Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

Ok, so when is the other shoe going to drop? :evilsmile:

If it drops at the wedding, it'll be an assassination attempt or something similar. I doubt anyone'd try to out Vicky at the wedding, simply because there's little real profit in it - someone who wants to make money out of the whole thing would have tried blackmail beforehand, and someone who just has it out for the Imperial Family...don't see them bothering with trying to humiliate the family when they could just shoot them or blow them up. Especially given a lot of the majorly significant monarchs and nobility of the Empire are all under the one roof...

...that sounds about right, actually.

Well, either that or Kira's going to come back from the grave to send Vicky to Pskov... :p
 
Is herself there as in the sense of a seat in the church, or is she there as in she is somewhere in the church with contact of all sorts of fun from all kinds of government entities that go by only initials. I can imagine Kat sitting some place behind the scenes talking the SKA, BND, BII, Spetnaz ( yes if Gia or Georgie are there they would be listed as “bodyguards”), MI5/6 &SIS, and who knows who else. I can see the Russians actual listening to her, no one else, since she is the original KAT, that or Gia reminded them who she was and she would have her permission to do whatever SHE wanted to when this is over. Oops also forgot the Ninjas she might have also if the Emperor of Japan is there.
 
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Actually having bridesmaids wearing the same clothing is a custom that until today has not made it across the pond or the channel to Germany.
 
The shoe drops in 1996 when King Albrecht dies and Crown Prince Franz refuses the Crown in favor of his and Vicky’s oldest child saying that Bavaria needs a “Younger Monarch” to rule in the 21st Century.
Later both Franz and Victoria outs themselves in a bid for Same-Sex Marriage.
 
The shoe drops in 1996 when King Albrecht dies and Crown Prince Franz refuses the Crown in favor of his and Vicky’s oldest child saying that Bavaria needs a “Younger Monarch” to rule in the 21st Century.
Later both Franz and Victoria outs themselves in a bid for Same-Sex Marriage.

:D

Heck, I said earlier I reckoned something like that'd happen if they both live that long.

By that stage, nobody could do anything. Their kid would be indisputably theirs, it would have been conceived and born inside wedlock...
 
I think the shoe might begin to drop when some scandal sheet 'journalist', perhaps even a member of the Bavarian Establishment scene, pens an anonymous article objecting to:

"the disgusting behaviour of the bride's sister (who is OBVIOUSLY a 'Friend of Old Fritz') because she DARED to attend the wedding dressed in a suit!! Practically rubbing her vile perversions in the faces of all those who attended the wedding and insulting the Royal Couple, King Albrecht, the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Catholic Church; all of whom exhibited great forebearance in order not to cause a scene on that most special of days."

Only for Rea to damn near piss herself laughing when other journalists start hounding her and screaming for a response.
 
I think the shoe might begin to drop when some scandal sheet 'journalist', perhaps even a member of the Bavarian Establishment scene, pens an anonymous article objecting to:

"the disgusting behaviour of the bride's sister (who is OBVIOUSLY a 'Friend of Old Fritz') because she DARED to attend the wedding dressed in a suit!! Practically rubbing her vile perversions in the faces of all those who attended the wedding and insulting the Royal Couple, King Albrecht, the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Catholic Church; all of whom exhibited great forebearance in order not to cause a scene on that most special of days."

Only for Rea to damn near piss herself laughing when other journalists start hounding her and screaming for a response.

...Hell, the devilish woman probably did that deliberately so that the decidedly femme Vicky would be thoroughly covered - because to people in the 60s, who's going to be the one they think is gay? The blushing bride in her huge white dress? Or the unmarried woman with short hair and a man's outfit? No, this way, anybody who suggests Vicky's gay would be laughed out of the place. 'What, her? Wrong sister, arschloch...'
 
...Hell, the devilish woman probably did that deliberately so that the decidedly femme Vicky would be thoroughly covered - because to people in the 60s, who's going to be the one they think is gay? The blushing bride in her huge white dress? Or the unmarried woman with short hair and a man's outfit? No, this way, anybody who suggests Vicky's gay would be laughed out of the place. 'What, her? Wrong sister, arschloch...'

And then Rea hooks up with a boyfriend (or two), DOESN'T get married, and has triplets. Conservative minds get stuck in the dissonance feedback loop of:

"But she's gay, but she's got kids and a boyfriend, but she's gay, but she's got kids and a boyfriend, but she's..."
 
Pretty soon Rea is going to have to start earning her own money as she moves down further down from the line of succession and she seems to me to have some expensive tastes.
To be sure she is going get an allowance from the family trust and maybe the building that is the current residence of the Kaiser can become a "Grace and Favor" apartments that is rented out at a peppercorn rate but that won't keep her in the style that she is living now.
 
I wonder if the top leaders of the Polish government went to the wedding because along side with funerals it is a great way to have informal talks with other parties.
In earlier posts it was established that Poland and Bavaria have good relations with each other and it would be a grave insult to the King of Bavaria and to the Bavarian people if the leaders blew off the the wedding of his son the Crown Prince and the daughter of the Emperor of the German Empire.
 
Part 112, Chapter 1844
Chapter One Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-Four



19th April 1968

Mitte, Berlin

“Vicky is entirely too self-absorbed to realize what you’ve done for her” Japik said as they waited in the greenroom of DRI, German Radio International. “And having your hair cut that short is a terrible look for you.”

