macthedke

Alec faces divine punishment in the form of an incubus he thought he had summoned to do his bidding. A non-canon fic.

Yes! The Underwoods have a pretty extensive stable, thanks to Bertrand's inherited interest in horse breeding and racing, as well as hunting on horseback. Alec is less interested in horses than Bertrand was, but still keeps the stable for hunting and a horse of his own - a bay warmblood/Irish Draught cross gelding named Cassius, who is compliant, somewhat unintelligent, and fucking enormous (as he must be in order to cart someone as large as Alec around for hours upon hours).

Viola's horse, Lady (properly named Nuestra Señora de los Dolores), is a lean, swift, fiesty Andalusian/Thoroughbred cross, black with a white blaze like a star on her forehead. She's the product of Bertrand's breeding projects, being the offspring of an Andalusian dam and a pure black Thoroughbred named Dragon, which takes us to....

Bernard was head gardener at Aldwycke d'Or, and one of very few staff members Alec kept from the old guard when he became lord of the manor. His affable demeanor, a certain affinity for the old pagan traditions of the family, and above all his expertise meant Alec kept him on even as others were dismissed. It didn't hurt that his family had worked for Alec's for generations.

Depends on many factors, as it does for most people, so I'll assume sobriety and good health and aim for averages.

Isabelle usually comes in about 3 minutes, but wants about 5 orgasms, so I'd say an average round of masturbation for her - meaning no other partner to focus on, just pure stimulation for herself - is about 15 minutes. However, in partnered sex she's happy to keep going once she's had her fill to get her partners what they want.

Viola takes much longer to come, about 10 minutes, but only wants to come twice on a typical evening, so she'll usually masturbate for about 20 minutes. In partnered sex she's very big on foreplay, though, so it usually takes a fair bit longer.

Oh, absolutely. Isabelle had some genuine childhood friends when she was very young, say 4-9, but her peculiarities (morbid interests, sharp mood swings, masturbation habit, among others) usually drove them away. By the time she was in secondary school most of her "friends" were really just hangers-on who wanted access to the day trips, presents, and other financial benefits of being close to someone whose dad was as rich and generous as Alec. There was also a fringe benefit in the form of getting to use Isabelle as a sort of freak show.

Bertrand is physically incapable of having children even before Alec kills him, but for the sake of the ask, let's say he has one - either of his own miraculously, or by getting Alec to impregnate Grace.

His firstborn by Grace alone would be driven towards success from the start, molded to fit Bertrand's expectations of who and what the Walsingham heir should be. Bertrand's violence towards his child would be probably only slightly more than historically expected, and there would be some measure of covert incest at the very least, possibly spilling over into direct sexual abuse depending on whether he gets into one of his little feedback loops of evil with Alec. In a nutshell: ambitious, strict, corruptive, affectionate. There would always be the potential risk that, should his child fail to live up to expectations, he would poison them and start over.

This isn't the case if he had a child via Alec fucking Grace. He would see a child resulting from that as being both his and Alec's, born of their union, and would love them more than he would the alternative. He would be more protective of this firstborn, more understanding of their failings, and would do everything he could to ensure them the best possible future - possibly even refraining from molesting them, a courtesy which he wouldn't show to any subsequent children. Still, there would be strict expectations in place, even if the consequences for falling short wouldn't be quite so dire.

If Bertrand was capable of having children, he would be a better father than Alec, for a given value of "better". Alec is more neurotic about parenting, more unhinged, driven more towards evil (as always - that's a key difference between him and Bertrand, Bertrand just flat-out isn't as motivated to be a terrible person). He wouldn't be as violent and controlling, and would expect his children to have lives outside of him, lives that he would have a hand in creating. His firstborn especially would face the pressure of having to one day inherit, but would also be spared the worst abuses as a result, because Bertrand needs his heir to be relatively sane. Any subsequent children would be more likely to face sexual abuse than their eldest sibling. Bertrand would also be a corruptive influence on all his children, seeking from them similar dynamics of co-conspiracy to the one he had with Alec. Any children who failed to live up to his expectations or who brought disgrace to the family, however, might well not survive - especially in the case of the eldest.

Viola gets sick incredibly rarely, and when she does, it infuriates her. She tries to power through it with a lot of OTC medication while staying on her feet and continuing to accomplish whatever she pleases; however, every once in a while it actually lays her out flat and Alec has to take care of her. She resents this on many levels.

Alec also gets sick rarely, although more frequently than Viola. When he does get sick it's most often a herpes flareup. He puts himself out of commission for a few days, focusing on recovery, and tends to indulge in weed since he's "just laying about" anyway. Viola takes care of him when she has the time; if not, she delegates to Isabelle or simply pumps him full of medication the way she would herself.

Starlet Song was born to a sex worker in London named Chun-Yue "June" Song, who Alec would come to visit because of her addiction to heroin, which let him take things further and treat her as badly as he liked. He also met Starlet over the course of frequenting June. (This is going to get both very long and very dark, so everything else is under the cut.)