#and having to have william and kate there is also not great for them

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

I can't wait to have your opinion on KC finally giving William and Catherine the right to grant warrants. Do you think we have another sh*t sandwich ? Especially after that awful article.

I think it's great William and Kate finally have this and it's going to be a great way for them to support British industry, trades, and crafts. I do hope it translates to engagements for William and Kate, and it does sound like it will from the few leaks/comments we've heard about it.

As far as the timing of this announcement - there have been enough leaks that this was probably coming sometime this year. I suspect the delays probably had to do with working out the logistics for "out-processing" (if you will) or transitioning Charles's warrants to have a clear slate for William and Kate, since that was part of the announcement.

All that said, I do want to urge some caution here. William and Kate probably aren't going to issue their first warrants tomorrow or next week - maybe in the fall for sure - aren't expected to issue their first warrants until 2026 and they're probably going to be "boring" in the sense that they'll be household suppliers (like the seaweed plastics company from Earthshot) rather than something exciting like a deep cut from Kate's fashion roster.

Lastly, a very unpolite thought but since this blog has picked on me before and likes to pick on Waleses' fans: I can't wait to see how a certain side of royal-watching spins this as a cover-up for KP Titanic.

And a reminder: a shit sandwich is good news - bad news - good news (not bad news - good news - bad news) and there isn't enough evidence yet to tell if we're being fed a shit sandwich. It certainly does have the early hallmarks of one. It might also seems to appear that this may be the palace's reaction to the funeral article about bringing the Sussexes' back - as in yes, that was by the Sussexes but it came with Charles's implied endorsement by a wimpy denial and this is Charles smoothing over those ruffled feathers. I think we'll have to see what comes next from BP to determine if we're being force-fed a shit sandwich.

Also I just realized something - there was the article from late last week/the weekend about bringing the cousins in to fill out William's royal court but I don't think that makes it a shit sandwich because the cousins is more of a bad news story than a good news story that would make reconciliation with the Sussexes go down better.

With what we have right now, this feels more like an attempt by Charles to turn the tide after a string of stories that puts him in a bad light, especially since it's also coming right before Holyrood Week, which is traditionally a big week for the monarch.

We'll have to see what comes next from the palace, but I don't doubt the Sussexes will be crashing out over this and I do kinda want to see how Meghan deals with this on her social media.

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Creepypasta camping trip!!

I miss camping so here you go

*image from where i camp!*

Genre: idk what to call this, ramble?

Characters: ticci toby, masky/tim, hoodie/brian, kate the chaser, nina the killer, jane the killer, jeff the killer, eyeless jack, clockwork, lulu, homicidal liu, bloody painter, sally williams

Desc: Hey, its the creeps family vacation time again! This time they are going camping by a clear river surrounded by beautiful rocky hills and trees as far as the eye can see for a whole week! With all these fun activities, lets see what they get up to!

Cw: shrooms and blood mentioned, no details

I spent like 3 days on this PLEASE ENJOY

Toby

-he loves being outside and in nature, he has the zoomies the whole time

-he enjoys pissing people off so thats exactly what he does

-he doesn't really help with setting up camp, he just gives “emotional support”

-he realizes very quickly that he did not pack enough toiletries

-”w-what? I do-dont stink t-that bad,”

-he is in charge of everything revolving fire, but his idea of lighting fires is dousing the wood in gasoline

-he brought himself mashed potato flakes, and he is not willing to share

-he sleeps in just his gym shorts and it is STILL too hot

-he wakes up early to go hiking with liu, he needs to explore

-he REEKS of BO but no one says anything about it

-he gets covered in cuts and scrapes on the hike, some of them are really bad but he doesn't notice at all

-he doesn't even stop hiking when they get back down the cliff face, he goes exploring even more

-by the time he comes back it is well after dark and he is mad that they didnt let him light the fire

-on day two he is visibly burnt but he cant feel it so he just keeps on exploring

-he briefly gets in the river just to wash the dirt and stank off, but he hates hates HATES water so he gets out pretty quickly

-he isnt doing well without his phone, he is ACHING to go on tiktok and instagram but its not like he can do anything about it

-he gets very bored and just walks around in the woods until he cant see anything anymore

-he bothers tim at any opportunity he can, he sneaks in his tent and starts singing or releasing a bug and booking it out so tim doesnt hurt him

Jeff

-he is fine with the whole thing, he spends a lot of time outside already. it was the packing and driving and putting up camp that he didnt like

-he bitched the entire drive about how cramped it was, what music was being played, how it was too hot, but now that hes here? hes thrilled

-hes not much of an outdoorsman as much he is a “fuck around and find out” explorer

-he chases people with bugs in his hands ones camps done, he just has the zoomies

-he eats hot dogs like nobody's business. hes practically inhaling them

-he cant wait for dark so he can start scaring the shit out of people

-the next morning he raids the breakfast pastries stash and slams back one of the 14 monsters he packed

-he is not one to go hiking up mountains like his brother, hed much rather poke around where its flat, like on the river bank or in the brush. its a vacation, hes not gonna exert himself more than he has to

-he HATES the water though, so he just dips his feet in at most

-he burns easy so he just wears a hoodie. easy fix.

-everyone is shocked he is wearing a hoodie but he does that everyday and doesn't get hot, hes used to it

-he will just sit on the river bank and talk, he loves to talk about nothing in particular

-he also forgot there wouldn't be any cell service and packed only electronics

-”...and then they set him up on a fake date at the mall and ambushed him with a guy in a pickle suit stealing his date and… are you even listening?”

-hes not miserable at all, hes having a great time just walking around and talking shit about literally anything

-he is in his own tent because he talks in his sleep and no one wants to be around him because its disturbing

-he lives to piss people off though so he will go into peoples tents at nights and release bugs and worms

-hes sad to leave but he NEEDS to check his phone

Jack

-he lived outside most his life, hes a monster human.. thing…. after all. he just isnt in love with the idea of doing it for fun

-he will help do all the physical labor, he is a lot stronger than the others so it would be rude not to

-he brought his first aid supplies just in case someone gets hurt, he would hate for the fun to be ruined

-he was right to think he wouldn't enjoy it, he doesn't!

-he realizes very quickly that he didnt bring enough kidneys to eat

-he quickly gets bored and walks into the woods to hunt something and returns bloody in the middle of the night

-this happens every night and every night he ends up waking the people in his tent at an ungodly hour smelling like forest funk

-”i apologize.. im sorry.. ‘scuse me.. let me lay down.. sorry..”

-during the day he chooses to go hiking at first but quickly regrets his choices

-his legs hurt and his back hurts and his feet hurt and

-he eventually decides to stop going hiking and just sits on the river bank with some of the others while carving wood

-he didnt realize how… sunny… it was going to be.. and with the sun came the heat.. he clearly did not pack enough shorts

-he didnt pack enough clothes at ALL

-he ends up having to rewear bloody clothes and stinks even WORSE

-eventually becomes silent for the most part, he is not happy

-in fact hes miserable

-he mostly hangs around nina and lets her do the talking like he usually does

Masky

-had the unfortunate task of organizing the whole thing, but now that they are here? after all that?

-he hates it.

-he thought he was going to like it and really tried to like it at first but its just so goddamn hot and he can barely tolerate these idiots in the comfort of the mansion, and now he has to share a tent with them?

-abso-fucking-lutley not! he wants to go home!

-he is instantly bitchy, its hot, there are too many bugs, and toby wont stop bothering him and now he has to do manual labor? this must be hell

-he is in charge of sally, and he puts on a good act at first but eventually he passes her to clockwork because even though shes sweet, he is about to kill someone

-that someone might have a name that starts with T and ends with oby

-”toby i brought you here, and your so… oh my GOD your such a bitch. GET THAT BEETLE AWAY FROM ME-”

-he spends the first night almost completely silent, hes tired and wants to go to bed but its too damn hot

-eventually he is able to sleep but its not a restful one

-he WANTED to go hiking but hes just too tired

-he spends the first day just rotting in the tent and reading his books to recover

-he packed so many cartons of cigs and it feels like he didnt pack enough

-the second day he feels a bit better and takes sally on a nature walk and points out the wild animals and flowers she can pick

-later he takes her to the river and reads on the bank

-he gets horrifically sunburned and spends the night in agony

-he is miserable the rest of the time but does whatever sally wants to do because that is quite literally all he has the energy for and even then its a struggle

Hoodie/Brian

-he just wants to fish

-he knows the point of the trip was to swim and explore but he just wants to fish and maybe grab some cool bugs to keep

-he will help set stuff up, he knows how to do everything that needs to be done afterall

-he spent YEARS living off the grid, 7 days is nothing

-he insists on going foraging but no one wants to so he goes alone :(

-he gets stung by some things but thats part of the fun!

-he eventually is convinced to come on a hike the the next morning, but for the rest of the afternoon?

-here comes the fishing pole

-he ends up not catching anything the first day

-he wakes up before everyone else on the second day and just picks a hill and gets climbing

-after he gets to the top, he sees a couple of the guys climbing up to him and starts gathering up beetles in his pockets to release on them

-”hey guys, i have something in my pocket for you allll,”

-after he gets down the trail a bit he realizes he forgot a water bottle and goes all the way back up to get it

-brian is a lot of things but a littering piece of shit is not one of them

-he cleans up camp once he gets back, you dont want to attract raccoons or something

-he just never seems to be tired for some reason, 9pm rolls around and hes still doing shit

-he insists on fishing as much as possible and only stops being a maniac once he finally catches a few

-after that, he just chills in a floatie in the river. his mission is complete.

Clockwork

-she is the one who suggested the trip in the first place

-she is thrilled, and she clears the ground to get room for the tents while the others unload the cars

-she brought extras of all things sunburn care, she knows how bad it is to rawdog a bad sunburn from years of experience

-she starts cooking as soon as the fire starts going, she cooks some soup for everyone

-she gets burnt on accident because of toby pouring gas on the fire

-gets sally situated for the night, brushing her hair and blowing up the air mattress slender insisted she needed

-once sallys asleep, she goes hunting for a bit but doesn't really have the tools to properly kill something

-the next morning she goes with a couple of the crew to the river and messes around in the water all day, making fun of the people on the shore

-”imagine being scared of water, fucking pussys”

-her idea of “fun river activities” is her diving to the bottom and trying to grab enough rocks so that she sinks to the bottom

-she has to wear swimming goggles cause of her eye so she has a lot of fun looking at fish too

-she tans instead of burning at first, but eventually the sun wins and she gets burnt on her face because she forgot to put sunscreen on there

-at the end of the day she dries off and reads by the fire, she is happy to have some peaceful time to herself after a long day

-she feels at home in the wilderness, so shes sad when the week ends but is tired and ready to sleep in a real bed

Kate

-she wasn't all that excited to go, she likes air conditioning and wifi more than “quality time”

-she sets up her and the girls tent almost alone, with clocky pitching in

-shes used to pitching tents, she often had to take one on a mission so she didn't have to sleep in her car

-she brought shroom gummies in secret because if shes forced to stay outside she is NOT doing it sober

-she took one before they started driving, and she takes another one while shes eating

-she has no problem with spending time with the fam, but she just wishes it was cooler

-she knocks out early and wakes up around 7 and watches the people going hiking pack up

-she sits in the silence for a bit and watches the sun rise, and she decides camping isnt that bad

-what IS bad though is that she was under the impression that there would be more hearty breakfast foods

-girl is STARVING

-she doesn't wait for people to get up, she puts on her swim shorts and bikini and walks down to the river

-its not hot enough for the water to be warm enough, but she doesn't mind. its nice to be cold for once

-as people start to trickle down to the river she starts looking for trees to climb, she finally has energy now that the shrooms are out of her system

-”dare me to flip? no? yeah its a bad idea, your right,”

-jumps off the tallest tree she can safely climb and cannonballs into the deep end

-shes out for the rest of the day though, she used all her energy up and wants to draw on the river bank with helen

-she gets mildly burnt, but she puts on so much sun screen that it's manageable

-once night falls she takes sally to see the fireflies and decides maybe she doesn't need gummies, being sober and in the moment feels nice

Sally

-shes SO EXCITED!!!

