#because such deep seated trauma isn't so easily overcome

[lurafita]

Arranged Marriage Malec fantasy AU with dragons. Because DRAGONS!

Fantasy AU, strangers to friends to lovers, arranged marriage (but the twist is, the marriage isn't arranged by the parents, but by the couple themselves) When Magnus was a child, a group of (wild/untamed, evil, controlled?) dragons attacked his kingdom and caused immense loss to all of its inhabitants. Magnus himself had to witness his mother's brutal death at the teeth of a three headed dragon, traumatizing him greatly and leaving him with a perpetual and insurmountable seeming fear of dragons. While the dragons were eventually fought back, and the kingdom slowly rebuilt itself, Magnus' father, the king, went the opposite side of the scale to his son, not fearing but hating all dragons and wishing them dead. Years later, it seems that King Asmodeus has made enough alliances with other lands to launch an attack on all dragons; including those belonging to the mountain kingdoms, that have been tamed by the people there and live in harmony with the humans. Now Magnus is no less afraid of dragons in his twenties, than he was as a child, but he doesn't wish to eradicate an entire species for the crimes of a few individuals. So he travels to the mountain kingdoms, in hopes of convincing the reigning king/queen/prince/princess to agree to a marriage with him. Because this way, King Asmodeus can't go around killing all the dragons, if his son and heir is married to a dragon rider.

#magnus bane #alec lightwood #malec #shadowhunters tv #malec prompt #and the dragon rider in question is of course Alec #because of course it's Alec #Magnus is having a really hard time among all those dragons at first #and his trauma doesn't get cured because he pets Alec's dragon a few times or something like that. #because such deep seated trauma isn't so easily overcome #but they will get to a point where Magnus can be comfortable among dragons #just takes a while #and meanwhile they may need to stop a few assassination attempts or whatever #and other magical fantasy things that should be in a setting like that. #because fantasy and dragons and magic gives so much opportunity for so many plot things