[ this is a match made out of politics, made out of convenience. a match made by his father the king who he might despise but can't quite make overt moves to overthrow. yet. he is a prince and he is very aware of his power and limitations, his abilities might be considerable but so is the bureaucracy and court and his heritage that might as well tie him down. he is the prince and his father is the king and his father wields the political power to do with him what he'd like--for now.
anyway, arranged marriages are hardly news for nobility. non-arranged unions from something like love, whatever that is, would be the rarer situation. those might as well be something out of stories.
he doesn't have any delusions that something like this would be anything like love in stories.
they're at some party, a horrible high-class affair with women in elaborate gowns and men courting them like birds of paradise. his father introduces him to yaoyorozu before sweeping off to speak with their queen--his own queen is noticeably absent, but she has been from the kingdom for more than a decade now. anyone can speculate as to what happened to her but few people would know the truth. anyway, the lack of a queen hasn't stopped his father from wanting to expand, and the yaoyorozu country is where his ambitions are. so setting his son up with the princess is the next step.
yaoyorozu is quite beautiful, todoroki isn't blind, he can recognize this much.
he mostly kind of feels bad that she's stuck with him for the evening. ]
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anyway, arranged marriages are hardly news for nobility. non-arranged unions from something like love, whatever that is, would be the rarer situation. those might as well be something out of stories.
he doesn't have any delusions that something like this would be anything like love in stories.
they're at some party, a horrible high-class affair with women in elaborate gowns and men courting them like birds of paradise. his father introduces him to yaoyorozu before sweeping off to speak with their queen--his own queen is noticeably absent, but she has been from the kingdom for more than a decade now. anyone can speculate as to what happened to her but few people would know the truth. anyway, the lack of a queen hasn't stopped his father from wanting to expand, and the yaoyorozu country is where his ambitions are. so setting his son up with the princess is the next step.
yaoyorozu is quite beautiful, todoroki isn't blind, he can recognize this much.
he mostly kind of feels bad that she's stuck with him for the evening. ]
Do you want to dance?