[SPOILER="Princess and Sasha's fate"]
Sasha had done many things in her life. Raised on a farm, she joined the military after her family was slaughtered and her fields salted by an invading army. Once there, she quickly rose through the ranks on account of her quick thinking, strong arms, and odd ability to come out of suicide missions unscathed. After her nation failed to find the money to pay its own soldiers, she deserted and joined a mercenary band, quickly establishing herself as a top player in her region. Then, in a rare failure, she was captured by the very nation she deserted; Now under new, better management. Expecting to be executed a deserter, she was saved through an odd trick of fate: It just so happened that a minor noble owed a debt to her father from many years past that he failed to pay before his untimely death. Seeing this as a chance to make right with an old friend, Lord Bottclair took her on as a slave bodyguard for his daughter, who he spoiled maybe a bit too much.
The important thing to note here is that at no point did she ever truly interact with a noble court, understand the inner workings thereof, or honestly truly respect. She defended Leianna more as a way of repaying her debt to Lord Bottclair than any real sense of duty toward her charge.
So when Leianna woke up from her drugged sleep and begged Sasha to turn back until her father settles matters lest they face the consequences, Sasha ignored her. What could the brat know that she didn't? The threats of the reprisals that would befall them fell on deaf ears as Sasha knew that nobles did wrong all the time and faced no punishment for it.
Sasha failed to account for the fact that the nobility did wrong to the peasantry all the time with no consequence, and that nobles doing wrong to nobles is a whole different matter.
Had Leianna challenged her opponent to a proper duel, nothing wrong would have happened. But, in her rage, she failed to follow the right procedures and thus her imagined duel of honor instead became assault. The Fiance was a vengeful woman, and the only proper reprisal she could find for the humiliation of (slightly) bloodying her dress in front of her betrothed was a humiliation magnitudes greater. The courts, preferring to stay out of such petty squabbles, would not intervene. Lord Bottclair, while he could have possibly done something if given more time, sadly did not have the manpower or clout to prevent the Fiance's revenge.
And so, upon their arrival back home, Sasha and Leianna were immediately captured by the Fiance's forces. Sasha was tied and gagged, as the Fiance "Only wanted to hear the moans of the pathetic tart that defied" her. Helpfully, Leianna had already been tied for them. They were both marched to a local theater square, where they were humiliated in front of the people of the Bottclair fief for nearly a day and a half. They would eventually be let down and returned home, but not before the spectacle became known throughout the entire kingdom. Eventually the populace would forget. Eventually.
Sasha learned a very important lesson that day: Maybe, just maybe, Leianna had some clue as to what she's doing. [/SPOILER]
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[SPOILER="Some side notes"]
That was a lot of backstory to make up on the spot. I figured since these two didn't really get much characterization compared to what Amanda and Aria already got, I would retire them and maybe introduce new ones. Then, in the epilogue, I proceed to make all the characterization they were missing. fukkin hell
This is pretty open ended, which was intentional both because I don't like unilaterally bad endings and because I might try to introduce them back into the game at some point. Since I fixed my main issue with them and all. Might do something about them trying to find a place to wait for the gossip mill to die down for a while. I just wish I kept them on long enough to reach the conclusion of that thing with Gnorg, that was funny.
also I reread this like eight times so hopefully I don't read it again in an hour and find a typo or something I forgot and edit this post a million times like normal. EDIT: i failed, made the wall of text flow a bit better and threw that fancy last name around a bit. "Lord Bottclair" sounds better than "Leianna's father".
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