#but i will indeed go bc they'll force me so i expect the worst

[rurifangirl]

I do NOT wanna go to a dante's interrogation on monday this shit Is like 160 pages I'm not kidding

[forgottenrian]

dslkjfadksljfjdsf cassandra living for the drama always <33333 cassandra, letting rian put an engagment ring (or whatever) on her finger: 'time to commit to the bit!' no, but i love that for her <3333 esp bc kate has confirmed that marian is hella against this hahah so an engagment is most likely thE most that'll ever come out of this, but tbh idk that it'll ever actually get to even ~that stage tbqh!

kflajsdfkldsjkfkjdsf omg her view of what this engagment would be!!!! lkjasdlfkjksdjf cillian: 'wait did you say im imprisoned and waiting to DIE???? i don't like this plotline v much' ;DDDD

no but its kinda funny bc it lowkey ~would go a ~touch like that but it wouldn't ~feel like that even if cillian succeeded bc @forgottencillian ABSOLUTELY ~would hate that yet another young woman is being forced into an unwanted marriage by the regime of roderick the terrible!!!!!!! and he probs ~would indeed do smth pr impulsive abt it since ~this young woman is actually asking for his help!!!!! but she'd probs never know he did, bc his move would probs be to try and implicate rian in some astairan plot in order to blackmail him and 1) get lorcan's full help backing the revolution and 2) get him to back out of the engagement alkjdfkldfjdsjf he'd ofc have to do this as cillian frost, so he def couldn't tell her abt any of it, and lbr idk if that whole gambit would even go how he hoped anyway!! but here we are hahahaha also, like, even if he ~did pull it off, itd probs feel super anticlimactic to her, as cillian is just like 'oof god that sucks -- gotta go!' when she tells him, and then she doesn't see him for awhile and a couple days later rian gets cold feet abt the marriage and backs out alsdkjflksdjfkjsdf and this is the best case scenario *facepalm*

omgggggg i looooove how she's gonna handle these talks tho!!!!! laksjdfkljdsfkjldkjsf also rian will bore her to deathhhhhhhh i am sure!!!!!!! this man does noT know how to flirt!!!!!!! at all!!!!!!!! and he'll def wanna talk politics and it would never occur to him to try to kiss her or anything bc, tbf, he is sure that she is ~not into him and that this is all a business arrangement etc!!!! he ~would, at least, fulfill the villain role of informing her that he knows she has other suitors and he will not put up w that once they're formally engaged and that (his version of 'you'll learn to love me speech') they'll find a way to relate over time he's sure laksdjfkldfjdfs

i ~do think tho that 1) making cillian jealous ~would work!!!!! #facepalm AND 2) impressing rosie w how horrid it is to be expected to marry rian would ALSO work!!!! that dude literally betrayed astaira!!!!!! (~to cassandra's dad but rosie is noT here to be thinking abt these details too hard! ;D lakjsdfkljdsfkjsdjkf) he is def the worst!!!!!! second only as a bad bf to cassimir!!!!! dsklafjkdjsfjsdf meanwhile, rian is probs just sighing a bit bc he sees cassandra nd rosie kinda glare at him and then start whispering and he's just like 'that can't be good' laskdjflkdsljkf

'rian: preferably you will not talk at all!' LEIGT THO!!!! kljkfljsadkjfkjsdf he and francesca bridgerton just looking for some peace and quiET!!!! lajsdflkjdsjkf and, like, once he learned talk was expected between them, itd be all politics/small talk and def no romance/flirting (beyond, like, he brings her a plate of food or smth...i know, i know stoP! she's gonna SWOON!)

i do think he's a bit of a romantic at heart so like he lowkey ~would like to romance her if they are going to married!...but unfortunately he literally has zero idea ~how sooooo he'll just stand there awkwardly beside her and hope she makes the first move or tells him what she wants him to do!! alksdjfksjdf i do think he's lately been tryna learn (which is another weirdness -- bc he's got his eye on another woman! lakjdflkjdsf) but yeah its slow going at best! lkajdsfkljsdf just an all-round great time for EVERYONE <3

OOC | Rían & Cassandra

so!! honestly i think rian's idea of marrying guin is a pipedream if he wants daddy's support in that (tho ngl running off w her or marrying her two seconds are roderick dies or smth are ~not off the table as far as he's concerned, thanks to her claim!) BUT there is a varmont princess roderick ~might consider wedding to him (tho idk if he'd actually go through w it or not tbqh!) and that's our cassandra! lbr itd be a TOTAL disaster and im guessing @forgottenmarian would v much have other ideas on that one hahahaha but anyway!!! he ticks boxes for ~roderick's requirements:

royal/king (since he was the firstborn male as far as roderick's concerned pre!roderick, he should've been monarch, not eilia) and thus roderick assumes he'd come w the support of the most powerful single country roderick's got/that it might help bend fences w the angry astairans (he is ofc quite wrong im sure, but!)

he's bent the knee (this does come w the backhand that roderick will never respect him but w the positive that he's a male of royal blood whose still alive and not a direct relative lakjsdfkjsdf)

he's clever, capabale, and obdenient to roderick

so yeah!! that's all pr good as far as roderick's concerned!! if he were to do this, he'd wanna give him smth much bigger than one single lordship, since roderick's own grandson would stand to inherit whatever rian has etc etc etc and that has to be sufficiently grand if roderick's bloodline will be there etc etc etc but yeah!! being real, i def think marian could easily dissuade roderick from this notion, so idk that this would ever transpire, but ~he would be all for it, even when their personalities inevitably clash lakjsfjkdsf bc lbr itd def tip roderick's bid towards rian being named roderick's stewart of all astaira when he inevitably moves on to conquer the next thing lkajsdklfjdsf but anyway!!! laksdjfkljdsf