#aroace eloise

[shirpowbra]

I don't care what the rumors say about her season, she will always be aroace in my eyes

[ponochino]

my pitch for Eloise's season (assuming we must take inspiration from the book and end with her being married... although I'd be more than happy to scrap both of those requirements... but presuming the show won't, this is my hope):

Eloise is aroace. She is lonely, as everyone she cares about is getting married. She is no longer anyone's "person" anymore, because they all found a new person through marriage. In her despair, she wonders if romantic love really is the inevitable cure for loneliness.

But lo and behold. Enter Philip Crane... also aroace. He never wanted to get married, but after his brother got Maria pregnant and died, he had to.

The specifics of how they meet and bond (over books probably) can be determined. But they navigate a friendship and the mounting pressure to marry, while simultaneously feeling bad that they don't have the "correct" feelings for each other.

Philip still can have an arc regarding his abusive dad and learning to be a father. Eloise tries to support him in that, but while she loves the kids, she's not super maternally so she ends up helping him by helping with his work/paper work/office tasks/running business so he can spend more time with his children and actually connect.

They realize eventually they like their arrangement, that they do love each other, but not as others claim. In order to make their lives easier, they do marry, in a very private ceremony. And then continue with their arrangement.

Neither are lonely. Eloise gets to be involved with intellectual pursuits and business. Philip is the primary caretaker of his children, although Eloise does love them too.

Obviously, there'd be more drama, higher stakes, the queen probably gets involved somehow, but that's the gist of what I want.

TLDR: Eloise and Philip are both aroace and have a queerplatonic marriage.

[pinkxpxnda]

eloise is literally me btw