#also marie therese of france should get more hype

[bethanybeatdowns]

now that "pretender" is actually a class in f/go, i would be mildly disappointed if none of the actual historical pretenders would be referenced. essentially, this list are like...fanservants for the new fancy class in the game.

perkin warbeck and lambert simnel who were pretenders for the english throne during the rule of henry vii. they're kids but like, there were mysteriously dead Princes in the Tower (edward iv and his younger bro richard, duke of york) so henry's enemies could like play dress-up with some baker's kid and parade around that kid as a legitimate claimant to the throne.

richard iii, he isn't a pretender to the throne since he's still in the list of english kings. i just want one more member of chaldea shakespeare hate club.

tsarevich alexei whose lore would be similar to salieri's. he's not nastya's younger brother , but rather the amalgamation of rumors and false sensationalism of the survival of the romanov children. it doesn't help that there were a lot of impostors posing claiming as such. anna andersen, my number is open.

every single person claiming to be the king of france after 1793. napoleon? of course. louis xvii who's supposed to be an avenger class servant in strange fake? he's like eight. what about marie therese of france, only surviving child of marie antoinette and louis xvi and Queen for all of 20 minutes? i'm pretty sure someone within the writing staff could cook a homemade lore for that b/c fate is confusing enough as it is.

wait, hold on...that dude emile pugachev who pretended to be peter iii of russia and led a rebellion against catherine the great. the actual peter iii, grandson of peter the great was actually assassinated allegedly by catherine's boytoy. his cover story was that the assassination attempt failed and he wandered around like jesus in the wilderness. this man's con job was good enough he managed to convince priests into his rebellion and with how tightly russian orthodoxy is tied with the tsar's autocratic rule? oh, sisters. we're in for some soap opera russian doorstopping novels.

i ran out of ideas. there's a trend of modern european people because that's my ball park in history. don't worry i have above average knowledge of local & national history to compensate for that.