-she has been wanting to go on a trip with the adults for the longest time and she loves being outside

-she gets her own inflatable mattress that slender got specifically for her and shes sleeping with the girls, and tims her caretaker? hell yeah!

-she has all her stuff packed by tim and the other proxys, she has everything she needs and more

-she wants to go swimming so bad, but cant the first night so she settles for smores and an early bed time

-the next morning she wakes the girls up and they all go to the river and she has her toys carried for her

-”lets go, lets go! faster! cmonnnn, i wanna swim!!”

-she brought her favorite floating boat she has every time she is near a body of water, she doesn't like going under the water so the boat is a must if she wants to explore

-she is being forced to wear a sun hat, she is not a fan but everyone knows she cant get hurt in any way or else slender would kill them

-she is unaware of this and does not want to wear the hat

-eventually she goes back to camp and after her nature walk she gets her hair brushed out and braided by kate, eventually nodding off before being carried into her bed

-she really is the most loved person in that entire mansion

Nina

-absolutely does not want to be there

-she is HORRIFIED that theres no cell service

-she just watches all the others set up camp, she is not dressed for all this work (its short shorts and a tank top) (its hot ok)

-she is instantly grossed out by all the bugs and runs screaming from a beetle

-once the fire is going and they start cooking the food, she realizes she is truly fucked

-”would it kill you to eat something NOT in a can?? And can you PLEASE cook mine in a separate pot, i dont eat meat,”

-she doesn't eat anything the first night, she is just too grossed out

-she just goes to bed early, she hates the smokes smell and its getting dark anyways

-she gets into the tent and lays down, but its so hot that shes miserable

-after a long night of sweating, she wakes up starving and breaks her hunger strike by eating a muffin

-she chooses to go swimming in the river, its so hot that its the only way she can think to cool off

-she changes into her swim suit and realizes she forgot water shoes so she would have to wear her tennis shoes after shes done swimming to walk back to camp or walk barefoot

-swimming is not ninas strong suit.

-she stays in the shallows, she doesn't really know how to swim.. yet here she is.

-shes miserable

-she starts getting bitchy quick, the heat and boredom is getting to her

-she didnt bring enough to entertain herself at ALL, she was under the impression that she would at LEAST have lte

-by day 3 shes defeated. shes hungry, burnt, covered in bug bites, hot, and no one seems to care how miserable she is!

-shes happy when they pack up camp, even helping break down the tent so she can leave quicker

Jane

-this diva is not meant for hard work, but by god she will do it

-she's super stubborn and refuses to let people help her set up the water station (multiple 5 gallon distilled water jugs)

-shes strong too, and despite being in a skirt shes not scared of doing heavy lifting

-she IS scared that her thighs are starting to chafe

-she quickly changes into shorts once the tent is up, thank GOD she brought so many changes of clothes

-she is already burning though, her pale skin is not meant for the sun and spf 110 is not cutting it

-she is very glad that jack brought aloe vera gel in his first aid because… oh boy will she need it

-she chooses to sleep past breakfast the first night, she was so hot and burnt it was hard to get sleep

-”ughhhh… natalie i do not think i can physically get up right now, go without me.. ill catch up…”

-she gets a quick bite to eat, a sun shade, a book, and changes into her swimsuit to head to the river

-she doesn't plan on swimming much, she brought a couple books she wants to finish

-she feels herself getting burnt through the canopy so she decides to get into the water to cool off

-she goes into the deep end and starts playing with sally, who she carries around on her back through the water

-she ends up staying in the water playing with lulu and sally until dark, and only upon getting out does she realize she forgot sunscreen

-she is in agonizing pain that night, the aloe vera gel isnt enough, she needs to be euthanized. it would be an act of mercy

Lulu

-she grew up camping so the idea was instantly a hit

-now that shes here shes even more excited

-she cant really help set up camp, but she is more than happy to start unpacking and blowing up the toys for the river

-once everything is settled down she has some smores and hot dogs and heads to bed

-the next morning she gets up early and lays out breakfast for everyone and changes into her swim clothes

-shes not one for real swim suits, a pair of swim shorts and an old tee work the same

-she takes sally to the river and plays with her all day, she loves spending time with her!

-she gets mildly burnt on her face, she tans before she actually burns

-by the next day, she still has energy

-everyone is shocked about how excited she is

-”how could i not be excited?? im here with everyone i love in a place that i love!!”

-she goes tubing down the river, just hanging out with some of the girls and riding the current down

-the walk back to camp KILLS her legs, she didnt realize how far down they went

-the next couple days her energy goes down, she isnt NOT excited, just tired

-shes sad to leave, but happy to have her music back and be in air conditioning

Liu

-he loves the outdoors, he was one of the ones who convinced the group to go

-he wasn't prepared for how hot it would really be, he didnt bring any tank tops

-he is in charge of getting firewood for toby, and he is good at it, getting all the dry sticks and everything

-he is upset when toby just douses the wood in gasoline and scolds him

-”do you have any idea how dangerous that is?? I got dry wood, and you just go and do all this shit, your gonna kill us all like that!!”

-he brought the majority of the food, just easily makeable canned stuff that doesn't go bad and snack foods

-hes in charge of cooking too because he doesn't trust the others to not fuck it up

-he is shocked that the others are so unprepared, he even brought marshmallow roasting sticks and nina forgot more than one pair of shoes

-he wakes up before the sun to get ready to go hiking, hes not a fan of the water

-once hes finished the first rocky hill he is more than happy to get in the water though

-he is OUT the next day, choosing to sit in the shallow water with helen (lets go gays)

-the rest of the week he goes on some more hikes but mostly enjoys hanging out by the others in the shade

Helen/Bloody painter

-he hates camping. absolutely despises it. will not even consider giving it a chance

-he packs a ton of art supplies and cds, he likes music too much to go without it for a week

-he doesnt help set up, he wanders off with his sketchbook immediately

-he finds a nice rock and perches on it and draws the scenery until dark

-he gets back right as food is being served and wolfs it down, he didnt pack any food for the drive

-he isnt thrilled about all the smoke, it seems to always end up in his face

-”why does it have to hit me and no one else?? is anybody noticing that??”

-he brought a shit ton of pillows and stuffs his sleeping bag with them and sleeps on top of that

-he has one of those portable cd players with headphones so he falls asleep listening to radiohead (bc ofc he does)

-doesnt wake up until liu shakes him awake around mid day asking him to come to the river

-he agrees only because he can draw the tree line across the river

-he realizes as soon as he changes into his swim clothes that he has brought almost no tops

-he also realizes how horribly hot it is with a shirt on but he will NOT be shirtless under any circumstances

-he gets in the water pretty quickly, but just in the shallows. he still doesn't want to swim

-he and liu head back to camp to get some lunch after a while and they end up starting some hot dogs for everyone

-maybe campings not that bad

[drenix004]

𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐘━━━ 𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐄 141

❝𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲︙She was an odd one, as was her obsession with daisies. But, that made her unique in the eyes of the herd… she became the treasure of TF 141.

warnings: mention of alcohol, drugs, death, obsession, among others, if you are not comfortable, don't read it !

rating: 18+

pairings: Task Force 141, Köning y Horangi x Oc female.

Summary: the hunt for jewels had begun, so Laswell decides to pass her off as a human and send her to the British military base under the command of a colleague, all this without him knowing her true identity to protect her (sorry, I don't know how to summarize).

¡English is not my first language, so there may be mistakes, don’t hesitate to correct me.!

wattapad -> here

INTRO | CH 1 | CH2 | CH3 | CH4

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A tense silence filled the air as they watched the CIA operative, a colleague of their captain for years, through the screen. The woman had initiated a video call to discuss the new team member, which had made them nervous ever since they found out she was human and not a hybrid or monster.

For Ghost, this posed a problem that would affect the team in upcoming missions. Moreover, she was an outsider, and years of betrayal had made him deeply distrustful and more cautious than ever. Whenever they allied with others, he requested their files and scrutinized them thoroughly before gaining more information.

The matter of coexistence between hybrids, monsters, and humans remained complicated. Despite their high ranks in the military, they still faced looks of disdain, disgust, hatred, and cruel words for not being entirely human. Even though humans were cruel and ruthless, they treated them as the only beasts in their hypocrisy.

Kate sighed for the tenth time in what had been just an hour-long meeting.

"I understand you may have doubts and even rejection toward this new addition," Kate said, staring directly at Ghost through the camera, "but she is necessary this time. She'll be a great addition to the team."

"She’s human," the tallest one interjected, his voice slightly muffled by the balaclava. "She’ll only bring trouble."

"She won’t cause you any problems; you have my word." Laswell locked eyes with Price, the man who had remained silent. He had already discussed things with the woman privately and was now letting his pack weigh in. "She’s not just any human. She’ll help you, and she might even teach you a few things."

"Like what?" asked the Scot.

That was the cue for Price to step in, setting an open folder on the table. The five men moved closer to take a look. Ghost was the first to reach it, despite being farther from the table.

"She’s given permission for us to see the first two pages of her file." Price’s voice was calm, as always. "She’ll be supporting us in the medical field." He handed one page to Ghost while the other went to the only dark-skinned member of the group. "She’s a combat medic, specializing in emergency medical-surgical care."

"Aeris Williams, no photo," Soap mentioned, standing next to Ghost. The others crowded around to see the first page.

"It’s for her safety," Laswell replied, "and she’s worked for several private military contractors." Through the camera, they could see the woman drumming her fingers on the table. Price noticed she was nervous.

"She’s worked with the competition, Laswell," Gaz pointed out upon seeing KorTac’s name. "What assurance do we have that she won’t leak information about us?"

"She’s a professional, and as her file shows, she’s worked with more than just that contractor. If she’d leaked information, she would’ve been blacklisted and imprisoned for breaching contractual terms by now," the woman defended her. "She’s highly qualified to join the team."

"It also says she worked with the ghosts. That’s impossible." Ghost tossed the page back onto the table. Price pulled out a cigar from his pocket, lighting it with fire that flared from deep in his throat. The attitude he was most concerned about was Simon’s.

"It’s true," the captain answered on behalf of Laswell, "and not just as a medic, but also as a soldier. She’s participated in counter-terrorist operations, rescue missions, infiltration, and reconnaissance; she’s highly experienced on the battlefield."

"She’s a veteran," Laswell added. "And as hard as it may be to believe, she’s even more experienced than Price." The men looked at their captain, who nodded as he took another drag from his cigar. "You could learn a thing or two from her, if you’re willing. And... there’s something about her that you might like." Price smiled, knowing what was coming.

"What’s that?" Gaz placed the other page back on the table, his black wings stretching slightly behind his back.

"She worked with the Shadows under Graves’ command." The room, except for Price and Kate, erupted in growls at the mention of the man they considered scum.

"She worked with that bastard? How could that please us?" Alejandro’s thick Mexican accent came through as he scowled at the mention of the man. Of them all, and especially the two Mexicans, Alejandro harbored the most resentment toward Phillip Graves. After all, the man had taken his base and his men during their time in Las Almas several years ago.

"That’s not the best part." Price approached the table with the cigar in his mouth, slipping the pages back into the folder. "There’s a very good reason why there’s no information in her file about working with the Shadows."

Soap raised an eyebrow, as did Alejandro. The men watched as a smile formed on their captain’s face and on the woman’s face through the screen.

