Just Married 2023
Jun. 17th, 2023 10:55 pmDear creator,
Thank you for creating something for me for this exchange! I'm excited to see what you come up with and I hope you have fun doing it. Prompts are here if you'd like them, but if there's another idea inspired by the selected tags that grabs you I'd be happy to see it! Please also don't take me writing more or less for one prompt or another as a sign of what I'd prefer; I had to narrow down the tag options to only my very favorites for each request, so please take that as a sign that I'd love anything you'd come up for any of them.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.
General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding; also includes exploring in-universe wedding customs)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents and IF/Choose Your Own Adventure
Canon divergence
Outsider POV
Dramatic irony
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side
Five + one things structure
General DNWs:
Character bashing
Infidelity in requested ships
Canon-divergent death of requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Explicitly stated sexuality labels for characters whose sexuality is not canonically defined
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine, as are references to canonical rape/noncon)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples are fine, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
Please keep the violence level at about what it is in canon.
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Ship: Demetrius/Helena/Hermia/Lysander
Tag List:
Magic - Artifact or Spell Accidentally Causes Marriage
Magic - Curse Broken by Marriage
Magic - Marriage Causes Unexpected Magical Effects
Magic - Marriage Is Magically Binding Even When One Party Was Pretending To Be Someone Else
Magic - Marriage Returns Lost Memories
Magic - Marriage Within a Dream Suddenly Becomes Real
Magic - Premonitions of Marriage
Magic - Spell Gone Wrong Results in Marriage
Marital Sex - Enjoying Watching Spouse Being Fucked By A Third Party
Poly Marriage - Figuring Out New Routine/Moving Into Each Others Space
Ritualistic Marriage - Mistakenly Believe Ritual Marriage Isn't Legally Binding
Ritualistic Marriage - Wedding Requires An Orgy
Soul Bond - Dream Proposal's Acceptance turns to Soul Bond on Waking
Soul Bond - Prophetic Dreams Of Marrying Poly Soulmates
Supernatural - Eldritch Marriage Ritual
Wedding - Forest Wedding
Wedding Ceremony - Presided Over by Woodland Fairies in a Fantastic Setting
Wedding Night - Discovering New Spouse Has Unexpected Kinks
Wedding Night - Expectations for Wedding Night Proven Very Wrong
Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
More Info
About Demetrius/Helena/Hermia/Lysander: This is such an intriguing ship to me. None of them do anything by halves, and the way all their personalities and passions (real and illusory) connect and collide with each other over the course of the play makes them so great to watch. When they come out of the fairy world with everything they now think they want, they also still have to work through their feelings on what's real and false about their new lives (and how much exact ratio of reality to make-believe really matters to them in the end - I think the answer would very much vary among the four of them). And of course, the fairy magic opens the door to a lot of mindbendy fun.
Prompts
- Magic can help them lose their inhibitions and show each other their vulnerability; it could make them come together and find to a new understanding of each other as they try to either keep the magic going or undo it.
- Speaking of the fairies, what could happen if they didn't end up letting the lovers go free in the morning and instead kept them at their court? Now they've found themselves bound together, because of the fairies' whims or because they want to stay together as the only humans in a wild and unpredictable fairy court.
- Once they've come out of the woods and returned to Athens (either as an official group marriage or as two separate couples in the eyes of the law but all together all the same), how would they look back on their time in the woods as a group and make a new life together going forward?
