#vanetta

meaning, the guy her ex-fiancée (edmund) was based on is here. his name is redmond.

and he’s engaged to a woman named charlotta. the name of the isekai protagonist that stole vanetta’s man is charlotte. and charlotta is like this weird amalgamation of the two of them.

some context on vanetta and edmund’s relationship is that she was raised from childhood to be his fiancée, to be the crown princess. she chose to be hard so he could be kind.

and at the time that charlotte got isekai’d into vanetta’s book world, her and edmund were already in a rough place because she’d suffered a premarital miscarriage and there was a lot of political pressure and other stuff going on that fractured their relationship. tldr is it’s complicated but edmund not supporting her thru that shit and in fact leaving her is still the deepest betrayal possible for vanetta. but ofc the book she’s from didn’t include those details and she just looked like a crazy jealous spurned lover.

anyway, getting back to game stuff. redmund is unyielding in performing his duty as crown prince, to the point of cruelty. he loves charlotta in a selfish way that borders on obsession, to the point where he puts her safety over the lives of everyone else in his kingdom, including her unborn child, against her wishes.

and it’s after this moment when he makes a deal with the devil to let the undead have permission to enter the castle in trade for charlotta’s life that she 1 dumps his ass 2 loses her sense of self enough that she soul merges with vanetta.

during this merge there’s a very weird energy between vanetta (who is steering the 2 girls one body) and redmund, who is irate that his beloved has been soul merged with this horrible woman… who he also finds incredibly appealing. bc she also understands power and its cost. they have several verbal altercations that are both heated and cold and also kinda sexually charged in a hateful way.

as time progresses, charlotta and vanetta become… acquainted with one another’s minds and histories in a painfully intimate way. they even manage to connect after a horrible night where a vampire disguised as charlotta’s dad attacks her. the girls talk about what it means to be seen as a villain, what it means to be real, the pain of loving someone who’s hurt you. vanetta says something about how the prince is supposed to be righteous and kind, strong but not cruel. and he’s supposed to love you.

and for the first time, she breaks down crying. up until this point in the campaign she has been very standoffish/private about anything personal but with charlotta literally in her head that was not possible. and for the first time vanetta thought that maybe being known wouldn’t be too bad.

and the next fucking morning when the two girls finally separate back into their own bodies, charlotta is being all buddy buddy with redmund again. and vanetta finds out that charlotta told her whole fucking backstory to redmund, who now looks at her differently. oddly. curiously. almost… longingly?

anyway all that is going on while we’re trying to take on a lich except that went weird too and ended up in a devastating heart to heart between vanetta and the lich

our next session is tomorrow and i am buzzing

anyway hi if you made it all the way here should i keep sharing what happens in my dnd games like this? this is a long ass post and idk if anyone will bother to read it.