After twenty years
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Just wanted to draw colored Viica, since my only art about her is the grayscale comic.
Theirs is simply a disfunctioning relationship on multiple levels.
First, Viica thinks she is entitled to Scroop's love, because she bought him and freed him from the arena. Scroop once tells Silver, he does not understand either, why he couldn't love Viica simply for that. He can only explain that he must be a monster uncapable of love, but as we later see it is not the case.
Scroop not reciprocating her feelings makes Viica angry and hurt him, thus leading to another reason Scroop hates her. He is powerless against her and by some old rites, she should eat him after they are done, so he is super scared of her too. Viica does not want that, since she needs him, but she is still far too dangerous to his health simply because of her size.
She is desperate too, because her dreadnought ship can only be inherited through blood. The ship has an old system, which only recognizes the succession of the captain by her children. And the child should be a female too to maintain the nest-like social structure the ship provides. Scroop is attractive to her because of his color. Brighter and agressive colors are more desirable and signal strength, which she wants for her daughters. But for some reason they are not compatible and this makes her more and more frustrated.
When Scroop escaped her in his younger years with the help of Silver, she was deeply hurt. She never stopped searching for him, even thou she tried other partners from her crew. When she finally captures him after twenty years... that is not going to be pretty.