I know you don't do HCs but I like your theories so I wondered if you had any ideas what their weddings might be like 👀
anon i am so sorry because I kept forgetting about this in the drafts
planning fictional weddings may be one of my favorite things to do ever. Everyone else under the cut. This is arranged by who I had ideas for first. Lengths and details may vary.
Shae
You and Shae avoid getting married the whole time somehow, despite doing married people things your entire relationship. And then it's tax time and you realize it would be way more convenient to do these if you were married. Now you're married.
OK, tax joke aside, one night after a long time of marriage-esque domesticity, you just wake up bolt upright and ask, "Should we get married?"
Shae's still a little sleepy so they just grumpily tell you to ask again in the morning. They wrestle you back into a cuddle position. You are soft putty and cannot win.
Before you can wake up and ask again, Shae is up first and beats you to it. You should have proposed first!
You send out invitations—not a lot, just the people who matter. Shae's family, the friends you've made, small group only. You specifically tell everyone that it's because you're getting married in a few days, but everyone still brings food to the outpost like it's some kind of potluck.
The ceremony takes place three days later in the garden. Under the trellis, where some berry plants are tied to prevent them from falling over. It smells like it's about to rain, and you have to act fast.
It starts as a light drizzle that becomes a whole shower just in time for the final kiss. Everybody rushes inside before the rain gets any worse, but all in all, it was a great day.
Maeve
You and Maeve do get engaged and all, but in the spirit of her U-Haul Lesbian vibes (...U-Haul Bisexual?), one weekend in the heat of wedding planning, you spirit away and just elope.
It's a private affair with just you and the crows (ravens?) as your only guests. You come back to the capital two days later and dive back into the wedding planning whirlwind.
You still go through with the public wedding, but now it's more fun for you both. A lil wink to each other as you repeat your wedding vows. No one else gets the joke.
No one will ever know the wedding was just for show, except maybe three people (Flannán included?) and this knowledge will stay secret until at least your 10th wedding anniversary.
Robin
Robin canonically cannot got to a church, so you have a destination wedding instead.
First stop, the trash heap. You have to pick out your wedding rings. There's a lot to choose from.
Next stop, wherever the hell you want. It doesn't matter, they can take you there.
If you can't decide immediately, Robin will cycle between a few places, including but not limited to: Shae's outpost, the forests of Murias, literally right at the Seelie-Unseelie border, the throne room at the People's Castle, and the hoard he calls home.
What follows next may be romantically stupid or stupidly romantic, depending on which end you are so inclined. You exchange vows at the location of your choice.
Part of me wants to say Robin splits their wedding vows into sentences and each one is said in a different location, but I don't know how great teleportation is for either party.
Robin is as Robin does, the last line they say is "We're married now, buck-o."
Seems legit enough. Now let's go pick the honeymoon location.
Flannán
Married and engaged in the same day.
You wake up one morning to see Flannán trying to fit a ring over your finger, and he tries to make you go back to sleep and pretend like nothing happened, but eventually relents and proposes.
As soon as you step out of the bedroom, you find people rushing around the castle covering every inch of it with winter blossoms. Flannán looks as surprised as you.
He flags someone down to say that the proposal is off. He's bright red as he explains that he already proposed to you on accident.
Turns out this isn't for the proposal.
Apparently, no one trusts you or Flannán to plan your own wedding in a timely or easy manner. You are now getting married.
Talk about overwhelming. You just got engaged less than an hour ago. To be fair, it doesn't matter how you got married. Just that you finally do.
Also Flannán's dogs are chewing on the decorations the whole time. If this were a wedding with a photographer, they would feature in every single shot.
Not because the photographer was too focused on the dogs (valid but not the case). It's because they want to be included in everything.
Aífe
OBVIOUSLY a massive ceremony. All of the Seelie court is invited. I'm torn between having it in the palace gardens or the throne room. Both seem like great ideas.
Aífe's wedding will be loaded with outfit changes like nobody's business. She has at least ten gowns for herself, and then ten outfits for you so you match with her every single time.
The ceremony would be simple if not for the break taken for every outfit change. Aífe made all these dresses, she MUST get to use them.
Outfit changes extend to the reception, too.
Aífe sings you a lovely ballad and you just have to stand there and take it and how in love you are with her. And you need to let her finish the song or else she'll be very cross with you, and that's no way to start your marriage.
Unless, of course... you would like to sing with her? She does love it when you duet.
The wedding reception is truly equal parts reception and equal parts recital. People (mainly Aífe) showing off their talents and having fun, celebrating.
Keagan
Full disclosure, it is impossible for me to think of Keagan wedding HCs without thinking of my Arranged Marriage AU at the same time. And that's a very different wedding than what I imagine Keagan would normally have. Probably still similar enough though.
Sorry for talking about the Arranged Marriage AU (not sorry actually :P)
Anyway, garden wedding for sure. Aífe wouldn't say no to lending the royal gardens for her dearest friends' wedding.
It may also be next to one of those super cool waterfalls in the royal gardens but I have my personal reasons for wanting that.
It's a bad idea though because waterfalls are Loud, so maybe we'll keep it to that nice gazebo by the water.
There have been spring showers every day leading up to the wedding so the two of you are rightly worried about wedding plans, but when the day comes, it's nice and sunny.
