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Tweak says, "It's a festivus miracle!"

Alistair Therin (cheeseordeath) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2011-07-14 20:58:00

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alim surana, alistair, arthur pendragon, calliope sedant, isabela, leliana, zevran arainai

All right, I should probably be grateful to be living in a world with no darkspawn. No worries about getting woken up in the middle of the night by an attack of shrieks, no getting sent into the Deep Roads to investigate no-one-knows-what...instead I'm getting paid to sit on a beach surrounded by largely naked people. Many of them women. Very pretty women. Who might drown, in which case I'd get to save the day and be a hero, hurrah.

...so why am I so bored?

I tried to buy a sword and shield just so I could get in some practice on the side, even if it doesn't look like I'll need it here, but Maker's teeth, the paperwork...and one merchant even threatened to call the police when I asked about it.

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	cheeseordeath 2011-07-17 04:02 pm UTC (link)
	Huh, fancy that. Technically so am I, I think, except that I renounced any claim to the throne. And as mentioned there was that whole illegitimate problem. I got some of the responsibility for a while but none of the benefits or fancy hats. So you weren't kidding about servants taking your armot, then? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	camelotprince 2011-07-17 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	There have been times I considered renouncing my claim. But there are no other heirs, and I have a responsibility to my kingdom. I wasn't kidding, no. That doesn't seem like a very good joke. I'm funnier than that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cheeseordeath
2011-07-17 04:19 pm UTC (link)

I...wow, uh, yeah. I was in a similar position, sort of. For a while. The king died, and ultimately it came down to giving the kingdom either to me or to his queen. Frankly I've never been trained to rule and can't imagine I'd be any good at it, my heritage has always been a background thing, so I was relieved when Anora got the job instead. She was a strong, capable queen. Ambitious, but good at her work.

But sometimes I wonder, especially since coming here. I've met all these people who say they came from a world where I did become king. I thought I had a different responsibility to the kingdom, but what if I was wrong?

...sorry, sorry, I'm rambling. Anyway. I'm sure you can make better jokes than that, I just didn't think there were servants in this new world, I hadn't seen any.

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