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Childhood Marriage Promise

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Childhood Marriage Promise	comment	A common staple of stories featuring Childhood Friends is the Childhood Marriage Promise. Years ago, when two of the main characters were small children, they promised to marry each other when they grew up. Now they're in High School or college, and She Is All Grown Up. Sometimes, the couple fall in love for real and they finally fulfill that promise. Other times, one of them is the Unlucky Childhood Friend whose heart gets broken. A slight variation, one that usually comes up in Fantasy or Sci-Fi anime, is where the boy promises to always protect the girl (which, in the traditional sense of marriage, is pretty much the same thing). See Bodyguard Crush. See also Declaration of Protection, which can be read both ways. Often arises in a Forgotten First Meeting scenario. The Childhood Marriage Promise is often made in the shadow of The World Tree. Compare Puppy Love, which may lead to this. When it's the parents who make such an agreement, you have the decidedly-less-heartwarming Arranged Marriage. When two adults make such a deferred arrangement in order to avoid being single in old age, it's a Fallback Marriage Pact.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_17d4d1a5	comment	A flashback in episode 114 of Tamagotchi reveals that when they were younger, Spacytchi promised to his friend Himespetchi that he would become the king of Tamagotchi Planet and make her his queen. When she arrives on Tamagotchi Planet, Himespetchi takes one look at Mametchi and immediately falls head over heels in love with him, and much to the chagrin of Spacytchi she forgets about him.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_1a80880b	comment	In Bloody Jack, Jacky and Jaimy promised to get married someday back when they were children on the Dolphin. They still intend to go through with it, despite being totally unsuited for each other.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_1b386512	comment	It eventually turns out that Ranma and Ukyo in Ranma ½ have one of these, made when Ukyo tried to make some of her family's okonomiyaki sauce while they were kids. She promised to let Ranma taste it when it finished aging after ten years, if Ranma would vow to "look after her for the rest of her life" if it turned out good. Of course, at the time, Ranma didn't know either that Ukyo was actually a girl or what he was promising, and through a lot of confusion the promise ends up being broken when it comes up again. Unfortunately for Ranma, Genma and Ukyo's father had brokered an Arranged Marriage shortly after he and Ukyo made their Childhood Marriage Promise (which Genma tried to run out on), meaning Ukyo still persists that she has a claim to his hand. Because she does. This is further complicated by the fact that Genma has promised Ranma's hand in marriage to several girls (and in the anime to a couple others as well) because he's a jerk.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_1ccbdec0	comment	In Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, the goal of the game is to revive your dead grandfather's old farm that you spent a summer at as a child. While there, you met a girl who you promised to come back for and marry. The girl always turns out to be the bachelorette you marry.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_1d698aef	comment	Vampire Knight: Slightly averted with Yuuki and Kaname, where their lineage expects a Kuran born son and daughter to marry each other upon reaching adult age, as is custom to most pureblood lineages.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_1e534a03	comment	In Otaku no Musume-san, Nozomi and Niichi made one as children in the same orphanage. It fell apart and the fallout drives much of the plot.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_1f3a6595	comment	In World Conquest Zvezda Plot, it's revealed in a flashback that Jimon Asuta proposed marriage to Shirasagi Miki when they were both children. She turned him down, and only brings it up in the present to embarrass him.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_25f6f1a0	comment	A variant in Umineko: When They Cry: Battler Ushiromiya promised to the maid Shannon that he would "come back to take her away on a white horse." She remembered it and waited desperately. He didn't return to the island for six years and completely forgot about it; not only did he have a falling out with his father for marrying too soon after his mother's death and decided to leave the family, but he also didn't take his own promise to Shannon as seriously as she did. It snowballed into a horrible tragedy for the Ushiromiya family.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_2a505210	comment	The Princess Wei Young: Tuoba Jun and Chang Le promised to get married when they're grown up. After they grow up Tuoba Jun no longer wants to marry Chang Le, but she still wants to marry him.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Happens in some Fire Emblem supports: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Priscilla and Raven, which looks kinda cute until the player realizes that they're siblings. Priscilla perfectly knows that it's not a binding promise at all and that Raven would never marry her, but since they have been apart for many years, she yearns for him to stay by her side now that they've been reunited. In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, the teenaged Amelia can give similar promises to either of her similarly-aged prospect boyfriends, in their A Supports: she can promise Ross to help him Doomed Hometown, tell Ewan that they'll go Walking the Earth together, and give Franz a Declaration of Protection that he reciprocates: In Fire Emblem Fates, Female Kana (anywhere around 10 to 13) and Kiragi (probably just a little older) can make one if they reach a S support.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_32c541e6	comment	Played with in Fullmetal Alchemist, when Alphonse asks Edward if he remembers the time when they fought over who would marry Winry. Al won the fight but she rejected both of them saying "I don't like guys who are shorter than me." Incidentally, by the end of the series Ed is now (slightly) taller than Winry.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_38f3c448	comment	In Aggressors of Dark Kombat, Kisarah Westfield's reason to enter the ADK tournament is that she wants Joe Kusanagi to acknowledge the one they made as children. She succeeds, but only in her own ending. And in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_39f7e793	comment	10-year-old Tommy Bangs and Annie "Nan" Harding plan to get married in Little Men; ten years later in Jo's Boys, Nan can't believe Tom still expects her to go through with it. They don't; she remains unmarried but happy as a Hot Librarian, and Tommy marries his other suitor Dora.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_3f178529	comment	A bonus story in ½ Prince shows that Zhou/Wicked fell in love with Lan when she (then twelve) asked her to marry him.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin offers twice to Susie to not date her. The first time, he's insulted that she signs so quick, the second she pummels him for suggesting it will take her eleven years to find a prom date.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_4141af74	comment	In Future Diary, this is what caused Yuno to become obsessed with Yukiteru. Two years before the events of the series, Yuno asked to marry him, and Yuki, not taking it seriously, said that they could get married when they got older. Yuki forgot all about this, but Yuno sure didn't...
