#the marriage duel

[ying-doodles]

more fanart of @sunflowercider's the marriage duel cause I absolutely needed to draw this scene dhdjkdksk- :>

[shutupcrime]

Some of you are too afraid to admit this but we all know Star Wars works best when it goes full soap opera

[gothic-btch]

Kaeya tries too hard with getting Albedo to like him, overly flirting, touching, seeking him out, obsessing over him and trying to always be around him

Albedo tries hard to distance himself from Kaeya bc he doesn't know what the hell this feeling inside of him is but he's pretty sure literal butterflies have found their way into his stomach to torture him and somehow Kaeya's the one who did it to him

Diluc is pissed bc he thinks that Albedo is leading his brother on, and who does he think he is? So like the good big brother he is he goes to give Albedo the shovel talk and Albedo is all like "what's a crush" and Diluc realizes that he isn't a jerk, just dumb

Kaeya ends up giving up bc he's like, Albedo clearly doesn't like me, I don't wanna harass this dude plus I look desperate.

Diluc helps Albedo start reciprocating Kaeya's feelings, then they realize that he gave up so now they need a new plan. Except Diluc doesn't talk to his brother so he tries to hangout with him to get to know him better and Kaeya's all suspicious

Kaeya thinks that Albedo and Diluc have joined forces bc they both hate him and now feels super shitty and sad about it. Every time the two try to interact with him he thinks it's a plan to humiliate or hurt him and gets super depressed

Albedo and Diluc don't understand what they're doing wrong and amp it up 10× (now also trying to get Diluc and Kae to fix their relationship) and they just make everything worse

Klee is basically the go to vent person in all of this (not venting all their feelings ofc, but Klee is super helpful regardless) and through the power of Klee everything ends up perfect in the end

Diluc and Kaeya are brothers again, Kaeya and Albedo are dating, and Diluc and Albedo each earned a new friend

[brainrot-jikan]

yunli/yanqing won't leave my brain, they dislike each other sooo much there's so much potential. consider: arranged marriage au.

yunli begrudgingly agrees but then she meets yanqing and he's weak bodied and weak willed and always running from fights and just the WORST. so she tries to get out of it but her grandfather reminds her a swordsman doesn't go back on their word, so that route's out because she's too prideful to back down. but what she's NOT too prideful to do is to formally object to the marriage in the same way an outside suitor would:

challenge yanqing to a duel over her own hand in marriage.

that's absolutely not what that rule is there for, but when yunli says, "oh really? where's the rule that says i can't, huh?" they can't find one. so everyone involved tells yanqing to just not accept the duel because it's barely legitimate anyway, it won't reflect badly on him… except he absolutely accepts the duel because he's PISSED she's calling his strength and honor into question and marrying this girl wasn't even his idea in the first place, who does she think she is? so he agrees in the heat of the moment, and then realizes later that he's being pulled into her childish pace and he's embarrassed, but he can't back down now. and how dare she be so selfish, their union is for the good of other people, and he'd be a perfectly good husband! he's capable and well mannered and smart and has a good job and has a good reputation, and look at HER, no manners and always saying the first rude thing that comes to mind and she doesn't even wear SHOES. HE should be the one objecting to this marriage.

but he's too responsible, and the reasons they're getting married are good and honorable and will help tie their people together or whatever, blah blah you know the trope. so instead of getting married, they start to prepare for their duel, and everyone around them is just so, so tired

[deck-shuffler]

Surprise! Art from me that is not Yugioh Gx! Drawing those shrimps from Yugioh Duel Monsters because I found this old art of them that I did way back. I'm pretty sure this is for an Au-

Now I made adjustments to make them look more cohesive!

[dullahandyke]

that reminds me i need to watch any and all adaptations of tcomc with eugenie in them. badly. even the ones where they straightwash her like gankutsuou. i miss her i miss her badly i need to reread tcomc i miss ittttttttt the adaptations are so overwhelmingly focused on the romance which impacts the revenge plot to the degree that morcerf is elevated to the primary antagonist above danglars and villefort and caderousse because where the others also wronged edmond, morcerf did it for the purpose of stealing his wife, which is the ultimate wrong in the eyes of a romantic story. there's not a great number of ways to condense a 1200 page story to a movie of a reasonable length, but i wish so many didn't make the genre shift to romance. it's been done before! there are other angles to explore it from! make a movie focused on the younger generation like albert and franz and beauchamp and have the main plot going on in the background! refrain from showing any backstory at all and only show how we get to the downfalls of the villains! i love mercédes, but cut the romance, i am begging you.

[superspecial-awesome]

Miho and yami malik just got divorced in my tomodachi collection save file the island is in shambles

[loquarocoeur]

Damn should we leave you and ⭐ 🥣 alone for some privacy? Practically writing eachother love sonnets 👀

soon enough you’ll have your own ferrari to having children pipeline

~🦢

Actually me and stars-in-soup have been sonnet-fucking since June, you guys just either haven't noticed our longstanding exhibitionism thing going on or have been too uncomfortable to comment on it. And yes, I am offended about that actually

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

Is her necklace a millennium item???

[ladyzimmerman]

I found this meme interesting so I've decided to do it with some AD characters 🙂

[ying-doodles]

a bit of fanart of @sunflowercider's the marriage duel~ :)

your honour, they make me sick,, (affectionate)

[adamdr1ver]

unreal

[lemm-moxx]

@karineverse i am mildly worried for my sons life

[as-thra]

🐍 It might've ended up being his problem anyway! Can't be too sure

Somerild belongs to @sunglow-fae !!!

Messages from the end of year three:

> [Do you think mama and papa were right about...?]

> [He didn't actually use four]

> [He wouldn't be that irresponsible]

> [Right?]

> [I saw it, Daniel]

> [...]

> [Somer said he had to grow up around it and saw it as normal]

> [He should've known better, As]

> [No matter how much I might hate the Freys I can't imagine]

> [...]

> [Are you still at the pitch?]

> [Behind, I don't think I could've stayed there]

> [I'll be there in a sec]

> [And stop looking at the GC, you'll make yourself panic]

Excerpt from summer of 2012:

His hand trembled as he aimed his wand at the mirror, they did that often now.

AAAND ADDITIONAL TAG FOR @that-one-light !!!! since this is technically an am!au lore post, even though most of it is dumped in the tags whoops

[maulfucker]

I am a very serious and good writer

[yourqueenb]

The Duchess Affair expects me to believe that Nat wouldn’t get bored within his first few months of marriage to MC and go back to weaseling his way into the beds of the neglected and horny women of high society? Ok