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[sears]

My sixteenth birthday is in about two and a half months. On my world, most people of royal and noble class marry when they're that age, and most of those marriages are arranged at least a year or so before that. As it stands, I'm already falling behind everyone else; no matter how much parents may want their son to marry the Fire Lord, they're not going to wait around forever. Whenever I do go back, I'll be stuck with someone that was unwanted by all the others for some reason-- because his family has a shameful history, or because he's a pervert, or because he's thirty years older than me. The Fire Lord will be given the last pick.

Things aren't supposed to be this backwards.

OOC: Marginally related to this.

Comments

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Marriage is a means to an end, nothing more. And from a social standpoint, getting the "last pick" means very little-- it doesn't mean that my people disrespect me, or that I won't be followed loyally.

Of course I want to marry someone whose family has a spotless reputation, but if that isn't possible, a few transgressions in their history is hardly a disaster. Nobility and rank is far more important. My own family, for example, unfortunately has several traitors-- but that doesn't mean anything when it comes to the big picture. We don't allow a few bad apples to spoil the bunch.

[ofhopeandglory.livejournal.com]

So if the issue really doesn't matter to you at all, then why bother to make a post about how backward things are?

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It matters. It's just not catastrophic.

[ofhopeandglory.livejournal.com]

You certainly didn't make it sound that way.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You're just reading too far into things.

[ofhopeandglory.livejournal.com]

Am I.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Apparently so.