How fun, I want to take the other road. I want to make her see that being super duper angry and unwilling to forgive stuff (Rade, Vedran) is unhealthy. But realistic, yes, it would be hard not to feel a little resentful/angry at her even if you were a saint.
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Wouldn’t Milon be the one that the Queen has to negotiage with, regardless of which one is romanced? Could get funny with Milon trying to explain how he must get something to marry off Lada.
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Milon would have to negotiate with Elya for the (Loyalist) Marshal’s hand, since [the Marshal]'s the Queen’s Beloved Sister and Magister Militum (assuming the rehonoring isn’t yet finished and Loyalist F!Marshal isn’t Princess Marshal, in which case he would absolutely need Elya’s permission), since she’s the (de jure) head of their family and state. M!Marshal would have to go to Milon for Lada’s hand for the same reasons. Both because of etiquette (and possibly laws; Kanton law about lesser royalty marrying without permission of the sovereign is unknown) and because it’s polite to see how the other members of a family feel about you marrying one of their own. Even if you’re 100 percent sure they’d be happy/give permission.
If F!Marshal is the Queen/Regent Milon would still have to woo her since she outranks him. King/Regent M!Marshal could marry Lada without Milon’s permission, but it’s a bad look and impolite.
Milon himself would likely do things by the book and ask Elya (as of Chapter 3 she’s right there) for permission. Even if it is not treasonous for him to marry the sovereign’s sister without [the sovereign’s] permission (Treason Act 1351 - Wikipedia, unsure if there is such a law on Kanton’s books), he would do it because Elya’s the Marshal’s sister and sole relative whose opinion she values.
As for Mira, she has as much power as Elya chooses to grant her (which is currently none. Care, yes, but no power). Even in the household itself, she is only powerful if Elya listens to her. The Marshal certainly won’t.
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Elya is the head of the state but not of the family. She is the Marshal’s younger half-sister which doesn’t make her the head of the house in any capacity. (this becomes extra muddled if Mira is still alive, because she’s then technically the “queen mother” with undetermined authority over the family matters) Being the Marshal’s employer doesn’t mean she’s got any say in who the Marshal would marry, either – the Marshal can tell her “fuck off, i quit” at any moment.
Also, probably worth to keep in mind that, as a Queen, Elya wouldn’t typically have full control even over her own potential marriage, as that’d be a matter of some sort of compromise with the country’s nobles and/or council.
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Getting rehonored only matters to me if it doesn’t affect my hooking up with Kate or needs rehonored to hook up with Kate?
Confused yet how this will end up. Considering others did confirm Obren/M!Marshall hid. I was aware Vedran and Obren did. Yep, I keep making them lovers, or exs. I still put Rade and his bff as lovers. Though they could have tight friendships without that aspect. I just prefer to put them together. Similar to Vedran and Obren, they’d been great friends instead of lovers, but… well. Its more fun watching them hating each other as x lovers than x friends. X friends is just, whatever, in reality, as they are literal nothingburgers vs x’s that tend to have more impacts. (Crowing up moving through dozens of schools caused that, easy break friendships that dont affect me that much vs x’s that did.)
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I’ve done it
The moment absolutely no one was waiting for
Answers to questions that nobody wanted to know
More content for Bacon’s nightmares
I made the Hat Gov’nor Lore Compilation
Everything I say is canon, trust me
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Yay nightmare fuel! I read it. Nice job
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Brings a tear to my eye schnitzel
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My 1966 MC isn’t the only eldritch version of my MC
The mold in my Marshal’s cowboy hat head is the most powerful and malicious eldritch being in the multiverse. It is only barely kept at bay by my Marshal’s obsession with Rade.
Also Cowboy Gov’nors ride pink Utahraptors to battle
I only realized while drawing this that both my 1966 and ITFO MCs wear crowns over their hats
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Sounds like a good explanation, I only based my perception of how it works from Crusader Kings.