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_45c1603d	comment	Isabelle of Paris: Jean has been asking Isabelle to marry him ever since they were young, in spite of her constant rejections. One flashback from when they were children has this hilarious exchange:
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_495f277f	comment	Hayate and Athena from Hayate the Combat Butler. They promised to spend the rest of their lives together and even gave each other promise rings. Izumi promised to be his bride as well.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_4a3437ef	comment	Virginia and Jacob in Magical Diary made one as children, complete with a marriage contract written in crayon. If the player pursues Virginia, then her brother Donald will dig up the contract on Valentine's Day and send it to her as a joke. The problem is that in this universe, the sworn promise of a witch or wizard is magically binding, and someone who breaks a promise will permanently lose their magical powers. So because of this promise, Virginia and Jacob actually have to get married once they turn eighteen. Virginia is not happy about this, but if the player makes the right choices, they can offer to marry Virginia instead.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_4ab17360	comment	In the anime version of Inuyasha, Koga lightheartedly promises to marry wolf-girl (and granddaughter of a very powerful wolf youkai whom he quite respects) Ayame, then still a young child, after he saves her from being killed. She reappears all grown-up and demands he fulfill his promise, but he's already in a Love Triangle with Kagome and Inu Yasha. Even worse, the poor guy doesn't remember a thing about it, and Ayame not only is hurt and angry as Hell with quite the reason, but Kagome is pissed at him too because she supports Ayame's bid for Koga's affections. (Though it's hinted that Koga fakes not remembering, since he doesn't want Ayame to become Naraku's target) By the end of the series, Koga finally fulfills his promise to Ayame, and they're Happily Married.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_4fae3df1	comment	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, somewhat complicated by the fact that she's not the first girl he was ever engaged to. And that Becky gets PISSED when she finds out.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_522810ef	comment	The Grand Duke (1896) has plot involving dueling to the technical death by cutting a deck of cards is a bit Yu-Gi-Oh! to make the subject of a proto-musical. Suffice to say that Ludwig is saddled with all the commitments of the people he beats at cards, and they turn out to involve a lot of romantic ones. Once he's been forced to marry his third wife... well, it seems like he should have skipped that third one, when the woman the Grand Duke was engaged to in infancy shows up.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_52ef161a	comment	In DC Nation, the "42 Days" Flashback. Forty-two days into sobriety, homeless, and with nowhere else to go, Roy shows up on Donna's doorstep.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_530f42e7	comment	Twelve-year-olds Sam and Suzy get unofficially married in Moonrise Kingdom.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_55be9c9d	comment	In the Harvest Moon 64 fanfic Wine Red no Kokoro, Karen and Jack met at age five while Jack was vacationing at his grandfather's farm. When Jack left Flowerbud to go back home he promised that he'd marry Karen when he grew up. Jack remembers Karen and comes back years later, but Karen has trouble remembering her childhood friend's face and doesn't recognize Jack at first.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_568a8237	comment	The Laughing Target has a Childhood Marriage Promise that jump starts the plot. One partner's determination to uphold the promise is shown to be creepy and unhealthy and that's on top of her being a Yandere with supernatural powers. It's not cute and romantic.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3 one of the Social Links ending involves a little girl (Maiko) who promises to marry the High School protagonist when the time comes. In FES the protagonist may later on be met by her father, who heard of this from a letter from his daughter and accuses you of trying to pull Wife Husbandry. Not that it matters because you die within the next two days.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5921531b	comment	If the player maxes out his cousin Nanako Doujima's Social Link, at the end of Persona 4, on the last day before you leave the town Nanako will promise to marry you when she grows up. Her father Ryotaro for the most part laughs it off as something she's just saying because she'll miss you, but he makes it clear that she is off-limits no matter what age any of you are. However, if you maxed out Doujima's Social Link as well... well, he's going to hold you to that.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5b8afa32	comment	Implied, but not directly said in GaoGaiGar, when Hana reminds Mamoru about a promise they made when they were young (er) children. Mamoru can only blush in response. Of course, they're all but dating as it is.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5c81b025	comment	One sidequest in Yo-Kai Watch has you fetching a ring for a little boy who wants to propose to his "girlfriend." The sidequest is even called "Marry Me Someday?"
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5d0ec112	comment	Makoto proposed to Inori when they were little kids in Shiny Days. For him, it was some sort of weird power grab. If he combines his father's hospital with her family's status in town, together they could rule the world.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5d5f4f88	comment	In True Love Junai Monogatari, there was one between the main character and the local Tsundere and Patient Childhood Love Interest, Mikae Morikawa. The Player Character, as a little boy, repeteadly swore that he'd make Mikae his bride; as they grow up, he never really forgets it... and if he pursues Mikae, he's surprised to learn that she not only remembers it, but deep down she has always been hoping he would bring it up and ask her to fill it wit him.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5e3f6639	comment	Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: A Lonely Rich Kid, in his attempt to woo Chidori, tells her about a recent tragedy that has shattered his spirit. His tale begins as a clichéd romance thwarted by a terrible car accident. Then it turns out that the 'tragedy' is that the girl in question eloped with a boy she met in the accident, and moved to Amsterdam. He still gets postcards.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5f47ffa9	comment	Chihiro and Ritsuko in Kujibiki♡Unbalance. Of course, considering the source, it's an Affectionate Parody.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_5ff059fa	comment	In The Wolverine, Mariko jokes that she was going to marry Harada, but couldn't because they weren't fifteen.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_61aecf6a	comment	In Fiddler on the Roof, Motel tells Tevye that he and Tzeitel, as children, "gave each other a pledge" that they would marry each other. (They still want to marry, but tradition requires that Tevye, as Tzeitel's father, approve the marriage; his mention of the pledge is part of his attempt to convince Tevye to give his permission.)
