New pinch hit #35

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CLAIMED - Pinch Hit 35

Request 1 by cricket_aria
A Very Potter Musical Series - Team StarKid
Severus Snape/Ron Weasley (VPM)

Medium: Fanfiction

"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow So Let's Get Married Today"
Character Casts Marriage Spell and Ends Up Married to Wrong Person
Spouses Awkwardly Reunited After Fraught Separation
Character's Family Has Assured Them No One Will Ever Want To Marry Them
Characters get married during the mission to not break their cover but then they catch feelings
Couple Getting Married Is Scandalous to Polite Society
Wedding Cake Tasting & Decoration Selection
Sneaking Into Strangers’ Weddings For The Party Food
Friends and family being way too involved in wedding planning
Joke proposal is treated seriously
Serious proposal is assumed to be a joke
Marriage a punishment for breaking an obscure law
Marriage Assumed to be Fake/Done as Prank is Actually Legally Binding
Marriage Between Different School Houses is Forbidden
Arranged Marriage - magic picks partners and is legally binding

So, this is a pairing that never caught my attention in any other version of Harry Potter, but every time I rewatch the musicals I'm reminded on how delightful I find them together. It's the one place that you can find Ron comfort Hermione that it's okay she'd not cool like Snape, or see Snape leap into Ron's arms when he's afraid. There's a Youtube video here with a collection of most of their moments together (though sadly there aren't decent subtitles to help with the poor sound): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noGRDn48WzU

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, unmentioned pairings with requested characters, or major AUs (but divergent timeline ones are fine)


Request 2 by cricket_aria
Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse)
Chris Redfield/Claire Redfield (Biohazard | RE Games)

Medium: Fanfiction

Transported To Another World Where Nobody Knows You're Too Closely Related To Get Married
Incest Makes Marriage Taboo
Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World
Marriage must remain a secret
childhood marriage promise
Married on battlefield in midst of the fighting
Renewing Vows For Impulsive Wartime/"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow" Marriage After Years of Peace/Safety
Marrying the dead keeps them alive
"We Could Be Dead Tomorrow So Let's Get Married Today"
Undercover as Married While Mutually Pining
Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings
Getting married because you can't trust anyone else

Every once in a while I'll get hit by a desire for Redfieldcest, and the RE2 remake set it off hard. I really like it a situation where the entire world has gone so badly to hell that they no longer care about the taboo so much as the fact that this is one person they can absolutely and completely trust and who they each want to give as much happiness as they can to around all the plague zombies.

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, unmentioned pairings with requested characters, or major AUs (but divergent timeline ones are fine)


Request 3 by cricket_aria
Moana (2016)
Maui/Moana Waialiki (Moana)

Medium: Fanfiction

Drawbacks of marrying a God
Marriage to Appease an Angry God
Married at first sight because the Gods deem it so
Marriage to a god leads to combined powers
Marrying Against the Wishes/Efforts of God(s)/Higher Power(s)
Bard Immortalizes Wedding in Ballad To Couple's Delight or Embarrassment
Unmarried Couple Fantasize About Their Future Together While At A Friend's Wedding Party
marriage is magically binding even when one party was pretending to be someone else
Families Of Already-Eloped Couple Arrange Elaborate Ceremony To Save Face
Avoiding arranged marriage by marrying someone else
Fucking one's true love the night before arranged marriage to someone else
Married at Sea

It probably goes without saying, but if you run with the Marriage to Appease an Angry God freeform I was hoping for it to be some other pissed god, I wouldn't want Maui scaring Moana into marriage with his temper. I love her as a force that's able to stand up to him, unawed and unafraid, in spite of being squishy and mortal, and how travelling with him brings out more and more of that inner strength as she faces things no mortals were meant to.

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, unmentioned pairings with requested characters, or major AUs (but divergent timeline ones are fine)


Request 4 by cricket_aria
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Joe Blomfield/Guinevere Pettigrew (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008))

Medium: Fanfiction

Ellaborate Second Wedding Celebration Once Disapproving Family Comes Around
Later in life marriage
Slice of Married Life During Wartime
Always Married to Same Person When You Dream
Character thinks proposal was rejected but other person misunderstood
Formal Courtship and Proposal
Family Heirlooms Passed Down For Engagement/Wedding
Friends giving wedding gifts
Marriage from love

I love how quietly the movie sets up their relationship around how big and silly Delysia's affairs are, the way the two of them understand like nobody else around them just how bad things are going to get, but how they find a spot of light with each other.

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, unmentioned pairings with requested characters, or major AUs (but divergent timeline ones are fine)


Request 5 by cricket_aria
Magical Diary (Visual Novels)
Hieronymous Grabiner/Mary Sue (Magical Diary VN)

Medium: Fanfiction

Marriage Causes Unexpected Magical Effects
surprise windfall lets spouses throw their dream wedding
Family and/or Friends Constantly Meddling in Wedding Preparations Results in Elopement
Ritual Meeting of In-Laws
Friends/Family/Fans/Foes React To Unexpected Or Contentious Marriage
No one believes they're married
Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
Nobody Believes They Married For Love
Mutual Not-Actually-Unrequited Pining for Spouse

Any time I play this game it's hard to keep myself from wandering into Grabiner's route even if I fully intend to chase somebody else this time. I love that, grouchy through it is about the entire thing, he doesn't hesitate to marry her to protect her, and how delicately she tries to edge her way closer to him until they finally manage to connect for real.

DNW: PWP (defining it as story that wouldn't still stand on its own if all sex scenes were removed), any form of play with bodily wastes, gender or identity headcanons and issuefic, kidfic, unmentioned pairings with requested characters, or major AUs (but divergent timeline ones are fine)


There is one other outstanding pinch hit:

CLAIMED #29 - RWBY, Gilmore Girls, The Good Place (TV)