Look to the West: Thread III, Volume IV (Tottenham Nil)!
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Thande
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I wanted a united Italy and you are fracturing it even more.Well, so far... we will see what will happen with Romeo and Juliet here.
Also, I think you meant Sardinian and not Sicilian republic.
Could've sworn I typed Sardinian. Will fix in a bit and reply to the other comments when I have the time to respond in detail.
Interesting that everyone goes for the Romeo and Juliet comparison when I was actually thinking more of a subverted Disney story with a bit of gender role reversal. I suppose the Italian setting helps the former.
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I think it's more the 'mine greatest love born from mine greatest enemy' aspect actually.
Very interesting. Very, very interesting. All in all: great update.
Prediction for what would be the cliché if efficient solution to this: a new war starts some time in the future over this, Fernando Francesco and Paolo Luigi kill each other on the battlefield, leading to the grieving parents to reconcile and allow their remaining children to marry each other. Salic Law is abolished in Naples, leading to both spouses eventually succeeding to their respective thrones, uniting Italy and living happily ever after.
Of course, given that this is Thande writing it, even if that solution does happen, there will be a lot of unexpected twists and turns coming before it does.
Prediction for what would be the cliché if efficient solution to this: a new war starts some time in the future over this, Fernando Francesco and Paolo Luigi kill each other on the battlefield, leading to the grieving parents to reconcile and allow their remaining children to marry each other. Salic Law is abolished in Naples, leading to both spouses eventually succeeding to their respective thrones, uniting Italy and living happily ever after.
Of course, given that this is Thande writing it, even if that solution does happen, there will be a lot of unexpected twists and turns coming before it does.
And the depressing end should have been completely avoidable if one of them had waited just half an hour.
On the drive to work this morning, I was thinking how that story would make a great alt-Disney film, with some fantastic award-bait songs...
Of course, what will almost certainly happen now is that the descendants of a Hapsburg-Bourbon union will reign over a unified Italy that doesn't include Tuscany.
In the film, the song where the princess joins in with the Duke will have the words "Let me go, let me go, don't hold me back any more..."
(Sorry, I've been watching too much Disney with my daughter.)
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Hopefully it would take a note from Aladdin or the Lion King and let the prince have some character development rather than just being a tool to save the day.
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Replying now with edits.
As for the constitutional balance in the Confederations, it's variable - the elected Governor is particularly powerful in Virginia due to breaking the deadlock between the eastern and western vote in the House of Burgesses, whereas in New England and New York the Speaker of the legislature remains more powerful, and in Pennsylvania it's a balance.
It was previously discussed that the Supremacists are in part a reinvention of the old Salem Movement/Trust Party with a more universal message, and have swallowed up its remainder in New England.
He has the votes to declare that everything that happened since the Convention was summoned is legally void, similar to Britain after the Restoration. If it was pared down to issue by issue, he wouldn't have the votes for that, no, but that's not the approach that's being taken.
As for the constitutional balance in the Confederations, it's variable - the elected Governor is particularly powerful in Virginia due to breaking the deadlock between the eastern and western vote in the House of Burgesses, whereas in New England and New York the Speaker of the legislature remains more powerful, and in Pennsylvania it's a balance.
The Kingdom of Carolina is currently in a weird place where it has both a King and a Governor. Wragg has largely rendered his own office redundant however and I could see what you describe happening.
Yes.
Yes, I mentioned that above in another comment.
You're right, I changed it at the last minute to Charles saying it rather than his son, hence the confusion. Will edit.
Finally got a chance to fix this.
Great Thande, now I have the song "The power of love" stuck in my head.
Also, I will now cross my fingers that Habsburg-Bourbon Italy becomes a reality.
Also, I will now cross my fingers that Habsburg-Bourbon Italy becomes a reality.
Then somehow they inherit all Hapsburg and Bourbon lands.Great Thande, now I have the song "The power of love" stuck in my head.
Also, I will now cross my fingers that Habsburg-Bourbon Italy becomes a reality.
I was going to say a Sicilian Republic would have been quite a plot twist.
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