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Postmortem Marriage
Title: Postmortem Marriage
Fandom: Bungou to Alchemist
Character(s): Naoya, Musha
Pairing(s): None
Genre: Fluff
Word Count: 500
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Musha and Naoya talk about the possibility of marrying again.
Notes: What do you call the husband of your cousin? Your cousin-in-law?
“Shiga, what do you think about any of us getting married again?”
Naoya isn’t sure where that question came from in the middle of a conversation about humanism, but with Musha, he never really knows. “Why are you asking me?”
“Because if I asked someone who had a bad wife, they’d be happy to get married to somebody better. And if I asked somebody who wasn’t married before then there wouldn’t be a reason not to get married now,” Musha replies. “But your wife was definitely the best!”
Of course Musha thinks so - he always was fond of his cousin. And he’s not wrong about Sadako being a wonderful wife. Naoya would gladly say he loves her even now. But…
“The way I see it, Sadako getting married to me doesn’t mean she didn’t love her first husband, right?” Naoya asks.
“She loved him a lot,” Musha confirms.
“Right. So since all our wives are dead, if we find someone else we love, we’re allowed to get married. It’s not an insult. And some of our wives remarried after we died, so it’d be weird if we couldn’t do the same thing.” He and Musha lived a lot longer than many of the other writers. But, speaking of lifespans… “It’d be a bigger problem that we aren’t going to stay in this world that long. Marrying a woman and making her a widow after our job’s done is just cruel.”
“I know that,” Musha says, like it goes without saying. “That’s why I’d marry another writer.”
...Naoya’s pretty certain, but he runs down his mental checklist of the summoned authors in the library. Like he thought: no women. “Is marrying a guy legal now?”
“No, but we’re not citizens anyway, so it’s not like we could legally get married even to a normal woman,” Musha replies with a shrug.
That’s a point. Naoya imagines trying to explain to a judge why he doesn’t have a birth certificate or any records of his existence. He doesn’t think it’d go well, but it might be funny.
“It’s not hurting anyone if you just get married for love, even if it’s not official,” Musha goes on. “Everybody knows that we won’t last that long, so if it makes us happy and it’s not insulting our wives, then it’s fine, right?”
“I guess so,” Naoya says. “...So, who’re you going to marry?”
Musha’s face turns bright red in a second. “I-it’s just a hypothetical question!”
“Oh yeah?” Naoya grins and pokes Musha in the cheek. “You’re pretty red for a ‘hypothetical question’.”
“Ugh, Shiga, you’re the worst!” Musha pulls his own jacket off so that he can cover his blushing face with it. He groans, somewhat muffled. “The worst.”
“That’s fine,” Naoya says, knowing that Musha doesn’t really mean it. “Let me know when the wedding is, I want to be in the wedding party even if I’m the worst.”
Musha peeks out at him. “As if I could get married without you there.”
Fandom: Bungou to Alchemist
Character(s): Naoya, Musha
Pairing(s): None
Genre: Fluff
Word Count: 500
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Musha and Naoya talk about the possibility of marrying again.
Notes: What do you call the husband of your cousin? Your cousin-in-law?
“Shiga, what do you think about any of us getting married again?”
Naoya isn’t sure where that question came from in the middle of a conversation about humanism, but with Musha, he never really knows. “Why are you asking me?”
“Because if I asked someone who had a bad wife, they’d be happy to get married to somebody better. And if I asked somebody who wasn’t married before then there wouldn’t be a reason not to get married now,” Musha replies. “But your wife was definitely the best!”
Of course Musha thinks so - he always was fond of his cousin. And he’s not wrong about Sadako being a wonderful wife. Naoya would gladly say he loves her even now. But…
“The way I see it, Sadako getting married to me doesn’t mean she didn’t love her first husband, right?” Naoya asks.
“She loved him a lot,” Musha confirms.
“Right. So since all our wives are dead, if we find someone else we love, we’re allowed to get married. It’s not an insult. And some of our wives remarried after we died, so it’d be weird if we couldn’t do the same thing.” He and Musha lived a lot longer than many of the other writers. But, speaking of lifespans… “It’d be a bigger problem that we aren’t going to stay in this world that long. Marrying a woman and making her a widow after our job’s done is just cruel.”
“I know that,” Musha says, like it goes without saying. “That’s why I’d marry another writer.”
...Naoya’s pretty certain, but he runs down his mental checklist of the summoned authors in the library. Like he thought: no women. “Is marrying a guy legal now?”
“No, but we’re not citizens anyway, so it’s not like we could legally get married even to a normal woman,” Musha replies with a shrug.
That’s a point. Naoya imagines trying to explain to a judge why he doesn’t have a birth certificate or any records of his existence. He doesn’t think it’d go well, but it might be funny.
“It’s not hurting anyone if you just get married for love, even if it’s not official,” Musha goes on. “Everybody knows that we won’t last that long, so if it makes us happy and it’s not insulting our wives, then it’s fine, right?”
“I guess so,” Naoya says. “...So, who’re you going to marry?”
Musha’s face turns bright red in a second. “I-it’s just a hypothetical question!”
“Oh yeah?” Naoya grins and pokes Musha in the cheek. “You’re pretty red for a ‘hypothetical question’.”
“Ugh, Shiga, you’re the worst!” Musha pulls his own jacket off so that he can cover his blushing face with it. He groans, somewhat muffled. “The worst.”
“That’s fine,” Naoya says, knowing that Musha doesn’t really mean it. “Let me know when the wedding is, I want to be in the wedding party even if I’m the worst.”
Musha peeks out at him. “As if I could get married without you there.”