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_61d3b6b8	comment	Fly Me to the Moon begins with Nasa falling in love with Tsukasa upon seeing her for the first time, and she agrees on the condition that he marry her first and then disapears. When Nasa turns eighteen, Tsukasa shows up on his doorstep with marriage documents in hand. Unlike most examples, only a few years pass between the promise and actual marriage.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_63398d01	comment	In the Halo: Evolutions story Palace Hotel, it is revealed that John-117 (Halo's Master Chief) had a childhood friend named Parisa. The two became friends after John saved her from drowning in a lake, and later John promised to marry her and keep her safe. He was never able to keep it, however, as he was abducted two weeks later for the SPARTAN-II Program and replaced with a flash clone which died not long after. Due to this, Parisa believed that John had died, though she kept with her a picture of herself and John taken by their parents. Years later, John would meet her again during the Battle of New Mombasa. At the time, Parisa was holding the picture of herself and John as children as seen here◊. Just as John was intending to remind Parisa to not bring personal items to a combat zone, he recognized the picture. Parisa, obviously not recognizing John because of his armor, explained the story behind the picture to him and said that although it was silly and John was "dead," she intended to hold him to that promise. Despite the sudden flood of memories, John couldn't bring himself to reveal who he was, knowing that doing so would be a massive security breach. Instead he maintained his stoic facade and the two of them began planning a counterattack against the Covenant.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6463ad3c	comment	Yuuto of Omamori Himari had made the Declaration of Protection (or more accurately, I Will Definitely Watch Your Back, as they were planning to be demon hunters, and her spells only go forward) version to Kuesu in his youth while their families worked out a betrothal between them. Then they separate for about a decade. When they next meet, he had completely forgotten her, completely rethought his views on demon hunting, and acquired an Unwanted Harem, most of whom are members of the demon races that they had originally planned to exterminate in their youth (And which Kuesu still wanted to do). It makes for a rather bumpy reunion.
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Omamori Himari (Manga)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6463ad3c
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67b09f9	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67b09f9	comment	Sanpeita, the protagonist of Kemeko Deluxe! made one ten years ago with a girl he knew. Ten years later, a girl who looks strangely like her in some sort of Powered Armor returns to protect him...and also claims to be his wife.
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Kemeko Deluxe! (Manga)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67b09f9
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67ce11f9	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67ce11f9	comment	In Toshiie to Matsu, Matsu and Toshiie promise themselves to each other when Matsu is quite young (one source says she was only 11-ish at the time).
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Toshiie to Matsu	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67ce11f9
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67ce5a04	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67ce5a04	comment	In Fire Emblem Fates, Female Kana (anywhere around 10 to 13) and Kiragi (probably just a little older) can make one if they reach a S support.
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Fire Emblem Fates (Video Game)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_67ce5a04
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6ce283b4	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6ce283b4	comment	In Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson, Hetty's older foster brother Jem promises to marry her when they are grown up so that she can rejoin the family after being sent back to the Foundling Hospital. A modern-day version happens in Kiss, where Sylvie and Carl had such a promise as children, but Carl comes out as gay.
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Hetty Feather	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6ce283b4
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6cfd29d4	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6cfd29d4	comment	Princess Ida devotes an entire song, "Ida Was a Twelve-month Old," to this:
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Princess Ida (Theatre)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6cfd29d4
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6e2c4a7d	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6e2c4a7d	comment	Sleepless Domain: A flashback shows that Carina and Amahle went a step above such a promise by declaring themselves already married, much to the confusion of their third grade teacher. They eventually drifted apart, but they end up being reunited upon awakening as magical girls — as they realized soon after meeting, their magical girl identities form a thematic duo, and the two girls have been Sickeningly Sweethearts ever since.
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Sleepless Domain (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_6e2c4a7d
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7041cf12	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7041cf12	comment	It's revealed late in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War that Mikado had promised to take Kaguya away from the Shinomiya Family and make all her dreams come true when the were kids. Unfortunately, the fact that they came from Feuding Families means that they wouldn't have a chance to interact again for the next decade, by which point Kaguya (convinced that Mikado had forgotten his promise) had fallen in love with and entered a relationship with Shirogane. She ends up having to gently turn down his renewed confession, and while he does accept her decision, it's obviously painful for him.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_70a86caa	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_70a86caa	comment	In a bit of a twist, in The Five Star Stories, Lachesis promises to marry Ladios/Amaterasu when she's 10 or so... and he's over 100. But then, he's a god, she's an Artificial Human (and possibly an incarnation of a goddess) & they're both immortal, so it's not nearly as Squicky as it sounds.