Ships: Catelyn Tully Stark/Ned Stark
Tag List
Arranged Marriage - Love Deepens After Rocky Start
Arranged Marriage - Meet at the Wedding; Have Awkward But Satisfying Wedding Night Sex
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Established Marriage - Falling Deeply In Like With Spouse
Established Marriage - Expectant Couple Prepares for Baby
Established Marriage - Happy and Domestic
Established Marriage - Old Married Couple
Established Marriage - Pining for Spouse
Established Marriage - Participating in Spouse’s Religious Holidays
Established Marriage - Slice Of Married Life During Wartime
Established Marriage - Spoiling and Taking Care of Pregnant Spouse
Historical - Marriage to Symbolize Peace After a War
Historical - Writing Letters to Spouse During a War
Marital Sex - Mutually Inexperienced Spouses Discover Kinks Together
Political Marriage - Strengths Balance Each Other Unexpectedly Well
Political Marriage - To Secure an Alliance
Wedding - Blended Traditions
Wedding Ceremony - While It’s Snowing
Wedding Planning - Discussing How to Handle/Blend Spouses’ Different Traditions
Widowed - Obligated to Marry Sibling's Widow(er)
More Info
About Cat/Ned: I love the canon story of them building a life together and slowly falling in love. Neither of them expected to marry the other and their marriage got off to a rocky start, to say the least, but through a combination of natural compatibility and working to understand each other, they created one of the strongest marriages in the canon and became the loves of each other's lives. The chapter in AGOT where they're pulling each other close all the time during their meeting in King's Landing demonstrates just how much comfort they find in each other, and they both spend a lot of their page time just wanting to be back home and back together.
Prompts
- (Ned/Cat) Most of the freeforms work well to describe Ned and Cat's marriage prior to AGOT, and I'd love to see takes on their early married life as they get to know each other and learn to trust and depend on each other. This includes things like early awkward conversations and even more awkward sex in Riverrun, slice-of-life in Winterfell, learning to make the sex less awkward and eventually actually good, raising their children or discovering a pregnancy, and exchanging letters during Robert's Rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion. (A note on Jon: Jon's presence in Winterfell is obviously a major part of the development of Ned and Cat's marriage - handle it as much or as little as you'd like, I just ask you to be as fair as possible to each of the characters involved and to have Jon as the result of R+L=J as per my infidelity DNW).
- (Ned/Cat) I would also be interested in seeing Ned and Cat in a canon-divergence AU but still marrying for political reasons - maybe Edmure is a girl and Cat is heiress to Riverrun marrying second son Ned, or this is a world where Brandon and Catelyn manage to get married and have a child before his death and Ned marries his brother's widow to help secure Brandon's child's rulership of Winterfell.
- (Ned/Cat) Their marriage was both interfaith and intercultural, which is relatively rare in Westeros. Did they change the ceremony or have another ceremony (possibly an unofficial one) to accommodate each other's faiths? How do they understand each other's religious and cultural traditions during their marriage? (Ned had a sept built at Winterfell for Cat, Cat is generally more inclined to believe in supernatural signs from the old gods than even Ned is, and the children learn both faiths without any apparent attempt to pressure them, which suggests some degree of mutual understanding). Any worldbuilding on religious and cultural traditions of the old gods and the Seven would also be great, as well as delving into how the spouses handle the cultural differences and culture shock between the North/the Riverlands.
Ships:Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Han Solo, Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Tag List
Accidental Marriage - Included Unwitting Third Party in Marriage Accidentally
Accidental Marriage - Woke Up Married After A Drunk Night
Accidental Marriage - Fake Marriage Unknowingly Hits All Cultural Wedding Rites of Current Location
Elopement - Getting Married on a Whim
Established Marriage - Couple Practically Married to Best Friend
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse from Danger
Fake Marriage - As Part Of A Con
Fake Marriage - Getting Married During the Mission to Not Break their Cover but Then They Catch Feelings
Fake Marriage - Made Legally Binding by Helpful Third Party
Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
Marriage Laws - Marrying In A Different Culture To Get Around The Laws Of Your Own
Marriage of Convenience - To Extend Legal Rights/Protections To Partner
Marriage of Convenience - We Have to Get Married Before (Bad Thing) Happens
Poly Marriage - Figuring Out New Routine/Moving Into Each Others Space
Poly Marriage - Officially Coupled in Public but Privately Poly Married
Poly Marriage - Sedoretu AU
Vow Renewal Ceremony - Renewing Vows For "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Peace/Safety
Wedding - Drunken Marriage
Wedding Ceremony - Improvised and Unofficial
Wedding Ceremony - On Battlefield and/or During Combat
More Info
About these ships:I love how much they're all willing to risk to help/save the others (even when there seems to be a betrayal, they always come back and do whatever they can to make things right), and it makes for sound camaraderie that makes their adventures so fun to watch. The frequent snarking and the tendency to improvise foolhardy plans for (mostly) good causes is a bonus!
