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stupid-sloot-headcanons · 5 months

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Can I please request an HC with a Foreigner Darling with Nanami from JJK, Captain from Hellsing and Byakuya Kuchiki from Bleach?

Nanami's got some knowledge of foreign cultures, but he doesn't speak English that well and if you speak any other language, he doesn't understand. So conversations will be in either simple Japanese or English, or he'll use a translator app. He tries to learn about your culture and incorporate it so you don't get too homesick. He also teaches you Japanese if you struggle with it and is a much more patient and kind teacher than how he is with the kids at Jujutsu High lol. He likes the idea of marrying you, but he leaves what kind of wedding he'd have up to you: Japanese traditional wedding at a shrine, a Western style wedding, etc. He just wants you to be his wifey/househusband, the ceremony itself is less important to him. Ideally he wants a more private ceremony though, just because he hates big parties with a bunch of guests...or one particular guest named Gojo who he knows would make a special day much more annoying. The Captain has little conception of cultures outside of what he knows of Milennium's German roots and hazy memories of Werewolf culture with his own people. And because he doesn't speak, you would think he doesn't understand language; in reality, he understands many languages but just doesn't speak them. So he can understand what you say even if he doesn't ever respond. He tries to give you little trinkets or items to remind you of your home, like books or food. He isn't sure how you're supposed to treat a mate, especially one that is a human. But doing things like this is probably good, right? Byakuya would be a bit angsty about it, because he's a noble and he knows firsthand how much pushback he got for marrying a lower-class woman like Hisana. Despite his love for her and for you, he knows that a foreigner would be borderline unacceptable to marry. So he would try to resign himself to pining from afar and keeping a distance, but that makes his obsession worse lol. He would eventually decide to court you anyway and damn the consequences or criticism from the other nobles in and out of the Kuchiki family. But he would also insist on training you in everything a Shinigami nobleman's wife would need to know: calligraphy, flower arrangement, tea ceremony, wearing kimono, dancing and playing instruments, etc. He wouldn't force you to assimilate and abandon your own culture or anything, but he would press the issue that being his bride (even if you didn't even ask for that) has responsibilities. But he trusts you to do them and loves you regardless. He tries to learn about and participate in your culture, too. Ie. if you're Mexican, he wants to make an ofrenda next to the family altar for Dia de los Muertos. If you're Black he refuses to do anything with your hair that you don't want, and he snaps at anyone who comments about it; he's very quick to remind them that for all his faults, Kaname Tosen was a very refined man who never looked "sloppy" or "unkempt" with his hair worn in dreadlocks. He learns about matryoshka from a Russian Darling and makes a new line of Ambassador Seaweed nesting dolls.

#.bleach #.byakuya #.jjk #.nanami #.hellsing #.captain #yandere bleach #yandere byakuya #yandere jjk #yandere nanami #yandere hellsing #yandere captain #foreign darling #.myshit

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er1chartmann · 5 months

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Joseph Goebbels's time line

This is Joseph Goebbels,The Nazi minister for Propaganda, time-line:

1897: He was born in Rheydt

1900: His father bought a house at number 140 Dahlener Street, in Rheydt, today number 156.

1909: His sister, named Maria, was born.

1917: He moved to 18 Post Straße in Bonn to continue his studies

1919: He voted for the German Nationalist Party

1919: He moved to Munich.

1920: He moved to Heidelberg University, where he studied under the aegis of two Jewish professors, Friedrich Gundolf, professor of literary history, and Max von Waldberg, author of numerous books on the history of literature.

1922: He worked briefly as an art critic for a newspaper, but was fired; he later gave a public lecture on Oswald Spengler.

1922: He subsequently found work at the Dresdner bank in Cologne, thanks to the family relationships of his girlfriend, Else Janke, of Jewish origins. He remained there for nine months, only to be fired.

1924: He began writing his diaries.

1924: He organized the first political meetings in his father's house in Rheydt

1924: He published his first article in a weekly political magazine

1925: On January 20, 1925, he was fired from the magazine Völkische Freiheit and subsequently became Gregor Strasser's secretary.

1925: He was at the forefront, alongside Strasser, in supporting the campaign for the expropriation of the assets of the fallen nobles, proposed by the communist and social democratic deputies.

1926: on 29 March 1926 Hitler offered Goebbels the opportunity to speak in public, the following 8 April; Goebbels accepted and, from then on, was completely won over by the Führer.

1926: He officially broke with Strasser and definitively switched to Hitler's side.

1926: Hitler appointed Goebbels Gauleiter (regional section head) of Berlin.

1928: He was elected deputy to the Reichstag

1931: He married Magda, the ex-wife of an industrialist, on the estate of Günther Quandt in Mecklenburg: Hitler was his best man.

1932: His first child, named Helga, was born.

1933: Goebbels was called to the position of Minister of Propaganda.

1933: He organized the so-called ''Book Burnings'' in Berlin.

1934: His second child, named Hildegard, was born.

1935: His third child and only son, Helmut, was born.

1936: He became the lover of the Czechoslovakian actress Lída Baarová.

1937: His fourth child, named Holdine, was born

1937: He opened the exhibition of the so-called ''degenerate art'': no entry fee was required, to ensure that it was visited by as many people as possible.

1938: He helped organize Kristallnacht

1938: His fifth child, named Hedwig, was born.

1939: The Second World War began

1939: He visited Poland and in particular a ghetto.

1940: His sixth child, named Heidrun, was born

1940: He became editor of Das Reich.

1941: He read the declaration of war regarding the invasion of the Soviet Union.

1941: He began to take an active interest in the Jewish question. With Hitler's permission, he created a ''special mark for the Jews''

1943: He made the speech of total war.

1945: He was named plenipotentiary minister for total war mobilization and later general of the Wehrmacht, in charge of the defense of Berlin, this assignment meant a lot to Goebbels, who was unable to join the army during WW1 due to his disability

1945: From 22 to 29 April, He published the last Nazi newspaper in history, the Panzerbär.

1945: Hitler, in his last wishes, named him his successor as Reich Chancellor.