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The Five Star Stories (Manga)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_70a86caa
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_72e9fe23	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_72e9fe23	comment	In Amnesia: Memories, it's revealed on Shin's route that the heroine tried to make a childhood marriage promise to Toma but Shin took advantage of Toma's moment of hesitation to accept the promise instead. And Toma still hasn't gotten over Shin beating him out for the heroine's affections over a decade later...
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Amnesia: Memories (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_72e9fe23
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7440e4b3	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7440e4b3	comment	In Tomodachi Life, kid Miis can't get married, but they still can fall in love. Instead of proposing marriage to their sweetheart like adults do, kid Miis instead promise to get married when they become grown-ups (a process you can accelerate by spraying them with Age-o-Matic Spray).
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Tomodachi Life (Video Game)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7440e4b3
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_74f7210c	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Link has found himself engaged in this way to the Zora Princess Ruto (who does grow up to be rather easy on the eyes) in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the Maku Tree in Oracle of Ages, even though he never really agreed in either case. Also in Ocarina of Time, Talon brings up the idea of engaging Link to his daughter Malon. Link can actually say yes, but either way Talon claims to be just kidding. In Majora's Mask, Kafei and Anju had one of these, promising each other to exchange wedding masks on the day of the Carnival of Time which according to Termina tradition was the best day for couples to be married. The promise proves so meaningful that Kafei refuses to reunite with Anju without retrieving his wedding mask (the Sun's Mask) from Sakon, who stole it shortly before the events of the game began.
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The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_74f7210c
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_757db8ce	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_757db8ce	comment	Haru proposed this to the protagonist Kyousuke when they met as children in The Devil on G-String. Though they were not married by the end of the game, Haru giving birth to Kyousuke's daughter pretty much unofficially set their relationship & marriage in stone
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_78e27fa7	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_78e27fa7	comment	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Priscilla and Raven, which looks kinda cute until the player realizes that they're siblings. Priscilla perfectly knows that it's not a binding promise at all and that Raven would never marry her, but since they have been apart for many years, she yearns for him to stay by her side now that they've been reunited.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7a12fa31	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7a12fa31	comment	The live-action segment of one episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! plays with this: Mario receives a letter from one "Roxanne," reminding him of "his promise" made 15 years prior. Mario and Luigi are both assuming it's along the lines of this trope, but at the end it's revealed that Roxanne is already married with five kids; Mario's promise was instead to sell her plumbing supplies at wholesale price.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7a816d8d	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7a816d8d	comment	In Muv-Luv Extra, Takeru made one with Meiya, but has since forgotten about it.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7ac0e0b0	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7ac0e0b0	comment	I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: When Cal was four, he promised to Tammy, his best friend, that they'd get married when they're old enough.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7c4e51e1	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7c4e51e1	comment	A childhood friend of Mary Jo's turns up in one episode of Designing Women to remind her of their CMP. She seriously considers it.
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Designing Women	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7c4e51e1
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7d369e0a	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7d369e0a	comment	Brother Bear 2 is based on an accidental version—as children, Kenai gave a necklace to his friend, Nita, and the two swore to be best friends forever, despite living in different villages. Apparently the spirits considered them betrothed now, because years later they interrupt Nita's wedding, and won't allow the new marriage unless she tracks down Kenai and performs a ritual to annul the agreement. In the end, it's revealed that spirits had sent them on the quest in order for them to fall back in love. The spirits certainly work In Mysterious Ways.
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Brother Bear 2	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7d369e0a
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7f8a38b6	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7f8a38b6	comment	According to some side materials, a very young Dorothy Catalonia from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing made one with her distant cousin and her father's favorite pupil, Treize Krushrenada. We don't know if Dorothy actually wanted Treize to fulfill it, though she did show affection for him. And considering that he died at the end of the series...
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_7f8a38b6
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_805e8b39	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_805e8b39	comment	In Maison Ikkoku, Yusaku Godai made such a promise with his cousin Akira, who in the present day is taking care of Yusaku while he's in the hospital with a broken leg. He's worried that she remembers the promise and will try to keep it, but actually she's secretly engaged to another guy who she's planning to elope with.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_807128c0	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_807128c0	comment	This trope's central to the plot of The Gondoliers
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The Gondoliers (Theatre)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_807128c0
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_81ed311	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_81ed311	comment	The Nerd teases this when Rick spins a story about proposing marriage to an 8 year-old-girl with a necklace and her mother being so mad, leading to him being told it's a very sweet story... and then he reveals he was 30 when he did it.
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The Nerd (Theatre)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_81ed311
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_883f1556	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_883f1556	comment	In East of Eden, Aron promises to marry Abra under a willow tree, and they even act like they are married, but then Aron goes off to war and gets killed. Abra ends up with Cal, Aron's brother, who she had grown to love while Aron was at college.
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East of Eden	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_883f1556
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_89d334a7	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_89d334a7	comment	Infinite Stratos has Ichika promise that when she becomes a better cook, he will eat Rin's sweet-and-sour pork every day. Unfortunately for her, he takes that promise in a literal sense.
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Infinite Stratos	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_89d334a7
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_8ee238c9	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: In Persona 3 one of the Social Links ending involves a little girl (Maiko) who promises to marry the High School protagonist when the time comes. In FES the protagonist may later on be met by her father, who heard of this from a letter from his daughter and accuses you of trying to pull Wife Husbandry. Not that it matters because you die within the next two days. If the player maxes out his cousin Nanako Doujima's Social Link, at the end of Persona 4, on the last day before you leave the town Nanako will promise to marry you when she grows up. Her father Ryotaro for the most part laughs it off as something she's just saying because she'll miss you, but he makes it clear that she is off-limits no matter what age any of you are. However, if you maxed out Doujima's Social Link as well... well, he's going to hold you to that.
