#Queen Frederica

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Princess Marina Duchess of Kent & Queen Frederica of Greece ❦

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Las cuatro vidas del Malolo

A las once de la mañana del 15 de mayo de 1949 hacía su primera entrada al puerto de Barcelona el paquebote Atlantic de la compañía Home Lines, quedó atracado en el Muelle de San Bertrán en donde lo estaban esperando las autoridades portuarias, así como representantes de la consignataria Hijos de M. Condeminas entre otros. El paquebote Atlantic en el puerto de Barcelona (imagen de Carlos Pérez de…

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Storm Stereo #87: Averoff Women's Prison Choir

In light of International Women's Day, on this episode we look at the Greek Averoff Women’s Prison (1890-1972) and the incredible story of the prison choir that used singing as an act of political resistance.

The Averoff Prison, with the characteristic palm trees outside. In the centre of the prison courtyard there was one solitary, yellowing palm tree, the only symbol of life for the prisoners inside. In light of International Women’s Day, on this episode we look at the Greek Averoff Women’s Prison (1890-1972), which was used by the Metaxas Dictatorship, the Nazi Occupation, the Greek Civil War and…

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King Constantine II, seen her as a baby with his parents and sister, was born in 1940. Like many in his generation his early years were marked by Europe’s political instability, with Constantine and his family fleeing Greece following invasion before his first birthday

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Rare photo of Greek Royal Family Matriarch, Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (née Battenberg) with niece-in-law Dowager Queen Frederica of Greece (née Princess of Hanover) and new mother, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (née Princess of Denmark) with newborn Princess Alexia, 1965

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“I’ve always wondered if King Felipe VI’s grandmother Queen Frederica of Greece would’ve still been alive to see her grandson marry would she have influenced him to marry a royal instead of a commoner?? Considering how she was such a strong willed woman especially when it came to the throne. Btw I love Queen Leti and have nothing against her just always wondered this myself :)” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Frederica, Princess Royal of Prussia, Shortly to be Duchess of York, Presented to King George III

Artist: Richard Livesay (British, 1750-1826)

Date: 1791

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Description

Frederica was the eldest daughter of Frederick William II, King of Prussia. Her marriage to the Duke of York, George III’s second son, took place on 29 September 1791. The scene is set in an entrance hall, with the King and Queen standing in the centre. The Duke of York, sponsoring the introduction, is seen advancing from the right. The King is surrounded by the Princesses, and to the right are shown the Prince of Wales (next to the Queen) and the Duke of Clarence.

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King Paul I and Queen Frederica of the Hellenes.

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Queen Frederica of Greece with Infanta Elena of Spain.❦

Such an adorable photo🥹

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OK, to all the Grace stans on here who probably aren't even familiar with Umineko and Bern and are only voting for Grace because they like her, making this way closer than it ever really needed to be....

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Heyer but gayer!

In honor of KJ Charles' new books The Duke At Hazard, a twist on one of Georgette Heyer's most delightfully ridiculous novels, The Foundling, we present to the tonne a selection of queer romance sorted by a few favorites from the queen of Regency Romance.

(Mostly Regency, a few earlier, and occasionally creeping all the way up to Victorian, and please note that most of these are steamy enough to make a Heyer heroine collapse on the fainting couch clutching her vinagraitte!)

Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle:

Band Sinister

Wanted, a Gentleman

Something Fabulous

Infamous

The Masqueraders:

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Frederica:

It Takes Two to Tumble

Unmasked by the Marquess

Her Lady to Love

Cotillion:

Infamous

Venetia

Band Sinister

The Ruin of a Rake

Faro's Daughter

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

The Hellion's Waltz

The Society of Gentlemen series

Beauvallet:

Valiant Ladies

Brethren

These Old Shades

The Society of Gentlemen series

Unmasked by the Marquess

Devil's Cub:

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Her Morning Star

The Corinthian:

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Wanted, a Gentleman

A Civil Contract

A Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows

The Society of Gentlemen series

Friday's Child

Band Sinister

The Talisman Ring:

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

A Thief In the Night

Something Fabulous

The Reluctant Widow:

Trouble

The Lawrence Browne Affair

The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

Arabella:

Unmasked by the Marquess

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

Her Lady to Love

The Unknown Ajax:

The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman and The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

What are your favorites?

