Til Death Do Us Part (Patreon)

It’s been asked before why Felix (an adulterous closeted gay man) and Liv stayed married, or why Felix even ensnared her into a marriage in the first place. The reason is simple. Felix, having lost his own mother to suicide at a young age, wanted a mother figure to care for him and manage him and, most importantly, never ever leave him. And Liv…well, she did consider escaping, once Felix made it clear he wasn’t the romantic artist she thought he was, and instead a bitter, self-loathing masochist. Somehow though, Felix convinced her to stay. And she instead came to view her dearly beloved as her own personal project. Her’s to manage, her’s to bully into producing more plays and novels to keep them comfortably wealthy, her’s to keep upright when he’d come home too sloshed to stay standing. Liv did enjoy having so much control over the man she’d come to despise, and Felix savored her evolution from meek, doting housewife to cruel, biting overseer.

Liv and Felix didn’t love each another, but they did understand each other, and dug their claws deep into one another out of need and loneliness and a desire to be seen at their ugliest without being pushed away.

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