#obcon

[writtenbygracewilliams]

No one asked but like,,,, I was writing about that queer sibling alliance in July 2024. I was truly ahead of my time. Ben and Fran forever 🩷 (and Eloise, they are the three musketeers forever and always)

[grace-williams-xo]

To all the people saying you can’t have infertility in the Franchaela version of the story and that’s what you care about, okay prove you’re not homophobic by reading my Franchaela fic with a prominent infertility plot line:

Considered on tumblr

Considered on ao3

(It’s primarily a chat fic but the heaviest infertility discussions are in the one chapter that is regular paragraphs, not chat)

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I hyperfocused a bit too hard, time to start posting a smau I first came up with *checks notes* less than 24 hours ago. Everything in this series will be tagged #obligated smau and all the parts are linked at the bottom of this post. If you prefer smau’s on Twitter the thread is here. The whole thing is also now posted on ao3 as well.

Master post

Obligated {franchela centric smau} part 1/60

Francesca was born into the royal family, she knows what all of the rules are. She just didn’t think they all applied quite the same to the fifth child in the line up.

Let’s meet the family! This is their website!

[might’ve tried a bit too hard on the accuracy, please don’t snitch me for copyright to the British royal family] [but I came up with that crest myself #graphic design is my passion]

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17 Part 18.1 Part 18.2 Part 19 Part 20 Part 21 Part 22 Part 23 Part 24 Part 25 Part 26 Part 27 Part 28 Part 29 Part 30 Part 31 Part 32 Part 33 Part 34 Part 35 Part 36 Part 37 Part 38 Part 39 Part 40 Part 41 Part 42 Part 43 Part 44 Part 45 Part 46 Part 47 Part 48 Part 49 Part 50 Part 51 Part 52 Part 53 Part 54 Part 55 Part 56 Part 57 Part 58 Part 59 Part 60

Family Tree & Timeline (includes spoilers, maybe read at the end)

–Grace Williams xo

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Saphne’s story

Obligated AU Master Post

After her A levels, Daphne stayed true to the idea in her family that life is a competition. They were the pinnacle of greatness, they always had to be winning. Getting a degree, like Anthony and Benedict had done, wouldn’t be enough. She enrolled in the military academy and became an airforce pilot. The military was expected of her brothers, but only ever optional for her and her sisters. She had to be the best, she had to show that she could do as much as her brothers, and she had to set an example for her sisters—not that any of them followed it. After her year at the academy, Daphne decided to spend two years in Wales volunteering as an emergency search and rescue pilot. It was the mental and physical challenge she needed, as well as the distance from her family she wanted. (Boarding school wasn’t enough).

In 2016, Daphne had an investiture and formally became The Princess Royal. She became a part time working Royal, balancing her duty with her career (then based in Norfolk) for a year, before transitioning to full time Royal duties in 2017.

Daphne and Simon met initially at Kate and Anthony’s wedding in the spring of 2018. It was at a time when Daphne was still trying to solidify her identity as a working royal, and Simon didn’t feel like he had an identity since leaving the military due to a debilitating shoulder injury after nearly a decade of service. Simon and Anthony had been close at uni, and drifted to casual friends in the eight years since, but got a little closer after Simon went to Anthony and Kate’s wedding. Daphne and Simon both feel like they properly met and got to know each other at a routine Buckingham palace garden party a few weeks later.

Simon was attending as a newly minted Duke, from his father’s recent death. Daphne had been titled as The Princess Royal for two years. Daphne was 22, almost 23, and Simon was 29. They hit it off and went on a few casual dates without giving anything much thought, and Anthony returned from his honeymoon to find them happily in a relationship. Anthony was unexplainably livid, but Kate told him to care less—and Violet said they were in love and Simon was a very good match.

A few months went by, the relationship unconfirmed publicly and mostly hidden from the media, and Daphne was pregnant in autumn. Violet carefully informed them that her first grandchild should not be without a title, and marriage should be “strongly considered.” Daphne and Simon didn’t oppose marriage, even if they felt rushed, and Violet insisted it wasn’t her fault and she wasn’t pressuring them—it was the “unfortunate rules of the circumstances.”

The engagement was announced nearly immediately. They had a shot gun wedding, a micro wedding at the Sandringham estate in the middle of winter, and Anthony was angry at Simon the whole time. He had Kate to keep him in line though, so he was resigned to accept it. Unfortunately for Anthony, he had to be the one to teach Simon about royal procedures and events. Daphne and Simon moved into Clarence House just after the wedding, Daphne previously living in an apartment at St James’ Palace with Colin.

There were rumours quietly swirling in some media about why the wedding was so rushed, but the family stuck to the royal mantra ‘never complain, never explain’. They delayed announcing the pregnancy as long as possible, which immediately fueled rumours again, and when Amelia was born perfectly healthy in August the rumours only got louder.

Daphne didn’t take much time off, back into full time work and engagements by Christmas. She loves being a mother, but she’s also hardworking and determined because she still sees everything as a responsibility and a competition.

Simon is a very engaged father, determined to break the cycle of emotional abuse perpetrated by his own father. He makes every effort for him and Daphne to not be working the same days, and he and Anthony bonded immensely as new fathers when Edmund was born six months after Amelia. Kate and Daphne just sit back and let their usually bickering husbands stress and dote over the babies.

