TRAGEDY! However sad you think this will get its 100x sadder. Genuinely a series of unfortunate events
MAJOR SPOILERS
WARNING
LIKE ACTUALLY
HUGE SPOILERS ABOUT THE TRAGEDIES
-Thalia becomes disabled
I never knew Korean authors had the guts to permanently scar their female leads and leave them with chronic pain, but a huge part of the story going forward is PHYSICAL PAINNN
-Thalia miscarries
She has infertility issues (runs in her family) but they try for months (HAHHAHA) and she gets pregnant. They lead a sweet married life and their relationship hits its highest peak and BAM her water breaks too early and the baby boy is a stillborn
-Thalia faces religious persecution
There’s a folk tale that says everyone that dies without baptism (like babies) returns as a howling beast to cry out to the people they miss. Thalia saves a baby demon wolf and she loves him like the child she lost. The church is heavily pursuing heretics and Thalia strolling around with a wolf that grew SUPER BIG becomes the icon of the heretical folk religion. She struggles so much to keep the beast by her side
SUPER MAJOR ULTRA SPOILERS PAST THIS POINT
RETHINK IT OKAY
-Thalia fucking dies
Varkas is bound by an oath, that in this lifetime, he must protect the twins. The northern region of the empire wage a war with the empire, colluding with the barbarians north of the border. The prince participates in the battlefield, thus Varkas must leave the dukedom alone for long periods of time. Bound by his oath, he returns too late and finds her cold dead body
-Varkas fucking dies
He visits her grave one day, right next to the grave of their stillborn child and lets Thalia’s magical beast wolf eat him
BUT!
-The Dukedom’s Magical Powers
Just as the late Empress had the power to bind Varkas to the twins for life, it seems being eaten by the wolf allowed Varkas to travel back in time. Since he died, the late Empress’ powers no longer force him to protect the twins and he’s free…
BUT!
-Varkas comes back as the fucking wolf
Varkas and the wolf now share one body, switching consciousness. He has to hold back the instincts of his body and no matter how hard he tries to signal to Thalia that he’s there, Thalia sees his humanity as her child. She confides in him her pain and loneliness. As a wolf, he has his bounds and he knows he has to protect Thalia and keep her safe in the arms of the other Varkas, the version of himself that hasn’t lost her yet
tysm for spoilers but cant they like just leave the miserable bitch varkas dead such a attention whore he keeps reins on ayla prince and thalia cant even fucking leave thalia alona after her dead such disgusting vermin never have i hate a existence more he worse than those grapist ML and even cockroaches ar better than him
soz for le spoiler i got i from another spoil comment but no i genuinely more i hear read or even try to undderstand this guy i hate him its the the lil stuff with his interactions with thalia or the monolgues ex
-him being reverse classist when itt comes. too queen ayla any royals mentions like oh th royal such a pain in the butt this and that
- him not treating thalia like a. human? like more. off a object he reallly has 0 respect as a. human being but somehow his attention is alwayys on her? hes quick to suspect her pin her to a wall even when shes visibly uncomfortable throw her likee a luggage direspeect her infont off tthe knights royals of another. country anyone rlly treats her like a. plague nd if he really doesn't like er avoid her why get too closse? and touchy too? like for a man that treats her like the plague he goes wennt. to defend her with the *grape* but that seemed like on a whim like he made. it obvious that he knowws thalia like dressing up ffor him uncle was a creep and defending her but he had also met her as kid and for a matter of fact kneew she notthing about prev dead queen but still didnt help when the prince abused a lil kid whos a. stranger also who gave these kids the righr and turned them that bad idk i wudnt be proud if i was the dead queen










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