Canon: The Villainess Lives Twice / The Villainess Lives Again
Ships: Grand Duke Roygar/Garnet Ruden
Media: Webcomic/manhwa (recommend reading the official translation on tappytoon or bato.to, the MTL fansubs on other scanlation sites don't do well with the political scheming)
A summary of the canon: Artezia "Tia" Rosen is the titular villainess/mastermind behind her half-brother Laurence's rise to the throne of the Kratez Empire. Not long after his coronation, Laurence frames her for murder and treason in an effort to tie off loose ends, then has her tortured and imprisoned. She's rescued by Grand Duke Cedric Ebron, who pleads with her to use her tactical ability to help him overthrow her brother and help him rescue the people of the Empire. Unfortunately, although Tia is touched by his respect and acknowledgement, her earlier schemes put Laurence in an unassailable position of power. The only trick she has left in her bag is to sacrifice her life to power a dark magic spell that should turn back time to give Cedric another chance... and it does, by sending her to the past with all her memories of the future, and just enough time to make different choices.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: What if the emperor's younger brother from a backstabbing imperial villain-off schemefest and a sweet, innocent girl who had been deliberately sheltered by her family got arranged married, then fell genuinely in love? Spoilers! It goes very very badly for them, of course, since Roygar and Cedric/Roygar and Laurence can't both be emperor and both lives' timelines are the Artezia Rosen Show. Roygar and his faction do their share of scheming, murder, and plotting, but Tia is playing 4d chess the entire time with the benefit of years of foreknowledge and she knows exactly how to use both Roygar and Garnet's weaknesses (being greedy and a cheater/being basically a shoujo protagonist stuck in the wrong genre) against them and their family. The way both of them, in the end, turn to self-sacrifice to protect each other and their children, and particularly Roygar's PTSD flashbacks as he uses his last gambit, make me want so much more for them. I need them to be happy.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd like some happy fic for them, whether it's a missing scene from a good time in their lives or even AUed or isekaied into another, kinder world/canon.
Content warnings: Character death including murder, assassination, suicide, and execution; violence; torture including limb removal; brief discussion of abortion; implications of sexual assault/abuse (not between main characters or requested couple)
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Date: 2024-04-19 01:19 am (UTC)Ships: Grand Duke Roygar/Garnet Ruden
Media: Webcomic/manhwa (recommend reading the official translation on tappytoon or bato.to, the MTL fansubs on other scanlation sites don't do well with the political scheming)
A summary of the canon: Artezia "Tia" Rosen is the titular villainess/mastermind behind her half-brother Laurence's rise to the throne of the Kratez Empire. Not long after his coronation, Laurence frames her for murder and treason in an effort to tie off loose ends, then has her tortured and imprisoned. She's rescued by Grand Duke Cedric Ebron, who pleads with her to use her tactical ability to help him overthrow her brother and help him rescue the people of the Empire. Unfortunately, although Tia is touched by his respect and acknowledgement, her earlier schemes put Laurence in an unassailable position of power. The only trick she has left in her bag is to sacrifice her life to power a dark magic spell that should turn back time to give Cedric another chance... and it does, by sending her to the past with all her memories of the future, and just enough time to make different choices.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: What if the emperor's younger brother from a backstabbing imperial villain-off schemefest and a sweet, innocent girl who had been deliberately sheltered by her family got arranged married, then fell genuinely in love?
Spoilers!
It goes very very badly for them, of course, since Roygar and Cedric/Roygar and Laurence can't both be emperor and both lives' timelines are the Artezia Rosen Show. Roygar and his faction do their share of scheming, murder, and plotting, but Tia is playing 4d chess the entire time with the benefit of years of foreknowledge and she knows exactly how to use both Roygar and Garnet's weaknesses (being greedy and a cheater/being basically a shoujo protagonist stuck in the wrong genre) against them and their family. The way both of them, in the end, turn to self-sacrifice to protect each other and their children, and particularly Roygar's PTSD flashbacks as he uses his last gambit, make me want so much more for them. I need them to be happy.What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd like some happy fic for them, whether it's a missing scene from a good time in their lives or even AUed or isekaied into another, kinder world/canon.
Content warnings: Character death including murder, assassination, suicide, and execution; violence; torture including limb removal; brief discussion of abortion; implications of sexual assault/abuse (not between main characters or requested couple)