In what circumstances would Zkarth kill his love? And after he gets his love is he still a dictator or does his rule loosen up a bit?
((Hmm, tough question. I don’t think he would ever kill his love? No matter the circumstances. Even if they begged him, I don’t think he could. Even if they cheated or rejected him. He needs them. They make him feel whole, pure. He wants to treasure them, because his mother was treated so horribly by his father. He’d do anything to keep them by his side
Not to say he wouldn’t be violent with them. He wouldn’t bat an eye at tying them up, locking them in a cage, forcing things like kisses and other things i won’t say out loud. But actually killing them? Nah, he’d be much more likely to kill anyone that opposed the relationship [which... is what happens in his story. His love’s friends oppose them being together and he distances her from them.. and then when they confront her about it and hurt her feelings, he has them beaten by his minions so severely most of them are stuck in the hospital for almost the rest of the story.]
As for your second question, it would depend on who he’s with and how much they know and/or care about what he does as a dictator. He couldn’t stop ruling over the countries he’s conquered because.. he kind of destroyed them to the point of not being able to survive without his financial help, but if his love told him to loosen his grip and stop doing horrific things like enslaving smaller alien colonies, he probably would. But the thing is, he’d try and shield his love from knowing about all that as much as possible, because he knows it paints him in a bad light. And no matter what, he wants to make sure they think of him as a wonderful, prince-like person. Noble, strong and kind. He’d keep them in the dark about a lot of bad things he does. Partly because he doesn’t want to be seen as bad, and also partly because he doesn’t really know how bad it is.))