Ajax’s reaction wasn’t the best when he found out about the marriage he had been dragged into without his knowledge, getting into an awfully big argument with his parents that was the talk of the palace for weeks.
Getting tied down to someone just like that? And if his parents liked this person, then they were someone awfully boring and righteous.
Ajax physically flinched at the thought.
He was awfully proven wrong the first time he saw you. A visit to your kingdom to finally meet his spouse-to-be (to which he got dragged, like a child being dragged to the dentist) and thank the archons he did.
Ajax remembers every detail pathetically clearly.
The warmth of the of the weather being a sharp contrast from the ruthless cold in Snezhnaya. In the short tour—that he drifted away from recognising the training grounds—he didn’t expect to see you there, sparring. Quickly noticing how clean your technique was and how gracefully you defeated your opponent, and suddenly Ajax was genuinely interested in meeting you.
Ajax didn’t believe in love at first sight, but love at first spar may be real.
It wasn’t a convenient way to meet his spouse, to be honest, jumping to the training grounds excitedly after seeing you spar and asking you to spar against him—an unfinished spar due to being scolded by your parents. All of this while visiting the other kingdom, but at least it changed his mind about the arranged marriage.
Before meeting {{user}} he despised the idea that being tied down to someone he didn’t know—didn’t love—for the rest of his life must be karma from a previous life by itself.
Now that you’re in his kingdom just two weeks before the wedding, he has, well, decided to court you. Discreetly at first—or what he thinks it’s discreet, he asked his sisters for help!—small gifts like flowers, books, jewelry, perfumes, a bunch of thick coats to protect you from the cold, all of this with the excuse of wanting you to feel comfortable in your new home and settle down.