1945: Once Hitler died, Goebbels took over from him as chancellor on 30 April 1945, remaining in office for only almost a day and a half.

1945: He and his wife Magda, after having killed their six children with cyanide, they committed suicide.

Sources:

Wikipedia: Joseph Goebbels

Hitler and his loyalists: Paul Roland

Joseph Goebbels, the agitator: Documentary

If you don't like it go with your life :))

Note: If I get new information from my research I will edit the post :))

I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM, FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL POST

#reichblr #joseph goebbels #ww2 germany #ratblr #fanboy #ww2 history #austrian painter

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danvolodar · 1 month

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Pathologic and the Town's Russianness: 4

This part will deal with a relatively major topic in Pathologic - religion. Or, well, with the major discrepancy between religion in the Town and in historical Russian Empire.

Most of this post will be about the denizens of the Town, but let's briefly mention the Kin. They have a pretty clear-cut pagan religion, with multiple personified deities: Bos Turokh, Boddho, Suok (the difference with historical religions, of course, being the fact that the magic actually works in the Steppe). The state's apparent non-interference with them practicing their religion fits well enough into the Imperial policies of the early XX century. What doesn't is the lack of control. The Empire was very much a bureaucratic behemoth, it sought to control anyone who influenced the minds of its citizens. The Interiour Ministry had a Department of Spiritual Affairs, and its officials had their fingers in every pie, demanding the right to veto religious leader assignments in the local communities, paying state wages to those of these leaders who played nice, etcetera. However, apparently, the historical Department was chronically understaffed (to the point of its aforementioned veto rights being unenforceable), and the game is very reductive when it comes to the official state apparatus in general, so all in all, the way the Capital-based civilization treats the Kin religion is a passable fit for the Russian Empire.

Quite a different story with the majority religion. In the Russian Empire, Orthodoxy was de-facto a state religion. While ethnic minorities were allowed to practice their religions undisturbed (by early XX century, mind, that hadn't exactly been that way throughout the entire Imperial history), ethnic Russians were mandated by law to be Orthodox Christians. Not being a practicing Orthodox was literally a felony.

Historical precedent showed that even for a scion of one of the Empire's most noble families a single religious misstep could lead to fatal consequences: in the 1730ies, Mikhail Alekseyevich Golitsyn was forced to become a court jester for secretly converting to Catholicism to marry a German, his marriage was dissolved and he was ordered to remarry another jester.

Of course, quite some time had passed since that incident, yet the Church remained intimately intertwined with the state. The semi-independent Patriarchate was replaced as its governing body with the Most Holy Synod, a state organ with mixed clergy and layman membership, during Peter I's reforms, which factually made the Church a part of the state apparatus. Ever since then, caesaropapism remained the norm. The Church had multiple functions that nowadays would only be expected of the state, such as birth registrations or running primary schools. A church was an essential part of any settlement, the presence of one differentiating a small hamlet (деревня, derevnya) from a village (село, selo). Vital events such as marriages or burials could only be done through the Church (and since the Old Believers could not participate in the Nikonian rituals, bribes from them sometimes formed a large part of parish incomes). The Church as an institution - much like the other parts of the Imperial state machine, - was facing a crisis of confidence by the early XX century, but common folk were still expected to regularly come to service, confess and receive communion. The faith became so ingrained into the language that even the Soviet militant atheists could not remove all the "thank god"s and "help god"s on every occasion from it (starting right with thanking someone: the word for "thanks" in Russian is spasibo - спасибо, literally means "god sav[e you]") .

None of that is present in Pathologic. There is not a single church in the Town, apparently - not even family chapels. References are sometimes made to religion, and that implied baseline seems to be Orthodox Christianity, but nothing indicates anyone in the Town is an active, practicing believer. The game actually takes it to a hilarious degree: in the Diurnal ending, when Saburov tells Artemy that Katherina is going to bring Cathedral back to life, he shoots back: "Just tell me she's not religious. Anything's better. Even a second plague".

To be fair, the educated class being fashionably atheist matches the late Empire well enough - both because of the aforementioned crisis of confidence in the Church, and because of the general naïve positivism of the era. Dankovsky is pretty stereotypical in that regard (and his talk of angels does not really contradict that atheism, or even hints at him being brought up a Christian, to begin with, given that there are of course angels in Judaism).

However, just like the Soviets, IPL apparently haven't been able to get rid of Orthodox sentiments altogether. A remarkable example is a dialog snippet with Big Vlad, when he's in the Termitary and Capella is dead (if memory serves). The only thing he says to Artemy, essentially, is "forgive me if I have ever wronged you": a very Christian repentance before death. One of Artemy's dialog options then is even more so. In the English translation it's "God is merciful", the Russian original is literally "God will forgive": a characteristic non-answer which sounds like a blessing, but actually means something like "God will forgive [you, but I will not, despite you asking, because Lord's mercy is without limit, while mine isn't]".

Finally, time to mention the elephant... well, animal... steppe creature... in the room - Clara and her sainthood. Ironically, that is the most Orthodox plotline in the game. Just like the other Christian denominations, Orthodoxy recognizes multiple modalities of sainthood, which of course has to do with it being, like Catholicism also, two different religious practices in one coat: one for the monks, the other for the laymen and the clergy who have not taken up the vows. Saints can come from both parts of the divide, they just need a feat for the betterment of the faith and the humanity at large: a martyrdom, or converting a large number of non-believers, or protecting the Orthodox flock from depredations... The Changeling, however, can be understood as a yurodivy - an Orthodox saint that is a fool for Christ, that is, operates outside the usual societal norms on direct divine inspiration. Usually coming from laymen stock, such saints don't earn their veneration by following the canons of monastic or even layman life, but rather, submit themselves to God immediately. Clara's "God reveals himself to people by my hands" is a 100% hit on that modality: it's not her performing miracles by God, but God revealing himself to the world through her. It is, in a way, like the Sufi mystics seeking to suppress the nafs (ego) to reach communion with God.

