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33. she/her. multiship & perpetually confused, bear with me

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the shiketsu princess is described as an airhead by his advisors. and the old men have nothing to say about the aldera prince, which honestly is a little more unnerving than has right to be. airhead, no matter how incorrect it might end up being, is still /some/ warning.
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
ruling the kingdom alone would be hell, hitoshi knows it. but ruling with another might just be worse.
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
between his grandfather's violent ways and his father's own lackadaisical pace, their kingdom is half scorched earth and half mottled graves. hitoshi loathes the day he'll have to come into his own and into power of this nightmare.
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
king tenshi is a willowy man, all gangly limbs and clumsy feet. absolutely nothing like hitoshi's grandfather. which, ever so quietly, hitoshi is grateful for. his father may be a bumbling fool at times, but he has a good heart. hitoshi wasn't built for war and thankfully wasn't raised for it either
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
hitoshi, for all his title grants him, considers himself the awkward son of an awkward king of a very awkward kingdom.
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
well. damn. okay.

camie's said it before, and will die on the hill that she is just a simple woman. a simple woman who is not mad in any way about how hot her new husband-to-be is.

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January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
all well and sweet, until she steps out of the carriage to the measured smile of prince hitoshi. or. well. she thinks it's the prince. he's dressed like a prince, even if he slouches a little once they make eye contact.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
this, of course, is all well and good until she's shepherd off to musutafu, their rival kingdom for centuries.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
camie knew, okay? she knew her opinions didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. a spoilt princess in her cradle of gold. she /knows/.

but two husbands? each fighting to have the first heir?

tbh, she contemplates climbing out a window and running away with inasa when everyone's back is turned.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
she's /simple/. timeless beauty and educated bows and well-trained smiles and expectations in the stony dirt from which she's grown.

she feels her sharp tongue and sharper patience with seiji post-announcement is 100% warrented. like! how dare they??
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
she'd love to stay home in her own kingdom, but knows she'll be married off to some foreign land and sent away, some guy appointed king in her place. (her bets are all on nagamasa. beautiful hair and a level head. he's the best choice, in her opinion)
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
(her mother makes a face when she brings it up once. camie learns her lesson.)
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
she'd like to adopt a kid -- likes those goofy little 'street urchins' her father points out on their rides through the city that always seem to be laughing and making silly faces at her when she passes -- because a queen should lead by example, right? take in the poor and help them, right?
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
camie is a simple woman.

she'd love to marry for love, but knows realistically she'll be lucky to just fall in love with her husband one day.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
(she means figuratively, but it's gone a little more literal once or twice)
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
so she doesn't get war strategies, sue her. thats why they have advisors. yknow, people who specialize in one specific thing so that they're /really good at it/ and are the /go-to person for that thing/. she'd love to see /them/ charm the pants off foreign dignitaries.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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camie is a simple woman.

she's been called simple-minded more than once, but she knows she could out smart those stuck-up losers in a number of things.
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
a wedding was inevitable, an heir even more so. the time table moving up isn't the worst problem. inconvenient? sure, but minor all things considered.

it's the absolute clusterfuck that is this arrangement that's probably going to kill him.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
katsuki, unfortunately inherited neither of these traits. (well, maybe the bull aspect)

but he's their only son, the only heir to the bakugo crown, and he's been training his whole life to take over the throne when his parents step down.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
aldera's options were demand a seat at the table or defend their boarders with a bunch of scrappy farmers against trained soldiers.

and, well.

their king is a charmer, their queen is a bull with a silver tongue.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
katsuki knows exactly why their kingdom is part of this treaty, no matter how they may dress it up.

shiketsu is a mountain kingdom, surviving on tough game and tougher bread. musutafu had a horrible plague run though a decade back due to their population crammed in on top of each other.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
in comparison to these legends, these behemoths of lore and politics, the kingdom of aldera is but a thimble. expansive, yes. in terms of land, aldera is the largest, made of sprawling farmland and markets too small for any map.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
shiketsu is not much smaller, built right into the mountainside, elaborate detailing made of their finest ores.
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
omg i love himmmmm
January 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM