Random me

(I took a lot of creative liberties with the design)

Oh also I unlocked Harry’s pov story for when he rescued MC from the auction because I’m a sucker for rescue scenes

But if you ask most people who like villain/morally gray love interests, they’ll tell you that the appeal is that they would do anything and everything for MC—and particularly, that they would choose MC over the world. If MC died, they take a torch and burn the world down themselves in their grief. And like..I don’t think this is true for William.

In fact, the point where William seems to realize he has actual feelings of affection or love for MC is when she’s bleeding out, and he’s not horrified at the thought of losing her. He says something to the tune of “red looks lovely on you”. And later, he agrees to her desire to eventually die for him. His only real objection iirc is that he has no intention of dying anytime soon, and so he has no intention of letting her die yet. It seems the romantic part of his route’s tragedy is that he and his MC seem fixated on the idea of dying together—MC in a display of protecting him because she loves him, and William I think was implied to intend to off himself somehow after that.

And if you plan it 🫵 remind yourself how much harm it did to you, look in the mirror and tell yourself: I am better than this, I won't spread harm because I got to experience it firsthand and know this pain