how to be illegally married to your roommate

[accidents]

My dowry doesn't at least have a sickly sheep or something. This is kind of really insulting. Not that I should take it seriously but---I mean. It's like "Here's your heir to the tribe, sir! All you had to do was hand over some frilly underpants and a box of cake powder stuff! -What mead? We're not celebrating with mead. You get this bottle of bubble junk."

There aren't even swords in this basket. Worst wedding ever.

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[accidents]

Cryptic baking or the marriage part?

The implications! It's established rights and obligations between you and your new partner, between the children you're sort of obligated to have in the future and between the families because it makes their family your family and visa-verse... It's really intimate and a big deal.

[tower_bound]

The marriage part.

[Okay, that is quite a big deal.]

I don't think I'm ready for that sort of thing... I don't know anything about kids, and Mother isn't here to help guide me.

[accidents]

It's not that cryptic. Usually.

It usually doesn't happen until you're ready. Or your mother thinks you are anyway and arranges that. ...They're not going to hand you kids, I don't think. So we probably don't have to worry about that. And if they did, I'm pretty sure they counted me as the kid for my marriage and now he's in trouble for marrying his kid. It's all kinds of messed up.

[tower_bound]

That is definitely not good...

[And suddenly, being hitched sounds like more bad than good.]

Do you think the people who made everyone get married will show up and fix things?

[accidents]

I don't know. I mean, maybe. I doubt people around would let it stay this way. There's enough complains on this to warrant some kind of effort into fixing it.

[tower_bound]

I hope you're right. I would hate for everyone to be stuck in such a situation forever.

[accidents]

I'm sure it won't. Marriages can be revoked by the people actually married if the guys that did it don't fix it.

[tower_bound]

[She sighs in relief.] I had no idea; I'm definitely glad that can happen.

[accidents]

Yeah. Divorce. Not exactly the best thing but it saves you from this sort of situation.

[tower_bound]

[Not the best thing?] I take it that means that divorce is one of those things that's frowned upon?

[accidents]

For the guy because that means he couldn't live up to the lady's needs and disrespected her by doing so. Uh, I don't know if anyone would care here. It's kind of a way different marriage situation so it wouldn't exactly be disrespecting anyone.

[tower_bound]

[THIS MARRIAGE STUFF IS CONFUSING.]

If they're so complicated, why are government marriages around to begin with?

[accidents]

Um. To know who shares ownership of what, who not to separate, who gets to speak for you if you're incapacitated... stuff like that?

[tower_bound]

Oh...

[She purses her lips and glances away from the camera, embarrassed. She knew she had a lot to learn about the world, but it's still difficult to face the reality that she knows virtually nothing... especially when another person is there to witness it.]

[accidents]

...I'm sure someone else didn't know what they are too.

[tower_bound]

You think so...?

[Call her dubious, but it's starting to feel like out of everyone in New Moore, she's the one who's in the dark most about how almost everything works.]

[accidents]

Sure. I think some people here aren't even human.

[tower_bound]

Are they animals then?

What about monsters?

[accidents]

No. They're just different.

And I wouldn't call anything a monster.

[tower_bound]

[Wait, what?]

Why not? Isn't it just a term for bloodthirsty, unnatural beasts?

[accidents]

Well, I mean... You kind of have to see it being bloodthirsty before you call it out on that.

[tower_bound]

That's kind of why I'm asking who else is out there.

I mean, I'd like to think there has been plenty of time for any real "monsters" to have made themselves known.

[accidents]

There's people and people with blue hair and people with horns... I don't really know.

Right.

[tower_bound]

...Really?

[Actually, that's nothing short of amazing, far more than it is "scary" or "concern-worthy".]

I hope I'll get to meet them! I mean, if they're just people, there's no danger, right?

[accidents]

Really.

None that I know of.