Kingdom Hearts fic: A Show of Good Faith

[mistressofmuses]

Summary: The alliance between Radiant Garden and Destiny Islands is new, and still tenuous. To try and strengthen those ties, as a "show of good faith", it has been promised that Kairi, princess of Radiant Garden, will marry someone from Destiny Islands. Since the islands don't have a royal family, they have instead sent five eligible suitors, in the hopes that one of them will make for a peaceful match.

Day 23 of AU-gust: Arranged Marriage
I confess that I'm not entirely happy with this one. I love a good arranged marriage AU, but I love them best as slow burns, and the fic-a-day format isn't terribly conducive to that. So my thought was to try for a more lighthearted take on the trope, which turned into the sort of high-stakes faux "The Bachelorette"/sort-of reverse-harem type story. But I still just couldn't fit it into a oneshot, so this is really just kind of an intro to a fic that needs a lot more work, haha.
If you're interested, I put some notes at the end about where I would want the fic to go after this, since I don't think it's likely I'll actually write it. But never say never; I might rewrite it into something that looks a little more like I was envisioning.

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( A Show of Good Faith )