Then, of course, comes the blood sacrifice. Well, I don't think there's a long explanation needed here on why this is not an Orthodox Christian idea. Yes, the sacrifice of Jesus redeemed the Original sin, but Jesus is God. One cannot be saved by another man's sacrifice in Orthodoxy, much less by turning another man into blood sausage. Yes, repentance is commendable (based on Luke 15:7), and sacrificing yourself for others' sake, too (John 15:13) - so the Humbles themselves can be seen as repentant sinners; but there can be no justification for these who slaughter them. Worse still, establish a process of slaughtering them, requiring ever more victims. That, naturally, run against the foundations of Orthodox Christianity (the sixth commandment).

So, to sum this part up. The way the Capital treats the religion of the Kin passably resembles what the Russian Empire could've done; the atheist educated class also fits the mold. But the rest of the game's setting, particularly the lack of day-to-day organized Church presence in the Town, could not be any further from the historic Imperial society. Similarly, Clara's sainthood in itself fits into the religious life of the Empire well enough; but the Humbles ending absolutely destroys it.

#pathologic #мор утопия

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veenvss · 5 months

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autumn court

the family , 1/7

2 , dawn

The courts have always fascinated me but while reading and looking at the map I always thought that the worldbuilding was too rushed or too simplistic. So, I have decided to reimagine the courts in a way that makes more sense to me. Who knows? I may end up using these in the future for a book of my own.

I'm going to start this alphabetically, as I do most things, so the first court I'm looking at is the Autumn Court.

As of the start of ACOTAR and seemingly quite a few years before the start of the story, the High Lord is Beron Vanserra. He has a wife and seven sons, two of which are dead. We never get told the names of Beron's family, except his eldest son, Eris, and his seemingly youngest son, Lucien. Fascinatingly, Beron's family name is one of the only family names we ever learn about in the series. Since it's so unique, I'm going to start with that.

With a quick google search and most likely inaccurate information, Beron is a German name, and the Autumn Court is full of forests which I like to think is just stereotypical, but also useful. In a quick list, I've assigned these names to his family:

FRIEDERIKE SOMMER- "peaceful ruler" "summer". From a noble family who ruled over farmlands in the southwest of the court. As a child, she was known as Fritzi, a sweet little girl who loved animals. Some even rumoured that she could communicate with them. Once her father married her off, she lost that childlike charm too early. At the beginning of her marriage, she was occasionally called Frieda by her husband, in an attempt to lack the animosity that was between them, however rumours of an old love removed even the bleakest attempts at friendliness.

EKKEHARD VANSERRA- "blade, hard" The eldest son was born a year after the wedding. As the eldest and most powerful he has the most responsibility and loyalty from other court members. According to many, he's the son with the most likely chance of becoming the next High Lord once Beron dies. As a child, and in private, he was often called Eike by his mother. Growing up, he changed a lot with the environment around him. Names as power, so he changed his to protect himself, and the memories of his glowing mother from when he was a child. To everyone but his favourite, he is known as Eris, a direct target to his father, as it's a name chosen from the Day Court, who the Autumn Court has a mysterious quarrel with..

MEINRAD VANSERRA- "power, advice" The second son, born a while after his brother. During adulthood, he has been sent away to look over a town on the other side of the court.

SIEGFRIED VANSERRA- "victory, peace" As the third son, he was often wrangled as a part of the brood, so he fought to make a name for himself. He was often seen as a violent man, encouraging fights and often inflicting punishments by his own hand, a vast difference to his mother's little Sigi. However, he was one of the brothers last seen following the exile through the borders to Spring.

KUNIBERT VANSERRA- "royal, bright" He didn't particularly have much going for him. He wasn't as powerful as Ekkehard, or as violent as Siegfried. He was often seen following the stronger brothers around, and often it was the violent ones so he could hide how cowardly he truly was, even if it meant following them into the claws of a lawful, foreign High Lord.

OTMAR VANSERRA- "wealth, famous" As a child, he was often soft and polite. He offered food to orphaned children and he liked to read in the gardens rather than force his title onto unwilling people. Once his brothers were murdered, he didn't have much choice but to change.

JOST VANSERRA- "lord" As the youngest Vanserra son for a long while, he had the least opportunities and the least hope for a powerful future. He remained amicable with his brothers, and, undoubtedly has the least amount of enemies, always following his brothers' unanimous decisions.

LEVIN VANSERRA- "beloved, friend" Born with a long period between his brothers, mysteriously after the Lady's long walks stopped, and a new period of violence set in the court. Disliked by all except his mother, he grew up in isolation, unable to visit his true father who was kept away from him. He was rarely trained and barely tutored and a eye was never kept. As a young adult, he fell in love with who the High Lord saw as a mistake. They were both punished, and he left, changing his name and vowing a curse on the High Lord's head.

The Autumn Court family dynamic is incredibly interesting to me. Seven sons, two dead, one not truly a son. The amount of Reddit stories that could come out of these nine is a dream I wish I could get on an extensive google doc.

#acotar #autumn court #lucien vanserra #eris vanserra #lady of autumn #helion x loa #day court #spring court #beron vanserra #lucien's unnamed brothers

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himbeereule · 10 days

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Hi! If it's okay, I wanted to ask a few questions:

Since MC is for the most part chosen as a very good-looking person, does that carry on to the rest of the imperial family?

Was Empress Aleksandra a native Nevetskiyan noble or was she part of the foreign nobility? (asking because ever since I played this game I've been reading a bit about the Russian Imperial family and noticed that pretty much starting from Paul I the emperors married noblewomen from the German or Danish nobility, so I was curious about Mother Empress' case)

If we choose to not execute the remaining enemy troops, will we be able to absorb them into our army? Or make them PoWs?

Hi! Asking questions is always okay, and in fact welcome!

Mostly yes. Artemiy is the only real exception, he just looks pretty normal (I mean, there's an option for MC to be like that too...) Sasha/Tasha is very androgynous, but has a talent to fly under people's radars, unlike MC; Lavrentiy looks at least good enough to always find people to sleep around with without having to rely on his status or wealth.