"The reason is, she almost beat Graves to death with her bare fists." Surprise quickly spread across the faces of the group. Alejandro was the first to laugh, wearing his typical smile as his shoulders shook slightly from the laughter.

He was followed by Rodolfo, who chuckled lightly.

Gaz had his head tilted slightly, a small smile on his lips. Soap mirrored the expression, while Ghost remained silent.

"What was her excuse?" Rodolfo asked with curiosity after he stopped laughing.

Kate shrugged slightly before replying.

"She simply said he was an idiot."

"That’s a solid argument," Gaz commented.

"I’m already starting to like her," Soap said, flicking his tail.

"So, the lady almost killed him," Alejandro murmured beside Rodolfo. "Guess we should give her a chance, then."

Ghost looked at his pack before sighing.

"I’ll keep an eye on her."

"I appreciate your willingness," Kate clasped her hands on the desk. "Now, I’ll give you some recommendations to keep in mind for your safety."

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"We'll arrive in five minutes, Doc," the pilot announced over the communicators. "It was a pleasure flying with you."

She smiled as she took off her tactical helmet, just like Kamli and her other companion.

"Likewise, Jack. But this is more of a see you later than a goodbye," she replied before cutting off communication again. "Do you think the captain will be offended for not arriving yesterday?" She looked at the tallest of the three.

Kamli took off his helmet like she did, letting out a sigh.

"I don't think so. He knows beforehand that sometimes things happen unexpectedly. Besides, Laswell informed him we would be delayed." His piercing eyes landed on her. "Don't worry about the minor details. There are other things to be concerned about."

"Kamli is right," interjected the other accompanying them, a hybrid of Arctic hare; he was her assistant. "You should save your energy for the problems that exist at that base on a medical level; the anomalies in those records are troubling, boss."

She sighed as she saw the enormous base, spotting several people waiting in the landing area.

"Alright, let's do this."

The helicopter began its descent while the three prepared themselves. Kamli adjusted his gloves, she pulled her black Buff up to her nose, and her assistant grabbed the straps of one of the four military deployment bags they had brought, excluding the huge 25-kilogram first aid kit.

They felt evaluative gazes on them, especially on her and Kamli due to their height. They unbuckled their seatbelts and descended slightly hunched over as a precaution while the blades continued spinning powerfully.

She moved to the front and signaled to Jack to take off again.

Then she turned and made eye contact with the man in the hat and beard, who smiled politely at her. Kate had mentioned his appearance before they left.

"You must be Captain Price, right?" She approached the man and shook his hand. The scaly tail swayed slowly, but she held back her questions. "Aeris Williams," she introduced herself, "but I prefer to be called Harper."

Kamli and her assistant also approached, positioning themselves to her left and right.

Price nodded.

"Captain John Price." The man looked at her before addressing the two companions behind her. "Laswell mentioned that only two of you were coming."

From his tone, Aeris understood she needed to clarify things. Price was still an alpha, and as such, he liked to know who was coming in and out of his base. The arrival of another male without prior notice could be seen as an invasion of his territory.

Kamli was also an alpha, which could trigger an internal struggle to prove who had power over whom if they didn't communicate properly.

"I apologize for the last-minute surprise, Captain. We come from a small mission," she responded calmly. "The big guy next to me is Kamli Sharma, my partner in operations and missions." Kamli nodded at those present, looking at them neutrally with no signs of confrontation. "And he is Jim Parker, my right hand."

Parker also nodded; the man had noticed the gazes on his non-human limbs and ears but ignored them, as they merely indicated curiosity.

"No problem," Price stepped aside, revealing four members of his pack. "This is Gaz." The dark-skinned man stepped forward and shook her hand while slightly stretching his black wings; from the type and color of his wings, she deduced he was a hybrid of raven or harpy.

"Soap," the lighter-eyed one introduced himself with a smile; his accent revealed he was Scottish. His enthusiastic eyes and tail wagging behind him made it clear he was a wolf. "Two of us are missing who couldn't come; they'll show up later." He nodded towards the man in the skull-patterned balaclava. "And he is Ghost."

The one in the mask didn’t respond; his gaze was fixed on Kamli. The height difference between the two was evident, with Kamli being the taller at two meters.

Unlike the others, Ghost showed no indication of what kind of hybrid or monster he was.

"Kamli." His warning tone was enough to make the man stop staring him straight in the eyes.

The others had noticed the small confrontation between the two hybrids, so Price intervened.

"I'll give you a brief tour if you're not too tired." Aeris smiled through her buff.

"We're fine, Captain." She grabbed the first aid kit and slung it on her back before taking one of the bags, while Kamli grabbed the two remaining ones. "We can hold out a bit longer."

"Alright." Price turned halfway and began the tour, allowing Aeris to stay at his side and not behind him. That was a good sign; it meant he recognized her as an equal. "This base is larger than the others since we have more resources; I can give you a map while you get accustomed."

The base was undoubtedly big, just as Price had said, and the map would be useful for orientation in the first few days. Given her role as a combat medic, Aeris had certain privileges, such as the right to a room with its own bathroom, away from the dormitories for greater privacy, which she appreciated. She was also assigned an office at Kate's request for the tedious paperwork related to the anomalies in the medical processes of the base.

It was impressive that, despite being completely adapted for hybrids and monsters, there were more humans.

As they walked through the hallways and different recreation rooms, Aeris noticed small packs formed, all being cautious as they passed. She even observed some injured individuals with poorly placed bandages, suggesting that medical care for the non-humans was, at best, lacking in certain aspects.

She had a lot of work to do, but at least she wouldn't be bored.

However, she was sure she would face resistance from the medical staff if more of her suspicions turned out to be true, much to her dismay.

They returned to their room under the curious gaze of those present at seeing the three staying in the same space. Their excuse was that they had things to discuss, so the pack said no more, just nodded, and left them alone.

"They noticed your behavior, didn't they?"

"They must have a very poor relationship with the medical area; their bandages are poorly placed, and even one is not suitable for the type of injury," Jim remarked. "I think they did it themselves; someone trained wouldn't make such simple mistakes."

"It's clear they aren't being treated according to protocol," Kamli growled, "and yet, the miserable ones dare to ask for raises."

"Laswell suspects they are also smuggling medications, and I think so too," Aeris sighed as she took off her tactical vest. "For now, it would be better to rest, especially you; tomorrow you must return to the field." She lightly tapped the bed for them to climb up. That night, the three would sleep in the same bed; it was a custom they had adopted upon arriving in new places, as the protective instincts of the two hybrids were at their highest during the first two days.

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[shatcey]

Drunk event (Ally's card)

After I finished reading this story in English, I thought… Something is different. So I decided to check… and they really have changed… some lines.

I see that the reason is quite simple… cultural perspectives on jealousy. As I mentioned earlier at the Aphrodisiac event , William's words were also translated differently. For the same reason.

All translations from Japanese were made by me, so there may be some inaccuracies. But, fortunately, there were no dificult sentences, so the probability of error is minimal.

Kate's reaction to Roger's compliment

EN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JP

Ally's reaction to Kate's blush…

EN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JP

In other words… He doesn't mind if she cheats on him in private, but not where people can see her. But maybe, as usual, he is just exaggerating…

When Roger offered to use her as a prize…

EN

JP

So… She's more active in the English game, and Ally just agrees with her. She didn't answer in Japanese game, as if she was just surprised. But Ally isn't thrilled with the idea.

After they return to his room

EN

JP

(blush) DON'T turn on JUDE! This is too much!

She's so… sassy in the English game… I love it.

And this line about Roger...

EN

JP

To force you… and to hand you over… Do you see the difference? In one case, it's a matter of discussion, and in the other… ownership.

When Kate asked him if he was jealous

EN

JP

In English, jealousy is considered something that only children can have. In Japanese, Alfons is evasive as usual…

In the morning

EN

JP

It's hard to say if I'm right or wrong… But initially, Ally said something like:. "what would you think if I said it was true?" (he repeat the same question twice in the previous scene and here). And her answer… "I'm happy" still sounds wrong somehow. Perhaps it's because of the difference in languages. So I phrased it differently so it sounded more… normal.

In the English game, Kate "doesn't mind as long as…" In the Japanese game, "she's happy".

I'm very happy myself. The translation team not only translated the text, but also changed the topic of the conversation in just a few sentences, taking into account cultural preferences. It's a great job.

And as it was with William… I can't say that I like any of the versions better. I like them both. It's still Alfons.

But… I definitely like English Kate better.

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🔝 𝕊𝕋𝔸ℝ𝕋 ℙ𝔸𝔾𝔼 🔝

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[lilixxmoon]

My Favorite Midheavens (MC) Life Paths

Your midheaven is often referred to as your "life path." It's the zodiac sign you have in the 10th house, it's associated with your career, public image, and can even be your social media aesthetic. Your midheaven tells you about the image often projected onto you by others or the image you want to project. It can hint to what the world needs you to be, or just how people see you when they don't know you more intimately. Find out your midheaven on astro.com. To embrace your midheaven it helps when you already have birth placements in the same sign.

1. Taurus Midheaven

No other midheaven in my opinion is as naturally blessed and fortunate as Taurus. It's almost like people with this midheaven have a halo around their head that over shadows any potential scandals or toxic traits they may have. People view you as aesthetically pleasing in a traditional sense, valuing beauty and financial security. After all, Taurus is ruled by Venus, so this midheaven attracts a life of luxury or an abundance of material possessions, it's a life that at least to others appears comfortable, classy, and appealing to the senses. Taurus Midheaven's often also appear grounded and put together to their peers, or having a certain professional charisma that can carry them up the ranks more easily in a work environment. Bad behavior can be more easily concealed with this down-to-earth and wholesome girl or boy-next door image. Enjoy a career and life that offers several comforts and beauty. Beware not to take it for granted or overindulge, this veneer still has its limits. Celebrity examples: Princess Kate Middleton, Selena Gomez, Margot Robbie, Blake Lively, Johnny Depp, Timothee Chalamat, and Marilyn Monroe

2. Leo Midheaven

Ready to be in the spotlight? To be a Leo Midheaven embrace your star power, you attract attention from the public like the Sun that rules your 10th house. This is a life that is in the public's eye on a stage. Think careers in entertainment like a singer, actor, or even influencer or in the arts that are meant to be seen, adored, and appreciated. People with this midheaven are always giving main character energy, at least to your peers you appear bold, confident, and irresistible to watch and just generally fun be around. All the attention from peers can be tough for anyone who is actually much more introverted. Some people have even called this the "superstar" destiny. Embrace your inner fire and go after a life of extravagance, drama, and glamour. On the flipside, you can also come off as narcissistic and fame obsessed. Scandals can add to your fame, like the expression, "All publicity is good publicity."

Celebrity examples: Lana Del Rey, Jackie Kennedy, Katy Perry, Natalie Portman, Robin Williams, Harry Styles, Lala Kent and Grace Kelly

3. Libra Midheaven

Another Venus ruled 10th house, Libra. Seriously Venus is so powerful it can bring so many blessings to your ASC, 2nd house, 3rd house, and the Midheaven of course. Libra Midheaven's can effortlessly appear more polished, beautiful, and charming next to several of their peers. The sign of the diplomat, mediator can be great to have for your 10th house since it's pretty hard for anyone to point the finger at you if things hit the fan. If you have this Midheaven, people will pay attention to how you dress, it's giving style icon potential. You can be universally well liked or maintain a clean reputation more easily among social circles in your area with this midheaven, you can appear approachable, friendly, and sweet. 🎀 The sign of partnerships, people will know you for who you date, marry, or even a business partner. The downside is people might pay more attention to how you look instead of how you think. Your greater attributes like your intellect, talents, and interests may be overlooked or hushed altogether in the pursuit of you maintaining that pageant like façade. People won't like it if you take sides, or take a stand on more complex issues, people want you to stay neutral. Prepare for a life of stylish, trendy aesthetics, numerous social circles, and powerful partners. Celebrity Examples: Paris Hilton, Princess Diana, Stassi Schroeder, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Hathaway, Kylie Jenner, Olivia Rodrigo, and Coco Chanel.

