#muse: relta

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Open Starter to anyone Muse: Relta V: Phoenix Queen or V: Lionhearted

“They tell me love is irrelevant, that royalty doesn’t get to fall in love,” Relta told her companion, looking up at them from where she was sitting down. “Do you believe not all are allowed to find love? That it’s limited by class?” She inquired, curious as to what they’d say.

Standing up, she turned to pour them both cups of tea. “Try this,” she offered a cup, not having done anything different to either of the cups of tea. She was an honest woman, usually, and one who wouldn’t act against someone unless in self-defense.

“I find tea soothing,” she confessed as she sat back down, nursing her own cup of steaming tea, enjoying it rather hot. “I drink it with honey after I give speeches,” she added, the honey soothing to her throat after giving rallying speech.

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Crown Princess Relta & Princess Aislin McLeod

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@indiestarter // Open Starter w/ Crown Princess Relta (age 24) Context & Connection Ideas: Historical Fiction/Fantasy. Arranged marriage // marriage of convenience. M/F/Enby— 18+ muse

“Know I am doing this for my kingdom, not out of some romantic notions toward you,” Relta stated bluntly, moving to walk by the individual she was being forced to marry for a political alliance. However, she felt her lady-in-waiting’s hand grab her arm and stop her, clearing her throat to signal Princess Relta to stay in her future fiancé’s/fiancee’s presence rather than dismissing them and leaving.

Relta shot a glare at her lady-in-waiting over her shoulder, it being an ‘open secret’ that the Crown Princess didn’t wish to marry at all, and make one of her half-siblings her heir rather than a child of her own. Marriage was a trap to Relta, as it meant she’d have to share control over the country she’d loved and fought for her entire life. She’d rather simply reign on her own, perhaps having consorts at times but never a spouse.

“I do not know how you feel about this marriage, but I do not wish to get your expectations up,” Relta added, turning back to her future spouse. “We can have a few heirs and I will acknowledge you as my monarch consort, but I cannot give up my power and make you co-ruler,” she noted, grimacing at the thought of producing heirs.

“I cannot love anyone but the people of the kingdom, not as much as a spouse deserves, and I do apologize for that,” she commented, looking down with genuine remorse. “If we do end up a love match, it would certainly be a blessing though,” Relta added, looking back up and offering a hopeful smile. She did dream of a romance, being a hopeless romantic — thus loathing this arranged marriage.

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The Phoenix Queen — Relta’s Secret Love Life

CW: Romantic Content, Arranged Marriages, Secret Romances, Consensual/Ethical Polyamory, Mention of Pregnancy, Vague Mentions of Sex/Sensuality, AKA Gasp, Relta is open to shipping in certain situations!

Relta’s interest in romance began at a young age, reading fairy tales and romanticizing about her future co-monarch. However, after her parents’…divorce…she became more jaded toward the concept of romance and marriage.

Relta did, however, consider taking secret lovers upon reaching adulthood by Lunaruzian standards (eighteen years old or older). She was aware of her bisexuality by a young age, and sought out mainly feminine lovers as to avoid a risk of pregnancy.

Note: In Lunaruzian culture, the royal family members have to go through a special ritual in order to “open the womb” to have a possible pregnancy. So Relta’s paranoia was not aligned with Lunaruzian magical protections.

Relta and various ladies-in-waiting of hers were sexually entangled, her using it as a means to keep them loyal until they were married themselves. The women were all aware it was to keep them loyal, and took the offer as it also kept them safe and guaranteed a marriage of love from Relta.

Relta’s first lover, at age 18, was her longest serving lady-in-waiting, a magical woman herself that went by the name Farah. She was the daughter of immigrants to Lunaruz, or so that was her story, and she had powers related to pleasure — similar to Relta. Their relationship lasted until Farah said she had to disappear, as she wasn’t aging and people could becoming suspicious. It hurt Relta, but she understood.

