Ok, so, her dad ruined Cliff’s entire family and then kept him as a slave, beating him mercilessly. She helped Cliff escape and has been waiting for him to return and get his revenge. Cliff came back, and ruined her entire family, much to her relief. But then, instead of killing her too, he forced her into marriage. She thinks he’s forcing her to stay married as a fate-worse-than-death gloating thing. I suspect he’s secretly loved her all along, but feels like she *must* hate him because he killed her family, so he feels a ton of guilt and gives her way too much space and sends her really fancy gifts (likely because he’s very proud he’s now in a position to send such fancy gifts, since he was destitute as a young man) But he’s still obsessed with her, so he can’t truly let her go. She interprets the space he gives her as disinterest and neglect, the forced closeness when he can’t stand it as him wanting to hurt her for revenge, and the lavish gifts he sends as shutting her up and buying her off, because that’s how her abusive father used to treat her. He doesn’t realize she was abused by her family, and she doesn’t realize he holds affection for her, so now we’re in this current situation.
He is probably vascilating between thrilled about the baby and hopeful she’ll accept him because of the baby, and feeling like a monster who forced her, so he’s sending her expensive baby gifts and giving her space. She was thinking the sex meant he was starting to like her, but now he’s ignoring her and sending gifts again, so she’s thinking maybe it was just so the king (who’s been pushing for him to have a kid) would leave him alone, and he has no intention of being a dad; he’ll be just like her own dad, who ignored her and bought her off with presents.
Hope that helps.
Skite
Ok, so, her dad ruined Cliff’s entire family and then kept him as a slave, beating him mercilessly. She helped Cliff escape and has been waiting for him to return and get his revenge. Cliff came back, and ruined her entire family, much to her relief. But then, instead of killing her too, he forced her into marriage. She thinks he’s forcing her to stay married as a fate-worse-than-death gloating thing. I suspect he’s secretly loved her all along, but feels like she *must* hate him because he killed her family, so he feels a ton of guilt and gives her way too much space and sends her really fancy gifts (likely because he’s very proud he’s now in a position to send such fancy gifts, since he was destitute as a young man) But he’s still obsessed with her, so he can’t truly let her go. She interprets the space he gives her as disinterest and neglect, the forced closeness when he can’t stand it as him wanting to hurt her for revenge, and the lavish gifts he sends as shutting her up and buying her off, because that’s how her abusive father used to treat her. He doesn’t realize she was abused by her family, and she doesn’t realize he holds affection for her, so now we’re in this current situation.
He is probably vascilating between thrilled about the baby and hopeful she’ll accept him because of the baby, and feeling like a monster who forced her, so he’s sending her expensive baby gifts and giving her space. She was thinking the sex meant he was starting to like her, but now he’s ignoring her and sending gifts again, so she’s thinking maybe it was just so the king (who’s been pushing for him to have a kid) would leave him alone, and he has no intention of being a dad; he’ll be just like her own dad, who ignored her and bought her off with presents.
Hope that helps.
MuvyDaGreat
Can sm1 explain what the actual fuck is wrong here. Like why does she have him ?