Rea just shrugged. She didn’t have control over what other people thought of her. That didn’t mean that she couldn’t take advantage of that fact, it was something that she did often with Japik as her only confidant as she planned her next moves. Most recently, the scandal rags had been apoplectic about her appearance during her sister’s wedding. They managed to prove that they didn’t understand who she was and just how shallow their understanding of human sexuality was. It never occurred to any of them that she had done it on purpose. So that all the speculation was about her as opposed to Vicky, who seemingly had no idea how little digging would be required to learn what she was hiding. All the smear merchants would ultimately find out about Rea was that she was straight. Then they would have egg on their face, which would serve them right. In the meantime, Rea found herself with a huge platform as the rebel Princess of Germany and she intended to advance her own interests. The invitation to go on a live interview with Moses Newton was too much to pass up. The internationally renowned Disk Jockey had recently arrived from Argentina, after agreeing to broadcast from Berlin over the summer.

“It will grow back” Rea replied, “Besides, summer is coming and having long hair is a bother when it gets hot. It is like wearing a fur hood.”

“Still you are giving people the wrong idea about who you are” Japik said, how he actually felt about the entire matter slipping through his normal composure.

“Yes” Rea said, “Giving me a just a taste of what you or Vicky must feel all the time, but I always have option of going back don’t I. So, it isn’t really real, is it?”

Japik just stared at her agape, like if she had just said something completely unexpected. In the background, the speakers in the greenroom were playing “Season of Madness” by the Moondogs, John Lennon was shouting over guitars riffs that sounded like shattering glass about being the last sane man in an insane world. It fit the moment perfectly and not just in the greenroom. Months after its quiet release, the Moondogs album had been discovered by listeners. It had given voice to what people around the world were feeling and had seemingly come out of nowhere to explode like an atomic bomb in the consciousnesses of people on both sides of the Atlantic.



Siplingerkopf, Bavaria

It was a perfect day to be high up in the mountains as the panoramic view was incredible as they reached the summit. There were still patches of snow on the ground revealing just how early in the season it still was. Rauchbier tugged at his leash as he had dozens of things along the trail that he needed to sniff out. Kiki kept him close because the ridge dropped away sharply on either side and Rauchbier had a terrible habit of following his nose into trouble. Ben was walking a few meters behind Kiki, unlike her he was a bit winded after the hike to get up here.

A consortium of Universities had leased Girenkopf, one of the other peaks on this ridge to build an observatory, which was more accessible than Siplingerkopf. A few days earlier there had been an elaborate groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction, here anyway. The construction of the mirror that was to be used in the telescope had started years earlier, long before the site of the observatory had even been a consideration. Ben had asked Kiki to accompany him on this trip as he felt he needed a bit of moral support as he had needed to explain to the locals that several meters were going to need to be blasted off the top of the mountain.

Kiki had been staying with Ben in Balderschwang, which was spread out like a map in the valley below, as a guest of the Mayor. The Mayor’s wife had assumed that Kiki was Ben’s intended so she hadn’t objected to them staying under the same roof. It seemed that not correcting her was the easiest way to keep the peace. To the people of Balderschwang the City of Berlin was an abstraction and learning that Kiki was the daughter of the Emperor himself put an entirely different complexion on things. Ben was the Burggraf, a young man who had gone off to adventure, become relatively wealthy, and had even won the heart of a Princess at the end of it. That sounded like something from a fairytale. Kiki had pointed out that she had known Ben from before he had started adventuring, she had also been in Korea. The villagers had just given her a knowing smile.

“How can you not be tired?” Ben asked as he reached the summit.

“They don’t give this to just anyone” Kiki said pointing to the FSR patch on her coat.

“Then you will know exactly what to do when I fall over from exhaustion” Ben said as he sat down on the grass next to the large wooden crucifix that someone had constructed up here. Rauchbier immediately ran up and started licking his face.

“I think he is on top of it” Kiki said as she sat down on the grass next to Ben and took in the view.
 
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Most recently, the scandal rags had been apoplectic about her appearance during her sister’s wedding. They managed to prove that they didn’t understand who she was and just how shallow their understanding of human sexuality was. It never occurred to any of them that she had done it on purpose. So that all the speculation was about her as opposed to Vicky, who seemingly had no idea how little digging would be required to learn what she was hiding. All the smear merchants would ultimately find out about Rea was that she was straight. Then they would have egg on their face, which would serve them right.

Called it :p Cunning devil... So now that Vicky (and Franz) are safely married, plus the fact that the tabloids will have made a blunder and got egg on their faces...Yeah, she's insulated Vicky and Franz nicely against anyone trying fishing expeditions around them.

Months after its quiet release, the Moondogs album had been discovered by listeners. It had given voice to what people around the world were feeling and had seemingly come out of nowhere to explode like an atomic bomb in the consciousnesses of people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ooooooohhhhhh...

Ben had asked Kiki to accompany him on this trip as he felt he needed a bit of moral support as he had need to explain to the locals that several meters were going to need to be blasted off the top of the mountain.

Yeah, I can see why he'd need support :p

To the people of Balderschwang the City of Berlin was an abstraction and learning that Kiki was the daughter of the Emperor himself put an entirely different complexion on things. Ben was the Burggraf, a young man who had gone off to adventure, become relatively wealthy, and had even won the heart of a Princess at the end of it. That sounded like something from a fairytale. Kiki had pointed out that she had known Ben from before he had started adventuring, she had also been in Korea. The villagers had just given her a knowing smile.

D'awwwwww...
 
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