Relta’s first male lover was an ambassador from “a far off land” (resembling Chinese culture), named Keife, who served under Queen Jane of a less far off land as Queen Jane’s daughter had adopted Keife and his younger brother at a young age after their parents were imprisoned. The alliance between Relta’s father and Queen Jane was strong, them having been childhood friends despite Queen Jane’s advanced age even compared to Relta’s father by the time Relta was crowned. They fell for each other, causing Relta to break things off sexually and becoming close friends, but keeping things purely platonic. He also wasn’t of rank to become her official consort, so it couldn’t go anywhere even if Relta wished it to. Relta also kept the alliance between their respective kingdoms strong thanks to befriending Queen Jane and Keife’s entire family when visiting Queen Jane’s kingdom.

Relta also bedded some female knights and guards, with no strings attached or using power dynamics to influence their choice to lay with her intimately. She was insistent upon their equality, despite her being the heir to the throne, as she would never bed someone who felt forced to because of her status.

Relta’s mother once told her, when she was around 13-15 years old, to kill her child if it was a son, to hide him in the countryside to protect him from enemies and potential misogynist who’d wish to put the boy in power over her. She has never done the ritual for pregnancy due to this fear, even if she had fallen in love with her partner and they were capable of impregnating her.

In some verses, Relta does get married, uniting with @ofheroesandscholars’s King James/Jon and the aforementioned Keife. She also took a lover in the goddess, Nyx, who had come to the mortal plane to explore it. She has a child with Jon, Fennel — who she declares her primary heir, and a child with Keife, Torsten — who ends up succeeding her as the next generation’s primary diplomat due to his charisma and charm. King James/Jon remains the king of his kingdom, Relta being his queen consort there, and becomes Relta’s king consort in Lunaruz, being one of her advisors due to his wisdom from being a ruler himself of a rather peaceful kingdom. Aislin, Relta’s younger half-sister, stays in the castle until her own marriage occurs and she becomes a princess twice-over, and eventual Queen of a kingdom resembling our reality’s France. Her children remain in line to the throne, however none of them desire it.

Relta also has an occasional lover in @singeart’s Sapphire, who she loves dearly and Keife does as well. Sapphire serves in the court as an aristocrat of high rank, yet is as active in hobbies such as fencing as Relta is. The two, when not in bed together, fence or compete in archery together when Sapphire visits. Keife also loves Sapphire, but it is more romantic than Relta’s relationship with Sapphire is. When/If not married to Relta, Keife seeks out Lady Sapphire’s hand in marriage.

Relta is open to marriage to another royal of high enough standing (verse dependent), if they are willing to sign papers allowing Relta to be sole monarch of Lunaruz, and they can decide her role in their kingdom. She is open to a monarch of any gender identity, and would adopt to have an heir of her own if they cannot impregnate her or do not wish to.

When Relta is with a lover, she often wishes to be in charge, even if the partner “on the bottom”. She has control “issues” due to her upbringing.

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⛓Joscelin for Relta?

@xxofloveandlossxx // Joscelin x Relta, arranged marriage verse

Relta adjusted her veil casually as she walked down the aisle, being “given away” by her younger brother, Prince Alastair. This marriage was to solidify an alliance between Lunaruz and Joscelin’s people, as Relta was heir to Lunaruz’s throne and “needed” a husband, supposedly.

Looking up at her future husband, she bowed to him, then stood as tall as she could with perfect posture. “An honor,” she informed him as she held out her hands for him to hold before the High Priestess of Queen Hera and a High Priest of Lady Aphrodite Areia.

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@luposcainus

Hercules (1997) Dir. Ron Clements And John Musker

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what type of villain are you? ... — Muse: Relta || V: Phoenix Queen

The Betrayer

You like to do things up close and personal. As personal as you can get. You are an excellent actor, and you do adore putting on a smile knowing your worst enemy, the one you hate the most, doesn't suspect a thing when they tell you their deepest secrets. Your only motivation is revenge, and revenge you shall get. Perhaps you loved them once, long ago, but any fondness for your target you once felt has long since warped and twisted into perverse obsession, laced with malice and venom and seething hatred. Good or evil does not matter to you. All that matters is they get what they deserve

Tagged by: stole it! Tagging: @blackarrcw (Guy or Elyssa); @seekingsolidground (Constantine); @singeart (Sapph); @truedarkhcld / @tsarincvdova

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Relta core

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The Phoenix Queen — Ship Names [Part I of ?]

