[ SECRET POST #3800 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3800 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Killing Stalking]


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[The 100, Echo and Bellamy]


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[Anne (the new remake of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables)]


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[Pokémon ORAS]


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[Homestuck]


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Comments

Re: Arranged marriage trope -- why so popular?

[(Anonymous)]

I'll come at this from a writer's POV, it's a little like sex pollen or even A/O/B - it's a ready-made conflict that immediately puts two people together in a romantic situation. You can bypass the getting-to-know-you stuff that takes a while to develop well and can drag the story. You can bypass trying to come up with a situation to have these two interact in a way that develops the romance. Especially for pairings where canon would make romance a hard sell, it pushes them that way with minimal setup and lets the story focus on the conflict of their personalities or the conflict of their romance, rather than on coming up with a believable way they would decide to marry or date.

The conflict makes the story interesting but the fact that there should be a happy ending (for those who don't like subversion) is reassuring.