happy STS! Do you have a favourite character? Also⦠did Aidan kill wife number 3ā¦? āmysteriously died youngā is suspicious
Happy STS!! And definitely Emilia. No hesitation. I love her to pieces, I'm putting her in a jar and shaking her, I'm blending her to a fine paste, I'm buying her yellow lipstick. I love her. There's a reason she's the only character I've commissioned artwork for.
As for Aidan... well, this actually comes up in Memento Vivere:
Aidan was no stranger to the cruelties of abusing someoneās love for someone else. His third wifeāof four, so far, and unlikely to be more if he couldnāt get out of here, which was looking less and less likelyāhad looked at him like heād hung the moon, and had been twenty years younger than him, only eighteen when theyād married.
Heād married her because she was easy, because she was beautiful, and because sheād loved him. Sheād fallen into his arms, believed anything heād said, and he hadnāt even had to try with her the way he tried to convince the country that he could do better, this time, and he deserved the seat of power he was planning on embezzling money from.
Her father was in Aidanās first cabinet for his new party. Heād been seeking power, much like Aidan, and had gladly handed his own daughter over for the chance to curry his favour. Anyone with eyes knew that Aidan was going to wināagaināand anyone with eyes also knew that Aidan flipped through wives almost as quickly as he flipped through political parties, and so Aidan married his barely-legal wife on a cold December day, rain spitting down about them like disapproval from the gods.
Amy had squealed with delight when heād kissed her for the first time in front of the small crowd, mostly of her fatherās friends. Her mother wasnāt told and found out through the newspapers, but Aidan hadnāt cared that heād married a teenager and split the family into three. He had a pretty new wife on his arm and in his bed and sheād hung onto every word he said, and it had been satisfactory.
Later, when sheād caught him balls deep in Miriam Fucking Fischer, heād talked her around, telling her that it didnāt matter, heād been married twice before her, that she was pure and touched only by Aidan, and that it didnāt matter what he did with his cock, and sheād agreed, and then heād talked her into killing herself as he fucked the prostitute beneath him. Ten minutes later, and heād talked Mary Mayland into revealing her real name.
She overdosed, and he made it look like an accident (she was so tragically young, after all, only twenty-one by her death), and then he got married again because he's awful.
And that was a huge ass Memento Vivere chunk so I'll throw the taglist on here: @callmelyrae, @planets-collide, @mthollowell-writes
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