She's technically Nevetskiyan nobility, but her parents were both foreign nobles - her father married into a Nevetskiyan Duke family and remarried a foreign (ducal) princess after becoming widowed without children. Her becoming Empress got MC's Father Emperor claims on the Western border, though he didn't get around to act on them.

I'm not sure if I'll include it into the scripted Prologue battle, but in the "real" battles that come afterwards, yes. It will be tied to your popularity, and high popularity might even mean enemy formations defecting to your side during battle. Winning battles will be the main source of equipment and troops, actually, but taking on too many PoWs as your own will sap morale (which can lead to your troops defecting to the enemy side during battle, if morale is very low; also depends on the individual troop loyalty).

#choicescript #eaglet #орлёнок #interactive fiction

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apersonwholikeslotus · 4 months

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This is technically from a wip game i was tagged in months ago but I feel like talking about wip's so (im not doing the tag part i just left the rules so y'all know whats up)

Rules: Reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

The Bookseller & The Florist - The NedAme fic i've been posting, title is pretty explanatory even if you haven't been reading it.

The Ex - a week or so after Icelands birthday they're throwing a pseudo party for him in Dublin. Feat. Romano going "????" bc him and Norway are absolute opposites but Ire used to date Nor? and is now dating him?

Memories - A Spain fic that exists as two paragraphs and a very vague idea, i want to write for it i just don't know,,, how,,,,?

After the Fall - Germania and family finally heading back North after Odoacer overthrew Romulus Augustus, mostly family centered fluff/some internal-ish angst on Germania's part. (nightmares that he won't talk about, and leave him feeling isolated)

Natalya in Constantinople - title is a placeholder that's a joke off Emily in Paris. Belarus living in Constantinople before it falls, a lot of character/family tree building, less actual story if that makes sense.

Sons of Henrik - Early viking age, All of the Central Germanics/Anglo-Saxons have converted to Christianity and 'abandoned everything we were taught'; Denmark and Sweden feel like their family has turned their backs on them as well and they're angry about it. Norway is very conflicted on exact feelings, arguing that their recently deceased Father (Germania) wouldn't want infighting in the family. Nothing really gets solved. (Inspired by some guys Quora rant about the Saxon Wars triggering the Viking Age, not sure if they're actually connected at all but it was interesting to read at least.)

Scandals - Roderich and Antonio are married, Erzsébet is involved with both of them. It gets out, and nobles love to gossip. (another one of the less fleshed out ones but still)

Father - Brandenburg and Germany get into a fight; mostly centered around a legitimate "your not my dad" feeling. Brandenburg snaps and accidentally tells Germany "well Gilbert wasn't either!" cue Ludwig's entire world crumbling as he finds out his entire family has been lying since he was born.

#apersonwhowrites

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joandfriedrich · 6 months

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I have a what-if question for you. What if the Marches hadn't lost all their money?

That is interesting thing to ponder. I would like to think that they wouldn't lose much of their personalities, given how down-to-earth Marmee and Mr. March were. Aunt March would continue to try and match the girls up with well to men, not necessarily because of money, but because they should stay within "good society", but Marmee maintains that she would be happy to see her daughters as happy spinsters than marry men they didn't love just for more money or connections.

Meg would be sought after by many of the young men, and while she did enjoy the attention, she realized it wasn't as fun as the men see her as a means for her wealth, which is why she grows closer to the studious, but hardworking John Brooke, who talks to her as an equal, never as someone too high above him. When he proposes, he swears off using Meg's money to provide the house, and he wants to prove that he can provide for her and is deserving of her. This show of strong character helps him land a job in Mr. March's employ, where no one can question his social class anymore.

Jo would still be the "oddball" of the family, wanting to enjoy life and write despite having all the money she could ever want. She swears off marrying at a young age due to the many men around her wishing to marry her for her money, despite them thinking she isn't as pretty as Meg. She decides to get away from it all and has a vacation in New York, staying at a boarding house of a friend of the family. While there, she meets Friedrich Bhaer, a German professor who though poor in money is rich is kindness and generosity, and like Meg before her, finds it refreshing that she is treated as an equal and not just a prize (it helps too that Jo never reveals to any of the boarders that she is wealthy, choosing to work as the children's nanny). So when Friedrich visits, Jo is worried that he'll feel betrayed that she isn't exactly who she said she was, but he doesn't care, and loves her regardless, more concerned that she could never love him for how poor and how much older he is than her. But she doesn't care about that, and they marry, set up their own school where he is the professor (which is practically how Little Women ended)

Beth would use her money to help out hospitals, the homeless, and schools. People around Concord would call her Saint Beth, for how charitable she was, but she does so much more behind he scenes that people do not find out until her death. It's hard to say if Beth would live longer in this AU, because while the money would help to get her the best care, she was already a frail girl who seemed to never have quite recovered from her illness. But, if we are going with my train of thought, the Hummels would have been in a shelter or taken cared of by a doctor, thus eliminating Beth's need to visit them and getting sick herself. So, yes, she would survive, and I like to see her grow old, content to stay at home and live a simple life, despite having the advantages money could provide.

Amy would go to the best schools, especially for art, and when she is older, go with Aunt March to not only expand her skills, but for Aunt March to find her a proper husband. Amy gets plenty of offers, even from nobles like dukes and counts, but in the end, she will always love Laurie, who had once tried to propose to Jo, but after reflection realized he didn't love Jo like that, but loves Amy, and Aunt March's hope of marrying off to a well to do young man, especially a European, ends up still coming true.

Sorry that this post is late and a bit longer than I had expected, but sudden inspiration hit me.

#little women #answered asks #jo march #amy march #meg march #beth march

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ohdudedhesflirting · 11 months

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How each member of ZB1 died

Note : Yunjin is not there as he is a child and I will never write for a minor. This is a piece of fiction only meant to be heartbreaking and sad. I do not want the members to know the same destiny as their fictionious personna. I am not glamorizing death. English is my second language. This is fiction !

Genre : Historical fictions. Just pain.

Warnings : death. Violent death. Blood. Knife. Fire. Drowning. Violence.