Honorable Mention: Scorpio

Mysterious, ambitious, brooding, and so strangely alluring. I just love a good mafia story. Think Godfather, the British monarchy, you may be known for your notorious family members, a family business, maintaining the family legacy, generational wealth, old money, a historical lineage, or infamous family affairs and issues. Your life path is to protect your family, lead the family business, add to the family lineage through having children, being an asset to your family that adds wealth, or build a family legacy of your own. Embrace the power you have been blessed with, your family has royalty energy. After all, Scorpio is often considered the most powerful and intense of all. In your 10th house, you might as well embrace the reputation of your family and figure out how to out wit, out smart, and out last your many envious competitors. In my opinion, this is my top pick for men.

Celebrity Examples: Barack Obama, Prince William, Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth II, Priscilla Presley, Carl Jung, Ariana Madix, and Sean Connery.

Side Note: If your Midheaven is in Aquarius or Leo, its likely you need to carve out a name for your self outside your family. More on this in another post. :)

[kurishiri]

03 . . . alfons main story (with letter)

꒰ ִ ֺ ⊹ @ notice ⊹ ֺ ִ ꒱ this translation may not be 100% accurate or contain creative liberties due to characterization or narrative flow purposes. if you enjoy, please consider reblogging, but don’t repost these or claim these as your own!

— cw: fluff?? in alfons route??? guys pigs might fly in the sky next- /lh

Ever since I had become Alfons’ ‘mission-only exclusive fairytale keeper,’ I put my energy into keeping as much distance as I could possibly get away from him.

(No Alfons to the right... and no Alfons to the left either. Which means I can get through the day without being found by him.)

Or, that would be nice, but he was also much like an apparition, appearing in the most unexpected times and places, so who knew where he’d pop up next...

Alfons: A very good day to you.

Kate: Eek!?

He didn’t make so much as a footstep as he popped up behind me, blowing into my ear and making me jump.

Kate: My heart was about to fly out of my chest, Alfons!

As always, I glared at him whilst hiding both my hands behind my neck, and he — as always — donned a smile laced with amusement.

Alfons: Hehe, but I do find it quite endearing, seeing you stand on your hair as you are doing now.

A: But worry not, my intentions are nothing short of pure now, so come here, won’t you?

Well, my trust in him was nothing short of nonexistent.

Kate: No thank you... and stop following me.

Alfons: Oh dear, your words ring so cold.

——Like that, while continuing to be bothered by Alfons,

I got to know the other members of Crown little by little in order to fulfill my duties as a ‘fairytale keeper.’

For example, let’s take Liam.

Although he was such a brilliant stage actor, very sensitive and a wonderful person to boot,

his Curse made it so he couldn’t suppress his curiosity, and he would occasionally go out with Alfons, whom he considered a friend, to do dangerous games.

(And when I say ‘dangerous games’... I’m not sure I want to know what that entails.)

As for Harrison,

I had come to realize that beneath his somewhat curt disposition was someone who would often lend a helping hand to those who needed it.

He was also quick-witted enough to slip past even Alfons’ eyes at times, too.

(I heard he had the Lying Fox’s Curse... which sounds about right.)

(But, his lies come from a kind place... at least, that’s what I think.)

And then there was Jude and Ellis, who were often absent from the castle due to their work at Jude’s company.

Jude was rather unapproachable with his sharp tongue, and he bore the Curse of the Thirteenth Fairy.

Meanwhile, Ellis, who was always gentle and kind, bore the Curse of the Thorns.

William and Victor were both shrouded in mystery, and I could never seem to figure out what those two were thinking.

But when I had heard that these two were the cofounders of Crown, I was surprised, to be sure, but I also felt it was a strangely fitting narrative at the same time.

(Both of them give off the impression that they are the last two people in the world you would want as an enemy...)

And then, there was Alfons. If I had to say anything about him...

(Whenever I ask the others questions about him, they all say more or less the same thing...)

And that is, ‘He is someone who relishes in others’ reactions, and loves to do things that feel good.’

—— Time skip ——

(Hah... I’m so tired.)

Today as well, the sun had set as I was gathering information on Crown as the fairytale keeper.

(Nothing like a cup of tea for a break.)

As I was brewing a cup, all of a sudden a hand reached out from behind without any warning.

Alfons: I see you have worked diligently today as well. Good job.

Kate: Wh—Alfons!?

Alfons: For the hardworking little robin, how about I personally brew the tea for you?

(Okay, but when did he come into the kitchen...!?)

Kate: Thank you, but no thank you. I can do it myself...

Alfons: I daresay there are a great many other things those words are better suited for.

With that, Alfons took the teapot from my hands before he started to brew the tea with elegant mannerisms.

(Ah...)

His gestures were so refined that without thinking, I continued to stare at him.

Such refinement felt almost tangible enough to make me think that this was not a superficial act, but rather the real thing.

Alfons: Here, it’s done.

He placed the teacup and the saucer on the table, and in an attempt to hide the fact that I was bewitched by his elegance for a moment, I accepted it in haste.

Kate: T-thank you very much...

When I looked into the cup, though, my eyes widened.

Kate: Wait, what is this tea? It’s all blue...

Alfons: That blue color would come from a herb called blue mallow. If you let it sit, it will eventually and gradually turn purple.

As if to prove his words then and there, the deep blue color started to change color.

It was as though the deep blue of the dawn sky was being lightly blotted by vermillion.

Kate: You’re right... I’ve never seen anything like this before...

Alfons: Go on now, have a sip.

I took in the beautiful colors with my eyes before I brought the cup to my lips, taking a sip.

Just like that, the fragrance wafted up my nose and drifted apart.

Kate: ...It’s really good.

(How long has it been since I relaxed like this...)

Gradually, the feeling of caution I initially had seemed to loosen before I knew it.

Alfons: I am glad to hear. But there is one more possible but interesting change this tea can produce. Would you care to see it, by any chance?

Kate: An interesting change...?

With a few drops of whatever was in the small bottle he used, this time the blue mallow tea changed into a light pink color.

Kate: Oh my gosh... it’s so pretty...! It’s just like actual magic...!

The change was so vivid and beautiful, I felt in high spirits, as though I were a child again.

Alfons: Hehe.

Hearing stifled laughter, I looked at him to find him looking at me with a smile playing on his lips.

Alfons: I take it you feel a little more merry now, no?

Kate: Merry...?

K: ...Did you do all of this because I kept avoiding you?

Alfons: Why indeed, for you see, I was hoping to have more opportunities to talk to you.

Kate: ...!

He booped my nose, and my heart skipped a beat in response.

Kate: And you doing these types of things is exactly why I avoided you, so please stop.

Alfons: Now whatever could ‘these types of things’ be referring to is beyond me.

Kate: ...Actually, you know what, forget it.

The memories of the sweet sensations we exchanged as lovers was engraved in my body...

(So every time he touches me, my heart twinges...)

The suggestive traces of that troublesome illusion just would not disappear.

(But then he goes and touches me anyway, even though he probably knows... and it really is wretched.)

Alfons sat on the table as he drank his own cup of tea, and I gave him a fleeting look.

Kate: ...You do know it’s bad manners to sit on the table while drinking tea, don’t you?

Alfons: Oh? Did you perhaps expect better of me?

A: Am I to assume that you feel someone who deceived a girl the day after they met, namely myself, is the model of sincerity and manners?

I wanted to hide the turmoil broiling in me, so I tried to change the topic altogether, but Alfons just used my words to make fun of me instead.

[1] Don’t remind me of that night. (+4 / +4)

[2] Sincerity is anywhere but in you.

[3] That’s not very nice.

Kate: Please don’t remind me of that night...

Alfons: Oh please, I implore you to remember it every night.

A: After all, is it not better for your mind to be filled to the brim with pleasure and fun?

A: And I take it you have been conversing with the others, no? In which case, they must have mentioned that I very much fancy pleasurable things.

As though saying he had seen through what I’ve been doing, he flashed me a bright smile.

But——

(Hm? Wait a minute...)

When I looked at that smile as a whole once again, I suddenly remembered a feeling of unease.

(Up until now, I had been so dumbfounded by his words and actions that I hadn’t realized this, but...)

Kate: ...What you said just now... was that all true?

Alfons: Come again?

(Ah... just what am I asking?)

Even I thought it strange.

But, for some reason, I felt I couldn’t ignore this unease that suddenly bubbled from within my heart.

Kate: I don’t know, I mean, just now... you...

K: I felt you weren’t genuinely smiling.

Alfons: ......... [surprised]

Seeming taken aback, Alfons blinked for a moment.

(Ah... but this expression... feels more genuine.)

I leaned forward and stared into his eyes, as though I could reach somewhere further.

But before I could reach that point, it seemed to mysteriously crumble before me...

Alfons: ...Is that the me who you wish to see?

...and painted on his lips was that shady smile I was all too familiar with.

Kate: ...What?

Alfons: Would it be safe to assume you prefer the me who appears to be having fun, when in actuality I am but an empty shell of myself, who is not having fun at all?

A: Hmm... so I see.

Kate: Since when were we talking about my preferences?

K: Can you not dodge my ques...

My words were cut off by his lips falling on mine.

Kate: ...!!

Alfons: ...Hehe.

A: Like this, I do implore you to keep your mind filled to the brim with thoughts of me.

When his lips parted from mine with a small sound, I could only stare dazedly back.

With a charming smile, he left the kitchen just like that.

(Ugh, he’s the absolute worst! Bloody wicked! Lowest of the low!)

I wiped my lips from having just been kissed before downing the rest of the now-lukewarm blue mallow tea in one go.

(The whole ‘I very much fancy pleasurable things’... and that smile...)

(I do really feel like he did dodge the question about whether those were genuine or not.)

Kate: Forget it, I couldn’t care less anymore...

All I wanted at this point was to not be toyed around by Alfons anymore.

——But perhaps because I wished for this...

(...He’s not here today either...)

Alfons, who had — much to my chagrin — kept me company, suddenly disappeared off the face of the castle, and then several days had passed.

(It’s not as though I’m particularly worried about him or anything...)

Kate: ...Have any of you seen Alfons at any point these last few days?

Roger: Ahh, well this isn’t anything new.

Elbert: I believe he is somewhere in London... probably.

Hearing those uncertain words made me suck in a breath, and I remembered something Alfons had said before.

(I believe he said that he considered himself “something like Lord Elbert’s attendant”...)

...not that I knew what he was implying when he said ‘attendant.’

But if that meant something like a butler, then I could get past him being proficient at brewing tea.

Kate: I was under the impression that he was your attendant, Lord Elbert, so is it really alright to let him do as he wants like this?

His blue eyes slightly wavered, much like a sea being blown by the wind.

Elbert: I would not say ‘attendant,’ per se...

E: Al is more like a childhood friend with whom I spent time with since we were young... perhaps.

Kate: Oh, is that so?

Lord Elbert was an earl.

(And although I am not an expert when it comes to titles of nobility...)

(...he might have used the term ‘attendant’ because of Lord Elbert’s high social standing.)

Or maybe he has been with him like family or something along those lines?

Lord Elbert bore the Curse of the ‘Greedy Queen,’ and I came to know during my time getting to know the members that he was searching for beautiful things.

That, and Alfons was allegedly helping with that.

Lord Elbert always seemed to don a melancholy air about him, while Alfons seemed to have a perpetual smile plastered on his lips.

(These two are so opposite of one another that them being able to get along is a wonder.)

Elbert: So that is why... I hold no control over Al’s actions.

E: ...My apologies.