It's actually too nice and sunny.
If you turn around at any point during the ceremony, you'll see people holding up things over their faces so that the glare from the sun isn't bothering them.
There's a tiny part of you that's actually upset that it didn't rain because you two planned this whole affair around the idea that it would be raining, and now it's not.
The wedding goes off without a hitch. Not a single dry eye when Keagan is done with his vows, made worse when it's your turn.
The reception is not much different from Aífe's (though significantly less of a talent show).
I imagine it's a bit more of a game. You and Keagan can be playful that way.
From the audience, all that can be seen is Keagan turning to you and whispering something in your ear that makes you smile.
From where you're sitting, he is trying to get you to break so you two can leave the reception early.
What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.
Happy (belated) Beltane! I drew my The Good People/Na Daoine Maithe MC, Moninne "Ninna" McGill, celebrating last Beltane before the crops started failing & she had to cut off & sell her hair to help support her family. Normally her younger sister, Eileen, is considered the prettiest of the McGill family's daughters. However Ninna turned quite a few heads that year wearing her Mam's hand-me down Easter dress & a flower crown in her hair. After seeing Ninna's face flushed from dancing around the bonfire while framed by loose dark curls, many a young man had their hearts broken when Ninna had to turn down their proposals, since she was planning to become a nun.
Why do you have characters in a romance game that don’t feel romance, that defeats the whole purpose of a romance game. Why would I want to love someone that I know doesn’t actually feel love??
Good evening to all (excluding the attention-seeker in our inbox),
Over the past day or so, we've received a number of asks on the subject of Robin and Keagan (but mostly Keagan's) aromanticism. As you can see, some of these asks may be good-faith inquiries about the differences between the romantic and platonic routes for these particular characters. Others are very obvious attempts to make us walk back Keagan's demiromantic identity (which will not happen), or are otherwise just trying to give us grief for including arospec characters to begin with. We suspect, given the *timing and repetitive phrasing of the asks, that these are all coming from one person, but since the asks are anonymous, we cannot confirm this. Nevertheless, we have decided to share them with our followers, because going forward, we are going to be increasingly selective with the variety of asks that we respond to in order to limit possible "discourse bait," i.e. questions designed to argue with us rather than allow us to explain our thought process or artistic goals. Inevitably, this may mean that well-meaning but tonally ambiguous questions are not answered out of an abundance of caution, which could prompt genuinely good-faith askers to assume we're avoiding tough questions. This is not our goal, but ultimately, this is not a discourse blog. We're independent artists creating a story that we want to tell, first and foremost. If a decision we make ultimately results in you not wanting to support our game, then you are free to take your leave.
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Wait so theirs some characters you can’t have a true romantic relationship with?
Keagan and Robin, our arospec characters with routes, can be romanced. Their expression of aromanticism doesn't preclude them from romance entirely, but their identities will impact how their in-game romances unfold. All this means is achieving a romantic ending in those routes will play out a little differently, both narratively and mechanically.
anon what do you even mean by "TRUE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP". there isn't even a one size fits all definition to romance and romantic expression, it varies from person to person, culture to culture. open your mind to what the aromantic spectrum can be because otherwise you're closing yourself of to new dimensions of personal connection simply because it doesn't fit what you consider to be *romantic*
there is no objective TRUE romantic relationship. break yourself out of the box of cultural and standard definitions and meet people specifically where they are. this ask reeks of someone who doesn't understand what aromantic even means
Everyone reblogging this with some variation of “if you don’t do it, I will”, consider: we can all do this. There are not a finite number of silly embroidered tunics in this world. I only ask that you send me pics if you do :P
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I live in an area with some of the most statistically volatile weather on earth:
Depending on how specific you need to be, there are between two and seventy-six seasons. maybe more.
seasons are defined by the beginning of the phenomenon. Winter begins when we have winter weather. Ice fishing season begins when the ice is thick enough.
Nothing defines the occurrence of natural phenomena, least of all our pathetic attempts at timekeeping.
Spring is clear, unpredictable, and abrupt. It's never certain when it's going to happen, but when it happens, it's like a switch flipping. You can smell it. It doesn't have anything to do with temperature, it has to do with the trees and plants waking up.
Summer is when the spring storms and rains are over and the sky is like metal, and the cicadas are singing in the day and the katydids are singing at night.
Winter is whenever my seasonal depression kicks in.
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just over a decade ago, i was a student at a big state university and i worked at a computer lab on campus. and people would leave flash drives there every fuckin day we're talkin like dozens of flash drives a week. and what's really wild to me is that they generally would NEVER come back and ask for their flash drive. like, maybe 1 in a 100 came to the desk and asked for their flash drive back so we'd just have boxes and boxes of flash drives. hundreds of them. and let me tell you, people would leave all sorts of crazy shit on those (it was my job to check). mostly homework of course but also, like, entire music and movie collections, games, personal photos, extremely personal photos, and, like, tax documents. do u know how many times i found a flash drive with someone's complete tax return and academic record on it? with like their social security number and everything? it's a good thing i'm not into identity theft because working there was easy mode. anyway about once a month i'd wipe all the drives less than 256MB in size, load em up with furry porn, and leave them around parties like easter eggs