I'm familiar with various aspects of both the Disney canon universe and the Legends universe, supplemented by spending way too much of my free time on Wookiepedia. Feel free to draw on whatever version of canon you want and to mix them together if it makes sense for what you're creating! (In the case of Han and Leia's canonical marriage, take as much or as little information about their canon!wedding and its timeline in either canon as you want here, including inventing something new. If you'd prefer to write something more Legends-leaning, I'm also very happy to have Mara Jade in the mix - with Luke, with Lando, as part of a big polyamorous web or sedoretu with any and all of my requested characters, whatever you want). Don't worry about what I might or might not have seen/read; I like going down wiki rabbit holes and I don't care about spoilers. Finally, if you're including Leia and Luke in the same relationship, I'm good with incest but I'm also good with V-type relationships if that makes you more comfortable.
Prompts
- A spur-of-the-moment marriage just seems to fit so well for these characters. They're all a bit reckless and maybe a bit drunk, but they also trust each other more than anything, and I really love the idea of them finding this joyful moment of union that they may not have planned out but 100% don't regret. Spur-of-the-moment proposals fit well here too - sure, they may both/all be thinking "what the hell?" at first, but after a bit of consideration...
- I also like the idea of these characters having an improvised unofficial wedding in the middle of something dangerous, along the lines of Will and Elizabeth's wedding in Pirates of the Caribbean. Maybe Luke or Lando is the hastily designated officiant (if they aren't also the ones getting married - or even if they are)? And if they go with this option, it could also be fun to see them having a larger, more official ceremony later once they're out of the life-or-death situation, confirming to each other and the galaxy that this is what they want.
- Fake marriage/marriage of convenience while on a mission, con, or smuggling run. It'd be easier to negotiate with this planet or culture if they pose as a married group, or they're undercover for the sake of a con or a mission, or they need to extend legal protections to one another quickly and a marriage is the most efficient way to do it (given everything they get up to, I could easily believe any of them getting involved in a jam where they need a legal reason not to testify against each other or to shield someone against legal repercussions in a hurry).
- Accidental marriage while on a mission, con, or smuggling run. Similar to above, but more concerned with the fallout of getting married without intending it to mean anything. Maybe Han and Lando thought that wedding way back when didn't really count until Han is planning the wedding with Leia and they realize it'd be easier to add Leia to their marriage than go through the tax headache of a divorce, or maybe these three or four are on a mission to the GFFA's equivalent of Gretna Green or Las Vegas and don't recognize that whatever they just did counts as a legal marriage, or they have an encounter with an alien culture with very different ideas of what constitutes a legal union (something seemingly innocuous is a marriage ceremony to these aliens? a mistranslation makes them legally record three people in a marriage instead of two? they consider twins to be the same person and Han is very confused why he now has a husband and a wife? lots of options).
Ship: Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker
Tag List:
Accidental Marriage- Fake Marriage Unknowing Hits All Cultural Wedding Rites of Current Location
Accidental Marriage - Woke Up Married After A Drunk Night
Elopement - Celebrate Victory with Spontaneous Act of Marriage
Elopement - Getting Married on a Whim
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse From Danger
Fake Marriage - Get Married During The Mission To Not Break Their Cover But Then They Catch Feelings
Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
Forced Marriage - Bad Guys Made Them Get Married
Marriage - Living Together Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
Marriage of Convenience - To Extend Legal Rights/Protections To Partner
Marriage of Convenience - We Have to Get Married Before (Bad Thing) Happens
Proposal - Joke proposal becomes mutual running joke until whoops - we mean it
Proposal - Trying to casually propose like it’s no big deal
Science Fiction - Accidentally Married by Alien Cultural Ritual
Science Fiction - Truth Serum Results in Accidental Proposal
Soul Bond - Marriage To Stay Undercover Unexpectedly Results In Soul Bond
Soul Bond - Spouses Psychically Share Each Other’s Pain
Vow Renewal - After Falling in Love after Marrying for Convenience/Accidentally
Vow Renewal Ceremony - Renewing Vows For "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Peace/Safety
Wedding Ceremony - On Battlefield and/or During Combat
More Info
About Mara/Luke: I love Mara's prickliness and deep-down loyalty and I love Luke's determination and heart. I really enjoy how well they work as a team to solve obstacles in their way, even at the beginning when they had zero reason to like or trust each other, and I like the snarkiness which becomes another way they challenge each other. They just seem to click!
