ’s Sun and Moon Dew Flower Seed body growth? What’s his opinion when he wakes up to find what’s taken place? Was he actually a ghost during it?

Or is there actually a cultivational resurrection ritual involving marrying ghosts? Does SQH remember a deleted scene? Does it need family/sect leader/someone to speak on behalf of the dead? Did SQQ know and plan it as an alternative to the Flower Seed Body?

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

• Jiang Yanli/Nie Huaisang (The Untamed)
• Jiang Yanli/Nie Mingjue (The Untamed)

• Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
• Marriage Arranged By Professional Matchmaker
• Marriage As A Business Transaction
• Marriage As Political Tool
• Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Also Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married

I’d be interested in a feelings-based relationship or something feelings-free but pragmatic (either leading to feelings or not) for both of these pairings. Both Yanli and Huaisang are non-combat types, who prefer to avoid conflict (while worrying about those that do fight) and I think they would have a lot in common. Yanli and Mingjue are far more opposites, but respect the type of person that the other is.

During the Sunshot Campaign, Yanli and Jin Zixuan have broken their engagement and not yet repaired their relationship, and Yanli is stationed in Qinghe (at least when Wei Wuxian returns), which feels like the ideal sort of time to broach any ‘political marriage to gain allies to restore Yunmeng Jiang Sect’ ideas. Or for people to be around each other enough to develop feelings.

Or bonus time travel where people try to change the future but wind up engaged somehow. I’d be happy for any of the three to be the time traveller, given that they all have interestingly different pieces of knowledge and perspectives and potential ambitions to change things.

Log Horizon

• Shiroe & Rayneshia El-Arte Corwen (Log Horizon)
• Shiroe/Rayneshia El-Arte Corwen (Log Horizon)

• Getting Married To Avoid A Diplomatic Incident
• Marriage As Political Tool
• Marriage for propaganda purposes
• Arranged Marriage Is Intended To Bring Understanding Between Two Species

Marriage as a solution to the Person of the Land – Adventurer schism! How does that complicate the politics of the situation? Most likely the first Lander-Adventurer marriage? What do Shiroe and Rayneshia think of that, personally? Are there any game mechanics that result from it? Does it actually work to resolve the situation and align the Landers and Adventurers?

• Henrietta & Marielle (Log Horizon)
• Henrietta/Marielle (Log Horizon)

• Fake/Joke Online Marriage Unexpectedly Becomes Real

MMORPG marriage ceremonies are a time honoured tradition (and proposing in chat to show agreement!) and seems like something that the Crescent Moon Alliance would probably have done! You can have feasts! Outfits! Dancing!

And when the Catastrophe happens, how does that translate into the new game world? Are there statuses between married couples? Some kind of connection? Shared inventory? Who else winds up married (actual real life couples? Friends who stay platonic? A tangled web of an entire guild who just really liked weddings?)? Do people keep holding them after the Catastrophe?

DNW exception: Poly — if every fake/joke marriage is accepted, I can see that leading to tangled webs of multiple marriages. That's perfectly okay and something I'd be interested in hearing about.

Art is welcome even if not specifically prompted!