@luposcainus — King Caspian x Queen Relta — ship: love at last [Romantic]

@blackarrcw — Lady Elyssa x Queen Relta — ship: birds of a feather [Platonic/Romantic]

@blackarrcw — Sir Guy of Gisborne x Queen Relta — ship: blades and the boudoir [Enemies to Lovers]

@blackarrcw — Maid Marian x Queen Relta — ship: merrily maid [Platonic/Romantic]

@ofheroesandscholars — King James x Queen Relta — ship: fairy tale ending [Romantic]

@singeart — Lady Sapphire x Queen Relta — ship: the only exception [Platonic/Sexual]

@fantasiesandfolklore — Lord Keife x Queen Relta — ship: champions and crowns [Platonic/Sexual]

@fantasiesandfolklore — Lady Farah x Queen Relta — ship: she calls me daddy [Sexual]

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@luposcainus

The Great 3x02 // 3x04

and you mine and you me 🫶

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Open Starter — Muse: Relta — Verse: Halloween Special TBD

“The veil is thinner around this time of year. It drives Aislin up a wall with all the spirits seeking her aid,” Relta laughed as she nursed her Shirley Temple and looked to her companion. “She can hear and see spirits, poor thing,” Relta tsk’d, shaking her head with sympathy for her little sister.

“What about you? How do you protect yourself on Samhain from the less…friendly spirits?” She inquired, raising a brow at them.

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❛ i don’t ever want to lose you. ❜ - From Guy to Relta

@blackarrcw // Guy x Relta Drabble [They need a ship name]

Relta looked up at Guy from where she lay on the castle bed beside him, reaching out a hand and stroking his cheek tenderly. He may be the Man In Black, or have been, but now he was the man who she’d ask her father to pardon and allow to wed her upon King Richard’s return to England from the Holy Land. “You shan’t” she promised, leaning in and kissing Guy.

They hadn’t been intimate, not in the sense most would assume, but instead Guy had been patching Relta up after a skirmish with some guards loyal to Prince John and Vaisey. “I’m Lionhearted,” she reminded him with a soft laugh before she had to grip her side where she’d been deeply sliced

“I love you, Sir Guy of Gisborne, The Man In Black,” she confessed, furrowing her brow in some confusion at the admission. Guy had tried killing her father, and had been a very twisted man, yet he’d saved her life that day.

“I don’t believe I’ve ever felt this way about someone before. It’s a bit…well…terror inducing,” Relta confessed, looking away as her fair, freckled cheeks flushed. “But…enjoyably so?”

There seemed to be something about the women Guy loved getting stabbed.

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@sprigdragonheirs // Hunter (Medieval/Selkie AU) & Relta (Phoenix Queen)

Relta was walking by the lake’s edge, noticing something, someone?, large swimming in the water near the other side of the bank. “Hello?” the Queen called out, “is someone there?” She had weapons hidden on her person, not to forget her abilities.

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@luposcainus

I… It’s impossible though. What? Us. Yes

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Open Starter — Muse: Relta V: Phoenix Queen

“Yes, I’ve felt such feelings for someone else, but…” the to-be queen trained off, Relta tossing her long, auburn locks over her shoulder as she looked over it at her companion. “I cannot allow myself to fall in love,” Relta stated bluntly, turning back to the window and gazing out it.

Relta sighed, gripping the windowsill until her knuckles went white. “What if I find someone and cannot give them what they deserve?” She asked, not sure if she wanted them to answer her or not as the answer likely wasn’t one she wanted to hear. “I won’t say I’m in love,” Relta insisted.

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you have to take charge of your own destiny.

@fallesto — Daenerys Stormborn & Phoenix Queen Relta

“It is an honor to meet you, Queen Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen,” Relta curtsied to the other woman, offering a warm smile with rouge covered lips. “I have heard legends of your achievements, or rather stories for they seem true,” she added, taking Daenerys’s hand and kissing her ring out of respect.

“Anyone willing to stop enslavement has a chance to have Lunaruz backing their claim for the Iron Throne, as I was told it is called,” Relta explained, being both diplomat and crown princess of her own kingdom. “I consider that being an action to take charge of your own destiny. It seems you live your advice,” she praised Daenerys, “I should do the same.”