Kate: Oh, don’t worry about it! It’s fine, really. If he is not taking me along then I assume he’s not out on a mission right now.

K: But... about this ‘not being anything new’... does that mean you have some inkling as to where he is?

Roger: If I had to guess, probably either a pub, a social club, or some street corner.

Kate: Huh...?

Roger: His playmates could be women or men. Or something else entirely. ...What, you’re interested in that, lil lady?

Kate: N-not at all!

(It’s not as though I’m particularly worried or anything.)

But, I do find myself thinking.

(I wonder if Alfons shows a genuine smile in places like those...)

(Because if that’s the case, I wonder what it looks like——)

(...N-not that I’m really interested to know...)

Trying to calm my feelings, which wavered back and forth like a pendulum, I slapped my own cheeks a couple times.

Elbert: ...Are you alright, Kate?

Roger: You’re probably feeling a lot of things right about now, aren’t you? I’ll cut you a break.

Just like that, several days later, after being absent with not so much as a single word——

Alfons: It has been a long minute since we last saw each other, Miss Kate. How have you been faring these past days?

Having been notified by William that there was a mission, Alfons popped up in front of me, as though he hadn’t disappeared completely for some days right before.

to be continued…

It has been a while

What do you think of my strategy of pulling back if pressing you doesn’t work?

If the man who had been meddling you to the brink of annoyance suddenly disappeared just like that, I imagine you would think to yourself, ‘What happened to him?’ and your mind would become even more filled with thoughts of me, no?

Ahh, but by no means am I writing this letter as a means to shame you. Just that you seem to feel the tactics between men and women are a foreign concept, and you seem almost laughably inept at forgetting the partners with whom you spend a single night with, so worrying is but the natural thing you would do. I wanted to say these words to you, and that is ultimately what drove me to pen this letter.

By the way, word is that I have extremely bad handwriting... were you able to read through it?

Just imagining your face realizing that you struggled to read through this letter only to find out the contents are as nonsensical as my handwriting, brings me much amusement.

Well then, until next time.

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Hi :)

When I saw this https://www.tumblr.com/duchessofostergotlands/779304971817631744/me-looking-up-sentebale-i-dont-care-about?source=share

I thought to use it to ask you about something that is confusing to me. It's not about the Sentebale case but it is somewhat connected (to what I assume you will talk about) so if it fits with the topic of your next episode, it would be great to hear.

When it comes to BRF, what is the difference between royal being patron and royal being president of the charity (or some organisation)? I saw their patronages as something like ambassadors's role, but then William recently switched from being president to being patron of some organisations and organisations seemingly decided to treat his role as nothing has changed confuses me. But also he is patron of the Royal Foundation but president of the Eartshot. To me, him and Kate are persons that are in charge of the Royal Foundation (even though probably officially that is not the case). Just like all that is coming from "Harry's side" in the media about the "Sentebale situation" feels like Harry had more or viewed his role more than just patronage. Thank you.

Hello :) There is no standard, objective, agreed upon definition of a patron or a President within a charity. Different charities will use these terms to mean different things, so it's impossible to say with any certainty. For example I worked for an organisation - and know of others - where a patron was a special title given to people who donated a certain amount each year. For example, in my case it was over £1000 a year through monthly or annual direct debits. That's not what royals are when they're patrons, but it's a common practice.

Generally speaking, when it comes to royals, Patrons and Presidents mean the same thing. They are both people who agree to take on a longer term, formalised relationship where they agree to support an organisation. An ambassador kind of thing, as you say. They have no formal power, no decision making role within an organisation, and they generally don't have any agreed upon targets to achieve or a set number of days they have to do. It's just formalised in that they get a title, the charity can pop them on the website, they have a more direct line of communication than other charities etc. Some patrons and presidents do have certain rights - like they can sit in on board meetings, or they might also be a trustee e.g. at my old work we gave a specific Trustee the role of President because he gave us a bajillion pounds but it didn't actually mean anything - but they don't have any voting rights as they are not Trustees and that is all laid out in the organisation's governing document, it's not an automatic thing.

There are different reasons why the President title might be used versus the Patron title:

Sometimes the organisation may already have a lot of celebrities who go by Patron and so they give the royal the title of President to show that they are extra special.

In some cases it's the opposite so for example the All England Club or Barnardo's both had royal Presidents - the Duke of Kent and Camilla respectively - and so when another royal was involved, they had to be Patron (Kate/Liz in those instances). When the Queen quit Barnardo's, Camilla took over her role as Patron and stopped being President. When the Duke of Kent retired, they decided not to have a President anymore and Kate just stayed as Patron.

Sometimes Presidents are expected to have a more hands on role. They still don't have formal power automatically but there is an expectation they'll turn up for more stuff so when a royal goes from President to Patron it might mean there has been a change in circumstance for the royal, or perhaps the charity wants to give the President title to someone else. Related to that, a lot of the time a royal will become Patron and then the President position is given to someone who has knowledge or experience in the field.

So in short Patron and President are terms that will be defined by each individual charity based on their own circumstances. It can sometimes be related to the level of involvement but that is less likely to be the case where a royal is concerned, although can be a factor in some cases.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Question about your tracking process, if you wouldn’t mind sharing?

Do you keep a list of journalists, who they’re employed by, and have them ranked in some way regarding whether they have legitimate palace sources or legitimate Sussex sources, or the like? How do you personally weigh the information? Or is it more basic: this is broadsheet vs this is tabloid? It seems that Rebecca English has legitimate sources, while working for The DM. In that example then, it seems that it could be quite a task to determine the veracity of any claims.

Not an official list. I don't think I've ever sat down and written it out, and most of it I've picked up by osmosis being around the royal-watching world long enough. Plant might've had a list, though.

All of the official rota reporters have legit sources within the monarchy and some have sources who are family members themselves. I don't believe they share sources, though. So generally you can take them/their sources at their word. But they're not infallible, and they do get things wrong so you should always take their exclusives with salt. For example, Roya Nikkhah claimed The Queen's great-grandchildren would appear in the Royal Windsor Horse Show 2022 because she was given footage of them playing on a carriage - which ultimately didn't happen but that also begs the next question: was it supposed to happen and then it got cancelled because the parents were spooked by all the attention or was it never a thing to begin with? That's when the gut check comes into play and lean back on your experience as a royal-watcher to decide if the exclusive/leak is true or not.

(For instance in this case about the kids being in the RWHS, I don't think it was ever true, for the simple reasons that 1 - that was too many kids for one carriage, 2 - George, Charlotte, and Louis only ever appear in public with their parents (or one of them) so William or Kate would've had to be in the RWHS too, which would've taken attention away from everything/everyone else, and 3 - you can't have all the great-grandchildren without Archie and this was very much the era of 'sacrifice the Cambridges to appease the Sussexes' but without the then-Cambridges involved, does anyone really care about the great-grandchildren? So either Roya's source was wrong or Roya saw 1+1 and made 5.)

Where it gets a little more dubious/questionable is with the reporters who aren't in the rota. That's when you really have to be careful, because it's not as certain or as specific what kind of sources they have - do they have legit first-hand sources (people actually in the palaces) or are their sources third- fourth- fifth-hand gossip (my roommate's cousin's neighbor's sister-type of loose connection)? Usually you can tell based on how the source is described or the kind of information they have. For instance, if the information is super generic and kind of obvious, that's more of a gossip connection and you can just enjoy it as entertainment but if the information is super detailed and slightly random, then it's probably more of a legit source/insider.

Really quick in case you're not familiar: the rota is the press pool that covers the BRF (like the royal equivalent of the White House Press Association). The rota is comprised of British print journalism, press photographers and photojournalists, and the broadcast networks. Digital media, independent journalists, and international media are not part of the rota (Omid describes this in Endgame and he does have valid points on this). How the rota works is that while anyone can be credentialed to attend an event with the royals, not everyone can go inside, or if it's a restricted event (like the investitures or something sensitive like Kate's Royal Marsden visit), not everyone can attend.

In those cases, one representative from each of the medias in the rota - one press journalist, one photographer, and one broadcast network - will go inside with the royal or attend the exclusive event and then afterwards, write up a summary and share their footage with everyone else in the rota. They don't *have* to share with non-rota but they mostly do as a professional courtesy.

Everyone else who's credentialed for the visit/event but was not given the rota assignment will attend anyway and cover the comings and goings outside or get B-roll footage/interviews with the locals to beef up their reports.

Official Rota Reporters

The print media in the rota is The Telegraph, The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Evening Standard, Daily Mirror. The broadcast media in the rota is ITV, BBC, and Sky News.

Camilla Tominey writes for The Telegraph. She also was once significantly targeted by Sussex Squad back in the early days and in those days (a little less so nowadays), Sussex Squad moved at Meghan's beckoning.

Roya Nikkhah writes for The Sunday Times. She usually gets the big milestone birthday/anniversary writeups and occasionally an exclusive interview.

Rebecca English writes for the Daily Mail. She is also the head of the rota and responsible for handing out UK assignments - meaning she gets the schedules and she decides who on the press journalism rota gets to go inside. Typically she assigns the events with the Wales children to herself and it does annoy the others but that has gotten her close to/with KP.

Valentine Low writes for The Times. He is the co-head of the rota and responsible for foreign assignments - when the royals travel abroad, Low decides who goes inside or to the exclusive event. He's a bit more even handed with it than Rebecca is. A lot of his sources, to me, seem to be more staff than principals.

Edit: Apparently Low is retired now. I didn't know that! Then he's definitely not doing the foreign assignments anymore. Maybe it is Kay who does that now?

Dan Wootten used to write for The Sun. I'm not sure if he was ever actually part of the rota himself, but The Sun as a publication is part of the rota so that's why he's here on this side of the list. I don't know a whole lot about Dan, just the Megxit stuff, so I think most of his sources were from the Sussex side of Kensington Palace.

Richard Eden is a society reporter from The Daily Mail. He gets mostly gossip. Always do your homework with him.

Richard Kay also writes for the Daily Mail, still has some old-school palace sources - I believe mostly from Clarence House these days. Diana used to work with him so most of his sources (to me, I could be very wrong here) seem to be from that era. Personally I don't consider him to be someone who has a lot of sources now, he seems to mostly be in the commentary business than in reporting, but that's just me.

(Also quick sidebar here: I don't remember any more who does the foreign assignments for the rota. I think it's Valentine Low, but it could also be Richard Kay. It's one of the two.)

Rhiannon Mills is a reporter for Sky TV, previously used to write for The Sun. I only ever saw her coverage in relation to Kensington Palace, Harry specifically. Harry once blew up at her on a foreign tour and she has gotten some Sussex Squad ire, so plausibly her Sussex information was correct back in the day.

Bryony Gordon started at the Daily Express, then moved to Sunday Express, then Daily Mirror, then The Telegraph, and now she's with Daily Mail. I don't know a whole lot about her royal reporting other than I know her for her Sussex coverage, so she has good Sussex sources but no others. You can trust her writing about the Sussexes as I think she's in love with Harry and the writing I'm familiar with has been flattering about the Sussexes and negative about everyone else.

Not in the Rota Royal Correspondents

Katie Nicholls is currently a freelance reporter, mostly known for working with Vanity Fair these days. She started her career as rota, writing for the Daily Mail so she has some sources but most of her exclusives don't really pan out and/or it's more of the gossip variety. For instance, one of her sources is/was a girl that Kate went to Marlborough with, that Kate didn't keep in touch with, and Katie kept passing off the girl's info as exclusives.

The one story that Katie did exclusively break is Meghan's tantrum in front of The Queen about tasting egg in the food when she specifically said no egg during a tasting with the chef.

Omid Scobie used to write for Us Magazine, an American tabloid. He mostly worked out of Kensington Palace and a lot of KP exclusives through a very close friendship with Meghan because he supposedly used to date Markus Anderson. He was iced out by KP and the actual rota after publishing Finding Freedom and doesn't have palace sources anymore. (He writes about this in Endgame.)