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"Who's Hotter?" Familiar of Zero Girls

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what do you think happens with Avlora in the non conviction endings?

Words cannot describe how excited I got when I saw this ask!! I think SO MUCH about what Avlora does in all of the different endings hahaha. Thanks for the question! <3

In general, my personal thoughts are that the Liberty/Benedict ending would eventually play out similarly to the Golden/Serenoa ending, Morality/Frederica would involve Avlora getting involved in Svarog's civil war, and Utility/Roland would probably have Avlora considering a rebellion of some type for a while but ultimately putting her sword away to focus on rebuilding the Aesfrosti community.

But if you're interested in more details/reasoning, I wrote up some of that as well! Don't worry about the readmore I wrote a normal amount about it :) it's a normal amount I promise. I only wrote a normal amount. I promise it's just a norma

Liberty/Benedict Ending

With Liberty ending, tbh I feel like story-wise it really feels weird that Avlora doesn't come back, given how it's essentially the Golden/Serenoa route except Aesfrost and Glenbrook are on good terms, which seems like it'd be a point in Avlora's favor.

But as far as looking at her reasons for staying away, here are a few possibilities:

— She didn't feel Cordelia needed her as badly since Glenbrook was now fighting a war on only one front (vs. the three in the Golden/Serenoa route) and she wasn't willing to risk her life by returning to face Glenbrook's judgment.

— She felt betrayed/demoralized by how Cordelia handed over her throne and went along with the whole alliance to Gustadolph. (Some reasoning along the lines of "Why exactly was I risking my life to stage a coup d'etat if Cordelia was just going to hand her power over as soon as things got inconvenient?")

— She didn't trust Serenoa and Benedict after they suddenly usurped Roland and allied with Aesfrost. She also canonically isn't a fan of Benedict's morals to begin with, so there's that.

— Or, (most likely explanation in my mind) she saw that Glenbrook was trying to secure an alliance with Aesfrost and felt that publicly swearing fealty to Cordelia would aggravate tensions between the two.

Depending on what you think her reasons were, there are a lot of different explanations for what she's up to during the time period between the Chapter 17 decision and the end of the game. Theoretically she might just be hiding out somewhere, or if you want to imagine her doing something more interesting it's possible that she'd quietly reach out to Cordelia and/or would try to track down Roland in order to make sure he's safe for Cordelia's sake.

Either way, I do think Avlora would eventually come around and rejoin Glenbrook once the war cools down and the alliance becomes less strategically important.

Benedict's treatment of Cordelia does kinda suck, and I think Avlora's worry for her would outweigh any other doubts she might have. Roland's absence from the castle would probably make the decision easier too, since Avlora a) doesn't have to worry about Roland's grudge against her and b) knows that Cordelia doesn't have Roland to protect her.

Morality/Frederica Ending

I like thinking about this one a lot :) I take a lot of my headcanons from Little Queen of All Things Forsaken on Ao3. I don't want to spoil the fic a ton for anyone who hasn't read it and wants to, but the basic premise centers around the question of "what if Cordelia stayed behind to rule Glenbrook when Roland and everyone else ran off to Centralia?" Which if that's the case, I would definitely assume Avlora would eventually decide to return and serve at Cordelia's side.

I'd imagine Avlora would essentially become the Dawnspear of Cordelia's reign, where she serves as both a political figure and the head of Cordelia's Kingsguard.

