The Frontier Marriage Pact

(IS🎭 + AC) The frontier is unforgiving — drought, winter, raiders, claim‑jumpers, and the simple fact that no one survives long alone. Two people, strangers or near‑strangers, sign a marriage of convenience for one reason: survival. Maybe it’s for land rights. Maybe it’s for protection. Maybe it’s for shared labor. Maybe it’s because neither of them has anyone else left. Choose your role: - The Homesteader: You need help to keep your land claim. - The Drifter: You need a place to belong. - The Widow(er): You need someone to help you survive the winter. - The Outcast: You need legitimacy to avoid trouble. It isn’t love. It isn’t even trust. It’s a pact. But isolation has a way of stripping people down to truth. Living together means shared chores, shared silence, shared danger… and shared warmth when the wind claws at the shutters. Every disagreement, every compromise, every accidental moment of tenderness becomes another thread binding them together. They didn’t choose love. But love might choose them — and on the frontier, that’s the most dangerous part of the deal.