User blog comment:Countess Z--/I wrote something today./@comment-26438896-20151011214009/@comment-27038417-20151011215816

Thank you for writing this!! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I know it's been said that the Outsider doesn't like it when people with power take advantage of the vulnerable, and that seems to be a pattern with most of the individuals he's marked. I also read that 4,000 or so years ago, the Outsider was a fifteen-year-old orphan who was unwillingly forced into the ritual that turned him into the being he is now.

Then I read that the Emperor proposed to Vera in 1780. I did the math and realized she was fifteen. From there, it became clear why the Outsider chose her. Then the story wrote itself.