Please if you know that you are sensible to the topic of death do not read this.

Proceed with caution.

Kim Jiwoong : tortured to death (1801-1827)

Love, that’s what Kim Jiwoong died for.

He was the manservant of a powerful family and what a mistake that was to have fallen in love of their son.

Together they lived happily in the secret of their sheets, they talked about running to Scotland and finally live their love away from everyone, in the discreet countryhouse in a cottage. Yes thats what they wanted.

If only they had not being caught… In England the penalty for homosexuality was being hanged for the poor and decapitated for the rich. But the family of Seobin did not want for the word to get out, so they married him to a noble lady, hiding forever the secret behind closed doors.

What about Jiwoong ? They simply got rid of him.

Torturing him, making him suffer every atrocity that was possible before he took his last breath due to the pain he had been inflicted. Alone in a cold room lost away in the british countryside.

Zhang Hao : died at war (1899-1917)

The Great War. That was it was called on the batterfield, in the trenches.

Rain pouring down his face, Zhang Hao was thinking about his family, his home, is friends waiting for him. It had been since the beginning that Zhang Hao had been deployed, he had been lucky, he only had been injured lightly so far.

He had to say goodbye to some of his friends, some died at the battle, others died from their wounds. He was left alone, being at the head of so many people he could not count them on their fingers.

Another day, getting out of his little compartiment, saluting his soldiers, soon they would have to move, probably, doing an offensive and trying to win some meters in the ennemy side.

It was without counting on the germans, his helmet on his head, a deflagration resonated through his ears, a bomb had been deposated.

Fire, screams, dust.

The helmet had not been enough, the germans broke through their defense and without even understanding what was going on due to the rapidity of the offensive, a bullet was shot straight at his heart.

The man fell to his knees, in the mud. Putting a hand on his heart, he had one last look to the sky where he thought that at least he would get to meet his friends soon.

Sung Han Bin : stabbed by his best friend (1961-1982)

Loyalty and friendship had been the end of Han Bin.

Han Bin only really valued one thing in his life which was his friends, one of his bestfriend, Lee Hoatek, had a girlfriend and he was truly the happiest for the two of them.

Blinded by the friendhsip he felt for his bestfriend he did not understand when his girlfriend started to flirt with any him any chances she got. Han Bin only simply took that for friendship but his best friend had not been blind by that. He saw she way she looked at hiim and despised it.

Blinded by jealousy and by his own insecurities he never talked about it with Han Bin.

Until one final night, all together having a dinner, the girlfriend thought that Lee Hoatek was he in the kitchen and she played a move on it, on him. But the man saw and coming with the knife from the kitchen, looked at his girlfriend and best friend. And without a thought went to Han Bin and stabbed him.

The young man feel on the floor and with tears on his eyes he looked at his bestfriend, saying that he forgave him before taking his last breath.

Seok Matthew : died when he tried to save his wife from execution (1671-1693)

What Matthew loved the most in the world was his wife. They lived in a quiet village.. A quiet village until the first rumors of witchery came out.

The new came from Salem, it was one woman. Then, numbers kept on coming.

Both of the newlyweds thought they were safe, that those allegations would not come to their village, what they had not planned was from matthew’s wife of getting accused.

As so many other women, she had rejected the impropriate offer of a man, said man, a powerful one, in revenge he had taken the responsability to say that she was a witch and that she had to be burned.

Her trial had been quick without even a chance for her to defend herself, Matthew tried as well, in vain. They said that he too, had been seduced by the witch.

They had taken her to the public place of the village as well as two other woman, which had their own fire, as she was placed on her amount of wood before it was lighted up.

Matthew got his way out of the crowd, screaming pushing people out, trying to get to his wife, screaming her name at the top of his lungs.

The magistrate and his people went to him and they caught him but he was still pushing around. Without him even understanding he felt pain on his skull, someone punched him down. From the pain he fell on his knnes, feeling the warm blood on his neck, finally his face fell on the ground.

Matthew had his vision being blurred due to his own blood, he closed for the last time his eyes as he watched his wife being burned down, screaming in agony.

Kim Tae Rae : heart attack (1849-1869)

Kim Tae Rae was the kindest man on earth, the softest to have ever walked it.

His mom always had told him that he had a soft heart and that he had to take care of it, of himself.

It was a calm day for Tae Rae, an habitual one, waking up, taking his usual breakfast.

Taking his music sheets and installing himself before his piano forte before composing some songs. It was sudden the pain he felt in his chest that disturbed him.

Standing up he went fetch himself a cup of water. The pain kept being there, a part of him told him he should quickly leave and see a physician but the other part did not want to. He had to finish a piece for a play and it was urgent.

With his cup of wtaer the pain got tronger, he fell on the floor, holding his chest, breathing heavily. The pain kept getting stronger and finally he could not stand it anymore and finally closed his eyes.

Kim Gyuvin : death penalty (1950-1968)

Unlucky was the key word for Gyuvin.

Simply going home from his grocery shopping he saw a man getting stabbed in the street, he ran to him and made the agressor ran away before putting the knife in his hands. Running to the man on the floor he tried to make the blood stop but it was never stopping.

The police came and saw the tall man over the bloodied body. He was arrested and quickly had his trial, he defended himself, as best as he could, but the jury already had his opinion.

He was found guilty. His fate had been made, it would be the death penalty.

He waited for a few months before his exécution.

Gyuvin had been conducted to the electrocution room where he passed away.

Two months after it, the real agressor had been arrested and the evidence came on light : an innocent man had been executed.

Ricky : taken hostage and murdered (1979-1999)

Being the son of a billionaire had his perks. The money, the drinks, the houses. Ricky loved it, until he didn't. As he got taken hostage while he was out partying with his friends.

His eyes folded, hands behind his back, a tissue in his mouth to stop him from screaming.

His kidnappers wanted money, some millions, they were sure they would get it.

But Ricky's father did not move an inch, refusing to even give them one dollard. Pressure was getting stronger, money would never come...

They had to make a step, to get rid of him.

Sitting him on a chair, still folded, silent tears dripping on his face.

