In the Doghouse - By Jusang (8/10)
The perfect prince wants to be punished! Our protagonist is a practical, poor noblewoman from a family of idiots. Her mother is a has-been. Her father is a dunce. Her brother gambles. Her older sister had a baby out of wedlock. She's doomed. Ready to live life as a barmaid, but then the Prince proposes. He's a huge fan of her (cruelty).
Courtney Devon comes from the bad side of a good family. Her fat and vain mother used to be the belle of the ball...and she just won't let it go...
It's embarrassing. You feel embarrassed for her. Her mother keeps buying frivolous and fashionable magic items...when they don't even have enough cash for a butler....
Courtney Devon screams at her pathetic mother, and the other party guests. She openly admits she has no cash, on purpose. Her parents are delusional. They just keep spending. Her vicious attack is one last desperate plea.
Stop fleecing my family.
We have no wool left.
Oh yes. She despises her noble peers for leading on her idiot family, and laughing at their ruin. She just can't ask nicely.
She has to rage.
She is always alone. The story does a great job of portraying her loneliness. Courtney Devon lashes out. She's rude. She feels no loyalty to her family, but sadly her rage is justified....but that doesn’t mean people will like it. The other nobles avoid her like the plague and despite her beauty no one has proposed.
It's lonely.
It's sad.
She wants to run, but she stays.
Why?
It's all for Eddy. Her sweet nephew. The child did nothing wrong. Courtney Devon knows that if she leaves no one will be able to scare the loan sharks away. Poor Eddy will lose his ancestral title, and he'll be left with an unreliable family...all alone.
She just can't do that to a child.
She lived through it, so she decides to force her family to sell their crumbling estate...
They are against it. Of course they are. Mommy dearest can't possibly live in the countryside!!! She has to go to her parties!!! Brother dearest can't live like a hick!! How will he continue to gamble his life away??? Sister dearest can't leave the big city!!! She's s-s-scared of poor people (even though she is one)!!!
Yes, they are the most annoying people in the world.
Brother dearest brings home more debt.
Too much.
Selling the estate won't cover it anymore.
Suddenly, the Prince proposes.
What a coincidence.
He does it the day after her finances are truly f***ed and unfixable.
The perfect Prince, Richard, is in love with her cruelty. He wants her to yell and scream at him. To shame him for speaking. To kick him aside and call him a fool.
Yes, he's a masochistic freak.
A pretty big one, who needs to keep his freak flag on the down low.
He does actually care about his kingdom after all. Courtney Devon is perfect. She can satisfy his disgusting needs, and she has to keep quiet...or poor dear Eddy won't have two coins to rub together when he grows up.
It's a twisted situation.
Courtney Devon gives him what he wants. What he planned to get from her, no matter what. He's been fawning over her rage like a simpering fan boy, and it enrages her.
Her painful, shameful existence turned on someone’s fetish.
It really is enraging.
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Beetlejuice getting locked out of your room for being an asshole like;
Beetlejuice: Heyyy babes c’mon don’t be like that.
Beetlejuice: Open up, my sweetpea
Beetlejuice: My pumpkin pie
Beetlejuice: My angel… dust. Sorry thats a drug.
Beetlejuice: … which I have on haaaaand 👀
Beetlejuice: Want in on this? This offer is only valid if you open the dooooooor 😩🎶
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