I'm familiar with various aspects of the Legends universe, supplemented by spending way too much of my free time on Wookiepedia. If you want to make up new things for your fic or to include non-Legends-contradictory elements from the new canon, I'm fine with that too! Don't worry about what I might or might not have seen/read; I like going down wiki rabbit holes and I don't care about spoilers. And if you'd like to include background relationships (canon relationships, Han/Lando, Han/Leia/Lando), I'd be very happy to see them.
Prompts
- So many of the big moments of their relationship are in the middle of danger, and getting married spontaneously while still on an adrenaline high just really works for them. And I love them the idea of them reflecting on what they've gone through together after everything has cooled off and then choosing each other again with a vow renewal, too.
- Luke and Mara pretending to be married for any number of Very Good Reasons is both awesome and hilarious to me, as is them being obligated to be married for any of those same Very Good Reasons. I'm here for all the tropeyness, from trying to pull off the act with varying degrees of acting abilities (and snarking at each other throughout), to a moment of "are you kidding me" if/when they find out the marriage ended up being legally binding, to promising it definitely won't really matter and having that promise fade more and more into the background the more time they spend together...basically, all kinds of forced proximity turned welcome proximity while slowly opening up to each other and dealing with all these messy inconvenient feelings.
- I'm very interested in them being able to connect through the Force, in all kinds of different points in their relationship - when they still see each other as a danger but maybe grudgingly find a bond useful, after they've started up a friendship and start growing closer, after they've gotten together and are navigating a relationship as partners. How do they handle that intense vulnerability?
Thank you for creating something for me for this exchange! I'm excited to see what you come up with and I hope you have fun doing it. Prompts are here if you'd like them, but if there's another idea inspired by the selected tags that grabs you I'd be happy to see it! Please also don't take me writing more or less for one prompt or another as a sign of what I'd prefer; I had to narrow down the tag options to only my very favorites for each request, so please take that as a sign that I'd love anything you'd come up for any of them.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.
General Likes and DNWs
General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding; also includes exploring in-universe wedding customs)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents and IF/Choose Your Own Adventure
Canon divergence
Outsider POV
Dramatic irony
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side
Five + one things structure
General DNWs:
Character bashing
Infidelity in requested ships
Canon-divergent death of requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Explicitly stated sexuality labels for characters whose sexuality is not canonically defined
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine, as are references to canonical rape/noncon)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples are fine, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
Please keep the violence level at about what it is in canon.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ship: Demetrius/Helena/Hermia/Lysander
Tag List:
Magic - Artifact or Spell Accidentally Causes Marriage
Magic - Curse Broken by Marriage
Magic - Marriage Causes Unexpected Magical Effects
Magic - Marriage Is Magically Binding Even When One Party Was Pretending To Be Someone Else
Magic - Marriage Returns Lost Memories
Magic - Marriage Within a Dream Suddenly Becomes Real
Magic - Premonitions of Marriage
Magic - Spell Gone Wrong Results in Marriage
Marital Sex - Enjoying Watching Spouse Being Fucked By A Third Party
Poly Marriage - Figuring Out New Routine/Moving Into Each Others Space
Ritualistic Marriage - Mistakenly Believe Ritual Marriage Isn't Legally Binding
Ritualistic Marriage - Wedding Requires An Orgy
Soul Bond - Dream Proposal's Acceptance turns to Soul Bond on Waking
Soul Bond - Prophetic Dreams Of Marrying Poly Soulmates
Supernatural - Eldritch Marriage Ritual
Wedding - Forest Wedding
Wedding Ceremony - Presided Over by Woodland Fairies in a Fantastic Setting
Wedding Night - Discovering New Spouse Has Unexpected Kinks
Wedding Night - Expectations for Wedding Night Proven Very Wrong
Wedding Night - Sexual Exploration
More Info
About Demetrius/Helena/Hermia/Lysander: This is such an intriguing ship to me. None of them do anything by halves, and the way all their personalities and passions (real and illusory) connect and collide with each other over the course of the play makes them so great to watch. When they come out of the fairy world with everything they now think they want, they also still have to work through their feelings on what's real and false about their new lives (and how much exact ratio of reality to make-believe really matters to them in the end - I think the answer would very much vary among the four of them). And of course, the fairy magic opens the door to a lot of mindbendy fun.
