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With Time - The Morning After

Mar 16, 2015 23:10

Title: With Time - The Morning After (part 5)
Pairing: Jinki/Gwiboon
Genre: Fluff/Slice of Life
Rating: PG
Warning(s): Arranged Marriage
Word count: 306
Summary: This is (hopefully) a different take on the arranged marriage au

unbetaed cuz I've already overloaded my betas with other projects and I don't want them to hate me ^^

part 1 part 2 part 3 ( Read more... )

gwiboon, het, fluff, jinki, onkey

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diamondacequeen March 17 2015, 07:48:36 UTC

Ayy, but at least he was gentle tho lol. I think it's good that it wasn't some horrible, traumatic experience for Gwiboon. I think that would've changed her mind about wifely duties and such. Oh, but she gets to be a mama soon, hopefully!

kpopforlife March 17 2015, 08:43:42 UTC

well i wanted to stay in the realm of fluff so... no traumatic experiences.
but time period and culture would play a big part in all that as well. her mother had already "prepared her" for what her wedding night would be like so.... it's treated as just an expected part of married life. nobody cared if you liked it, you still had to do it.
so even if it had been a bad experience, women were little more that property and had zero say over what happened to their bodies. so it probably wouldnt even cross her mind that she could refuse.

LOL jumpin the gun a little there, aren't we? i mean... sure it's possible but let's let the kids get to know each other first before they starting making babies.

diamondacequeen March 17 2015, 13:41:35 UTC

It just makes me thankful that I have a little more say in what kind of wife I want to be and social pressures aren't that big of a deal now. It's so frustrating knowing that there were women who basically had to "deal with it" because that was the life: grow up, get married, have no identity or autonomy. Be someone's property your whole life. And right, it probably didn't even cross a lot of women's minds that they could say no. They might have still had to follow their husband's wishes or wants, but the option to refuse wasn't even there.

That's why I like this so much. Up until now there hasn't been a reason for Gwiboon to feel unsafe or disregarded.

And yeah, I got a little excited about the babies lol. But I couldn't help it cause Onkey and babies make me squeal uwu uwu.

kpopforlife March 17 2015, 13:59:56 UTC

yes, it is a very sad truth of the not so distant past (and still very much a reality for a lot of women around the world). for so much of history women were property. you belong to your father and then your husband. you were never your own person at any point in your life. i mentioned to someone else earlier, the concept of marital rape is still rather new. so basically the marriage was considered your never-ending, irrevocable consent. ironic that you also forced into the marriage without your consent so..... but yeah, the thought of saying no wouldn't even be there because the very concepts of bodily autonomy, consent and the ability to make decisions for yourself or about your own body was simply non-existent. it's a horrify thought but an undeniable reality for so many woman since the dawn of time ( ... )

diamondacequeen March 17 2015, 15:59:01 UTC

I hate thinking about the history of women and marriage/work/family cause it just pisses me off and makes me realize that there hasn't been much change even though we like to think there has been. Sigh. Anyway, thank you for replying every time, I hope my messages aren't annoying. I just like talking about this stuff because it's interesting and I really like that you're giving us the *idealistic* version of arranged marriage.

kpopforlife March 18 2015, 06:24:11 UTC

yes, it's a pretty sad commentary on humans in general. Thousands of year and the human race still can't figure out that women are people. that's what's so scary about anti-feminist tbh, even in the western world we are still littered with gender based issues, but there are still countries where girls are married off at 12 years old to some middle aged man. the world still views rape as the woman's fault, domestic violence is wholly ignored and murdering/disfiguring a woman for not giving you what you want is accepted and justified. and this is supposed to be an improvement? equality? women being whiny ( ... )

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