She lets Duke take over after he dies, despite being 10x her age, because she doesn't believe in anything herself enough to be a leader She believes in Duke's ideas for a while and then comes to decide she's full of shit too
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I mean for one thing Duke is now explicitly a conversion therapist The First Bride is incorrigibly het and cannot be truly happy and fulfilled without being in a mutually loving relationship with a man And Duke believes this to a sickness
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And puts her in a hole and keeps her there until such time as this condition is alleviated
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(They don't come out and discuss this in detail because put like that it is a kind of hacky role reversal device And then the fact that as soon as she escapes she resurrects Vlad makes Duke ambiguously correct about her)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Yeah I wasn't really sympathetic to the First Bride personally I mean especially given that Dracula probably would have enslaved all the others if Laurel hadn't returned
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I mean it's kind of goofy, Duke can clearly mindread, so if she didn't have such a reactionary outlook she could tell if that guy that the First Bride embraced was really a threat or not But also the First Bride is a notorious horrible judge of character so not really necessary
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like if I sired somebody and then caught them Embracing a complete shitbird I'd probably be be harder on them than Duke was
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @BootlegGirl
It's not her fault, she had like 14 years of life in a peasant hovel and then 600 years of trauma bonding with Vlad, that's her entire existence And she does owe the First Bride for saving her life and being the one to finally kill Vlad at the last minute
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It is telling that if you look at it a certain way this is Duke not trusting *herself* She's clearly very confident she can keep all the other lady vampires in line with subtle mind control but she thinks any male vampire is too dangerous to be allowed to live period
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Because she's obviously still carrying trauma of having everything about her, including her orientation, wiped blank from just one look into Vlad's eyes
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I kind of headcanon that the reason the First Bride finally turned on Vlad is that in their telepathic hivemind she could sense Duke's agony, that Vlad deciding to enslave a lesbian was a new level of total violation, and he just didn't care and found it amusing
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Which is why, you know, the ironic contrast with Duke deciding the First Bride's sexuality needed to be cured was what made her lose faith again
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Also I did like that Duke isn't actually crazy, like she isn't unrealistic or deluded about men, she's aware most men aren't a threat to her as they are now and is only worried about what they might become
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