text🌻seeking legal advice

[multidisciplinary]

Type: Text (backdated to before Farplane event)
Sender ID: Anonymous
To: Public
Subject: Seeking legal advice
Warnings: None

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Hello.

I am in need of legal advice regarding a private matter:

Is a marriage contract legally binding if one or more parties involved were under the influence of spiritual possession while it was officiated?

Thank you for your assistance.

Comments

voice;

[desirestruth]

I am half-dead.

[Naeva you can't just tell people that. Naeva--]

...A dhampir. And the Forest Guardian; the living and the dead are my protection.

[A longer pause.]

Did the ghosts have you stand as proxies to them, or did they make you feel as though the wedding was your idea?

[multidisciplinary]

[ Half-dead......

That

seems like it must be very complicated from a legal standpoint. ]

We stood in as proxies, but the intensity of their emotions effected our own.

[ It was a very... illuminating experience. ]

[desirestruth]

[Oh Zelda that's not even the worst part about Naeva's legal status.]

That is complicated. If it had simply been standing in as proxies, most legal offices would understand needing to annul anything binding the proxies.

But if it has brought your own feelings into the matter, it may be embarrassing to explain you were, mmm, intoxicated and wish to rescind what appeared as consent.

[multidisciplinary]

[ YEAH, THIS SURE HAS BROUGHT A LOT OF HER OWN FEELINGS INTO THE MATTER. Intoxicated definitely wasn't one of them though. ]

That would be inaccurate, though. I was not intoxicated nor do I wish to rescind consent.

[ Rescinding consent feels like it would imply that Zelda regrets what happened, which she doesn't. She just... doesn't want to be legally married. ]

[desirestruth]

[.......it's like you can hear her head tilt.]

Do you like the person you married, then?

[multidisciplinary]

[ Yes she knows how that sounds.]

Considerably. And I wish to be closer to them. But marriage is a commitment that I am not free to make at this time.

[desirestruth]

And why not? We return to our worlds exactly to the time and spot we left them, with no memory of it; you may as well make your time here count while you can.

[multidisciplinary]

How can you be certain of that?

[desirestruth]

Because I've been here before.

[multidisciplinary]

[ wut ]

...As in figuratively, you have been in a situation like this before, or literally, you have traveled to this world once before?

[desirestruth]

I was in this world...as the calendar here tells it, about a year ago. But I returned to the moment I left, and frankly, not very long passed at at home before I found the bottle again.

[multidisciplinary]

And you did not recall your stay here when you returned? Not even parts of it?

[ New worry unlocked: forgetting this world when she goes home. ]

[desirestruth]

Nothing at all, until I came back.

[multidisciplinary]

You regained your memories when you returned here?

[ That is at least a little reassuring... despite being in conflict with what Cid is saying. ]

[desirestruth]

Yes. Thought they are foggy, as though remembering a dream.