(^^ also this conversation would be really funny to me in the context of her literally taking his job)

BUT, if we're assuming Cordelia is recruited and goes along to Centralia with everyone, I think Avlora would wander around for a long while trying to figure out what she should do. Tracking down where Cordelia went is technically an option, but Avlora was never directly informed about Centralia. To add to that, rumors for sure would slowly filter in from Hyzante about the explosion that killed Idore, and it'd be easy to assume others died in the blast as well.

And even if Cordelia did manage to survive the escape, how much time is Avlora willing to spend looking? How far might the Roselle have fled? Since Avlora's not currently serving as Aesfrost's general, she doesn't have a boat, or supplies, or really any resources whatsoever. Is she really willing to throw her life away to search for someone who might very well already be dead?

I think eventually she'd catch wind of Svarog starting a civil war against Gustadolph and would join Svarog in that effort. Given Benedict serving as an advisor to Gustadolph, it seems possible-to-likely she'd lose the fight like she lost against Wolffort, and at that point would either be killed or would run off again and just try to live a normal life somewhere.

Or maybe she'd finally go "welp. guess I've officially got nothing to lose!" and go try and track down Cordelia. Another fic I really love is somewhere, beyond the sea which is Serenoa/Frederica-focused but also has a really cool bit about Avlora coming to Centralia.

Utility/Roland Ending

I think Avlora would be absolutely horrified at what Glenbrook + Hyzante do to Aesfrost. Like her entire nation is just. Gone. She was willing to oust Gustadolph, willing to join Cordelia, willing to take up a sword against people she once knew and worked with, but I don't think she ever expected the consequences to be the literal destruction of Aesfrost in its entirety.

The image of Avlora (or really ANY Aesfrosti) going back to Ironstone and finding the entire city buried beneath an impenetrable layer of blackened slag is haunting.

And given the history of conflict between Hyzante and Aesfrost, watching Hyzante take over all of Norzelia has gotta be. a whole thing for Avlora. However she felt about the Saintly Seven before, she definitely hates them now. I also can't see her ever wanting to associate again with Roland or Serenoa after hearing about their role in what happened.

(Though honestly I think the person she'd be the most furious toward would be Svarog. His duty, like hers, was to protect Aesfrost, and instead he completely destroyed what little they might have had left.)

I feel like she'd spend a good while thinking about revenge against Hyzante in a "as the last semblance of anything like a leader that Aesfrost has, I'm obligated to avenge that which was destroyed" type of way. Possibly even to the point of actually trying to put together a resistance. But with the way Hyzante crushes people's spirits and manipulates resources to encourage 100% obedience, I feel like she would really struggle to gain ground in that respect.

You could also imagine that she runs into Frederica at some point in all this, since both of them would likely be on the outskirts of society and/or wanted criminals. I don't know for sure whether I could see them fully joining forces (mostly just think they'd butt heads over specific goals and methods for fighting back against Hyzante), but they'd for sure have a lot to talk about.

As far as Cordelia goes, I think Avlora wouldn't really want to blame her for everything that happened. Like Avlora would be aware that Cordelia wasn't innocent in it, but on some level I think she would just sort of mentally go "it cannot be Cordelia's fault because if it was her fault then it was also my fault. We were both just following orders. We were both doing what our nations demanded of us." And also I think she likely would consider Cordelia to be the closest thing to a friend she has left, and as a result would have a hard time giving that relationship up.

Their dynamic in the Wolffort Wedding extra story cracks me up and I also think it would be in-character for Cordelia to hunt Avlora down as soon as she hears rumors that Avlora is still alive. If that happens then I wholeheartedly believe Cordelia would take one look at Avlora (wearing the same clothing she had on when she fell into the Norzelia River more than a year ago) (hasn't eaten in a week because she's avoiding the Hyzantian ration handouts and won't accept any from other displaced Aesfrosti) (generally stressed out of her mind and regularly daydreams about throwing her life away on an assassination attempt on Idore) and Cordelia would just go "okay yeah no I'm going to nurse you back to health and you're going to like it."

