Techza Time Travel AU -
In the OG timeline, Phil is like 18 and his parents push him to marry the Emperor of the Antarctic Empire.
But Phil is young and rash and rebellious. And he's heard all the rumors about how the Emperor is this old, beastly ugly man. How could his parents try to set him up with someone like that???
So instead he joins the imperial army of the opposing kingdom to the AE. He lives a good 20+ years or so, falls in love , etc and has a good time. Is a high ranking general or something.
Then the AE attacks and fucking wipes the floor with them. Phil doesn't even die in combat like he wants/expects but is instead killed by someone he trusts.
And when he wakes up, he's back in his 18 year old body on the day he was supposed to travel to the AE to marry the Emperor but instead he ran away. Considering he just got killed and betrayed, and is fully aware of the AE's military prowess, he decides not to run away this time. He'll go through with the marriage, even if he has to suffer being married to a beast.
But then Phil sees Techno for the first time and while his 18 year old self definitely wouldn't have been happy, Phil isn't 18 anymore. He's in his 40s and his standards have changed and Techno is meeting all of his standards.
Meanwhile, Techno, who was probably blackmailed or pressured into the marriage or something, goes to join Phil in their bedroom on their wedding night and is like "hey I know you were forced into this don't worry about anything, I won't do anything - where your clothes at."
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(Fens wrote a snippet for this AU as well, which you can read here ^_^)