Belinda was born a little over two years after Amelia, in late 2021. The inheritance laws changed mid 2024, allowing Amelia to inherit the Hastings title and hold a courtesy title in the meantime. Daphne had recently become pregnant with the baby that would be Caroline, and honest conversations between them about the kind of parents they wanted to be made them decide to stop at three. They also made the decision to revisit Clyvedon, the Hastings estate in the countryside not far from Windsor—a place they usually avoided because of the negative associations with Simon’s father.

They began visiting the countryside more, letting the girls run around outside the city as they got older, and welcomed Caroline Sarah Bassett in early 2025—Sarah having been Simon’s mother’s name.

They continue to live primarily at Clarence House in central London, both Simon and Daphne maintaining full time royal duties, but regularly escape to the countryside to enjoy Clyvedon on weekends and half term break.

Pets: none

Honeymoon: Swiss Alps

Typical date night: driving and talking for hours, maybe packing a picnic to eat on the side of the road, either looking at the scenery if it’s countryside or people watching if it’s in the city

Dream date night: dinner at a fancy restaurant, then going to a show of some kind (concert, theatre, sports game, opera etc)

Favourite place to holiday as a couple: Anywhere in the snow, because it feels like time stops

Favourite place to holiday with the kids: Alps in winter, Malta in summer

If they had to live in any other commonwealth country: Canada

Names of their kids if born the opposite sex: Amelia Louise = August Peter, Belinda Alice = Benjamin Arthur, Caroline Sarah = Charles David

Crazy migraine so no ao3 post today but this has been in the drafts for almost a year so time to post. I love Saphne. I hope y’all enjoyed this little insight into our strong willed Princess Royal, and the origins of the here by choice group. Not to mention Anthony being a scooch more reasonable about saphne just bc Kate got to him first. To think how much less Daphne would’ve suffered in canon. The Kanthony one shot is finished and the benophie is nearly done, but! If there’s any other things you can think of to go in the dot points at the end then lemme know and I shall add. I’m obsessed with these characters. (I also finished editing obligated for ao3, so that is imminent).

Last thing, I’ve decided Kanthony have a whoopsie baby down the line. Vote in the name poll.

Lots of love and appreciation always 🩷

–GW xo

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Considered, now on Ao3

The franchaela baby sequel is all posted on ao3! Woohoo!

Francesca doesn’t want her mother to be such a pivotal consideration in her and her wife’s baby making, but for better or worse the woman is queen.

Instincts, Tension and Edmund's death are all coming soon lovelies Thanks for being on this journey I appreciate you sm

–GW xo

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Princess Hyacinth is canon now

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Obligated, franchaela smau, master list

Everything will always be tagged #obligated smau even if it’s not in this list, most are tagged #obcon

Obligated on tumblr (original story)

Obligated on ao3

Considered on tumblr (sequel)

Considered on ao3

Instincts on tumblr (Cresswina’s story)

Instincts on ao3

Tension (Eloise’s story)

Edmund’s Death, told nine ways

Family Tree & Timeline

Beginning Family Website (unofficial prologue)

Ending Family Website (unofficial epilogue)

Couple One Shots

Saphne

Kanthony

Benophie

The one shots on ao3

Character Studies

Edmund

Colin

Eloise

Deleted Scenes

18

29

39

46

49

Character’s Drink Orders

Character’s Contact Lists

Obligated Memes

Violet’s parenting

Francesca at the start

If there is no hyperlink it means that it’s not posted yet.

Let me know what else you wanna see, particularly any other character studies!

–GW xo

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Obligated, Edmund’s Death, told nine ways

Obligated Master Post

This is the story of Edmund’s death in the obcon universe, and its lasting effects, told nine different ways. They are each an unreliable narrator in their own way.

Some of this I had known for a while, and whilst writing Obligated, but much of it I only unpacked while writing this. It felt necessary to share, especially given the themes in Tension.

The circumstances of Edmund’s death are an amalgamation of the show, books, and my own ideas that fit with this AU. I hope you find this interesting and not too repetitive, and I do recommend you read them in order. (Oldest to youngest, top to bottom).

Big love and thanks to anyone who has ever appreciated and encouraged this au, especially my sounding board for everything @harnitbee I would be nowhere without you

This has been a real labour of love over the last seven months, I hope you enjoy 🤍

Violet: Constant Violet was the same before and after, which was her undoing.

Anthony: Moments Anthony still remembers each individual second of the day Edmund died, and he always will.

Benedict: Normalcy Benedict saw his younger siblings lose not only their parents, but their eldest brother as well.

Colin: Vulnerability Colin lost himself but found his mother.

Daphne: Bridge Daphne was living two lives, but Edmund’s death forced her to choose one.

Eloise: Absence Eloise never used to allow herself to feel an absence, but it’s something she’s come to embrace.

Francesca: Family The family lost their compass the day Edmund died, so Francesca wished she could become her own.

Gregory: Memories Gregory has no memory of his father, but that isn’t something anyone else seems to remember.

Hyacinth: Independence Hyacinth always tells herself that she chose to be independent.

–GW xo