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bloodiedbeloveds · 1 year ago

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this is such a good idea!!!

Okay. Is this something? Arranged marriage AU.

In our context, the oldest kid needs to get married off for "procreating and securing the bloodline" reasons to someone of the opposite sex – but for the siblings after that, sure, why not let your kid get gay-married if the union would be useful to you?

Henry Laurens wants that sweet sweet west-indian trade business, so Harry (the first) is contracted to marry one of the Manning girls – and no harm in letting second-son John consolidate that with a marriage to the Hamiltons' second son, Alex.

The boys meet up over the years to get acquainted, and as they grow up, love blooms! How thrilling! John and Alex can't wait to get married, it's gonna be so great, they'll have a whole lifetime of--

Then Harry dies.

All of a sudden, John is the eldest. All of a sudden, a gay marriage isn't feasible for him anymore.

What now?

#we are late to this post but ok if we were going to write this #hypothetically #i know you said the mannings but we'd make eliza john's betrothed. you know why. alex would push really really hard for Just Running Away #john would not go for it & it would be a whole thing & they'd have so many arguments over it #alex & john are a known quantity but eliza still does not expect alex to blame her for all of this and try to start shit in public #(it's important that eliza barely knows either of them actually #she & john are at this time only seeing each other chaperoned by family members & it's v stiff and awkward #however later on they write private letters to each other and it's like oh hey this person is actually very smart and cool)#anyway. alex causes problems & eliza causes an equal number of problems back. they Fucking Hate each other now #in a way that is entirely unrelated to thinking the other one is attractive what are you talking about #this will not be enemies-to-lovers romance & frankly i don't know why you would even expect that #(eliza slaps him across the face once when they are alone and alex thinks a normal amount about this interaction for the next month)#neither alex nor eliza see fit to tell john about their intense rivalry #and he's busy with his grief and his martyr complex most of the time so he's kind of oblivious to it #plus eliza realizes there is Something there and decides that maybe she won't tell her fiance about wanting to fuck his former fiance stupi #alex has not realized there is something there and eventually accidentally mentions it to john & they're already pissed at each other but #john does not like that alex is starting shit with his fiancee! who he has to live with indefinitely and who he is starting to think is #kind and lovely and maybe he won't love her but this is going to be an okay marriage. tbh he probably thinks alex is trying to sabotage the #engagement. there probably are starting to be rumors about alex's jealousy #don't have any ideas about what would be going on with alex also being in danger of getting married though

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