He heard the pulling from a gun, his breath was hatched, a deflagration resonated through the empty warehouse, he felt pain straight in his chest. Blood was falling from it. Coughing up blood, suffering, the kidnappers left him there before leaving in their car.

Ricky died alone, blidnfolded in a warehouse because his father did not love him enough to pay what they wanted.

Park Gunwook : drowned while saving a kid (1890-1907)

Gunwook was simply taking his way home from work.

A day at the factory, working and puttting stuff on shelves. Getting his salary to support his mom and siblings.

On the way home he went to the bakery, getting bread and treat for his family.

Happily going home, passing by the river, Gunwook heard a scream before seeing a kid being pushed down in the water accidentally by a person on his bike.

The kid didnt know how to swim, he was screaming for help, battling against the water. The water was stronger than him, the current of the water was too strong for him. Adults surrounding the scene called for help, for the police.

Gunwook did not wait a second before jumping down in the river swimming toward the kid, barely pulling him to the edge. One thing he did not plan was for the current to get stronger and to be stuck. Unable to swin back on the ground.

Battling against the water the last thing he saw was the kid being hugged by his mom. He wouldn’t be able to be hugged by his mom anymore.

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“I sometimed wonder why the habsburg don't get invited to like royal events like wedding, inauguration, funerals, and more. While the Greeks, two-siciliy house, Bulgaria, other german minor nobles do, i guess some of them have close relations, but the two-sicily house hasn't been a real monarchy since 1861, while hapsburg been in 1917, the only one who invite is the lux, and Belgian well henri's sister and phillpe's sister are both married into the hapsburg family so yeah make sense.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#house of habsburg

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Now that I've drawn her a few times I'm going to officially introduce my penti.ment s/i... Her name is Elisabetta Dmitriou, maiden name Elisabetta Monteverde, though close friends call her Elsebe.

More info below the cut, TWs for mentions of death, religion / c*tholicism, and like a semi vague allusion to racism. Details are subject to change of course 💕

Elisabetta was originally born somewhere in the Ethiopic, but was adopted by a noble Italian family

Rumours claim that her hair was originally dark, but turned blonde by the grace of god after her conversion. This is untrue, but Elsebe has made no effort to dispel the rumor. A similar rumour surrounds her heterochromia, an "otherworldly" feature that harkens back to Alexander the Great himself.

She received an education thru several tutors, and eventually began creating art and poetry. She became fairly well known at a young age, but remained reclusive despite it all.

When she was an adult, her family married her to a Greek-German baron living in Northern Bavaria. She doesn't quite love her husband romantically, but he's a good man and she cares about him...

When Andreas returns to Nuremberg to marry and become an official master artist, Elisabetta and her husband are some of his first clients.

Elisabetta and Andreas really hit it off, but they are both married 💔 no good could come from them pursuing anything, and so things are left unsaid. Andreas returns to Nuremberg.

A few years later, Elsebe's husband passes away... While she is able to keep their estate, the tragedy takes a toll on Elsebe, and she becomes even more closed off to the world than she already was.

More time passes. At some point Elsebe receives a letter... a message from Andreas, who last she'd heard had passed away when an abbey was lit aflame. He decided to stop running away from his problems and start reaching out to the world again; he took over his deceased friend's printing press, and was wondering if an artist like herself would be interested to see what they were doing there. And so Elsebe comes down to Tassing, Kiersau.

#🖼️ | works of the thesean painter #[ and evermore amongst our mirth ]#self insert #self insert OC

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we are so glad to see you safe, HIGH KING FAOLAN of SCOTLAND! it’s dangerous out in the world these days, but i hear that you are ANALYTICAL and DEVOTED enough to handle it. just don’t let your VICIOUSNESS bring you down! stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out YOU ARE THE BASTARD SON OF THE LATE KING, AND NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN LINE OF SUCCESSION.

FULL NAME: Faolán Alistair Stuart.

NICKNAMES & ALIASES: Corvo is the alias he adopts while going undercover. Ali is reserved for close relations, but not very commonly used.

TITLES & OCCUPATION: High King of Scotland, Army Colonel.

BIRTHDAY: 20th of January.

ORIENTATION: homosexual.

STATUS: unwed.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: arabic, english, french, german, japanese, latin, mandarin, norwegian, scottish.

TRAITS: resourceful, observant, secretive, passionate, relentless, stubborn, distrusting.

MORAL COMPASS: chaotic neutral.

INTERESTS: sword fighting, psychology, war strategies, reading, horseback riding, botany.

TROPES: aloof big brother, berserk button, child soldier, deadpan snarker, death seeker, genius bruiser, hitman with a heart, knight in sour armor, shell-shocked veteran, sugar and ice personality.

WHAT THE PEOPLE KNOW

Faolán was the first child of the Scottish royal family, after many attempts to conceive a child. He was lauded by the people as a sign of good fortune, and received only the best a noble upbringing could give.

His introverted but reasonable nature gave him good standing with the kingdom, and Faolán was always appreciated for his cultured ideas and politeness. He was a good representative and, above all, a member of the royal family the people could trust.

When The Reckoning occurred, he seemed to be one of the only people to remain level-headed, which elevated his status in the eyes of the monarchies worldwide. He was one of the first to enforce the idea of a settlement between the four siblings.

THE TRUTH

Faolán is a bastard child of the late King. He was hastily adopted, to the dismay of the Queen, since the uproar for an heir was starting to grow unbearable.

Even though his siblings were only born many years after, Faolán’s position was always one he had to fight for. His father insisted on early military training, which resulted in many scars and wounds. He was raised mostly as a child soldier, fit to be a spy and to execute the dirty deeds the remainder of the royal family could not.

The rules were always different for Faolán, and most were led to believe it was all because he needed to be an example. The truth, however, was always much darker. The man deeply resents the late King and Queen, although no one is aware of just how much. At this point, Faolán doesn’t care much about the standing of the Kingdom: the trained part of his brain wishes to see it thrive, while the agony in his chest desires to burn it down to a crisp.

