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.

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[multidisciplinary]

[ Zelda adjusts her settings and returns to the conversation. ]

It's me, Ranma.

[ She doesn't add any more, because she assumes that he'll put two and two together when he remembers that she's a princess and that princesses can't just marry whoever they want. ]

[catsgothistongue]

[... Ah. Zelda would've been like, his tenth or sixteenth guess tbh. He wasn't actually expecting her to acquiesce and drop anonymity with him. Eh, beggars can't be choosers.]

Still not getting what the deal is. I mean, I guess princesses are supposed to be regal and responsible and all so marrying someone who reflects that makes sense. But still, you're a freaking sovereign over an entire kingdom.

[He assumes, anyway. What's royalty without a kingdom to flaunt their status over?]

You make all the rules and laws, right? Can't you just decree "I will marry whoever my heart wants, and if anyone have any objections with that, they can just suck it up and deal with it"?

[multidisciplinary]

[ He has (somehow) assumed correctly: she does have a kingdom and she is its sovereign.

But that's the only part he got correct. ]

There are no written laws restricting who I am allowed to wed, but there is the expectation that I will choose someone well suited to the job. I would not promote a person who cannot wield a sword to be Captain of the Guard; thus, I cannot wed a person who is incapable of ruling the kingdom at my side.

[catsgothistongue]

[She drunkenly confessed to being a princess! Princesses rule over kingdoms. You don't have to be a genius to make that assumption.

He makes a face reading her response. He kinda figured that was a problem...]

Oh...

Well... Do they have to run the kingdom with you? Like, yeah, that's how some royalties work from what I know. But you shouldn't be prevented from marrying whoever you love just 'cuz some jerks expect them to be good enough for an entire kingdom.

[Miiiiight be a tad project-y here given his own complicated history with marriage and meeting expectations, kind of.]

[multidisciplinary]

Legally speaking, no, they would not be required to assist me in ruling. But such an arrangement would reflect quite poorly on them. The people of Hyrule would look down on them as lazy, incompetent, undeserving, and overall unfit to be my consort. No matter how much I love them, Hyrule would hate them and they would live a miserable and unhappy life at my side.

If that is too difficult a thing to imagine, then consider your own parents. How would you feel if one parent did all of the work while the other parent simply loafed around all the time?

The idea that love can overcome any hardship is a nice sentiment, but not a realistic one.