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Persona (Franchise)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_8ee238c9
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_8f20d5f2	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_8f20d5f2	comment	In Mongol, Temudgin, otherwise known as Genghis Khan, picks out his arranged bride, Borte, when he's little. Guess who is his Love Interest and who he obsesses over for the rest of the movie?
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Mongol	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_8f20d5f2
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_90f42a9b	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_90f42a9b	comment	Rand al'Thor and Egwene al'Vere of The Wheel of Time were all-but promised to each other. They each muse on it in their internal monologues as one of the more amusingly nostalgic parts of the world they'd left behind once they'd assumed the mantles of Dragon Reborn and Amyrlin Seat, respectively.
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The Wheel of Time	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_90f42a9b
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9229262e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9229262e	comment	Countess Gwendoline and Roderick in the Douwe Dabbert story Florin the Loafer. Very inconvenient for the villain who wants to marry Gwendoline to become a count.
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Douwe Dabbert / Comicbook	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9229262e
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_93df96	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_93df96	comment	Scout and Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout was based on the author, Harper Lee, while Dill was based on her childhood friend, Truman Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. Incidentally, Capote was gay, and Lee never married.
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To Kill a Mockingbird	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_93df96
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_944191c6	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_944191c6	comment	In Kyo Kara Maoh!, Wolfram accidentally proposed to his childhood friend Elizabeth by smacking her cheek of a bug — only to realize many years later that she took it very seriously — after he'd become accidentally engaged to someone else.
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Kyo Kara Maoh!	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_944191c6
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_97c1f64e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_97c1f64e	comment	In Castlevania 64, in Carrie's bad ending, Malus gets Carrie to make a promise to marry him when the two are old enough... and then ominously says, "Now we have a binding contract..." For those not in the know, Malus is Dracula: essentially, the promise is the cornerstone of Unholy Matrimony and poor Carrie hasn't the faintest idea.
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Castlevania 64 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_97c1f64e
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_98e97d55	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_98e97d55	comment	In Rune Factory 2, the second game in a spin off series of Harvest Moon, in the second half of the game in which you play as your child, you propose and "marry" your boyfriend/girlfriend (s in the case of Serena and her twin, Sera). Though, it's just a promise that you will marry them in the future. Except in Serena and Sera's case when you play as your daughter. You are stopped due to the priest saying how "girls can't get married to each other"(and how the twins just think marriage is one big tea party in the English version).
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Rune Factory 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_98e97d55
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_990ba067	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_990ba067	comment	Tales of Wedding Rings: Shortly after they met, Hime told Sato that the rings she wears around her neck are her wedding rings, and asks him to marry her one day. Once they grew up, he assumed she forgot about this, until he follows her through a portal to another world and finds her about to get married to some guy she's never met. She immediately puts the ring on Sato's finger and kisses him, magically sealing their marriage and making him the Ring King who must fight the Abyssal Lord.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9a55fee7	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9a55fee7	comment	In Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Makoto had supposedly asked Seekvaira Agares over a mecha forum if she wanted to marry him. Makoto had forgotten about this and does a Spit Take when she reminds him of this. Having finally met in person, they agree they are Better as Friends.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9a67b688	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9a67b688	comment	In Case Closed, it seems that a very young Heiji Hattori made one of these. Thing is, it looks like he made it with Momiji, NOT with Kazuha. In the end, it was a mix of The Promise and Accidental Marriage: he promised her something else and she believed it was a future marriage vow. She doesn't take it well, of course.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9e202b7b	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9e202b7b	comment	Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Years ago a drunk Sakaki jokingly agreed to marry the young daughter of a friend if she got him more booze. But now Jenny Grey wants to hold him to that promise.
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Manga)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_9e202b7b
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a309575c	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a309575c	comment	In the episode Jack in the Box of Jonathan Creek, the character of Jack Holiday proposed to his child co-star (implied to be as a joke), but then on returning after ten years, met her again as an adult and married her. He then hires a man to kill her.
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Jonathan Creek	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a309575c
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a4a6b86a	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Code Geass, Nunnally and Euphemia have a good old laugh when they remember the times they fought as children over who would get to marry Lelouch. Considering they are, respectively, his sister and his half-sister, and further considering he has a metric ton of Incest Subtext with Nunnally (lampshaded more than once) and actually calls Euphemia his 'first love', it's probably for the best that they never mention this conversation to him.
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Code Geass	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a4a6b86a
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a54eef52	comment	Hetalia: Axis Powers: Holy Roman Empire to North Italy. Which, if the "Germany is HRE" theory is correct, makes Germany's awkward proposal in the Valentine's Day strip means it gets fulfilled. Another one for North Italy, though this one is a bit weird. When N. Italy and Romano were little kids Spain was an adult already. Spain said he would marry N. Italy when N. Italy grew up (and gay marriage was legal), then Romano got upset wondering what would happen to him if they got married. Spain than says he'll marry both of them. Centuries later, Gay marriage is legalized and N. Italy doesn't remember his promise to Spain, so Spain dejectedly tries to ask Romano. Romano doesn't say no, but he doesn't say yes either. And it's never mentioned again.
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Hetalia: Axis Powers (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a54eef52
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a6a79412	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a6a79412	comment	Rune Factory Oceans also features one between Aden and Sonja, but it's never brought up unless the former proposes to the latter.
