Scarlett

From Grigbertz

Describe Scarlett the Bondage Witch here.

 Every so often Sofia looks at Scarlet and wonders just who is the mistress and who is the real slave.

  A completely silly question.  Obviously.  Scarlett is her property, legally registered and must obey her every whim.  She does not begin to have any rights.  How could one think she is actually the one in charge?

  And yet...

  Scarlett is a bondage witch.  Her magic is dependent on her being bound.  Most such are weak mages since their power is directed against their bindings and can only be as strong as the binding, and if one can get powerful bindings, one can get a powerful sorcerer anyway.  But Scarlett is the exception who enjoys the rush of power more than she hates the humiliation of the bindings.  The worse she is treated, the more her power, and the happier she is.

   She could easily find some lout who would mistreat her of course, but such men are unreliable.  They would not beat her enough for the rush of power, or would beat her too much.  She needed those who would give her a reliable degree of punishment,

   Which means the Warrior Nuns.  They may be loving in several meanings of the word, eager to aid women illegally bound, and dedicated, but stern and strict also describes them.  Scarlett need only decide what mischief she is to be "caught" at in order to get exactly the power rush she desires.

   But of course the Warrior Nuns are not fools.  They would catch on soon enough and expel the ungrateful girl.  Which means she would need a protector, someone willing to hide the evidence that she is not going to reform, that she has every intention of remaining a naughty girl than needs frequent punishment.  She needs someone who realizes how valuable she can be in the war to achieve the goals of the nuns, someone willing to violate every rule in order to reach those goals.

   Which means she needs Sofia.  And to gain such a useful assistant, Sofia had indeed violated all too many of the laws of the convent.  When, not if, the truth is exposed, she will be expelled from the center of her life, all for the sake of Scarlet.  The relationship is not as one-sided as the outsider might think.  Indeed, Scarlett may well have the better half.

   But surely she had to have been just lucky.  She may be a clever girl, but to plan that deeply?  Surely not.  She could not have been manipulating Sofia, the Nuns, and the rest right from the start, could she?  The idea is just impossible.

   Isn't it?