THE THREADS THAT BIND

Army buddies, please! Faolan was a pain in the ass and very much obsessed with honing his skills, but he was a good partner to rely on. In the same vein, sparring partners!

I think it'd be quite funny if a woman tried to get with him before realizing he was a raging home of sexual with too many repressed emotions, and a friendship bloomed from there.

Childhood best friends, just 'cause I'm a sucker for the trope.

Allies from Scotland that always sensed something was odd, especially considering Faolan's weird treatment by the royal family.

Intimate friend or confidante. Faolan is not very close to people in general, but no man is an island.

A betrothal that had been arranged by the late King but Faolan broke off simply because he couldn't be bothered to marry.

Past targets or something similar. Faolan could've gotten closer simply because his father wished for intel, and the friendship could've been then abandoned or flourished.

#theopulent.intro

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12 Grimmauld Place Headcanons

Okay, okay - so - on the Wiki it says that Grimmauld Place is in Islington. However, it's almost guaranteed that this is not the borough the Noble & Most Ancient House of Black would live. For one, the area was historially occupied by wealthy merchants, artisans and farmers not aristocrats. In the 1970s, the place was very run-down and generally working class (though it was undergoing gentrification).

I found this blog which was super useful. They give three possible local stations from which Grimmauld Place would be in short walking distance: Goodge St, Camden Town or Caledonian Road.

While the other locations are probably fine, the Goodge St option is the most intriguing. It would place the house relatively close to the Ministry & the Leaky Cauldron. It's also not that far from Soho, which was a bit of a crazy place in the 70s (according to my googling), and definitely somewhere a young Sirius might have headed out as a rebellious 15 year old (probably where he picked up all those posters in his room).

So I found a square that was built in the Georgian era for aristocratic families called Fitzroy Square in the area. And while Grimmauld Place is obviously a street rather than on a square, I think the vibes are similar.

Fitzroy Square is close to a different station but Grimmauld Place is a fictional street - so I'd say it's a similar in vibe location, just down towards Goodge St Station.

Basically, in my head, Grimmauld Place is somewhere in Fitzrovia. An area of London that wasn't necessary "swinging" in the 1990s (as far as my googling tells me) but would have been perfectly adequate for the Black family in the 1970s.

Any of the above stations are in the old St Pancras Borough area, if I'm reading my maps right, and that's super interesting because it connects to another headcanon of mine about the house.

From the 19th century onwards, the parish and borough of St Pancras was home to a large, mostly middle-class, German population.

Irma Crabbe (Walburga's mother) was the original owner of Grimmauld Place. She inherited it because she was the Firstborn (gender irrelevant). Then Walburga inherited it when her mother died, because she was also the Firstborn. And then when she died, it went to Sirius - despite his disownment, since the house was seperate from the main branch's estates.

Anyway, Irma Crabbe was a German witch from a very prominent family. They were allies of the House of Black and would have used Grimmauld Place for as a house to live in while in England. It would also give them easy access to important locations such as Diagon Alley and the Ministry of Magic.

A large German population would have been a big plus in their books, as they likely didn't purchase No. 12 until the middle of the 19th century (considering the house has gas lamps for lighting, which became fashionable around that time) or later.

The house is also the reason why Walburga and Orion were married to each other; since she came with a large, centrally located house as part of her dowry. Having that estate come into the main family would be very beneficial for the family (the House of Black tends not to marry each other, according to their family tree. The match was very unusual and there must have been some kind of motive).

P.S. the reason why I call Irma a German witch is because of her name "Irma" and because Crabbe does not appear of the Sacred 28 list - so the family likely moved to England after the list was published. Crabbe is an Germanic sounding surname. Plus, her firstborn daughter is named Walburga which is a very Germanic sounding name.

#12 grimmauld place #the noble and most ancient house of black #the house of black #sirius black #irma crabbe #walburga black

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Justine Siegemund, or Siegemundin, (26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a Silesian midwife whose obstetrical book, Court Midwife (1690), was the first female-published German manual.

Siegemund was born in 1636 the daughter of Elias Diettrich, a Lutheran minister, in Rohnstock (now Roztoka, Poland), in the former Silesian Duchy of Jawor on December 26. Her father died in 1650, when she was aged 14. In 1655, she married Christian Siegemund, an accountant, but the marriage was childless. However, it lasted for 42 years, and Christian Siegemund provided considerable support to his wife during her professional career, although they may have lived apart from 1673.

1656–1672

At age 20, Justine Siegemund suffered considerably at the hands of incompetent midwives who wrongly assumed that she was pregnant when, in fact, she suffered from a prolapsed uterus. Her experience motivated her to educate herself about obstetrics, and she practiced herself for the first time in 1659, when she was asked to assist a case of obstructed labour related to a misplaced infant arm. Until 1670, she provided free midwifery services to peasant and poor women in her local area, although she also gradually diversified her client base to include women from merchant and noble families.

#google #Google Doodle #history #historic

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I wonder where you would would put Mlle de Courton in the downtrodden governess scale? Her foreignness, Westernness (in a Westernized household) and noble blood gives her a distinction from the rest of the household and makes her a completely respectable figure. She is incomparable to a servant, she is not a Jane Eyre.

“At that time it was rather too late for Mlle de Courton to marry, and she was forced to choose one of two recourses, either fall upon the Paris streets in a life that would stain the good name of her family, or to find a place to shelter with her kinfolk in the provinces and live the rest of her life as a poor but noble girl. She chose the latter. She had even, in order not to seem entirely like a helpless wretch and to earn the bread she ate at the table, taken on the instruction and disciplining of the children of the household. This changed the course of her life. One day, after a small disagreement, and a small opportunity that came close upon the disagreement, this poor, noble girl had gone all the way from one corner of France to be the governess of an eminent Greek family in Beyoğlu. Here she stayed for many years without knowing anywhere other than the streets and shores from Beyoğlu to Şişli, from the Bridge to Büyükdere. Adnan Bey’s yalı was the second, and perhaps the last stage of her life.