Prompts
- Magic can help them lose their inhibitions and show each other their vulnerability; it could make them come together and find to a new understanding of each other as they try to either keep the magic going or undo it.
- Speaking of the fairies, what could happen if they didn't end up letting the lovers go free in the morning and instead kept them at their court? Now they've found themselves bound together, because of the fairies' whims or because they want to stay together as the only humans in a wild and unpredictable fairy court.
- Once they've come out of the woods and returned to Athens (either as an official group marriage or as two separate couples in the eyes of the law but all together all the same), how would they look back on their time in the woods as a group and make a new life together going forward?
A Song of Ice and Fire
Ships: Catelyn Tully Stark/Ned Stark
Tag List
Arranged Marriage - Love Deepens After Rocky Start
Arranged Marriage - Meet at the Wedding; Have Awkward But Satisfying Wedding Night Sex
Arranged Marriage - Slowly Falling in Love with Spouse
Established Marriage - Falling Deeply In Like With Spouse
Established Marriage - Expectant Couple Prepares for Baby
Established Marriage - Happy and Domestic
Established Marriage - Old Married Couple
Established Marriage - Pining for Spouse
Established Marriage - Participating in Spouse’s Religious Holidays
Established Marriage - Slice Of Married Life During Wartime
Established Marriage - Spoiling and Taking Care of Pregnant Spouse
Historical - Marriage to Symbolize Peace After a War
Historical - Writing Letters to Spouse During a War
Marital Sex - Mutually Inexperienced Spouses Discover Kinks Together
Political Marriage - Strengths Balance Each Other Unexpectedly Well
Political Marriage - To Secure an Alliance
Wedding - Blended Traditions
Wedding Ceremony - While It’s Snowing
Wedding Planning - Discussing How to Handle/Blend Spouses’ Different Traditions
Widowed - Obligated to Marry Sibling's Widow(er)
More Info
About Cat/Ned: I love the canon story of them building a life together and slowly falling in love. Neither of them expected to marry the other and their marriage got off to a rocky start, to say the least, but through a combination of natural compatibility and working to understand each other, they created one of the strongest marriages in the canon and became the loves of each other's lives. The chapter in AGOT where they're pulling each other close all the time during their meeting in King's Landing demonstrates just how much comfort they find in each other, and they both spend a lot of their page time just wanting to be back home and back together.
Prompts
- (Ned/Cat) Most of the freeforms work well to describe Ned and Cat's marriage prior to AGOT, and I'd love to see takes on their early married life as they get to know each other and learn to trust and depend on each other. This includes things like early awkward conversations and even more awkward sex in Riverrun, slice-of-life in Winterfell, learning to make the sex less awkward and eventually actually good, raising their children or discovering a pregnancy, and exchanging letters during Robert's Rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion. (A note on Jon: Jon's presence in Winterfell is obviously a major part of the development of Ned and Cat's marriage - handle it as much or as little as you'd like, I just ask you to be as fair as possible to each of the characters involved and to have Jon as the result of R+L=J as per my infidelity DNW).
- (Ned/Cat) I would also be interested in seeing Ned and Cat in a canon-divergence AU but still marrying for political reasons - maybe Edmure is a girl and Cat is heiress to Riverrun marrying second son Ned, or this is a world where Brandon and Catelyn manage to get married and have a child before his death and Ned marries his brother's widow to help secure Brandon's child's rulership of Winterfell.
