{Video}

[lansizhui]

Have you ever thought about getting married? {The topic has been on his mind since a certain wedding.} I know you should be in love when you do it, but is it strange to think about it even if you're not?

I'm a Cultivator, so I realize that it isn't likely that I will ever be married - unless I settle down. But it does seem nice and everyone has someone, don't you think?

{Or has he been lost in his daydreams for too long?}

Comments

[mtsilver_conquor]

I don't think it is. Marriage for love is nice, but in the end, it's a joining of families.

[She shrugs a little.] Arranged marriages are still very much a thing across all of Arkea. Mostly the social elite and families with at least a couple of centuries of history. There's also different versions, too and it depends on the families involved as what one's used.

[A beat, then:] What's a Cultivator?

[marriedanidiot]

Marriage for reasons other than love? That... seems supremely odd, to me.

[maxwellsdaemon]

Marriage? I never thought I'd live long enough to reach drinkin age! I've never thought about marriage.

Guess it's okay for some. Nice for some, but I don't think it's somethin I'd be allowed.

[so_dark_a_road]

Not everyone has someone, sad to say.

I was married, long ago when I was young and heedless. I was entranced by Sulriel, but the real reason I married her was because my people were at war with a powerful enemy whom we had little chance of defeating. My father had already fallen in one of the great battles, and I was beginning to fear that soon our family would need replacements. It didn't seem likely that any of my brothers were going to produce families of their own, so I arranged to be wed. I am not sorry, for we had a son whom anyone would be proud of, and he was the light of my life. But the marriage did not last.

Later in another world, I fell in love with a man named Yukari and might have married him, had it not been for circumstances that would take too long to explain.

I don't think it is strange to want the closeness and the stability, even if you're not in love. The chances of life can lead you into a marriage for many reasons.

[ That's Curufin's two cents' worth! It's a rare moment when he will talk about this in public, and he doesn't in fact reveal the whole story. ]

[dredefulchilde]

The modern insistence on marrying for love is strange to me, given that the vast majority of unions in the whole of human history have been primarily economic and political affairs.

[blue_ice]

Not everyone. Sometimes you're in a position where it'd be effectively impossible to find someone you can trust.

But what's a Cultivator? Why does that mean you can't?

[video]

[hashtagparkerluck]

No? Not really.

I mean... maybe once? I don't know, the way my life plays out I'll be lucky if I even make it eighteen. So. [ Kanye Shrug. ]

[hateskid]

N-No! Of course not! Why would you think that!?

[ She has. ]

[pleple]

I think I've got a long time to worry about that.

...I hope I do.

[ Arranged marriages are bad. ]

[achickenformylove]

[Since figuring out this thing that let them watch comments made by others, WangJi had decided he wasn't going to intrude on Sizhui's social life here. He was a growing teenager and they deserved space. But this question, he feels he does need to speak up]

You are still young. Love and marriage are not concepts inherently understood even among those who find their fated one in the end. With time, it will likely come.

video;

[adropofsunlight]

Have I ever? Oh, no. I never thought about something like that... I only just got out of the tower.

[Love had only crossed her mind when helping a friend with his own love issues.]

But I do agree love seems to be this wonderful thing and it would be nice to have that special someone who will love and support whatever you do.

[mayp]

I've been married once before. My husband ws killed in a home invasion. I... I do not know if I would get married again.