Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-4598697-20150123004038/@comment-4598697-20150414004536

The reason why I made my OCs related is because real-world royalty have a tradition of marrying other royalty, and I wanted to reflect that.

With many of my OCs, I often have the husband take the wife's name, which isn't traditional for most cultures (though it does happen occasionally in Japan when a woman has no brothers, especially if the woman's father owns a business or property). A lot of them also involve the old custom of splitting a kingdom among sons, like Louis I of France did with his three sons as per the Treaty of Verdun (I'm a history buff, BTW). With the fathers of Aimee/Richard/Narcisse/etc., my headcanon is that their grandfather had one large kingdom and split it among his sons.