User blog comment:Eirasamix/Arranged marriages - for or against?/@comment-24960276-20191123164957

For.

One or two of my characters are in arranged marriages, one of them is from Kakashi's generation, and another in Naruto's generation.

Partly because I use them mostly for roleplays, and they are both idiots in regards to feelings so the easiest way to throw two people together is through arranged marriages, where they can either slowly drive each other insane, work out a working relationship or actually start to love each other.

Another reason is that, even though their style of clothing is modern and all, I've always had the impression that the shinobi world, up till before Shippuden, is in some sort of pseudo Meiji/Edo/Heian-era situation (more Meiji and Edo than Heian) where a lot of those traditional and backwards ideas still exists, but there is also something modern and new coming into the society- if you get what I mean-which is why am for arraged marriages.

To me, it feels like it would fit in that sort of time period, so I am all for arranged marriages if anyone wants to use them in their OC's or whatever.

Not to mention that, it is not like arraged marriages are no longer a thing; it is still a thing, though it is very rare in most modern society I think, just...less obligatory, nowadays? Since, to me, arranged marriages are basically potential romantic interests your family members help you arrange to meet, and that is pretty common still, to my knowledge.

Though, I have a feeling that most people would think 'forced marriage' when speaking of 'arranged marriages' so- this is completely unrelated, but I definitely wouldn't mind seeing that in either mine, or other's OCs either.