Aww, a baby! She's so cute and looks so happy!
I like all the thought put into the the worldbuilding. Nightmare has established more of a traditional monarchy vs the multiverse's lack of government vefore. And it's almost all based around worshipping him. There's a late chapter more about this. Dream is miserable in it and nearly gets blackout drunk. There's the bonus that since the the rest of the royalty are made up of Nightmare's favorites, they're all AUs that have protection from him against the infection. The exchanges are loyalty, wealth, power, and resources. They have to be good to Nightmare and maintain their positions if they want to stay protected. Luckily, Nightmare has never taken out an entire AU, only a few people.
I had a scrapped idea for a cult that worshipped the parasite and Nightmare in order to be spared, that Core Frisk had to deal with since it was made up of Omega Timeline residents who were desperate, but there was nowhere to place that idea with everything else going on.
Anyways! Back to Carabella. I like that both siblings and Aurora get along, despite the arranged marriage thing. At least they're happy while their parents are toxic messes.
And it's nice that her parents are accepting of the crush, unlike Aurora's parents. They're just thinking, "Crap, don't want my little girl to get killed by the king."
Carabella can be both flower girl and best woman. It's less work for Nightmare (since he would be the one making all the wedding arrangements to make sure everything is perfect) and it would mean less connections for Aurora. Ribbon had nobody except the MTT, so it's a step in the right(?) direction. Aurora would keep trying to sneak off to spend more time with her while being scolded by Nightmare.
It's going to take me a hot minute to get to the ask, but I've thought about what Aurora would be like in a theoretical where she never gets outside help. She's very irritable and takes after Nightmare with his cruelty, since she learned that's the only way of maintaing any power and respect. She's terrified of ending up like Ribbon, mentally unstable, helpless, and completely dependent on someone else to take care of her. Then Ribbon is both proud Aurora learned from the best, and upset because she's distant and he doesn't know where he went wrong. Meanwhile, her older relationship with Nightmare is very toxic where she tries to be like him and win his love (like her mother), but hates him in the process. All this to say that's why I drew Aurora looking aggervated at her wedding.
Really sorry it's so sketchy, I had a lot to do today and yesterday and didn't want to keep you waiting.
And I see from both here and the comments you all really want to see the skeleton lesbians so oh what the heck.
@rose-n33, your girl is here too.
Thank you for all the thoughts and art! And for liking my odd little series with all it's strange evolutions. :)
