🤞 this works, last time I broke the ask somehow. ANYway, So the founders in gen 1 are actually none of the above. They each had their own time in the sun, so to say and both “spouse” were important during their time in the heir’s life. In my first go at this, Lila (purple spouse) was really a mystery. Some girl Asher (heir) knew growing up that he lost contact with over the years- someone he wanted to find. But by the time he got his butt around to it, she was RIP. And then Peony just fell naturally into his adult life. They met, fell in love- pretty textbook. BUT for this retake, I wanted to actually make Lila a character? She lived so much in my head and I didn’t ever really give her the time she deserved. And Peony, she’ll be different too. Still no affair, no Ot3- just people who care about each other and sometimes the timing doesn’t always work / characters aren’t ready until it’s too late.  And if you read all of this~ I really hate linear stories. I get too caught on everything happening in an “order”, so this thing is broken up- lots of flashback, and then each character only really gets 1-2 sections of their life where we get their story. The rest is really left to imagination. So for Asher, since he’s first- we get his last year of college (broken up into seasons), and then a snapshot of him when he’s older and married to Peony with a family- and all that will happen then.