- (Ned/Cat) Their marriage was both interfaith and intercultural, which is relatively rare in Westeros. Did they change the ceremony or have another ceremony (possibly an unofficial one) to accommodate each other's faiths? How do they understand each other's religious and cultural traditions during their marriage? (Ned had a sept built at Winterfell for Cat, Cat is generally more inclined to believe in supernatural signs from the old gods than even Ned is, and the children learn both faiths without any apparent attempt to pressure them, which suggests some degree of mutual understanding). Any worldbuilding on religious and cultural traditions of the old gods and the Seven would also be great, as well as delving into how the spouses handle the cultural differences and culture shock between the North/the Riverlands.
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Ships:Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Han Solo, Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Lando Calrissian/Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Tag List
Accidental Marriage - Included Unwitting Third Party in Marriage Accidentally
Accidental Marriage - Woke Up Married After A Drunk Night
Accidental Marriage - Fake Marriage Unknowingly Hits All Cultural Wedding Rites of Current Location
Elopement - Getting Married on a Whim
Established Marriage - Couple Practically Married to Best Friend
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse from Danger
Fake Marriage - As Part Of A Con
Fake Marriage - Getting Married During the Mission to Not Break their Cover but Then They Catch Feelings
Fake Marriage - Made Legally Binding by Helpful Third Party
Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
Marriage Laws - Marrying In A Different Culture To Get Around The Laws Of Your Own
Marriage of Convenience - To Extend Legal Rights/Protections To Partner
Marriage of Convenience - We Have to Get Married Before (Bad Thing) Happens
Poly Marriage - Figuring Out New Routine/Moving Into Each Others Space
Poly Marriage - Officially Coupled in Public but Privately Poly Married
Poly Marriage - Sedoretu AU
Vow Renewal Ceremony - Renewing Vows For "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Peace/Safety
Wedding - Drunken Marriage
Wedding Ceremony - Improvised and Unofficial
Wedding Ceremony - On Battlefield and/or During Combat
More Info
About these ships:I love how much they're all willing to risk to help/save the others (even when there seems to be a betrayal, they always come back and do whatever they can to make things right), and it makes for sound camaraderie that makes their adventures so fun to watch. The frequent snarking and the tendency to improvise foolhardy plans for (mostly) good causes is a bonus!
I'm familiar with various aspects of both the Disney canon universe and the Legends universe, supplemented by spending way too much of my free time on Wookiepedia. Feel free to draw on whatever version of canon you want and to mix them together if it makes sense for what you're creating! (In the case of Han and Leia's canonical marriage, take as much or as little information about their canon!wedding and its timeline in either canon as you want here, including inventing something new. If you'd prefer to write something more Legends-leaning, I'm also very happy to have Mara Jade in the mix - with Luke, with Lando, as part of a big polyamorous web or sedoretu with any and all of my requested characters, whatever you want). Don't worry about what I might or might not have seen/read; I like going down wiki rabbit holes and I don't care about spoilers. Finally, if you're including Leia and Luke in the same relationship, I'm good with incest but I'm also good with V-type relationships if that makes you more comfortable.
Prompts
- A spur-of-the-moment marriage just seems to fit so well for these characters. They're all a bit reckless and maybe a bit drunk, but they also trust each other more than anything, and I really love the idea of them finding this joyful moment of union that they may not have planned out but 100% don't regret. Spur-of-the-moment proposals fit well here too - sure, they may both/all be thinking "what the hell?" at first, but after a bit of consideration...
- I also like the idea of these characters having an improvised unofficial wedding in the middle of something dangerous, along the lines of Will and Elizabeth's wedding in Pirates of the Caribbean. Maybe Luke or Lando is the hastily designated officiant (if they aren't also the ones getting married - or even if they are)? And if they go with this option, it could also be fun to see them having a larger, more official ceremony later once they're out of the life-or-death situation, confirming to each other and the galaxy that this is what they want.
- Fake marriage/marriage of convenience while on a mission, con, or smuggling run. It'd be easier to negotiate with this planet or culture if they pose as a married group, or they're undercover for the sake of a con or a mission, or they need to extend legal protections to one another quickly and a marriage is the most efficient way to do it (given everything they get up to, I could easily believe any of them getting involved in a jam where they need a legal reason not to testify against each other or to shield someone against legal repercussions in a hurry).
