#i imagine their eldest daugher

[claresedwards]

I love how they look like concerned parents

[i-cant-sing]

Thinking about my own grandpa and how he'd comfort me with sweets/icecream whenever i had the slightest inconvenience and i just dream of whether he'd still do it to me as a 23 year old, ruffling my hair, letting me cut his birthday cake, scolding my parents when they got mad at me (yes i snitched on my parents), wiping my fat tears with his handkerchief, showing me his drawings of airplane engines as cold air blasted through the ac, letting me eat food from his plate that my mom made me bring him lol.

and like it grandparents are sooo sweet man. they couldve been okay-ish parents to their own kids, but then they get grandkids and they're like a whole different species *sniffle* theyre so precious.

and now my mind goes to that yandere todoroki clan au (i think it was the bullied series) where at the end, reader dies because of rei, and the whole fam loses their sanity. then one day, reader is reincarnated (its her quirk) as dabi's baby and dabi shares the news with his siblings because he needs to restore their sanity too (cause he feels responsible for them too, the "eldest kid" syndrome).

anyways, after you, his daughter had died, enji lost it and killed rei and then just vanished into the mountains to mourn his loss. years later, for whatever reason, he finds out about you. he's standing there, watching toddler you looking at him with curiosity. you stumble towards him, and Enji's on his knees at this point, he's in shock. your scars, your marks from your previous life dont even register to him until later on, all he can focus is you- its you, his baby. his daugher. his child that he swore to protect and failed.

your legs give out when you reach him but your hands reach for him and enji's already lifting you up, bringing you to his chest. his eyes are filled with tears as u look at him and babble, your hands grabbing onto his shirt, touching his face, big doe eyes staring at him.

he hugs you, silent sobs wrecking his body as he gets a whiff of your head. you- you smell just like her- like his daughter.

It really is you.

he doesn't let go of you, even when you eventually fall asleep in his arms, rocking you gently as he stares down at you in awe and disbelief. he doesn't let you go even when dabi tries to take you back, even when dabi insists that he won't keep you two apart, that you need to rest in your bed as he explains everything.

he finally let's you go when you wake up and reach for your dad (dabi), crying when enji doesn't let you leave his arms. but he relents, enji relents when you cry- it hurts him so bad, he's reminded of all the times how you used to cry before, how you used to beg him for help, beg him to save you. his heart breaks to see you like this, in tears.

enji's only partially conscious of what dabi is saying to him, explaining to him that you're now "his" daughter and enji's "granddaughter" and that's how things will be if they need to work. But enji doesn't care whether you're his daughter or not, all he cares about is that he's in your life because he needs to- he will keep you safe. He won't make the same mistakes again. Never.

i can just imagine the siblings and enji all sitting down together to make decisions about your life in extreme detail so that they ensure that no harm befalls you ever again, and if by some extreme badluck you die, they need to make sure that you reincarnate back to them.

they plan your every day, they make sure that at least one of them is with you at all times, and most importantly, they make sure youre safe and happy. when you start going to school, you're taken to school by Shotou because Dabi (who went back to working as a chef) has to go to work early. then at school, your teacher is more than likely Fuyumi (and if she's not your teacher, then she still works at your school). then after school, you're picked up by Enji who takes you out for ice cream (always, he doesnt care if its before u have had lunch. he needs to make up for all the times he couldnt give u ice cream because of rei) and also buy you any toys u want. enji is just enjoying you padding away and pointing at things that catch your eye. at home, natsuo has returned from his shift at the hospital and then starts heating up the food dabi had already made for you, before letting enji put you down for nap time. when you wake up, natsuo takes your vitals and a basic medical check. by dinner, dabi is home and you welcome him by launching yourself at his legs with a thud. he laughs, picks you up and pecks your cheek before taking you into the kitchen with him to make dinner while you tell him all about your day.

