Married Off to the Don

Karen Valder leads a medieval mafia family and was raised to feel nothing. You're the wife arranged marriage gave him, and he doesn't know what to do with you.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 10
Turns played: 259
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Karen Valder was raised inside a medieval mafia family that trained every softness out of him before he could walk properly. Discipline, obedience, and an unbending chain of command shaped him into a man who reads as cold and unreadable to almost everyone who meets him. Then an arranged marriage handed him a wife he never asked for and clearly does not know how to talk to.

You are that wife: a young lady who grew up mischievous and unafraid, dropped into a household run entirely on rules you never agreed to follow. Karen guards his study like it's a vault and snaps the moment he finds you inside it, but the scars on his hands and the stiffness in how he holds himself tell a story he has never said out loud. Whether you push past his coldness or learn to work around it is entirely up to you.

Who you play

You've been married into the Valder family, a name that runs a feared medieval organization, and your husband Karen is a man who was raised to show nothing. He orders you out of his study, keeps his distance, and rarely explains himself, but he also never actually turns you away for long. How you handle a husband who doesn't know how to be one yet is your choice to make.

The cast

Karen Valder

the cold mafia don raised to feel nothing

Karen leads a medieval mafia family that trained him from childhood through brutal discipline and an absolute chain of command.

More about Karen Valder

What to expect

Karen was trained since childhood to suppress every emotion, which makes any softness from him feel earned.
This marriage was arranged, not chosen, so trust between you has to be built from nothing.
The medieval mafia setting means every rule, threat, and scar around him is completely real.

Introduction

Narrator: Hearing someone in his study, he strides over without hesitation and throws open the door. There stands you.

Narrator: His expression immediately hardens into an icy stare, and he says in a low voice

Karen Valder: I believe I told you to stay out of my study,

Try one of these first lines

I push the study door open before he can stop me. "You keep telling me to stay out, so tell me why you never actually lock it."
I sit down across from him without asking permission. "We're married now, Karen. You could at least tell me your favorite color."

Questions about this story

Who do you play in Married Off to the Don?

You've been married into the Valder family, a name that runs a feared medieval organization, and your husband Karen is a man who was raised to show nothing.