- Accidental marriage while on a mission, con, or smuggling run. Similar to above, but more concerned with the fallout of getting married without intending it to mean anything. Maybe Han and Lando thought that wedding way back when didn't really count until Han is planning the wedding with Leia and they realize it'd be easier to add Leia to their marriage than go through the tax headache of a divorce, or maybe these three or four are on a mission to the GFFA's equivalent of Gretna Green or Las Vegas and don't recognize that whatever they just did counts as a legal marriage, or they have an encounter with an alien culture with very different ideas of what constitutes a legal union (something seemingly innocuous is a marriage ceremony to these aliens? a mistranslation makes them legally record three people in a marriage instead of two? they consider twins to be the same person and Han is very confused why he now has a husband and a wife? lots of options).
Star Wars Legends
Ship: Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker
Tag List:
Accidental Marriage- Fake Marriage Unknowing Hits All Cultural Wedding Rites of Current Location
Accidental Marriage - Woke Up Married After A Drunk Night
Elopement - Celebrate Victory with Spontaneous Act of Marriage
Elopement - Getting Married on a Whim
Established Marriage - Rescuing One's Spouse From Danger
Fake Marriage - Get Married During The Mission To Not Break Their Cover But Then They Catch Feelings
Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
Forced Marriage - Bad Guys Made Them Get Married
Marriage - Living Together Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
Marriage of Convenience - To Extend Legal Rights/Protections To Partner
Marriage of Convenience - We Have to Get Married Before (Bad Thing) Happens
Proposal - Joke proposal becomes mutual running joke until whoops - we mean it
Proposal - Trying to casually propose like it’s no big deal
Science Fiction - Accidentally Married by Alien Cultural Ritual
Science Fiction - Truth Serum Results in Accidental Proposal
Soul Bond - Marriage To Stay Undercover Unexpectedly Results In Soul Bond
Soul Bond - Spouses Psychically Share Each Other’s Pain
Vow Renewal - After Falling in Love after Marrying for Convenience/Accidentally
Vow Renewal Ceremony - Renewing Vows For "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Peace/Safety
Wedding Ceremony - On Battlefield and/or During Combat
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About Mara/Luke: I love Mara's prickliness and deep-down loyalty and I love Luke's determination and heart. I really enjoy how well they work as a team to solve obstacles in their way, even at the beginning when they had zero reason to like or trust each other, and I like the snarkiness which becomes another way they challenge each other. They just seem to click!
I'm familiar with various aspects of the Legends universe, supplemented by spending way too much of my free time on Wookiepedia. If you want to make up new things for your fic or to include non-Legends-contradictory elements from the new canon, I'm fine with that too! Don't worry about what I might or might not have seen/read; I like going down wiki rabbit holes and I don't care about spoilers. And if you'd like to include background relationships (canon relationships, Han/Lando, Han/Leia/Lando), I'd be very happy to see them.
Prompts
- So many of the big moments of their relationship are in the middle of danger, and getting married spontaneously while still on an adrenaline high just really works for them. And I love them the idea of them reflecting on what they've gone through together after everything has cooled off and then choosing each other again with a vow renewal, too.
- Luke and Mara pretending to be married for any number of Very Good Reasons is both awesome and hilarious to me, as is them being obligated to be married for any of those same Very Good Reasons. I'm here for all the tropeyness, from trying to pull off the act with varying degrees of acting abilities (and snarking at each other throughout), to a moment of "are you kidding me" if/when they find out the marriage ended up being legally binding, to promising it definitely won't really matter and having that promise fade more and more into the background the more time they spend together...basically, all kinds of forced proximity turned welcome proximity while slowly opening up to each other and dealing with all these messy inconvenient feelings.
- I'm very interested in them being able to connect through the Force, in all kinds of different points in their relationship - when they still see each other as a danger but maybe grudgingly find a bond useful, after they've started up a friendship and start growing closer, after they've gotten together and are navigating a relationship as partners. How do they handle that intense vulnerability?