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Rune Factory Oceans (Video Game)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_a6a79412
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_aec75372	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_aec75372	comment	Maken-ki!: The promise between Takeru and Inaho plays out differently, depending on whether you're reading the manga, or watching the anime: Inaho initially claimed to be Takeru's fiancee, which he had no recollection of. It doesn't get sorted out until chapter 59, where Takeru finally remembered having promised to always be together with her. But Inaho said she should be the one to apologize since, she never actually said she'd marry him. It was simply an idea she latched onto as she grew older. The anime differs by explicitly having Inaho promise to marry Takeru, during a flashback in episode 3. During which, Takeru swore he'd become strong enough to protect Inaho forever. Unlike the manga, he never recovered his memory of it and it was never brought up again. So it was simply left hanging.
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Maken-ki! (Manga)	hasFeature	Childhood Marriage Promise / int_aec75372
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_af092548	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Childhood Marriage Promise / int_af092548	comment	Heroes DxD: This is our story has one between Izuku Midoriya and Irina Shidou, something neither forgot about even after Irina's family moved away. Which causes Izuku to grow to resent Irina for leaving him alone with Bakugo, while Irina feels immense regret for leaving him. Their reunion in Traverse Town is understandably hostile on Izuku's end because of this, though eventually the two begin to reconcile, with Irina happily stating to Sora and Riku she is Izuku's fiancée, in spite of him having become a devil.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_b1072514	comment	A young Forrest Gump and Jenny fall in love as children, in the shadow of, if not The World Tree per se, then at least a very very large tree.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_b19f625a	comment	Eita and Ai do this in Oreshura. While he totally forgot about it, she remembered it very well, and even shows him the "marriage certificate" they made as kids. Hilarity Ensues as he runs from her while she tries to get him to stamp the certificate.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_b3454a8	comment	In The Exiles series by Hilary McKay, 10-years old Rachel is so enthralled by the nice, polite and charming French exchange student Philippe that she announces she's going to marry him when they're older. When her sisters scold her for harassing Philippe, she just smiles and says that he hasn't said that he doesn't want to. She gets him in the end.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_b74d98fd	comment	Played with in Futakoi: the Ichijou twin sisters (together) expressed their intent to marry Nozomu when they all will grow up. When they did grew up and met again, there were definite affections from all three sides, all right. Each (separately) reminded him about this proposal and tried to downplay her own role (claiming it was half- friendly competition, half- cooperation with other sister)... only to set her sibling forward, while both still paid more attention to their "non-fiance" than to everyone else. It's Futakoi, though, so a Mind Screw was really to be expected.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_b98da5d2	comment	Love Hina: Keitaro is determined to find the girl he pledged to marry as a child, although he can't for his life remember who she is. All evidence points to either Naru or Mutsumi. It's eventually revealed that Mutsumi made Keitaro promise Naru that he'd marry her because Mutsumi knew Naru was also in love with him, and she wanted them both to be happy.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_bacb3a97	comment	At the start of The Robe, Marcellus encounters a beautiful woman called Diana who says he promised to marry her. Being a philanderer, he asks if he was drunk at the time. Turns out Diana is a childhood friend and she's referring to this trope. Even though she's been promised to the future emperor Caligula, Diana would prefer to keep her oath to Marcellus instead.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_bcbfe59e	comment	Hazumu and Tomari in Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, with the added complication that Hazumu is now a girl. Amusingly, the original promise was Hazumu promising to be Tomari's bride, which received an angry response from Tomari that as a boy, he'd have to be the groom. Oh, how things can change...
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_beac6ffb	comment	In Majora's Mask, Kafei and Anju had one of these, promising each other to exchange wedding masks on the day of the Carnival of Time which according to Termina tradition was the best day for couples to be married. The promise proves so meaningful that Kafei refuses to reunite with Anju without retrieving his wedding mask (the Sun's Mask) from Sakon, who stole it shortly before the events of the game began.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_c1a47d69	comment	In Otto of the Silver Hand, Baron Henry's eight-year-old daughter Pauline visits eleven-year-old Otto in his cell where he is imprisoned because of a Family Rivalry. Pauline likes to listen to Otto's stories and doesn't want him to leave. Otto promises to marry her someday so she can listen to all the stories she wants. He makes good on his promise eight years later.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_c43df4d8	comment	Happens a lot in Doctor Who fanfic, between Kid!Doctor and Kid!Master. This also shows up in stories that show Amy and Rory as children.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_c54aa0ab	comment	MeatShield: Not so much a promise as a crazy girl convincing herself (and a chunk of the town) that Dhur was going to marry her.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_c686bb8	comment	In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, the teenaged Amelia can give similar promises to either of her similarly-aged prospect boyfriends, in their A Supports: she can promise Ross to help him Doomed Hometown, tell Ewan that they'll go Walking the Earth together, and give Franz a Declaration of Protection that he reciprocates:
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_cadaf8a5	comment	Totsugami: According to Saki, she and Tasaku promised to marry each other as children. However, Tasaku doesn't remember making such a promise because his grandmother sealed his childhood memories.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_cb9bdf10	comment	I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School: Back in elementary school, Youdou introduced herself to Unoki's mother as her son's future bride. By the time they're in high school, though, both of them have long since given up on it; Unoki because he's terrified of her and Youdou because she can't bring herself to force him into an unwanted, almost certainly abusive marriage. When Unoki's mom brings up the promise years later, a mortified Youdou passes it off as a rash decision she made when she was still a naive child. invoked
