It's hilarious to me that the roles are reversed in the next generation - Louise is now the useless lesbian, while Henrietta is the oblivious dork.
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Is that you, Rishi Sunak?
Is that you, BoJo?
Is that you, USA?
Louise is a disaster bisexual.
What?
Henrietta isn't deliberately exploiting her friends feelings, she is not aware of them after all, but she has been blindsiding Louise with some of her plans and kind of taking advantage of the fact that she knows Louise has some issue with putting her foot down and refusing her. She very much dismisses it as Louise being her friend and seeing things her way in the end, but liberties are being taken and the entire situation in Albion is one huge derail of Louise's goals in the name of Henrietta's obsession with her dead prince.
Henrietta knew that her goals in albion weren't what Louise signed up for, knew she was being selfish and putting her wants ahead of Louise and didn't care. She's very quite willing to take everything Louise done for her and still accuse her of betraying her the second Louise suggested that her prince was dead and that Tristain was a higher priority. Even with not understanding Louise's actual feelings she must have been able to understand how much such an accusation would hurt Louise.
Uhh. It was. Thanks. I was cooking at the time and this was apparently beyond my ability to multitask.
I would prefer "leave", given that it is her possession of said hands being questioned.
or perhaps "how unsuited a ruler her mother was". Alternatively "how unsuitable her mother was a ruler". There doesn't really seem to be anything definitively tying "unsuited" to any part of the statement.
I don't see any establishment that his actions are the subject of the statement.
We need the Jester back, especially now that he has so much new material like.
To start with. There is also "Seducer of Succubi" and "Tempter of Emperors".
I wanna see the Jester make fun of Louise for striking out with Henrietta and get extra beatings for it.
"She who is Less desirable than a headless corpse"
Ouch! Given her issues, that would hurt (and thus so would her response).
I now envision a comic in which, at the head of respective grim armies, two grand figures of utter malevolence are glaring at one another from atop dragons, and the dragons are growling at one another, and the growls translate to something along the lines of "My hat is the swankiest!" "No! My hat is the swankest!"...
It depends on whether they meet her before she kills joseph, and if Tabitha inherits the mantle of Mind of Evil from Joseph. It would be a stunningly Ironic turn of events if Louise were to defeat Joseph, remove the regency council by revealing there ties to the Albigone, and install Henrietta as figurehead ruler of tristain(because Louise is doing all the real rulers work) only for Kirche, Guiche and Montmorency to sign on with OverLady Tabitha in the name of defeating the dreadful Overlady of the north who puppets the tristain throne from the shadows. It would be an excellent flip of the script.
Honestly that's a lot that's gotta line up. I don't see the Mind skipping over two heirs at minimum to get to Tabitha when one of them is likely getting the kill in a much more proper way than Joseph tried to get the Heart with. Louise doesn't really have much conscious desire to try to deviate from her original plan just yet, and likely won't until her secret identity schtick starts to fall apart. And ignoring the fact that I don't see the heroic party rallying behind Tabitha, especially with a legitimate von Zerbst in the group, I actually don't think Tabitha would inherit if the Mind was in the wind. Between what Catt has said about Louis' thoughts on the creation and traits of heirs, Louise's speculation that the Gallians pulled the same shit as Louis had been with the Valliere family, and what the Left Hand thought of the three Valliere sisters I have to say that I don't think Tabitha's fucked up little head is void heir material much like how Catt isn't. Least of all now that Guiche has started to help her be Good and I think Kirche is also doing so.
This, as well as the revamping arc in general, made me go from wondering how they were keeping Louise safe from Louis while Karina was away and the father was stuck at Catt's bedside, to imagining a scenario where Louise was sent to the Zerbsts, and ended up dragged alongside Kirche on a Blitzhart adventure, complete with crossdressing, except it took, leading to a Louis(Louise) attending the academy as a trans male. Her experience from the blitzhart adventure see's a general improvement to louis's(Louise's) physical abilities, as well as slight shift in general priorities which naturally changes a few things. I'm curious how people think such a Louis(Louise) would be. Personally, one of the bigger changes I see is a Louis(Louise) who, like Blitzhart and Kirche, prefers leather armor and occasionally beats or beheads a foe rather than magicing/minioning them to death. Thoughts?
Always found this interesting. Like, it's vaguely surprising the duke never made a grab for her. Like seriously, if he had thralls , he could have used Catt's blood to leave the Mausoleum and get Catt to enthrall some Servants and convey Louise to him at any time, and she would have gone along with it out of curiosity over the islands mystery and a lowered guard do to fond memories. Just very interesting to consider, even if the story would be much more tragic.
So, Two men and one woman. Seems I've underestimated Henrietta's mother, though we don't have proof it's Karin, it does seem likely. For the men, her husband, and either himself(he did say as usual) or if he's referring to another man, possibly Louise's father? Could Henrietta share a half sibling with Louise who ES is saving for later in the plot?
Blitzhart may not be a fully reliable source. As it's very likely he's basing his comments more off of rumors than what he's witnessed and Karin and the now queen were strongly rumored to be close. Given the sort of person that Blitzhart is, he'd probably believe the rumors even past the majority let the rumor die after Karin got married. One man at the very least was her husband for sure but the other has a whole lot of options. but I'd guess it was some other rescuerer of hers whom she might have been disappointed about not being Karin. At least that's the realistic speculation.
I don't know. It feels like if anyone one would bother to actually follow up on those rumors, and slay/bed the right monster to find out through some ridiculous magical object they had, it would be Blitzhart.
Yeah I have absolutely zero idea where you're getting that impression. Every direct reference to Blitzhart that I can recall and the few things he does where we can see him point towards a very direct and unsubtle man with no inclination to check anything that neatly fits his worldview beyond whatever his heritage has him doing automatically due to the evolutionary pressures of being the Valleries' blood rivals. Hearing that Karin got up to the sort of thing he would do with a princess with the now Queen seems like the sort of thing he'd just believe because she's his arch-rival. Furthermore, the interactions between Danny and Guiche are very informative. For Guiche's generally very meticulous and curious means of hero work is something that Danny finds novel and not at all like what his dad does.
Blitzhart von Zerbst, has killed kings proven to be evil, and will do so again if provided with sufficient evidence. Joseph is sending a clear and undeniable message revealing his location to Louise, which will provide evidence no doubt proving he is the person behind all of these plots, including Albigone, and likely his status as a Darklord of Mind as well.
