#i want a tag for ariknauts-universe kids who aren't PCs.... don't wanna put them in the general tag

[wetbloodworm]

GOT A MOTIVE FOR CITRINE AND IT’S A BAD ONE bad like. boy you'd really kill your fiancé(e) over this, huh

so blush had a lovely ornate key they wore on a chain that they got from their parents. family heirloom, no idea what the key went to, it just had sentimental value. they never took it off, wore it everywhere. anyway it was an infiltrator key (or an equivalent legendary magic key, the specifics aren't important) which is work 15k gold when exalted. and citrine would absoLUTELY kill for 15k gold are you kidding me

idk if her plan was to steal it with murder being the backup or if she jumped straight to murder. it ended the same way regardless. i know she didn't know the key was valuable until shortly before Murder Happened, the relationship wasn't a ruse or anything, she just heard about this expensive item while out adventuring and went 'WAIT I KNOW WHERE TO FIND ONE OF THOSE'

aside from general greed, i think citrine is also bad with money. spent it irresponsibly, might've had some debts. likes expensive things and has poor impulse control. blush was comfortably well-off, enough to happily spend money on citrine left and right when she was in town. but that plus adventuring wasn't cutting it for citrine, not to keep up with her spending. and then yeah, general greed.

would blush have just given the key to citrine if she'd asked? hard to tell. it had a lot of sentimental value to them, and i'm thinking they either lost both parents or whichever one passed down the key to them, so extra unwilling to part with it. citrine had them wrapped around her finger but there were a FEW things blush would put their foot down about. this might've been one of them, unless citrine was like threatening breaking up levels of pushing. again, hard to tell. and citrine DIDN'T ask.

i'm not sure when blush figures out the motive but it sure is a slap in the face. their fiancée killed them over money. it's DEEPLY hurtful/insulting on top of like wow, fuck, she's really the kind of person to do that? over money?? wildly misunderstood what citrine was really like. if blush finds out when they're still in the murderous stage that absolutely only fuels them to keep going down that path. might actually be the final trigger to go to áedán for power. up until then they're trying to desperately come up with excuses. maybe she had to? maybe she was possessed?? but no. money. blush learns that and is like 'oh i need to murder her back right now immediately'. and they're valid tbh. bad choice with áedán, but i get it at the same time, y’know?