Nihal was only four years old. Adnan Bey felt the need for a governess. He had received dozens of creatures from among those who are first offered to people seeking governesses; those who claimed to have just arrived from France, but who never admitted that they were found redundant in one – and finally two – places, who tried to drown their deficient French, learned in convent orphanages or as seamstress’s apprentices, in the ornamentation of a fake accent. Not one was chanced upon who could be victorious over Adnan Bey’s fastidiousness. For two years there was a procession of every variety, from those who were let go with some excuse on the second day, to those who were suffered to stay for two months. Adnan Bey had become so frightened of these governesses – who one day claimed that they were German and the next day were understood to be of the Sofia Jews, who gave the impression of being the widow of an Italian when they arrived but were so forgetful in their lies as to blurt out the very next week that they had never been married – that he had begun to think of other solutions for his daughter.

A stroke of luck – in Istanbul one can only rely on luck for governesses – helped Adnan Bey discover the undiscoverable: Mlle de Courton.”

(Chapter 3)

In France Mademoiselle de Courton works to not feel as a burden, even if she had gotten a real job as a governess in France she would have been replaceable. In Adnan Bey’s house she is truly needed, her Western culture and nobility is needed for this family’s children to acquire.

But she is also made fun of for her spinsterhood by Behlül and is at the end in effect fired because the new attractive mistress doesn’t want her there. I guess her flaw is that she wanted more than what her job was and viewed herself as a mother figure to her charges?

“She had a tenacious need to love. The old chastity of this weary heart, who had not been able to know her mother, not been able to love her father, not been able to feel in her bosom any tie to anyone, and who writhed in the absence of love, always looked for some way to expend itself. She would befriend the children around her, the servants of the house in which she lived, her cat, her parrot, and would spill out to them the hidden treasure of her heart. But one day, she would suddenly discover a hollowness opening up in these things that were spoken, and seeing, with bitter clarity, upon what a barren, sandy desert the fountain of her affection flowed, she would become an enemy to the children, the servants, the cats, and the parrots that five minutes earlier had been her friends.”

(Chapter 3)

#aşk ı memnu #aşk-ı memnu #mademoiselle de courton #governesses

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{sebastian stan, 40, cis man, he/him} We are so glad to see you safe, CHIEF NAVIGATOR & EXPLORER MACEON BONAPARTE TRUDEAU of FRANCE (SPAIN)! It’s dangerous out in the world these days, but I hear that you are PASSIONATE and STRONG-WILLED enough to handle it. Just don’t let your OBSESSIVE NATURE bring you down! Stay on your guard, because with your secret being at risk for exposure, you wouldn’t want everyone to find out THAT THEY FAKED THEIR DEATH AFTER THEIR FAMILY LOST THE SPANISH THRONE.

BASICS;

nicknames: mace

sexuality: bisexual with a feminine leaning

relationship: complicated.

date of birth: april 3rd

zodiac sign: aries

moral alignment: lawful neutral

hobbies: sailing, reading, drama (both theatrical performance and socially), debate, arguing, being praised, finding new places, learning about new places or things or people

dislikes: nosy questions, fire, bad storms, being told "no".

languages spoken: spanish, french, german, italian, and some other assorted languages just enough to barely pass in conversation.

politics/loyalty: loyal to his family, and his heart alone - loyal to spain but NOT the ortiz rulers; loyal, as well, to his cousins in france, for as long as they are good to his sister.

inspirations:

DETAILS;

once a glittering gem of spain, proud prince of the noble bonaparte line, maceon grew as jilted and selfish as his parents. ushered into the family business of embezzlement, maceon hid his obedience behind questionable behavior, and questionable taste in women. one in particular managed to stick, despite her more modest upbringing and lower status, maceon maintained a flame for her through any fling or ordered betrothal that he sabotaged.

there was little who could make Maceon bend his will, but for his parents, he would do anything that was asked. for spain, he would break bone - but he would not back down on his desire to marry his love. it remained a source of contention - and for a long time, maceon viewed it as his worst problem, even above the crimes that were committed there is his own court. by his own hand.

being king was all maceon aspired to be - after all, it was his purpose, and he had been told it since the day he was born. spain’s gift, it’s future… he was well-read, educated, witty, charming, and daring more than any prince should be. comfortable with a crowded room, there were few who could say they disliked maceon - but equally as few could say they liked him, either. a perfect neutral; a mask to mold to whatever it need be. that was the true marking of an heir; and for a long time, there was little identity for maceon beyond his destiny.

that all changed when the bonaparte lineage was overthrown and replaced. he’d seen it coming, and there had been a week or so of paranoia as he waited for the storm. even so, when the ortiz claimed their throne, it all began to play out worse than he’d imagined. he and his family - lost everything. parents imprisoned and siblings turned to minions for the new reign, but maceon could have none of it.

with his sister jacequeline, they hatched a plan to leave and escape, and he took it a step further to set his own ship - the Rhiannon, ablaze. it was said that fallen crown prince was DEAD, and so maceon decided to be. ensuring that his sister was not condemned to a life as a ghost, and ensuring he was owed any favor from her in the future… they parted ways, and for the first time in his life, maceon was alone.

life was hard at first; no money and no name and no understanding of how the lower class operated, he faced bar brutes and sewer rats and hunger and pain and bitter cold and sweltering hot for three years as he struggled a pauper. the only goal was to go as far as possible - from any who may ever know his face.

maceon chose to take to the sea. first it was fishing boats, then later, it was exploration ships. his sister found her way, and settled herself down in france, and he called on a favor. a ship of his own, a crew, and a name with a title. once given his demands, and the favor resolved, maceon returned to the seas and has spent the last 4 or 5 years exploring the far reaches.

now he comes to face the light after hearing word of the growing influence his siblings have in spain is underway - he craves his old life, his former glory, but in a way, he’s found himself too. out in the sea, there was identity to be had, and maceon feels more alive as a dead man than he ever did within palace walls.

only few know who maceon truly is - and he is trying to avoid any run-ins with those who may recognize him.

#theopulent.intro #wow finally #;; introduction > maceon b. the lost prince

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