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How would you think either of the two (Alfred and Ivan) would think about proposing/marriage in your au? Ik they do eventually but I would love to hear about how it might happen!
I think they're both into it! One more than the other tho lmao
ofc Alfred as an Omega was highly disdainful of the idea and actively rejected it, but only because its something expected of him. Take this excerpt:
Alfred wrinkled his nose. Marriage as a duty. What a ridiculous notion.
He saw the Omegas here in this village. The married ones. The ones who walked around the village claiming they were fulfilled because they had made a family. A good show, indeed—but through the windows of their cottages, behind drawn curtains, he could see their misery, their helplessness at the hands of their husbands. Fear flashed in their eyes at the prospect of returning home. Controlled. Locked away. No freedom or autonomy or any function other than to satisfy their husbands' carnal urges and pump out their babies.
Alfred saw it as a warning. And he didn't need to be told twice.
This is what Alfred thinks about marriage, mostly due to his upbringing of seeing the miserable people of Krasny. But he's not against it entirely. He just doesn't want it to be forced upon him. Like all things, he wants it at his own pace, at his own time. But he's not immune to dreaming—and even he wants his own fairytale romance one day. He just never has time to truly think about it or consider it. For most of the story its the last thing on his mind. Ofc, after getting feelings for Ivan, this mindset changed, and he very much wants to get married to him.
As for Ivan, in the story it's also the last thing on his mind. Of course, he's a royal with a lot on his plate—that is, until he started liking Alfred. Now, he very much wants to do so; there's even a scene where he goes through the lawbook trying to find a loophole so he can marry him. You would think with all his trauma and history that he would fear marriage, as he saw how his parents' turned out. But Ivan isn't like that. Rather than a cautionary tale, he sees it as another way to prove he isn't like his father, like a manual. For Ivan its like: get married, have children, and do it better than he did.
You said you’re rewriting your fic but I would love to hear some of the ideas you had that didn’t make it into the rewrite if you had any honestly. I love ur fic sm it’s like one of my favorite aus
aw thank u for the nice words!! and omg there's sm that didn't make it into the final cut it feels impossible to talk about them all. Half of them I scrapped because I plan to reuse them in the sequel, which I'm already drafting the outline of
There were many scrapped ideas. Most were about Alfred and Ivan's interactions. I was supposed to make them kiss earlier on in the story but scrapped it in favor of a more slow-burn pace.
Also, the world originally wasn't steampunk, but rather a more HOTD-like world. As in there was no technology, just medieval settings, but there were dragons and magic. Alfred was initially supposed to be a witch, but a very clumsy one. Dragons play an essential part of life, highly integrated into civilization, kinda like HTTYD. This came into use in the plot when Ivan's dragon escaped and landed in Alfred's village, and the villagers were too scared to approach a dragon of the royal family, but Alfred (not knowing it was a royal dragon cuz he's dumb like that) rushed forward to help. However his magic is faulty and he ended up making a big boom, but dw the dragon was unharmed. Instead of simply healing the dragon, Alfred accidentally seeped his magic into its scales. He didn't think much of it tho and continued to properly heal the dragon until it finally was able to fly away. But when it returned to the palace, the dragon no longer responded to Ivan because of Alfred's magic inside it, so they sent guards to hunt down the witch who marked a royal dragon, and that's how Alfred was found and dragged to the palace.
This was scrapped for a more high-stakes and much, much darker plot, as the original is so whimsy and fairy-tale like. I plan to reuse that kind of world-building though just not for Spades HAHAHA
There were many others, but most of them are in the bin to be reused, so I won't be spoiling them hehe