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_ce14720c	comment	In Honey Crush, Kyouko and Madoka shared one when they were younger. They're both female but Madoka thought that Kyouko was a boy at the time.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_ce50887e	comment	In Dragon Ball, Chi-Chi and Goku first meet as children, and Goku promises to marry her, thinking marriage is a kind of food. He says so when an angry and all grown-up Chi-Chi brings it up in the Tenkaichi Budokai; Chi-Chi is saddened upon realising that she had been sort-of waiting in vain... but Goku then adds that he doesn't want her to be sad and that he takes his promises seriously, so he officially asks her to marry him right there.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d30d27d	comment	Rune Factory: In Rune Factory 2, the second game in a spin off series of Harvest Moon, in the second half of the game in which you play as your child, you propose and "marry" your boyfriend/girlfriend (s in the case of Serena and her twin, Sera). Though, it's just a promise that you will marry them in the future. Except in Serena and Sera's case when you play as your daughter. You are stopped due to the priest saying how "girls can't get married to each other"(and how the twins just think marriage is one big tea party in the English version). Rune Factory Oceans also features one between Aden and Sonja, but it's never brought up unless the former proposes to the latter.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has the 'promise to protect' variation. As children, Adora and Catra promise to always stick together so nothing bad will happen. Over the course of the show, this goes about as badly as it's possible for such a promise to go once Adora realizes she's on the wrong side but Catra chooses to stay with the Horde... repeatedly, and with great force. Cue Foe Romance Subtext for days until the final season, where Catra finally joins the good guys and they start healing their relationship, ultimately admitting their love for each other in the series finale.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Pokémon: The Series: James made one with Jessiebelle but he didn't know her real personality and once she showed her colors, he didn't want anything to do with her. He ended up running away as a child in order to avoid marrying her, and didn't return home until his adulthood.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d603791d	comment	In the Rise of the Guardians and Megamind crossover fic Protectors, we get a very heartwarming example when the group of children, including Kid!Roxanne, defend Kid!Megamind (known as Teal here) from two Manipulative Bastards.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d8a4663d	comment	Turns out to be the whole cause of the plot of Harper's Island, after nine-year-old Abby told eleven-year-old Henry that she wanted to live alone with him forever on the titular island. Sixteen years later he tries to hold her to this - by luring her to the island on false pretenses, murdering all third parties and faking their deaths. She doesn't see the romantic side. To say nothing of the fact that he later found out they were half-siblings and didn't let that affect his feelings.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d9863a65	comment	Ai Yori Aoshi uses it as its central theme, as Aoi and Kaoru were promised to marry due to their families... but the promise was broken due to Kaoru walking out on his horribly abusive grandfather. However, when he meets a grown-up Aoi who still likes him, Kaoru falls for her all over again.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_d9e1a051	comment	Fruits Basket: Kagura claims that Kyo promised to marry her when they were children, but that's only because she forced him to agree to the promise by threatening him with a knife (or a large rock in the 2001 anime). She eventually stops holding him to it once it's made clear that Kyo loves Tohru and not her. A variant happens between Kyo and Tohru, though he made the promise through Tohru's mother Kyoko, whom he had an Intergenerational Friendship deal with. When Tohru got lost on her way home from school, Kyo made "a man's promise" to find Kyoko's daughter and protect her. When Tohru was brought home by someone else, Kyoko teasingly told Kyo that she would put the promise "on his tab." At the end of the series, when Kyo and Tohru are in their late teens, they agree to basically go live together after graduation (and eventually do get married); Kyo thinks back to his promise, and relates his vow to protect Tohru to him essentially being her husband - that he will keep his promise for the rest of his life.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_e003bde6	comment	In DARLING in the FRANXX, Hiro made such a promise with Zero Two in a flashback in Episode 13, and states that if they marry, he'll become her darling. That promise becomes the main reason why Zero Two is so hellbent on becoming human.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_e5e66934	comment	Sweet Home Alabama starts with a memory/dream sequence of the main character and her childhood friend promising to marry each other. The backstory shows that it didn't end happily. They did get married, but soon found it wasn't as glamorous as they thought it would be. After a miscarriage, Melanie leaves for New York, where she spends the next seven or so years building a fashion business. It's when she wants to marry again she runs into problems... she and her childhood romance never divorced; he refused to sign the papers. After a return to her roots and an analysis of just why their marriage failed he signs the divorce papers, only to find at her wedding that she hadn't signed them. She realizes she's still in love with him, not her new fiance. They decide not to get divorced, after all.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_e6781f1b	comment	In Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars, when Cage is reunited with a group of orphans he saved earlier in the games, one of them reiterates the promise to marry him when she grows up. This earns Cage a nasty look from Myona.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_e944602	comment	Subverted in Goblin Slayer. Cow Girl, Goblin Slayer's childhood friend who's madly in love with him, asks him if he thinks he'll ever get married, to which he says he definitely won't. She claims that they agreed to get married when they were children, but when he replies that he doesn't remember that she admits she made it up, although she really wishes it was true.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_ec2d94da	comment	The whole point Milk is obsessed with—and creepily stalking—Reiner in The Legend of the Legendary Heroes.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_ef6880c5	comment	A variation can occur in Long Live the Queen if Elodie chooses to move Adair to the castle and marry him after his father passes away. It's more politically charged than the usual examples, since it's an Arranged Marriage and Elodie sets it up without input from Adair, but they're close in age and wait until they're older to marry.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_f10619d8	comment	In Tales of the Abyss, Luke and his cousin Natalia made a mutual Childhood Marriage Promise at a young age. Shortly after, he was kidnapped and lost all his memories, forgetting all about it... In reality, the "Luke" that returned was not the true one but a clone, who is the Luke that the audience meets. The real Luke, now named Asch the Bloody, still cares for Natalia... who isn't his blood cousin, technically speaking. And then Natalia starts to differentiate between the two and implies she might have feelings for both. Which one she picks at the end, not the least due to the Heroic Sacrifice of both Asch and Luke and the Gainax Ending obscuring who came back to life in the post credits scene, is unknown. It doesn't help that Natalia has Luke recite the promise before the Disc-One Final Dungeon, and his actual age could have that count.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_f1c508cc	comment	In Nisekoi, the main character Raku Ichijou wears a pendant with a lock from the time he was 5 years old. He spent summer playing with his First Love and when they had to say goodbye, they promised to each other that when they meet again when they're grown up, they will open the pendant using her key and get married. Things get complicated because three different girls with keys appear and they all have a vague memory of knowing Raku when they were little and making some sort of promise with him, but Raku is sure he made the promise to only one girl. After many turns around the issue, the whole thing is made clear: Chitoge was the one who came up with the idea of the pendant and the keys from a children's book she liked and she wanted to make the marriage promise with Raku. However, after finding out Raku and their common friend Kosaki liked each other, she let them make the promise together instead. However, when all three finally remember what's going on, Raku has moved on from liking Kosaki and decides the promise isn't what's most important anymore because he's in love with Chitoge now. The manga ends with Raku and Chitoge preparing for their wedding.
