AN~ Bluebeard's a weird character. Not sure why I wrote about him twice, or why I seemed to like him back in the old days but ehh I tried to salvage this chapter but I make no promises.
Bluebeard had certain expectations for the women he married, very specific ones. He didn't care about what they looked like, or how much money they had, or whether or not they were Everafters, or anything like that. All that mattered were their eyes. But those were very important.
Their eyes had to be bright, happy, and full of sparkle. Absolutely had to.
After all, as the eyes were the windows to the soul, if a girl had big, dancing eyes, then she would be happy no matter where you put her, right? And maybe he could get a happy ending with her.
The problem was that those kinds of eyes also signified curiosity, which had gotten all of his wives killed. He hated to do it, but they couldn't be allowed to see his secrets. His first wife had killed herself in that closet, and he had told the others not to go in there for fear that they would be frightened. Some of the others had killed themselves before he got back, because they had thought he'd killed them and wanted to die by their own hands. Another result of the spark in their eyes- they wouldn't give up easily. A few had been killed in a murderous rage, either because they lied to him, or because they confronted him about killing his wives. He had loved his first wife more than anything, but the death of their son had shattered her. After that, the killings just became more and more easy...
His was really a tragic story. Not a horror.