If what Scobie wrote/writes criticized William and Kate or was negative, it was safe to assume the Sussexes leaked to him because of how close he was with Meghan.

Tom Sykes writes for The Daily Beast. His sources lean Hollywood/Sussex so most of his exclusives are either from the Sussexes about the BRF or from Hollywood about the Sussexes. Not really one for palace sources, IMO but (edit) he does have aristo connections that anons say are pretty valid.

Jack Royston writes for Newsweek, who is not part of the rota officially but is included in the gentleman's agreement much like Scobie was. His sources lean Sussex so I don't think he has many palace sources, if any.

Piers Morgan used to be a TV broadcaster, now he freelances on social media. His sources are Camilla and the Yorkies. You can generally trust that anything he attributes to the royal family as being accurate, but he won't ever name names.

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So that's everyone I'm familiar with who covers the BRF. I'm sure there are others I've forgotten and/or others I don't know. If anyone else wants to chime in, please feel free!

Like I said, whether you trust the reporter and/or their sources is really up to you. For me, I've been following the BRF and reading the coverage long enough that I have a general understanding of what to see as accurate and what I need to do more research on, but I really can't explain what that process is other than "it's a gut check."

And also as I said, the reporters and the sources do get things wrong. Sometimes they get it wrong on a big scale, like Roya's claim about the RWHS. Sometimes they get it wrong on a smaller scale, like Katie Nicholl's exclusives from Kate's old school "friend" that were usually incorrect. And sometimes the BRF tells different stories to the rota or the sources and play them off one another - for instance, what we saw this week with Camilla's story that Charles has met both Sussex kids and Rebecca's story that Charles has only met one of the kids, so when dueling narratives like that come up, that involves doing more research for other similar stories/reveals to try and find the continuity because usually, whichever story matches earlier versions is usually the correct one and whichever doesn't match is usually spin, backtracking, or the source doesn't know.

I know this doesn't answer all of your questions, but I hope this helps! Please, feel free to ask more questions if you've got them!

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Ellis Twilight: Blind Love Ending Ch. 25

Chapter 24 Premium Story

If life were a fairy tale, finding happiness would be easy.

All you'd have to do is fall deeply in love with someone.

And then, most fairy tales would conclude like this:

"And they lived happily ever after, the end."

But in reality... even if you fall deeply in love with someone, the story doesn't end.

Happiness is like the twilight sky, the moment you capture it with your eyes, it immediately changes color.

It never lets go of your heart, yet you can never grasp that same moment again.

That's why––.

Jude: By the way, ya don' have any complaints 'bout this guy?

Ellis: Huh?

William: Hmm?

Jude points at William, who is elegantly sipping his tea, with his thumb, and asks Ellis.

Ellis: What do you mean?

Jude: This guy is practically the reason Kate was kidnapped.

Kate: Ah, that matter?

Come to think of it, the story was that William knew I was going to be kidnapped but did nothing.

(It's so like Jude to tenaciously remember something that both Ellis and I had completely forgotten about.)

As I think this, my eyes naturally meet Ellis's.

Kate: But I'm safe and sound...

Ellis: I have a feeling Will did this knowing it would turn out this way...

Jude: Ya guys really...

Grimacing as if exasperated, Jude falls silent.

William: Ahahahaha!

William: I was prepared to be denounced or even have a knife pulled on me.

William: What broad-minded subordinates you have, Jude?

Jude: That idiot over there ain't my subordinate.

William: Since she's doing secretarial work, I naturally assumed you had formed some kind of employment contract.

(An employment contract with Jude...)

(Then I could make Ellis happy during work too, couldn't I? ...hehe.)

Jude: Don't gimme that "that's a great idea" look.

Jude: Make yourself more useful before ya suggest that again.

Kate: Eh? So it's okay if I become more useful?

Ellis: Should I teach you how to do the work?

Jude: Haa...

William: Listening to your conversation is like listening to the chirping of adorable little birds, isn't it, Jude?

William smiles with a cup of coffee in his hand.

Just then, Harrison and Liam appear for breakfast.

Liam: Morning, Will—huh? You seem to be in a good mood?

Harrison: You must be plotting something sinister.

William: No? I've just finished witnessing the conclusion of a scheme, I suppose.

Liam: Witnessing...?

William: It seems Ellis has become true to his desires, which is most gratifying.

Harrison watches the two of us from afar, and his eyes soften as if he understands.

William: That's surprising. I thought you'd be opposed.

Harrison: Haha, I'm not so uncouth as to interfere with someone's love life. Though I do think we should keep an eye on them.

Liam: Aha, Harry's talking like a big brother.

William: With so many meddlesome older brothers, it must be tough being the youngest Crown brother.

––William narrows his eyes at the peaceful morning, no different from usual.

-

In the evening, I visited the palace office.

After submitting my report as a Fairytale Keeper to Victor, Ellis was waiting for me outside the palace.

Ellis: ...Welcome back.

Kate: Ellis! You could have waited for me in the manor.

Ellis: I couldn't wait, so I came to get you.

He's become a little more demanding and mischievous than before, but he's still the same devoted and sweet lover, and it makes me smile.

Ellis: What did Victor say?

Kate: He left the choice up to me.

Kate: ...I think that was his intention all along.

*earlier*

Kate: I want to stay at Crown Manor and continue my work as a Fairytale Keeper.

Victor: Choosing something also means giving something else up.

Victor smiled happily, yet with a hint of sadness...

Victor: I will do everything I can to support you, so that your choice doesn't dim your smile.

In the end, he agreed with his usual smile.

Kate: Thank you.

Kate: Ah, there's one thing I'm curious about... May I ask?

Victor: What is it?

Kate: You never intended to kill me in the first place, did you...?

Everyone in Crown knows both the light and darkness of this country.

Especially Victor and William, who were involved in its founding.

(And yet, they gave me a choice after I learned about the dark side.)

It's better to know and be able to choose than to remain ignorant.

It's my freedom to choose how I want to live.

At my question, Victor laughed and shook his head.

Victor: I'm not trying to pretend to be a good person with a belated excuse.

Victor: But right now, I want you to freely choose your own happiness, according to your own will.

Victor: Just like I want that for the other members of Crown.

*back to present*

A white bird spreads its wings and takes flight in the sky as dusk approaches.

Watching it go, Ellis coughs softly.

Ellis: ...I see.

His unruly, soft hair shines, illuminated by the golden light.

Kate: Ah, I also cleared the other mission!

That was the promise I made with Ellis––.

Ellis: Victor's secret scone recipe?

Kate: Yes!

I hold up my notebook with a flourish, and Ellis claps his hands excitedly.

Kate: With this, I'll bake scones today, and tomorrow morning we'll have a picnic in your room!

Ellis: Yay!

It's something I've been looking forward to ever since we made the promise a few days ago.

As I put my notebook away, our fingers naturally intertwine, and I walk hand-in-hand with Ellis towards the manor.

Kate: Now that it's official that I can be with you from now on, Ellis...I'm so happy.

Ellis: Hmm...how happy?

At his question about the magnitude of my "happiness," I can't help but smile as I ponder.

Kate: Hmm...about as happy as waking up refreshed earlier than expected.

Kate: But...I'm sure I'll be even happier tomorrow.

Ellis: ...Yeah, you're right.

-

I fell in love with someone who kills people.

He was someone with a very deep, heavy love, to the point that he wished to kill his beloved at the happiest moment.

If someone were to see the plot of my love story, they might think it a tragedy.

But for me, it's a precious, once-in-a-lifetime love that I chose of my own free will.

Kate: Nn...

I woke up in bed with the dazzling morning light pouring in.

Last night, after baking the scones and waiting for them to cool, we shared many kisses in the kitchen.

We packed the cooled scones and cranberry jam into a basket.

After we tumbled into the room...we made love until we were more gooey than simmered jam, and then fell asleep.

(Ellis is still asleep...)

I gaze at the sleeping face of Ellis, who is offering me his arm as a pillow.

I wonder if he's okay staying in this position for so long?

Will his arm go numb?

...Thinking such trivial things feels incredibly blissful.

Ellis: Nn...

Kate: Ah, Ellis... Are you awake?

Ellis: Mmm... Morning, Kate.

He pulls my head closer with the arm he's using as a pillow and gives me a soft kiss on the forehead.

Happy, I return the kiss on his lips.

Kate: Good morning. It's a perfect day for a picnic.

I smile, still leaning on his chest, and Ellis blinks his eyes as if he's finally fully awake.

Ellis: ...That surprised me.

Kate: ...What did?

Ellis: It was so blissful, I thought I was still dreaming.

Kate: I don't know of any other morning that was this happy from the moment I woke up.

Kate: But you know, Ellis, we're going to be even happier from now on, right?

Ellis: ...Hehe, that's right.

He rolls over, and I'm held tightly by Ellis, who is now on top. The sound of my heart beats sweetly.

Ellis: Kate, you're still naked.

His large hand explores my body, and my skin trembles.

I feel like I've been drowning in the pleasure his hands give me since last night.

Kate: It's not fair that it's only me...

When I pout and complain, Ellis takes off the shirt he was wearing.

Our bare skin touches–– and the room fills with the sound of our laughter.

Laughing like children, we snuggle under the same sheets, still bare skinned, and pull out the scones and jam from the basket––.

We taste the cranberry jam we simmered together.

Ellis: Mmm, delicious.

Kate: Really? Did it turn out well?

When I ask, his palm cups my cheek.

Ellis: Here...

Kate: Nn...

Ellis presses the sweetly simmered fruit against my lips with his tongue, and the sweet, sweet jam slips through my slightly parted lips, making my tongue tingle.

Ellis: ...See?

Kate: Mmm...delicious.

Just a moment ago, we were frolicking like children rolling around in a meadow at midday.

But as we whisper to each other, our lips still touching, I remember how we made love last night.

The memory evokes sweet sensations.

My body, melting and dissolving into the dazzling morning light, is invited into the moist, heated night...

Without separating or connecting deeply, we share kisses that merely graze, swaying between day and night.

This moment is incredibly happy.

When I look up at Ellis, it seems like he feels the same.

Ellis: ...Maybe this is it.

Kate: The happiest moment?

Ellis gazes at me and nods.

Ellis: You're the most beautiful you've ever been, and you look so happy.

Kate: ...Hehe, maybe you're right.

This happiness, too, might soon fade away.

If that's the case, then before everything fades, I want to end things while we're still happy.

When you love someone from the bottom of your heart and wish for their happiness, perhaps it's a feeling that wells up in your chest, very naturally.

Kate: Right now, I'm the happiest I've ever been in my life. ...But...

Ellis: Yeah...but?

Even so, I can't simply give up on what comes next.

(Because I want to laugh together with the person I love for as long as possible.)

Ellis & Kate: "Maybe tomorrow will be even happier"...?

Our voices overlap, and the moment we look at each other, smiles bloom on both our faces.

Ellis: ...Hehe.

Kate: Ahahaha!

Ellis: Someday, I'll kill you.

Ellis: So...for now, just let me kiss you.

-

––What is happiness?

It's like the twilight sky, the moment you capture it with your eyes, it immediately changes color...

It never lets go of your heart, yet you can never grasp that same moment again.

That's why––tomorrow, I'll show you an even more beautiful twilight.

The day after tomorrow will be better than tomorrow, and the day after that will be better still... and someday, when we're both certain that we've found the greatest happiness, we'll stop time together and become eternal.

Until then...I'll spend these happy days with you, as they fade and are repainted anew.

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Ellis Twilight ~ Main Route Blind Love Chapter 25

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Part 1

If life was a fairy tale, it would be easy to be happy.

You just need to love someone with all your heart.