Roland would probably catch onto this at some point and I do imagine he'd try to attack or otherwise apprehend Avlora (he might feel a little bad about it because Cordelia obviously cares about her, but he's also tied himself inexorably to Hyzante at this point and not apprehending the last bastion of the Aesfrosti army would go against everything he's committed himself to). But assuming Cordelia's a little older and has had time to recover from the war, I think she'd put up a fight to the point that he'd back off and turn a blind eye to Avlora so long as she doesn't try anything too aggressive.

Getting deeper into "this is just me writing fanfiction" territory, I'm a sucker for "veteran gets to lay down their sword" arcs and I think it'd be nice to see Avlora eventually distance herself from plans of revenge and instead focus her energy on supporting the remaining people of Aesfrost as a sort of community leader, possibly with Cordelia's help.

I also really love the idea that Avlora would run an orphanage at some point. Working with orphans would be a good way of satisfying Avlora's desire to protect those who are otherwise alone, and it's also just funny/sweet to imagine General "There is nothing more agonizing than a child glaring at you through tears" Avlora trying to, for example, get a three-year-old to do something they don't want to do. Her personality and values as a character lend to her being a pretty big pushover with kids while simultaneously not having any frame of reference for "how to gently coax a child to do something" and I think it'd be a good and humbling experience for her :)

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And so it begins...!

This post will be long and with spoilers of Mahou Shoujo ikusei keikaku... You have been warned!!!

Firsts concepts

Everything starts... Where it ends

You see. Originally the story of Fal will start years after the events of Mahoiku. Following the events of Mahoiku: QUEENS, Fal ends in the space, adrift thanks to Pythie Frederica who get rid of him so he would not interfiere with her plans. In this initial concept of the story, Fal was going to help Zero Two... Zero Two found Fal by mere coincidence and he told the holographic fish that certain pink puffball was the reason of the extinguishom of the Ancients... Being honest, this idea has many, many flaws, even more than the final product, but I still find interesting that the good helper AI ended serving to the demon of his nightmares in early concepts of the story

To help Zero Two, Fal infiltrated in Ripple Star, using the corpse (yeah, A CORPSE) of a fairy to blend in and sabotage the enemy: The fairies and the Crystal. This leads to another invasion that ALMOST success but as always

FRIENDSHIP PREVAILS MOTHERF-ok ok

To summarize: Many ideas and many designs in just weeks. I was really... Carefree and I draw as much as I wanted, adding details and stuff I liked just for fun, without thinking how the design will not fit very well in the context

Eventually, I started to go to another path... Mostly because of my liking for Dark Matters and how they are an interesting enemy... It was in consideration a somewhat artificial one? But in the end, it remained as an AI, but what changed... Everything else

This designs had heavenly inspiration from DMB, Reg... But the metal collar was difficult to draw so I changed the design... And the story too, whynot, ANOTHER SHOT

Ah, this one. The fact the metal collar was replaced by a butterfly bow is funny. In the rewriting, Morpho got a more important role in the story, which was more or less the same we know: Fal possessed by Dark Matter and he ends traumatized by the experience. Morpho was going to be the one who help Fal to broke free and whynot, the butterfly purged the Dark Matter as well. However, and as expected, this was REALLY out of Morph character so it was discarded and another SHOT, ANOTHER REDESIGN FOLKS

I explored some ideas to replace the butterfly bow: A circuit scarf, circuit tears, rainbow hearts in each cheek... Another one was to put rainbow circuits on his cloak

To difficult to draw

Instead, the idea of the rainbow remained as the blush of Fal

I still wanted to hint the dark matter but a friend of mine recommend me to give him a another scarf instead of this one... I show them a picture of Magolor and they said that will work!! So...

THIS. Is the story

Not much later, I listened to Reboot me and that song influenced the plot...

Phew... Ok, not gonna lie, Tumblr deleted the progress many times and I had to deal with the limit of images many times... But I'm glad I make it!!

I apologize for any errors... If u notice any mistakes in the text, please let me know!!!