[geisterland]

For anyone who doesn't know, I'm currently in the process of rewriting russia gets alcohol poisoning (of course, with the help of my beta reader, my sister) and here are some things I've been thinking as I'm writing [under the cut because long...]:

I always made it clear on the description, but since the story takes place in the late 90s-early 2000s, technically all the character are in their very early 20s (where they'll remain for a long time due to CH ages but nevertheless). And due to this, I've always sort of imagined all of them - Russia and Belarus less to a certain extent since they're older - to still be outgrowing the trademarked teenage strangeness;

Mostly due to my fault, Belarus came of as a lot more perfect than she actually is. Because while, yes, her want to help her brother is noble, this doesn't come from her being perfect or an angel. It's mostly that she has case of eldest daugher syndrome where she feels responsible even to someone older than her - her whole life, even if it was unwilling, she has been playing the part of the most responsible, the most caring, the one who needs to be perfect. But quite frankly, it's not something that is or should be objective truth, she is just basically conditioned into thinking she needs to be;

This is also very much my fault but I'm doing my best now to not seem like the world is so... Revolving around the characters in the story, you know? They all have relationships with other countries that aren't in the family, and relationships that are important outside of that (for example, in the first chapter I've made a point to mention that there are other countries worried about Russia's drinking - China, for one, since he very much would be important for the guy);

I have a better grasp on what drinking actually feels like, so that added with personal familial experience, will probably make for a better story;

I'm going to talk about the other soviet siblings a lot more because I also have a better grasp of their personalities now haha;

And lastly, this time I'm going to write the entire thing out before posting because whoo boy that will make it better for me and the readers;

It'll probably still take a while, though. But it will be posted before the end of the year, that's for sure.

[historywithlaura]

ORDOÑU II

King of León

(born c. 873 - died 924)

pictured above is an imagined portrait of the King of León, by Isidoro Lozano from 1852

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SERIES - Descendants of the Kings of Asturias: Ordoñu was a son of Alfonsu III, King of Asturias from 866. Though some sources consider him to have also succeeded as King of Asturias in 914.

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ORDOÑU was born around 873, on an unknown location at the Kingdom of Asturias. He was the second son of Alfonsu III, King of Asturias and his wife Ximena, and thus was a member of a branch line of the ASTUR-LEONESE DYNASTY and an INFANTE OF ASTURIAS from birth.

As a young boy he was sent to be educated in Zaragoza at the Caliphate of Córdoba, where he lived at the Court of the Banu Qasi Dynasty.

During his youth he participated in the government of Galicia and in military campaigns against the Muslims.

Some sources suggest that he may have married an unrecorded woman probably before or in the 890s, because there are charts that do not mention his first recorded wife as the mother of his two eldest sons. If this speculation is correct, with this woman he possibly had two children (check the list below).

His first recorded wife was ELVIRA, with whom he married around 890-900. Her name was Elvira Méndez, because she was one of the daughters of Hermenexildo Gotérrez, Count of Coimbra and Ermesinda Gatónez. It is widely believed that she could have been the mother of all of his six possible children (check the list below), although the two eldest may have not been her's.

By 909 he and his brothers rebelled against their father. And by 910 the territories of the Kingdom of Asturias were divided between him and two of his brothers, either because his father abdicated or died.

After the partition of the Kingdom he became KING OF GALICIA, while his older brother became the García I, King of León (and possibly inherited the title of King of Asturias) and his youngest brother inherited the territories of the region of Oviedo (also possibly becoming Fruela II, King of Asturias).

Though he and his youngest brother were subjected to the authority of his eldest brother, whith whom he did not have a good relationship.

On his accession as King of Galicia in 910 he founded another branch line of the Astur-Leonese Dynasty, the Ordóñez Dynasty.

In 914 his older brother died childless and he inherited his territories, becoming ORDOÑU II, KING OF LEÓN and possibly KING OF ASTURIAS.

At the early years of his reign he allied with Antso I, King of Pamplona against the Muslims of the Emirate of Córdoba.

Around 922 he married his second recorded wife ARAGONTA. Her name was Aragonta González as she was one of the daughers of Gonzalo Betótez, Count of Deza and Teresa Eriz. Though he repudiated her a couple of months later and they did not have any children.

And so in 923, he married his third recorded wife ANTSA. Her name was Antsa Santxitz as she was one of the daughters of Antso I, King of Pamplona and Tota Aznaritz. But with her he also did not have any children.

His last marriage was probably negotiated as an alliance between León and Pamplona, because on that same year his son Infante Alfonso was also married to his wife's older sister Oneka Santxitz of Pamplona.

