Open Log

[countryofassholes]

Characters: Britannia and yooou~
Format: action/prose
This log is: open
Location: Dock area in the evening, just before the sun sets.
Summary: Britannia's relaxing and has no one to bother. Yet.
Warnings: Nothing yet.

[Over on the dock, bare feet dangling over the edge, Britannia lays on her back with her pant legs rolled up and staring up at the darkening sky. Her shoes are next to her head, not that she seems to particularly care about them at the moment as she allows herself the undignified position in the absence of any human company. No, right now she's currently debating whether or not she should go bug Kiku or stay here and watch the stars come out. Surely there's no such thing as a curfew at this school, right? And especially not for her when she's a professor of all things.]

Oh, maybe I can get Kiku and we can watch the stars together. [The thought is brilliant, of course, a compromise. She could even get Antonio, Suzaku, Lelouch and England too. Except...] Hmm... they're probably all busy and it would take too much time to gather them up.

[Another sigh.] Oh well, I guess I'll just wait alone.

Comments

[countryofassholes]

[Excuse her while she hangs her head and let's out an exhausted sigh.]

Less than a year? What the heck is going on...?

[trollofthree]

Ha-! It was a busy year.

[countryofassholes]

Yeah, but for an emperor to last less than a year... was it a plot by the empress to steal her brother's throne? Is that why Zero was pardoned?

[trollofthree]

That's not it. In terms of history... The 99th Emperor Lelouch was a tyrant. He abolished the empire and took control of the entire world through fear and force. The people overthrew him with the help of the unknown masked man, Zero, who assassinated him in 2018.

It's more complicated than that, but...

[countryofassholes]

[Excuse her while she shoots to her feet and nearly trips into the lake at her sudden rise.]

He what!? Why would he do that? We were so close to unifying the world under my flag!

[trollofthree]

[ he just shrugs ] The historians are out on that one.

[countryofassholes]

That doesn't make any sense- why would he kill Charles for the throne and then disband the empire? [Because all Britannia is really thinking is that she's going to lose everyone. She'll be weakened, vulnerable, people could invade and wipe her out.

She could die.]

[trollofthree]

[ Gino just watches her freak out with wide eyes. Thinking about it, it'd be pretty scary to know that you'd stop existing if the country did, but then again, that's what coups and executions do. He can sympathise. ]

It's still Britannia. It's just been downsized. A lot of the territories wanted independance. [ which baffles him a little but hey. Kallen's tried to explain it before. ]

[countryofassholes]

[It's the wide eyed look that makes her stop. That makes her remember she is the manifestation of an empire and that such an outburst is unbecoming.

Slowly, carefully, she forces herself to take a deep breath and close her eyes, calming her rapidly beating heart and the fear she feels. She is the Holy Empire of Britannia, unmovable, infallible and orderly. Any less and she is a failure to her people.

Or at least that's what she was told when she was young. Young-er.

Only when she's certain she has her emotions under control and is composed, does she open her eyes again.]

I apologize. So after he was assassinated, Marianne's other child took over? What about Cornelia or even Guinevere? [Oh god, being ruled by Guinevere would be unbearable.]