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Mar. 29th, 2011 07:52 pm[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]
The important thing -- the really important thing -- is that whatever happens, I can't be seen having any attachment to any of it.
That's the challenge. I can think of five ways, right now, to ruin Matthew, but they all require me coming forward and admitting to being connected to it. I'd have to be the one to ruin him.
That just won't work.
This isn't about Matthew. Poor Lord Matthew of distant House Cresyn, he's just an obstacle, not a target. Bring Matthew to his knees, well, all well and good. But it doesn't actually accomplish anything. What this is about is the throne. Edalene's hand. And Cleraine and the glory of House Atsir.
In all these centuries, an Ansharian Queen has never married a son of Cleraine. It would taint the blood, after all. Give us Atsirian -- true Atsirian -- upstarts a reason to think we could do more for ourselves than stand in the background scheming, to put ideas into a Princess-Heir's head, raise a little Jewel loyal to her father's family. That's what this is about. What would it matter if Matthew fell? She ... cares for him, now, unbelievable as that is. If I were seen as the person who engineered his downfall, no matter how much he would appear to have deserved it, that would immediately set me apart from the throne, permanently.
What he "does" to fall from favour needs to be horrible ... and I need to be completely ignorant of it.
That's where I start from. I go from there.
The important thing -- the really important thing -- is that whatever happens, I can't be seen having any attachment to any of it.
That's the challenge. I can think of five ways, right now, to ruin Matthew, but they all require me coming forward and admitting to being connected to it. I'd have to be the one to ruin him.
That just won't work.
This isn't about Matthew. Poor Lord Matthew of distant House Cresyn, he's just an obstacle, not a target. Bring Matthew to his knees, well, all well and good. But it doesn't actually accomplish anything. What this is about is the throne. Edalene's hand. And Cleraine and the glory of House Atsir.
In all these centuries, an Ansharian Queen has never married a son of Cleraine. It would taint the blood, after all. Give us Atsirian -- true Atsirian -- upstarts a reason to think we could do more for ourselves than stand in the background scheming, to put ideas into a Princess-Heir's head, raise a little Jewel loyal to her father's family. That's what this is about. What would it matter if Matthew fell? She ... cares for him, now, unbelievable as that is. If I were seen as the person who engineered his downfall, no matter how much he would appear to have deserved it, that would immediately set me apart from the throne, permanently.
What he "does" to fall from favour needs to be horrible ... and I need to be completely ignorant of it.
That's where I start from. I go from there.
