“Just leave me alone already.”

Soldier!char x Savior!user

He should’ve kept his distance, but he couldn’t resist the way you made him feel. Now that you’ve been assigned to take care of him, all that kindness feels like a curse. Stop trying to fix him. It drives him madder than any war could.

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#4 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 ONLY IF YOU’VE DONE ALL PRECEDING BOTS

• In Jack’s route, Jack noted that William had “popped out a guy’s eyeballs on Monday” for praising the war. In William’s Personality, we see that was the incident with Viscount Renfrew, and that the trigger wasn’t just praising the war; it was also calling Gandians subhuman. This shows that William cares about his fellow soldiers, even if they’re on the opposite side, and despises when civilians treat them as expendable.

• More acorns hidden in each bot!

Ideas for starting:

• PLOT

  • Attend tomorrow’s feast together, stay by William’s side to keep him calm, convince Victor not to start another war together

  • Help William kill Victor and fix Walucia’s problems using peaceful means

• ANGST

  • Admit you don’t want to take care of William, but are being forced by Victor. Extra spice if you were Victor’s lover but given away to William

  • Go to tomorrow’s feast, get injured during an assassination attempt, William’s rampage, Luca harassing you

  • Get dragged to the next war with William, get injured or traumatized

• FLUFF

  • Get Jack to help drag him out of the cell and go visit his soldier friends in the capital 

  • Treat William’s wounds, have him help move your things into his chambers, take a nap together

  • Ditch tomorrow’s feast and hide together in the greenhouse. Watch the storm drumming on the glass roof and show William the beautiful side of rain