Then, like most fairy tales, the story will end.

“And the two of them lived happily ever after.”

But the reality is… The story doesn’t end when you fall in love with someone.

Happiness is like the twilight sky that changes color the moment it’s burned into your eyes.

It holds your heart forever and never lets go, but you’ll never get that same moment again.

That’s why—

Jude: “You’ve got no complaints about this guy, do ya?”

Ellis: “Huh?”

William: “Yeah?”

Jude pointed at William, who was elegantly drinking tea, and asked Ellis.

Ellis: “What do you mean?”

Jude: “The guy practically used Kate as a decoy.”

Kate: “Oh, that’s it?”

Now that I thought about it, William knew that I was going to be kidnapped and left me alone.

(It’s typical of Jude to still remember something that both Ellis and I had completely forgotten.)

While thinking this, my eyes naturally met with Ellis.

Kate: “But, I was saved…”

Ellis: “I somehow felt like Will knew that was going to happen too…”

Jude: “You guys really…”

Jude’s face twisted in disbelief and he didn’t say anything after that.

Wiliam: “Ahahaha!”

William: “I was prepared to be condemned or at least have a knife pointed at me.”

William: “Your subordinates have big hearts, don’t they, Jude?”

Jude: “That commoner over there ain’t my subordinate.”

William: “She worked like your secretary, so I thought she had an employment contract.”

(An employment contract with Jude…)

(Maybe then I could make Ellis happy even while I’m at work…hehe.)

Jude: “Don’t make a face like it’s a great idea.”

Jude: “Come back when ya get more useful.”

Kate: “Huh? It’s okay if I come back if I’m of more use?”

Ellis: “Shall I teach you my job?”

Jude: “Haah…..”

William: “Their conversation sounds like the chirping of lovely birds, doesn’t it Jude?”

William smiled, coffee in hand.

Then Harrison and Liam showed up for breakfast.

Liam: “Good morning, Will? You seem a bit moody.”

Harrison: “You’re planning something bad, aren’t you.”

William: “No? Actually, I think I’ve just witnessed the end of the story.”

Liam: “Witnessed what…?”

William: “It’s so good to see Ellis being true to his desires.”

Looking at the two from a distance, Harrison’s eyes relaxed as if he understood.

William: “That’s surprising. I thought you would object.”

Harrison: “Haha. I’m not rude enough to get in the way of someone’s love life. I think I should keep an eye on them though.”

Liam: “Haha, you sound like you’re their big brother, Harry.”

William: “It must be hard for the youngest member of Crown to have so many caring older brothers.”

--William narrowed his eyes in amusement at the calm morning that was the same as always.

Part 2

In the evening, I visited the palace office.

After submitting my report as fairy tale keeper to Victor, Ellis was waiting for me outside the palace.

Ellis: “…Welcome back.”

Kate: “Ellis! I thought you’d be waiting for me back at the castle.”

Ellis: “I couldn’t wait, so I came to pick you up.”

My lover had become a little more greedy and mean than before, but he was still as devoted and sweet as ever and I couldn’t help but smile.

Ellis: “What about Victor?”

Kate: “He left the choice up to me.”

Kate: “…I think that was his intention from the beginning.”

--Flashback—

Kate: “I want to stay at Crown and continue my work as fairy tale keeper.”

Victor: “Choosing something also means giving up something else.”

Victor smiled at me happily, but with a hint of sadness…

Victor: “I’ll do my best to help you so that your choice doesn’t cloud your smile.”

In the end, he accepted with his usual smile.

Kate: “Thank you.”

Kate: “Oh, there was one more thing I was wondering about… Can I ask you?”

Victor: “What is it?”

Kate: “Victor, you never intended to kill me in the first place, did you…?”

Everyone at Crown knows the light and darkness of this country.

Especially Victor and William, who were involved in the organization’s founding.

(And on top of that, he gave me the choice after I learned about the dark side of things.)

It was better to know and choose than to remain ignorant.

It was up to me to choose which way to live.

Victor laughed and shook his head when I asked him.

Victor: “I’m not going to pretend to be a good person with excuses made later.”

Victor: “But right now, I want you to find your own happiness by your own will.”

Victor: “Just like how I feel about the other members of Crown.”

--End Flashback—

I white bird spread its wings and flew into the sky as dusk approached.

Watching it fly, Ellis murmured in a soft voice.

Ellis: “…I see.”

His soft, curly hair glistens in the golden light.

Kate: “Oh, I’ve just completed one more mission!”

The promise I made to Ellis—

Part 2

Kate: “Oh, I’ve just completed one more mission!”

The promise I made to Ellis—

Ellis: “Victor’s secret scone recipe?”

Kate: “Yep!”

When I held up my notebook, Ellis clapped his hands.

Kate: “I’ll bake some scones tonight and we can have a picnic in your room tomorrow morning!”

Ellis: “Yay!”

I’d been looking forward to it ever since we promised it a few days ago.

When I put my notebook away, I held hands with Ellis, our fingers naturally intertwining, and we made our way to the castle.

Kate: “Knowing I get to be with you from now on, Ellis… I’m so happy.”

Ellis: “Hmm…How much?”

When asked about how much ‘happiness’ I felt, I couldn’t help but smile even though I was also troubled.

Kate: “Hmmm… Like a morning where you wake up earlier than expected, feeling refreshed.”

Kate: “But… I’m sure I’ll be even happier tomorrow.”

Ellis: “…Mmm, I agree.”

--

I fell in love with someone who kills people.

This person wishes to kill the one they love at their happiest moment.

He was a man with a very deep and smothering love.

If someone were to see my love story, they might think it was a tragedy.

For me, it’s a once in a lifetime, precious love that I chose of my own volition.

Kate: “Mmm…nn…”

I woke up in bed, bathed in the bright morning light.

Last night, we baked scones, and while we were waiting for them to cool, we kissed each other a lot in the kitchen.

Then we packed a basket with some cooled scones and cranberry jam.

After we rushed into the room… we made love so much and fell asleep that we were more sluggish than jam.

(Ellis, you still haven’t woken up…)

I looked at Ellis’ sleeping face lying next to me and using his arm as a pillow.

Is it okay to stay in that position so long?

Does your arm go numb?

…Even thinking about something like that made me happy.

Ellis: “Nnggh…”

Kate: “Oh, Ellis… Are you awake?”

Ellis: “Mmm… Good morning, Kate.”

Part 3

Kate: “Oh, Ellis… Are you awake?”

Ellis: “Mmm… Good morning, Kate.”

He pulled my head toward him with his arms as he held me and gave me a kiss on the forehead.

I was so happy that I gave him a kiss on the lips in return.

Kate: “Good morning. It’s picnic day.”

As I smiled up at him from where I was lying on his chest, Ellis blinked as if he had finally woken up.

Ellis: “…You surprised me.”

Kate: “…What?”

Ellis: “I was so happy I thought I was still dreaming.”

***CHOICES***

It's not a dream +4 +2

2. How happy is that?

** 3. Are you going to be happier? +4 +4**

****

Kate: “I’ve never been so happy waking up in the morning like this before.”

Kate: “But, Ellis, you know you and I will be happier from now on, right?”

Ellis: “…Fufu, that’s right.”

I was spun around and pulled on top of Ellis, who hugged me tightly, making my heart beat sweetly.

Ellis: “Kate, you’re still naked.”

My skin trembled as his large hands explored my body.

I felt like I’d been drowning in the pleasure he gives me since last night.

Kate: “It’s always only me…”

I knew if I sulked and said it wasn’t fair, Ellis would take off his shirt.

Our bare skin touched—The room was filled with our laughter.

Part 4

Our bare skin touched—The room was filled with our laughter.

Laughing together like children,

We covered our bare skin with the same sheets and pulled out scones and jam from the basket—

The two of us tasted the cranberry jam we made together.

Ellis: “Mmm, delicious.”

Kate: “Really? Did we do a good job?”

As I asked, his palm cupped my cheek.

Ellis: “See…”

Kate: “Nnghh…”

When Ellis pressed the sweetly stewed fruit against my lips with the tip of his tongue,

Through our slightly parted lips, the sweet jam slid onto my tongue.

Ellis: “…So?”

Kate: “Mmmm… delicious.”

Until just now, we were playing around like kids rolling around in the grass during the day.

As we whispered with our lips touching, I remembered the love we made yesterday.

The memory evoked sweet sensations in my body.

My body melted in the dazzling morning light and was lured back into the moist, hot night…

Without ever separating or ever connecting deeply, we kissed repeatedly, drifting between the sensations of the day and night.

This moment was very happy.

When I looked at Ellis, he seemed to feel the same way.

Ellis: “…Maybe now.”

Kate: “The happiest moment?”

Ellis looked at me and nodded.

Ellis: “You look the most beautiful and happiest I’ve seen you right now.”

Kate: “…Hehe, maybe.”

This happiness may soon fade away.

If that was the case, I wanted to end it happily before everything faded away.

If you truly loved someone and wished them happiness, it may be a very natural emotion that welled up in your heart.

Kate: “This moment, right now, is the happiest time of my life… but.”

Ellis: “Hmm, …But?”

Still, I couldn’t give up on the next moment.

(Because I want to laugh together with the man I love for as long as possible.)

Ellis | Kate: “’Tomorrow might be happier’…?”

The moment after our voices overlapped and we looked at each other, a smile spread across our lips.

Ellis: “…Fufu.”

Kate: “Ahaha!”

Ellis: “I’ll kill you one day.”

Ellis: “So… for now, just let me kiss you.”

--What is happiness?

It’s like a twilight sky that changes color the moment it burns into your eyes…

It holds your heart forever, but you’ll never have it again.

So—Tomorrow, I’ll show you a more beautiful sunset.

Tomorrow and the day after, and the day after that…

And then, when we are sure of the greatest happiness, let’s stop time together and make the moment become eternal.

Until then… I hope to spend happy days with you, moments fading and being repainted more beautifully.

Blind Love Epilogue | His Side Story

[trexalicious]

It is January 2005. The birthday party’s questionable theme is “natives and colonials”. The man third in line to the throne plumps for a Nazi officer’s uniform with a red swastika wrapped around his left arm. The photos leak and a national scandal ensues.

During the PR crisis that followed, the 20-year-old royal rang his father, Prince Charles. “To my surprise he was serene,” Harry recalled in his 2023 memoir, Spare. “He spoke to me with such tenderness, such genuine compassion, that I was disarmed.”

Seven years later, pictures emerge of Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel room after playing strip pool. Mid-brouhaha, he meets up with his father in Scotland. “To my surprise, to my relief, he was gentle,” Harry later recalled. “Even bemused.”

These two vignettes show that at some of his trickiest, most humiliating moments, Harry has turned to his father and been met with sympathy. But the fact that, each time, he was surprised by the reassurance he received also speaks to the dysfunction of a relationship that has now all but collapsed.

“It shows a lack of insight on Harry’s part because Charles is an empathetic person,” says Sally Bedell Smith, a royal biographer. “If Harry can’t understand his father to that degree, there’s a problem.”

The King and his youngest son have not seen each other for more than 15 months. Their relationship has been fluctuating between strained and severed ever since the Duke of Sussex, 40, and his wife, 43, quit the royal family in 2020 and headed to America. The relationship between Harry and William is said to be beyond repair.

This month, after losing a legal challenge over his security in Britain, Harry gave yet another interview. “I would love reconciliation with my family,” he told the BBC. “I don’t know how much longer my father has.”

Poignant words, except Harry also proceeded to commit the unforgivable royal sin of airing his dirty laundry in public, reiterating his longstanding grievance over losing his government security detail and claiming that this row is the reason his father won’t speak to him.

How did it come to this? A father and son’s relationship seemingly irretrievably damaged, even as Charles, 76, faces the ordeal of cancer. Were the seeds of this fallout there all along, or is it the tumult of the past five years — the Oprah interview, the Netflix series, Spare — that has brought the pair to this point?

