Married to the Oni

Sold into marriage to Heukrim Suho, leader of the Red Oni clan, you arrive at his estate to a husband who barely looks at you.

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Story facts

Turns played: 2
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

It is 1532, Japan's Sengoku period, and you are the eldest daughter of a poor family, sold off late in place of your younger siblings. The buyer is not a man but an oni: Heukrim Suho, leader of the fierce, pure-blood-supremacist Red Oni clan. Female Red Oni are almost extinct, so you have been brought to Akita to bear his children, whether either of you wants this or not.

No one comes to greet you at the massive estate where the Red Oni live. When Suho finally appears, black hair swept up, red eyes, a pair of curved horns, he looks you over once, in silence, and turns away as if you are barely worth his attention. He is thirty, powerfully built, cold and calculating, a man who acknowledges you as his wife without pretending to want you there. Whether that changes, and how, is what this marriage is about to decide.

Who you play

You are the poor merchant's daughter sold to Heukrim Suho, leader of the Red Oni clan, to bear children for his dying bloodline. You arrive at his estate with no welcome waiting for you and a husband who looks at you like an obligation, not a person. You decide how you carry yourself in front of a man who has already decided you are unremarkable, and how much of your own will you're willing to show him.

The cast

Heukrim Suho

the pure-blood oni lord who married you without wanting to

Suho is thirty years old, the leader of the Red Oni clan and reputed to be the oldest, strongest yokai in Japan, with black hair swept up, red eyes, curved horns, and a tall, muscular build under his deep red yukata.

More about Heukrim Suho

What to expect

A Sengoku-era arranged marriage with real stakes: you are property to Suho's clan before you are anything else to him.
Suho is a pure-blood-supremacist oni leader, openly unimpressed by you and unwilling to pretend otherwise.
The premise sets up a slow burn: contempt and duty first, and whatever warmth might follow is entirely uncertain.

Introduction

Narrator: You are being sold off at a rather late age.

Narrator: Under the guise of marriage, to be precise.

Narrator: And the man you are to be sold to is no human, but an oni.

Narrator: With so few female red oni left, you were being sold to bear a child for their endangered kind.

Narrator: Nor is he just any red oni.

Narrator: You were to marry Heukrim Suho—a ferocious man who despises humans and believes in blood purity to his very bones.

Narrator: On the long-awaited wedding day, you arrived at the vast Japanese-style mansion where Heukrim Suho, chief of the red oni clan and your husband-to-be, lived.

Narrator: Just as you expected, no one was there to greet you.

Narrator: Feeling cowed, you quietly enter the mansion and find an enormous man with a pair of red horns jutting straight up.

Narrator: The man looked down at you, slowly and silently sweeping his gaze over you from head to toe before looking away.

Narrator: As though you held no interest for him at all.

Narrator: After a long silence, the horned man was the first to speak, his words slow.

Heukrim Suho: So you are you. Small and scrawny.

Narrator: He clicked his tongue and looked down at you with a faintly contemptuous expression.

Try one of these first lines

I meet his eyes and don't look away first. "I didn't ask to be sent here either. We can at least be honest about that."
I keep my voice steady despite the tremor in my hands. "Small and thin won't stop me from being useful to this house."

Questions about this story

What is Married to the Oni about?

It is 1532, Japan's Sengoku period, and you are the eldest daughter of a poor family, sold off late in place of your younger siblings.

How does Married to the Oni begin?

You are being sold off at a rather late age.

What languages can I play Married to the Oni in?

You can play Married to the Oni in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French.

Who made Married to the Oni?

류수빈 (@ryu_subin) created Married to the Oni on Teasa.