Episode Five: "Broken Earth"
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The hiatus is over!!! The dark days are done! She is risen!
Now—with Episode Five comes Richard, and with Richard (specifically scenes where Richard and Belle are in the same room) comes a good bit of potentially triggering, upsetting content. But I want this story to still be readable for people who are sensitive to this kind of content, so certain scenes that might be upsetting will have a non-triggering plot summary at the end of them. That way, you can skip the scene if you need to, but still know the important parts of what happened in that scene so you aren't confused when you get to the next scene.
The scenes with the summaries at the end of them will be marked in the CW list below with a *, and will also have a warning/reminder at the beginning of the scene itself so you'll know which ones you might want to skip.
But first! Pronunciation Guide:
Eisica - AY-sih-kuh
Ixhale - iks-HAH-leh
Eten Jouet - EH-ten Joo-EH but like with the soft J sound that’s kinda like a zh sound. Basically how you’d pronounce it in French
Nemelfia Vidala - neh-MEL-fee-ah vih-DAHL-ah
Axtiene - aks-TEE-eh-nee
Primaspectalia - PREE-muh-spec-TAHL-ee-uh
Taissi - TAH-ee-see but usually the first two syllables kinda merge so it sounds more like TYE-see, hence the Tai (TYE) nickname
Sarus - SAH-russ
and, in case I haven't already put her in a pronunciation guide: Auxica - AWKS-ih-cah
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Content Warning List:
* Scene 1: Purity
- Richard
- Derogatory language regarding sex workers and women
- Implied coerced sex
- Domestic violence
Scene 3: The Ladies of Muse House
- imagery of genitalia
- imagery that could be interpreted as relating to sexual assault, marked at beginning and end with ***
- drug/alcohol use
* Scene 7: The First Night
- Richard
- Dissociation/memory loss from trauma
- Sexually predatory/invasive imagery
- mention of a child bride
- mention of physical child abuse
- religious trauma
* Scene 8: Dark Belle
- Richard
- Aftermath of coerced sex
- Gore/violent imagery
Scene 10: Epistolary
- mention of grooming of a teen
Scene 11: Primaspectalia
- Richard
- Murder/domestic violence mention (no imagery or details given)
Scene 13: Mama B
- mention of denial of gender affirming care for a trans person
* Scene 14: Dance with the Devil
- Richard
- Not exactly Stockholm syndrome stuff, but kinda? Blurred lines confusing feelings about an abuser, basically.
- Alcohol/self-medicating
- Derogative language re: sex work
- Nudity
- Coerced sexual content
- Sexual manipulation
- Imagery of extreme gore and violence
Scene 16: Concerning Message
- murder/domestic violence mention
Scene 17: It’s About Time for the Traitor Prince to Run Off Again
- gore
- claustrophobia