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demonsgold asked:

Your Aziraphales are wonderful in their curves and soft edges, and I'm dying in love with Madame Tracy helping them find their comfortable place in the world of sexualities.

I headcanon her as their best resource on that matter. She’s such a brave, warm, accepting woman who has clearly done it all, and seemed to have adored Aziraphale straight away. Helping them figure out their needs would surely be an exciting and fulfilling task for her. 

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The facts are these: a dwarf needs to get gold to get married.  It costs a lot of money to raise a young dwarf to marriageable age.  Food, clothes, chain mail…endless expenses.  And they need repaying.  Two dwarfs getting married must each ‘buy’ the other dwarf off their parents.  It’s a sort of two-way dowry.  And it has to be paid in gold or gems, because that’s traditional.  Hence the dwarf saying: 'worth his weight in gold’ (dwarfs aren’t big on metaphor–some mines priced dwarfs that way). 

Of course, if a dwarf has been working for his parents then that will be taken into account on the other side of the ledger, and a dwarf who leaves off marrying until later in life may possibly be owed quite a tidy sum in wages. 

All this appears rather chilly, but it is traditional and appears to work.  Invariably, after being paid in full for the raising of their offspring, the parents will give the couple a huge wedding present–often much bigger than the dowry.  But that is then between dwarf and dwarf, out of love and respect–not between people who are, in a sense, debtor and creditor.  In many ways, it works rather better than the human system.  Everybody seems to win.
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