Elfthreads!

[pedromvilar]

http://songsoftheirdeeds.tumblr.com/pos ... ve-a-valid

[Antares]

Drat, now I am going to be expecting the other shoe to drop.

[futurevision]

Oh no

E: oh, alright.

[Antares]

Telkam nearly got caught, thank goodness for Blue Timo.

[Unbitwise]

A hypothesis: this thread has its quota of horrible things, they just aren't happening to named characters.

[lintamande]

My brain is Really Perseverating On Amenta right now and I will do Amenta threads with people who are interested in second-rate Amenta (with occasional consults with Alicorn on world stuff). It is possible my brain will stop doing this thing at any time.

[Kappa]

I'm somewhat interested in a hypothetical Amenta-Thule - my brain made me write this wee fic about an Amentan Ezar discussing family problems with an Amentan Negri:

The Red Queen

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His hair is the stormy blue-grey of a troubled sea, crimped in a faintly-visible circle by the weight of an absent crown. He taps his fingertips against the arm of his chair.

"I need that kid, Nikar," he says.

"You what, sire," says the hooded man.

"You heard me."

"For my own sanity I pretended not to."

"Listen," says the King. "I can't get another heir and my son is manifestly not interested in non-disposable women; he goes through them like toilet paper. In twenty years our streets will overflow with sewage because there won't be enough of them left to have the next generation of plumbers. I need a replacement before he gets caught. We have not found a branch of the family tree left un-pruned by my cherished brother-in-law. It's this or civil war."

"It'll be something more than civil war if word gets out."

"Who would dare to think the thought?"

"The proof that such a person exists is before my very eyes."

"Not very many people are me, Nikar."

The hooded man shifts his weight uncomfortably. "You can't put garbage on the throne, sire, you just - you can't."

"Can. Must. Will."

"Transition to democracy," he says desperately.

"They won't have it. It isn't time yet. Maybe it will be in her day, if my son doesn't light the country on fire before we get there."

"What if the kid is just as bad, what then—"

"She'll at least represent some chance of sane great-grandchildren. Besides, the trouble in the royal line seems intermittent. Bring me my granddaughter. If your reports are accurate, we won't even have to dye her hair."

This seems like it could potentially lead to interesting interactions with Amentan Feanorians.

[lintamande]

This story delights me.

[Kappa]

:DDDDDDDDDDD

[Antares]

What caste would Cordelia be?