The three leading men

The Robber, John Marion, Mario Vashtes

With Saturn finally laying eyes on the three honchoes, Hizz didn't want to wait; he wanted to act. Hizz immediately used Saturn's darkness to move to each person, bumping into The Robber on the street, and using advocates to send his power to the other two remotely. Hizz knew they already had everything they wanted, so he didn't care as much about their original wills, choosing to instead target their women. Hizz's plan was simple: if the women were oppressed or abused, Hizz would leverage the change in the men to implant ideas of submission, sending in ideas that they need to go home and be closer to their wives and family, allowing the subjugated maidens to have a taste of dominance.

To start things off, Hizz looked at their home lives as they returned, looking through their eyes. Hizz saw how John and Mario got home after realising something was wrong and failing to have their mages or doctors find anything. At that point, only minor physical changes had happened, but they decided that it was best to be around somewhere they felt safe and secure. They were still the patriarchs of the households, but Hizz was gonna change that soon, already infecting their wives and children through these men, watching in disgust as they exerted their power.

• Mario was abusive, but he was far more subtle; Mario didn't yell, he didn't threaten, but he still held control, he made her family coerce her, he controlled what she could buy and where she could go. Before Andria, Mario's wife, even knew what was happening, she was trapped in this marriage with an impossibly powerful bastard. Since the day she was born, Andria was getting fattened up and groomed to become a bride for someone like Mario, and now that she was in his grasp, her fate was sealed, with no one to help her and no education besides how to be good arm candy or raise a child. Sex is just as controlled, with Andria being expected to rock Mario's world, lest she go without dinner. She already made him a daughter, so Mario didn't much care for Andria, besides her body.
• John got his wife through selections based on the beauty and attractiveness of merchant groups' women, stealing a young mother and wife from her family, leaving her husband and son to run things, only seeing her at gatherings or supervised trips that John used to gloat. Currently, John's wife, Abigail, has had three of his kids, and he planned to make her create a fourth while at home, maintaining a strong and oppressive grip filled with threats and minor **** in the form of punishments. John knew Abigail was never his, no matter how many gifts his ancestors gave him, so he kept her in line with threats of **** against both Abigail, all her children, and her ex-husband. After all these years, John started to believe he'd caught her in his grasp, that she was coming around to his endowments and vast wealth, showing less and less ****, though his past actions always showed in the way she flinched from his hands or stayed quieter than a doll during outings. As for sex, well, let's just say he wasn't a giver, nor was he gentle, causing bruises and scratch marks or bite marks, sometimes even with witnesses.

Although the other two were bastards, The Robber was surprisingly gentle; more than gentle, he was progressive, very progressive. His wife, Michelle, never got to wear his hat or attend his meetings, but she was kept in the know and around the area, though she usually stayed at home, so as not to get into the bloody stuff. She was a pure soul, though she seemed to just let The Robber's crimes go unmentioned while enjoying its riches. There was its own sickness to this knowledge, but Hizz understood the wish to be a bystander, not a player, so he rethought about how to play with this piece while focusing on the other two and their wives. Moving on, Hizz created an illusion for Andria and Abigail, one only visible to them; Hizz was like the cross-dimensional demon on their shoulder, appearing in one spot of their eyes or another. Hizz already set the husbands in motion, but they didn't need to know that; all they needed to know was that he was offering them freedom and control, a chance to not only take control of their lives but to do good with it. All they'd have to do is accept, and Hizz would transfer the power of these men to them, allowing them to live happily with who they truly love, or at least protect their children. All Hizz needed was their obedience, their unflinching loyalty, and all their dreams would be met.