#dalia

I literally have nothing good to say

I’m so glad you’re pointing out the poison. Dalia really wants this thing to play out, so why would she give it to them?

I'm obsessed with Dalia giving MC poison just for the myriad of potential diplomatic crises that that vial could cause. Like, there are so many ways for that to go very badly. MC drinks it? Bad look for Cé Cerine, how did A's new spouse get poisoned so soon after their arrival (and if it's learned it was suicide that almost looks worse for them than assassination)? MC snaps and poisons someone else (especially A) (which I assume will not be an option but y'know, Dalia doesn't know that)? Clearly the whole marriage was a plot to get an assassin into Cé Cerine's court. Anyone even finds it in MC's belongings? What were they planning to do with it? Just, so many ways for this to backfire on everyone involved, and yet Dalia still gives it to them! I can't tell if it feels like a gesture of love or not, because it's... nice...? of her to give them a way out despite the potential backlash and there aren't that many options for escaping an arranged political marriage. But on the other hand she's pretty vicious about dragging them back if they try to run away from the marriage for someone who decided to give them a means of killing themselves to escape the marriage they were trying to run away from!

I hope you don't mind me sharing the thought that the worms who inhabit my brain keep whispering to me but I can't help but feel that; 1) MCs home kingdom has been badly ruled for a while. 2) There are whispers of rebellion 3) MC sent off to a political marriage to a neighbouring kingdom that seems to be doing well It seems to me that the intention must be to leverage that connection, either to ensure an alliance and so take away one potential threat or to actively use the political marriage to prop up MCs family. So to me the best revenge for my more stoic MC being 'nah; you were never my family and that was never my kingdom' and leaving daddy to wallow in the mud.