The King of León died in early 924, probably at his capital, the city of León. He was probably already in his fifties.

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When he died, none of his sons succeeded him. Instead his brother King Fruela II became the new King of León, thus unifying all territories of the old Kingdom of Asturias.

But after his brother died, over a year later in 925, his sons and nephews ended up fighting for power, in a civil war that his sons ended up victorius.

Their victory made him a direct ancestor of all the subsequent Monarchs of León, Castile and Spain, including Felipe VI, the current King of Spain. And also an ancestor of the Kings of Aragón since the 15th century.

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Check my posts on ORDOÑU II's family, his Royal House and the Kingdom of Asturias!

ORDOÑU II had two children...

With his probable unrecorded first wife or with his first recorded wife ELVIRA...

Sancho Ordóñez, King of Galicia - husband of Goto Muñiz; and

Alfonso IV, King of León - husband of Oneka Santxitz of Pamplona.

And with his first recorded wife ELVIRA he may have had other four children...

Ramiro II, King of León - husband first of Adosinda Gutiérrez and second of Urraka Santxitz of Pamplona;

Jimena Ordóñez - probably unmarried;

García Ordóñez - probably unmarried; and

possibly Auria Ordóñez - possible wife of Count Nepocianu Díaz.

He was born a member of a branch line of the Astur-Leonese Dynasty and founded another line, the Ordóñez Dynasty.

And was possibly the King of Asturias between 914-24.

[thewritingpossum]

isabellacapets

Tell Me ur thoughts on england-castilla relations under ed ii (also since i was reading this book from the 1900s am i the only one who finds reading about the exchequer to be pretty hard to follow sometimes)

Girl, everything that include any form of maths confuse the shit out of me and that include anything about taxes, like, i pay a dude to fill my taxes reports s yeah. the exchequer...i have a pretty good idea of what they were doing and why but it’s still pretty abstrac, I don’t know if it’s just the informations that I’ve personnally read but i remember that it was so dry and boring...Economy is important in a society but i just didn’t cared that much, let’s be real. This being said, I like the theory that the name come from the fact that hte first exchequer (échiquier) of Normandy took place in a room with a black and white floor, like a chessboard (échéquier too)

I'm honestly really interested by Edward's relationship with Castile because I mean, weither he thought about it or not, it was the only solid link he had with his mother (and yes i always look at those thing from an emotional perspective before anything else, that's why I want to be a writer and not just an historian. than again, eddie himself probably put his emotions before the whole political aspect so why judge myself?) How he felt about his mother, we will never know but he certainly cared about his Castilian heritage.

There's relatively few interaction between Edward II and Ferdinand IV and I think it's because they were both stucked in various wars and bullshits during their reigns. Interestingly, they both dealt with shits coming from their own family (Edward and Thomas of Lancaster, Ferdinand and John of Castile..) though it's not like it's a particularly rare occurence in medieval time, lol.

We know that Edward wanted to marry his eldest son to Eleanor of Castile (not the ghost of his grandma, obviously, the eldest daugher of the king of Castile) and his daughter Eleanor to Alfonso XI, which would have make her the queen of 3 kingdoms, including Castile itself. I really wonder how this wedding would have worked: Alfonso was pretty damn douchy to his wives but Eleanor's husband was really a dickhead to her so I wonder if this marriage would have been better? And even if not, wouldn't have been queen a better destiny, based on their set of priorities? (Joan is looking at me from behind the grave, asking me if i really think that her life was much better than her sister’s. sorry, sweetie). Even the idea of Edward III marrying Eleanor is interesting to me because, can you imagine how different the entirety of England history would have been if Ed III and Pippa had not had 342 kids together? I do wonder.

I really wonder if we could have seen a stronger political alliance between England and Castile (and potentially other territories such as León) if Edward I had cleaned his mess before dying they had not already been busy fighting other wars. I think it's certainly a possibility, since there was apparently a lot of good will on both part. Imagine how the hundred war would have gone if there had been a strong England/Castile alliance!

Oh, and Edward II is the last reigning monarch in England who directly descended from a Castilian monarch, before Mary I, another of the most unfairly reviled figure of English history. There's not a lot of other parallels to make between those two, but I find the coincidence amusing