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Childhood Marriage Promise / int_f57525ab	comment	Mary Hatch promised George Bailey that she would "love him til the day she died" in It's a Wonderful Life, although she whispered it into his deaf ear so that he couldn't hear her.
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The Twilight Samurai / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Wolverine / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Dirty Pair / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Anne of Green Gables / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Bloody Jack / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Bumped / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
David Copperfield / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Dirty Pair / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Dreamsnake / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
East of Eden / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Emily of New Moon / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Golden Time / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Graceling / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Graceling Realm / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
½ Prince / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Halo: Evolutions / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Kiss / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Kiss (2007) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Kyo Kara Maoh! / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Little Men / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Middlemarch / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
My Sweet Audrina / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
NAKAIMO - My Little Sister is Among Them! / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Ōkami-san / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Oreshura / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Otto of the Silver Hand / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess! / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Ramona Quimby / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Remake Our Life! / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
RootingForRomance	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
Sense and Sensibility / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Temeraire / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Legend of the Legendary Heroes / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Numair Chronicles / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Time Traveler's Wife / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Touch / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
To Kill a Mockingbird / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
War and Peace / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
ChildHoodMarriagePromise	sameAs	Childhood Marriage Promise
FencerOfMinerva	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
JerkAssWoobie	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
Notable Swedish Monarchs	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
Ptitleal3qc1u9	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
SusanDavis	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
Yamatogawa	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
A Couple of Cuckoos (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Ah! My Goddess (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Astra Lost in Space (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Baby and Me (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Bakuman。 (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Beet the Vandel Buster (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Chirality (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Chocotto Sister (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Code:Breaker (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Crescent Moon (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Domina no Do! (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Fruits Basket (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Hajimete no Aku (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Happy Sugar Life (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
High School Ninja Girl, Otonashi-san (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Honey Crush (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Hoshiiro Girldrop (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
I Don’t Like You at All, Big Brother!! (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Iron Knight (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
I"s (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Katteni Kaizo (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Love Monster (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Maken-ki! (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
My First Girlfriend Is a Gal (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Nisekoi (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Omamori Himari (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Otaku no Musume-san (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Shrine of the Morning Mist (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Softenni (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Sumomo Mo Momo Mo (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Super HxEros (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Suzuka (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Tales of Wedding Rings (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Laughing Target (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Wallflower (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Totsugami (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Urusei Yatsura (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Vampire Knight (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Yume Mitaina Hoshi Mitaina (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
YuruYuri (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Sting (Music) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Best Love / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Bunheads / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
CASUAL+Y / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Extraordinary You / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Harper's Island / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Princess Returning Pearl / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim? / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Talecraft (Tabletop Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Miss Saigon (Theatre) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Princess Ida (Theatre) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Nerd (Theatre) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Lunar: Eternal Blue (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Persona 3 (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Rune Factory (Video Game) / int_2c49485e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Rune Factory 2 (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Tomodachi Life (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Yanderella (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Yo-kai Watch (Video Game) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Dark Parables / Videogame / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Coμ - Black Dragon in a Gentle Kingdom (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Dreamy Days In West Tokyo (Visual Novel)	seeAlso	Childhood Marriage Promise
Everlasting Summer (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Hoshizora no Memoria (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Love, Election & Chocolate (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Lucky Dog 1 (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Photo Kano (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Private Nurse (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Shiny Days (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Silver Chaos 2: Artificial Mermaid (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Snow Sakura (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Summer Rose Court (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Legend - A Dragon Ball Tale (Web Animation) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Faux Pas (Webcomic) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
MegaTokyo (Webcomic) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Minion (Webcomic) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Pokémon no Rakuen (Webcomic) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
See You in My 19th Life (Webcomic) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Brother Bear 2 / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Tom Sawyer (2000) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Project Arashi / Fan Fic / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Sweet Home Alabama / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Love Hina (Manga) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise
Magical Diary (Visual Novel) / int_e195807e	type	Childhood Marriage Promise

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