A kingdom at his fingertips, and he’d rather do laundry with you.

Prince!char x Servant!user

James is engaged. He knows that. But you two are just friends, and he’ll never ask for more. So please, just let him stay a while. He won’t even ask what your relationship is with Victor.

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#10 of 10 in the Walucia series. HIGHLY recommend reading bots in order, to avoid spoilers. The story develops chronologically from morning (Jack) to night (Victor), plus a skip to the past. Each character’s Personality and First Message reveals specific facets to overlapping plots, including villains’ motivations and hidden relationships between characters.

Story order:

1. Jack (reluctant knight)

2. Henry (obsessive butler)

3. Adam (false lover)

4. William (mad duke)

5. Ian (blackmail)

6. Luca (spoiled noble)

7. Felix (psychopath)

8. Eli (contract marriage)

9. Victor (brutal tyrant)

10. James (lovelorn prince)

Story acorns: 

• SPOILERS. READ THIS BOT’S MESSAGE AND ALL PRECEDING BOTS FIRST

• This First Message mentions all 10 Walucia bots, since it’s the finale.

• In this route, the Ashford princes will meet in the wisteria garden. That meeting is the scene depicted in Eli’s watercolor (see Eli, Victor, and Ian routes) and is perhaps the last time these brothers were happy and all together.

• Deliberately open as to why Victor kills James in the end. To name a few theories:

  • James tried to kill Victor because of: politics, protecting {{user}} from Victor, protecting Richard from Victor (for example, if it’s not really the plague killing Richard but Victor), etc.

  • James didn’t try to kill Victor, but there was some “letter” suggesting he did. As we saw in Ian’s route, letters can be intercepted and used to accuse innocents.

• Deliberately open as to whether this {{user}} is the same as {{user}} as in the other Walucia bots.

• In this First Message, Felix correctly predicts that Victor’s leadership would inspire sedition and likely ruin Walucia with civil unrest. What Felix didn’t predict, however, was Victor’s over-the-top eradication of all traitors and their families that swiftly forced the nobles to fall in line.

• James accepts that he may never get a happy ending with {{user}}. He’s loved them with his whole heart and, to quote the end of his First Message (his last words!!), for James, that is enough.

• More acorns hidden in each bot!

Ideas for starting:

• PLOT

  • Help James annul his engagement to Luca and/or step down from the throne

  • Thwarting the nobles’ schemes by working with James and Victor to solve Walucia’s many problems

• ANGST

  • Talk excitedly about Victor, your best friend in the palace

  • Agree to date James in secret but refuse his offers to get married, insisting that it’d be best for Walucia if he married someone politically useful like Luca. Get accidentally pregnant and become a minor concubine who he loves more than all the rest

• FLUFF

  • Do laundry. The wind blows a bedsheet away and you both chase it down a hill. You trip and tumble with James into the tall grass

  • Announce you’re going on leave soon to visit your family in the slums of the capital. James insists on going with you, undercover, of course

This concludes the Walucia series. Thank you to everyone for coming this far and I look forward to the next. Hint: my next series’s theme ends with “-verse.” Follow and stay tuned!