#don't mind me just muddling thru my own interconnected canons

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I have two sheltered princesses and rather than just say they don’t coexist, i HAD to plot out how they interconnected so rambling Princess Relations and a touch on my VERY unfounded HCs for the Arlish royalty lol

Their joint proginator is King Roland of Arland, who is Temperance’s maternal great-great grandfather (on her mother’s side), and paternal great-great-great grandfather on her father’s side. For Zinnia, he’s her paternal great grandfather.

Zinnia’s father is Wesles, who inherited the throne at the ripe old age of 3 years old (or: 2 and change), and several assassinations were attempted in his life. In Zinnia!Canon he survived, was wed to Helah and the rest is history.

In Temperance!Canon the death of Wesles left a very nasty vaccum - everyone is related either via their mothers, or 3rd or or 4th sons. Torren, descended from King Roland’s youngest son, has the strongest claim however his parents’ marriage isn’t acknowledged by the Crown...which is currently not in the state to acknowledge anything. So he marries a daughter of the prefered line, gets a clergyman to belatedly un-bastardize him and takes the crown.

So in Temperance!Canon, Zinnia is completely butterflied away.

In Zinnia!Canon, Temperance’s parents likely still marry - but she’s the Wellish daughter of a Landgravine and an Arlish royal bastard, rather than a princess. What this means for T!Constance I don’t know.