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Ragnar(ssons) || Not My Type
Ohh, Ragnarssons headcanon idea. How do they handle being in an arranged marriage, and finding out their wife isn’t physically attracted to them? Like, for whatever reason, they’re just not her type?
A/N: Some of these feature Northwomen and others feature Saxon women. The only gif that isn’t mine is Sigurds… and I think that’s @lol-haha-joke? You tell me babe.
Ragnar Lodbrok
- You’re substantially younger than him.
- He takes you as a second with to Aslaug in keeping the peace between Ecbert and he.
- You’re terrified by the big, bad Viking that you’ve always heard from Aethelwulf.
- His marital night features you squeaking and running away around the bed.
- Ragnar plops on his bed and looks over to you lazily, arms behind his head. Ragnar isn’t at all intimidated by your fear for him, reasoning that at some point you will come around.
- “You don’t have to like me but it will make for a long, long life, (Y/N).”
- He did promise to take good care of you after all– and gave Aethelwulf that cocky sneer.
Bjorn Ironside
- As a man that has never had issues finding a woman– he doesn’t understand what is so unattractive about him.
- He is clean, he cares for his hair and is the typical blond haired, bearded Viking.
- Quite often lays in bed, expecting that one day she’ll come around.
- But she never seems to come around.
- He finds her one day peering out of Alfred’s villa to Ubbe and Torvi sparing with one another and convinces himself that it is Ubbe.
- He’s heard her sneaking out at night and leaving their bed.
- “He is married.” He says.
- “It’s not him I’m looking at.” She replies.
- She wants his ex wife?
Ubbe
- Marries the girl from Alfred’s request that he try to acclimate into Saxon society.
- Becoming Christian was only the start– now, he tries to impress the woman to bring her into his bed.
- She informs him that he will never be English and… well, of course he knows that. He is Viking.
- Nor his smart tongue, his loving caresses upon her thigh seem to do the trick. She rolls over away from him at night.
- And some nights, she isn’t in his bed at all.
- He later finds out why when Alfred tugs her into his chambers late at night.
- Sneering from his embarrassment, he turns away.
- He could have done with this information.
Hvitserk
- Ivar sets the arrangement between his brother and Harald’s only daughter.
- Hvitserk doesn’t know if Ivar knows how he felt about you prior to the marriage– but this is his dream come true!
- Because he truly always has loved you.
- You avoid him during the marital night and every night after that.
- When he finally asks you why– you smile and motion to his soft, prickly chin.
- “You’re hairless like a babe.”
- Why was it so hard to grow a beard?
Sigurd Snake in the Eye
- You make it clear early on that Sigurd isn’t your first pick.
- But if it had to be arranged– it had to be arranged!
- Tells his mother that this woman was the worst possible choice for him. That she should not have been so overbearing as to push them into a marriage for alliance.
- It finally comes out that he’s shaggy like a sheep when Sigurd attempts to sit you down and ask what exactly he can do to fix it.
- “If you were cuter like Ivar, perhaps I might be able to deal with your hair.”
- A roll of his eyes, of course, it was always Ivar.
Ivar the Boneless
- Fell in love at first sight of you twirling around in the streets with a basket of fruit. Your sweetness with the children, your passion for caring for mad, crazy Margrethe.
- Immediately propositions your father for marriage with a heimen fyglia and morgenfigu that would be stupid to reject.
- He hears how charming you find Hvitserk.
- How handsome Hvitserk is.
- How sweet Hvitserk is.
- So he snaps.
- Following Margrethe’s death, he can’t help notice how fearful you are when his fingers run across your hips or when he kisses the back of your palm.
- Why don’t you love him? Why can’t you love him?
- “Will you hurt me too?”
