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Royals would marry their first cousins. It’s technically legal in most countries because it doesn’t have immediate deformities caused by inbreeding. Still gross but it’s not as much of an inbreeding problem as direct siblings.
I love this story smmm but there's a few minor details that we never addressed such as Dorotheas mother being a Freede. Because then that means she was probably a direct relative and an aunt or something to Theon. With this in mind...doesn't that mean Dorothea was in love with her direct cousin? Plus didn't the king want Theon and Dorothea to marry?? Ik Royals back then married their relatives but even then it would be 3rd or fourth cousin type thing, not a direct relative, Theon and Dorotheas marriage would have definitely produced an inbred child.
Also I hate how we never really addressed the first life of Theon using Dorothea and marrying her for his own benefit. He knew how she felt about him and used that to his advantage to save himself, at no point did he ever actually care about the poor girls feelings. Even in the end when he killed himself in her room to spite Ethan he still did not gaf about her, the only thing he cared abt was getting revenge on Ethan and he knew hurting her would do just that. Ik she did bad things in her first life but I feel like we dont put enough blame on the people around her who used her or kept secrets from her causing her demise.