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The Normal Marshal exists in the Cowboy Marshal Saga
Neither of them know the other exists. The reason why they’ve never met is because the Cowboy Marshal showed up midway to Krorid and everyone mistook him for the Normal Marshal. They all left the Normal Marshal behind while he was sleeping. If they ever meet, they will fight to the death.
You’re probably wondering, how does all this work? How were they born? What about the other cowboy gov’nors?
Well the answer is simple: dragon breaks exist in Kanton.
Also if the mold in the Cowboy Marshal’s hat head is ever unleashed, it will cause the Kantonian equivalent of the black plague. That is my ideal ending.
I noticed midway through making this that I have only ever drawn Elya happy once.
btw remember when I said I wasn’t sure if Obren romance was canon in the Cowboy Marshal Saga? I’ve decided it is canon but only with the Normal Marshal. No one can tell the Cowboy Marshal and the Normal Marshal apart so when Obren flirts with the Cowboy Marshal, he thinks he’s flirting with the Normal Marshal. Obren gets very confused when Cowboy Marshal does not return his affections while Cowboy Marshal was very confused when Obren gave him the dagger.
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I bet Mira would love a Catboy Marshal
ft Stoyan, the Marshal of my friend u/iiFeliscityii
He is a catboy gov’nor which is like cowboy gov’nors but they have cat maid headbands. Like all hat gov’nors, they reproduce via mpreg but the baby gestates inside the cat ears and two tiny babies are born each time. They are born like kangaroos: little red rockets that climb their way into the pouch located on their apron.
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I dunno, i feel like the fingers wouldn’t end up the only things getting snipped…
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My Marshal draws Rade like one of his Kroridian girls
idk why I made this or why I finished this but if I must be cursed with the knowledge of this artwork’s existence, so must the rest of you
Also I have to confess: I don’t actually want Rade romance. I just think he’s hot but I don’t want an actual romance.
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That’s a missed opportunity to have Rade cover his bits with a cowboy hat.
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I’m so deep into my I, the Forgotten One delusions that I forget that Rade is not the innocent victim of a deranged cowboy hat-headed stalker
Anyway Rade is the only one who knows that there are 2 Marshals.
Also Rade started the war solely to get rid of the Cowboy Marshal. After the war Rade got Sobik to promise him that he’d keep the marshal far away from him and when that didn’t happen, Rade decided to take matters into his own hands.
You have no idea how much fun it is to make up weird lore for the most unlikely stories. I encourage everyone to do weird shit like this.
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Y’know, I kinda hate how artistically talented you are 
I’m sure Bacon’s nightmares appreciate all the saved work. 
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I had art block so I decided to draw the new F/F RO who hasn’t shown up yet. It was supposed to be a quick doodle but I ended up going overboard. I considered putting a coat of arms on the horse but I didn’t know what her family’s coat of arms would be. ngl I take a lot of liberties when it comes to designing the clothes of ITFO characters because the time period of all my references is all over the place.
Wouldn’t it be funny if it turns out I drew another one of John Louis’s characters wrong? I’m basically setting myself up for that by drawing her before she even shows up.
Anyway some stuff that we know about her as of now which were made public but I’ll mark it as spoilers just in case:
- Her name is Countess Kateryna of Tczew
- She is Lada and Milon’s cousin by marriage and the older sister of Denica, the girl who tried to get Lada to dance with m!Marshal in ITFO
- She inherited the County of Tczew on account of having no brothers
- She is very feminine
- She leads an army
- She will be introduced at the head of an army riding a warhorse while wearing a noblewoman’s gown and helped down by her giant mute cousin
- She finds the rumors of a warrior woman like the f!Marshal to be intriguing
Fun fact: I originally imagined Elya’s hair looking similar to this but I decided not to go with this because Elya was weak in my playthrough and I thought the hair didn’t suit her personality
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For what it’s worth, the actual Tczew (a city in Poland) around the time the game takes place in was ruled by a duke who used this seal:
which i think it’s badass enough to make it official. The city council certainly seems to have shared this view, as this is the city’s coat of arms:
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Poland mentioned
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