Julia Darktail

Corr Darktail (son)

Philip Darktail (son)

Jacob Darktail (son)

Julia Darktail (Neé Valara) was a female Scaleling that lived in the town of Pantano. She was the wife of Tamako Darktail and mother of Tomoe, Corr, Phillip and Jacob.

## Biography

### Early Life

Julia was born in the city of Balcombre on the province of Stethium, Forethyne.

### Marriage to Tamako

At some point, she moved to the town of Pantano. When she first arrived she was attacked by a wild Venavis; unlike the rest of her travelling group, Julia tried to fend it off with a stick (rather clumsily, though) and was nearly eaten. Thankfully, Tamako Darktail happened to be on patrol with Ashwing and he arrived in the nick of time to scare the creature away. Julia was instantly smitten with the crocodile despite his brutish exterior.

Julia got a decently-paid job as a waitress at Pantano's Inn, and was offered food and shelter during her employment. She learned more about Tamako from the locals; he was the youngest Beast Tamer in the village's protector Clan, and the first to tame a Venavis. Intrigued, she approached his table to start a conversation, but tripped and dropped an entire tar of beer on top of Tamako; far from being offended, the beast tamer found the interaction amusing.

Julia and Tamako dated for two years before the latter proposed.

While the couple had a mostly healthy relationship, problems started after Phillip was born because of Julia's desire to eventually get her old job back to help with the household's expenses, as they had too many mouths to feed already. While not misogynist, Tamako was still raised the old-fashioned way and he insisted that Julia should stay at home with the children. Additionally, Julia didn't agree with Tamako's job as a mercenary and wanted him to get a safer occupation, mostly because there were times he had to leave home for days.

Shortly after, Tamako was out of town for an errand when group of Furlings passing by Pantano began causing trouble. Julia tried to stand up to them when they entered the house, but was quickly subdued as she had no experience in combat. Just as one of the furlings was about to force himself unto her, Tamako arrived and killed the intruders in cold blood with his bare claws; while this saved Julia's life, the sight of her husband tearing people apart in front of her scarred her deeply and she unconsciously became afraid of him.

The marriage eventually reached a dead point. Tamako's experiences in the battlefield turned him standoffish, serious and made his fuse even shorter than before. Try as she might, Julia could not forget the sight of her husband killing in cold blood and didn't dare to disagree with Tamako in anything lest it triggers his volatile temper. She also felt lonely by his continued absence. Julia could only find joy in her children, especially her youngest son.

### The Affair

The only person that seemed to understand Julia was family friend Damien Marglow, who was going through a similar situation in his own marriage. While their interactions were respectful limited to chatting about their situations with their respective spouses and comforting each other about it, eventually a mutual attraction began between the two and they began an affair that would last three years. However, Julia felt an inmense guilt for betraying her husband, especially when Tamako *did* try to change his atittude and talk this over. Julia tried to end the affair a few times, but always found herself returning to Damien's arms after particularly bad episodes with Tamako, a mistake Damien shared with his own wife.

Julia became determined to end the affair once and for all after laying Jacob's egg, realizing that she was not willing to sacrifice her family over a mistake. Unfortunately for her, Damien wasn't so willing to let her go as he had genuinely fallen in love with her, and wanted to run away with Julia; he asked her if Jacob was his son, but Julia affirmed that her husband was, revealing that they had slept together. Things reached a breaking point for Julia when Damien got mad at her for it, to which she retorted that Tamako is her husband, so *he* has every right to touch her.

Weeks after the argument Damien tried to reconcile with Julia, but she coldly brushed him away, threatening him to reveal everything to Coral-even if it means Tamako would find out as well-if he didn't leave her alone.

### Death

Upon the failed attempt at reconciliation, Julia began to reconcile with Tamako; she had no idea that he had been suspecting she had an affair. However, Damien knocked her out one night, planning to steal her away and start a new life somewhere else; unfortunately, their carriage got lost in the swamps in the middle of the storm and sank into the lake. Damien barely had time to escape the vehicle before it fell off a cliff and into the dark waters. Julia's unconsciousness sealed her fate.

### Legacy

With Julia dead, she could not defend herself when Damien told *his* side of the story: that he and Julia were going to run away together. Believing that Julia betrayed him, Tamako burned all of her stuff alongside their marriage tree, vowing to never forgive her. His three oldest children shared this sentiment, but Jacob couldn't really understand what his mother had done wrong, as he was too young to remember when the whole issue ocurred.

## Quotes

> "What did you expect? Tamako is my husband and he can touch me for as long as he wants, or are you going to tell me that you haven't slept with your wife? Yeah, that's what I thought."
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## Trivia

* She was allergic to mistletoe.
* Julia isn't an amoral person; she just tried to find the companionship and understanding she felt her husband wasn't giving her in someone else, like some women in real life. Other than this mistake, she was a good mother and tried her best to be a good wife.
* She's shunned by the rest of the Darktail Family in the Afterlife despite her attempts at explaining what truly happened; the only exception is Flor, Toboe's deceased wife.