When Henry Charles Albert David was born on September 15, 1984, Charles’s marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, was already in dire straits. Diana claimed to her biographer Andrew Morton that Charles was disappointed not to have a daughter and that he exclaimed to the room of shocked doctors and nurses: “Oh. God. It’s a boy. And he even has red hair!” Hours later, Charles allegedly dashed off to play polo, though in his book Harry writes that his father went off to see “his girlfriend”.

After an unpromising start, Diana persuaded her husband to change his timetable to spend more time with his sons and less time with his private secretary. “Charles once said to one of his staff, ‘What are you doing this weekend? I’m going to be changing nappies’,” a royal insider recalls, quickly adding that there is no evidence of Charles having actually changed nappies.

This is a world of nannies and private secretaries as surrogate parents, nursery food served under silver cloches and being packed off to boarding school aged eight. (Both brothers attended Ludgrove School near Wokingham, Berkshire.) Despite all this, Charles was a relatively hands-on “Pa”.

He chased his young sons all over Sandringham making up games; he taught them about gardening and didn’t miss a first day at school — though this was also good PR.

Later on, he took Harry, whom he always called “my darling boy”, hiking, riding, shooting and fishing with William. “I don’t think he was emotionally distant,” says the royal insider. “That was one of the great myths and one of the great untruths that Diana propagated, that Charles was cold and not fun with the children, and that she was the fun one.”

Both parents cheerfully referred to Harry as the “spare”.

Raised by nannies himself, young Charles barely saw his own parents, Elizabeth and Philip, who, in today’s parlance, could be described as “emotionally unavailable”. For example, when Queen Elizabeth returned from one long foreign tour, she greeted him with a handshake.

Decades later, when Diana died in Paris in August 1997, Charles delivered the news to 12-year-old Harry as he lay in bed at Balmoral without a hug. According to Harry, his father put his hand on his knee and said, “It’s going to be OK”. In Spare he wrote: “That was quite a lot for him. Fatherly, hopeful, kind.” An impeccably backhanded compliment.

Of the two grieving boys, Harry felt particularly abandoned. “After Diana died, Charles neglected Harry,” says Tom Bower, who has written biographies about the King and Harry. “He spent his time either consolidating his relationship with Camilla or on his huge number of activities. He was a very busy man.”

Harry has spoken of showering his two children, Archie, six, and Lilibet, three, with the physical affection that he feels he didn’t receive. In a podcast in 2021 he reflected on his father’s emotional coldness, pointing out that Charles had been treated similarly by his own parents. He called it “genetic pain”.

Difficult events have corroded Charles and Harry’s relationship, where the unique pressures of royal life amplify any fault lines. But they are also fundamentally different characters. Beyond superficial shared interests — playing polo, skiing and, until Meghan arrived, shooting — the two have little in common. Charles is a patrician aesthete, passionate about architecture, Shakespeare and the natural world. Harry is a good-time guy, at ease with people from all walks of life — just like his late mother.

At Eton College, where he boarded from 13 and struggled academically, Harry was largely left to his own devices. “I don’t think Charles had any respect for Harry’s lack of intelligence, lack of application,” says Bower. “When it came to William, he was very grateful that the Queen would see him every weekend at Windsor for tea to steer him towards being the heir, whereas Harry was just neglected.”

Charles focused on his own role — “the man never stops”, Harry once said of his father — and rehabilitating the public image of Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he married in 2005. For Charles, Camilla was a kindred spirit who offered a way out of his loneliness. But for a young Harry, she was the woman who helped to break up his parents’ marriage.

In a revealing passage of Spare, Harry details how his old bedroom at Clarence House, where he lived with his father for most of his twenties, was later turned into Camilla’s dressing room. “I tried not to care,” he wrote. A smidge petty for a grown man, perhaps, but those who’ve wrestled with blended family dynamics might also understand such feelings.

After the frivolous teenage years, with minimal parental discipline and maximum partying, Harry found his feet — and some paternal approval. After discussing his options with his Pa — no, he couldn’t work in a fondue restaurant — he plumped to join the army. As a former helicopter pilot, Charles was thrilled by Harry’s focus and natural ability piloting Apaches, as well as his two tours of Afghanistan (in 2007-2008 and 2012).

He was similarly proud of Harry launching the Invictus Games for injured veterans in 2014. At the opening ceremony in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Harry made a speech to the crowd and was congratulated by his father as he sat down. “He was being kind,” Harry wrote in Spare. “He knew I’d rushed the speech. For once I was glad to not hear the raw truth from him.” (Last May, when Harry flew to the UK for the Invictus Games’s ten-year anniversary, Charles was absent and the two didn’t meet up.)

By his late twenties, the prince was reaching the end of his army career and suffering from panic attacks and anxiety. Despite their differences, Harry still confided in his father over dinner at Highgrove. *Harry recalled his father’s words to him: “I suppose it’s my fault. I should’ve got you the help you needed years ago.”

Broken trust [Meghan]

In late 2016, when Meghan Markle, an American actress and divorcee, came on the scene, Charles was initially charmed. He was less impressed, however, when Harry sent an unprecedented plea to the press, asking them to leave his new girlfriend alone.

At the time, Charles and Camilla had just begun a tour of the Middle East and this missive redirected the media’s attention.

“That was something which broke with the code of the royals,” says Morton, the royal biographer whose book on Churchill, Winston and the Windsors, comes out in October. “When a member of the royal family is abroad the focus is on them, not on the domestic royals. For Harry to give that fairly hysterical statement while his father was in the Middle East was seen as self-indulgent.” Poorly timed interactions with the media have been a Harry trademark ever since.

In May 2018 Charles walked Meghan down the aisle, but since then relations have spectacularly imploded, perhaps to the point of no return. The insiders I spoke to agreed that, in Charles’s mind, Harry has most egregiously crossed the line in attacking the Queen. He described his stepmother as “dangerous” and accused her of sacrificing him to the press “on her personal PR altar” in Spare.

Differing approaches to the media are another frontier in the father-son battle. Harry accuses his father’s office of issuing briefings against him, an accusation that has been denied. In March 2021 Harry and Meghan’s explosive two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which Meghan claimed that a member of the royal family had openly speculated about how dark their unborn child’s skin would be marked a new low point in family trust and relations.

Last February Charles called his son to tell him of his cancer diagnosis before the news was made public. Harry immediately flew to the UK to see him. But the meeting at Clarence House lasted less than 45 minutes and, to Harry’s annoyance, Camilla was tellingly present throughout.

“It’s unfortunate to say this but Camilla was probably there because Charles wanted a witness,” says Bedell Smith. “By then, there’d been such a breach of trust and I think Charles was worrying that things that he said might get out into the public.” A few days after that meeting, Harry was on American breakfast TV: “Any illness, any sickness, brings families together,” he said.

That wasn’t to be. Neither Charles’s cancer nor the Princess of Wales’s cancer, which is in remission, has helped to piece the fractured family together. Harry hasn’t seen his father since last February despite further trips to the UK. Charles hasn’t seen Archie or Lilibet since his mother’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. For Charles, the rift is a tender subject that he doesn’t typically discuss even with friends. “It seems to me one of those things that, if you wanted to have a cheerful evening or cheerful lunch, is probably best not to mention,” says a friend of the King.

Might the strains of Charles’s illness eventually bring them back together? Insiders maintain that the King is bemused by Harry’s repeated airing of laundry and that as long as William, Kate and Camilla have a say in the matter, Harry will be left out in the Californian wilderness.

“You could put a fair bit of dough on the fact that there is not going to be a reconciliation any time soon,” says Morton. “But the first rule of royal reporting is never say never.”

[houseofbrat]

I have theories, upon reading your post on George’s school choice; Do you think Billy and Cathy are considering Highgate as George’s high school because it is a *private day school*? I mean if their children went to day school, they could extend the “taking care of the children” schtick until Louis is 18. Basically half in/half out until George is old enough to be full time royal, especially when it is reported that it is unlikely for George to serve in the Military. I would love to hear your opinion on this!

The comment about them considering Highgate is interesting because it is so specific. "World-class drama department" didn't spring out of nowhere. We've seen examples of George's drawing and painting skills already. It doesn't seem like a stretch for him to have an interest in drama, particularly as his grandfather and great aunt did plays.

The thing about George theoretically attending Highgate is that it's located in London, while Charlotte and Louis are attending Lambrook back in Berkshire. I don't know what that would mean for their living arrangements, and having George take a helicopter from Windsor to KP every day and back to make the school run seems unlikely.

We've already seen Kate in London on a school night this year back in January, and then she was also papped leaving KP while the kids were on their Easter break without William or any of the kids. I suppose there's the possibility of having one parent stay with George at KP while he's doing school things during the week. Except that instantly opens them up to separation rumors that they would want to avoid the press running wild with.

Does this mean if George attends a non-boarding (aka "day") school in London the possibility could be he ends up staying with Charles & Camilla during the week at Clarence House? That's the only other option that springs to mind if George won't be staying at KP with one of his parentals. I can't imagine nanny Maria is going to be doing solo duty at KP five days a week for when he gets home.

We've got more than a year to go until George changes schools again. I don't even know what all the possible schooling options even are that they're examining because I'm an American.

I don't take the KP reports of George not serving in the military seriously at this point because George would only serve when he's an adult, not a kid. George hasn't gotten all of his future hits of testosterone yet. Why should we take KP's & William's pr bluster about it when George can literally sign up on his own when he becomes an adult? How do we know that George won't be picking fights with his father, behind the scenes, three, four, or even five years from now? Are people not aware of the pissing matches a lot of boys pick with their fathers in their teenage years?

If we were getting reports of George at age 17 or 18 not planning on serving in the military, then that is something to take more seriously. Then it's more likely that George himself doesn't want to serve. But William's bitterness over having to do royal duties doesn't mean George will necessarily have the same hangups. They're different people.

[countesscuriosity]

So... who is masquerading as a "friend of William" to brief Tom Sykes, and to what end? Is this friend a figment of Tom Sykes' imagination, created for the purposes of legitimising this article? That would be my guess.

For what I know, Tom Sykes has been swearing that he has sources in the circle of W&K, I don’t know if it’s true or he has used such phrase in order to give his articles credibility.

The majority of people have the feeling that for some reason he hates W and is always writing very negative things about him and Kate, he didn’t help himself when in 2016-2021 he was super pro Sussex and used them to attack W&K. Some fans really despise him because in 2019 he was saying that his source (the daughter of an earl) told him that there were rumors about W and 🌹and that everyone in their circle was talking about (he couldn’t confirm if true or not because he said there were only rumours, but some use his article as ‘proof’ of an affair)

Anyway, I honestly don’t think that W’s friends are telling him such things, not after his vicious attacks against the Wales, because sometimes he also has articles claiming that ‘Charles friends’ also told him things, I doubt he has ‘sources’ in both camps and when we know that KP and BP prefer to leak to british tabloids and not American publications, the only American site they have leaked at times it’s People Magazine.

That being said, it very well known that W’s signature when he or his circle leaks is: W’s friends, so I won’t be surprised if some things of what Roya wrote are true and others can be an invention. Also it’s not a secret that sometimes Roya writes her observations as facts, with no source, just her eyes and how a royal acts in public

Thank you for sending this in. Great reminder of the their past journalistic habits of the royal reporters.

I can't tell if William does have someone talking to Tom Sykes. I'd be interested in checking out his earlier articles to see if he ever got an exclusive that was from William's camp. If not, it's probably someone who knows him tangentially.

[judesmoonbeauty]

Ikemen Villain's 2024 Valentine's Day SE - Elbert Vs. Ellis - (Ellis' Story)

This is a summary/partial translation of the story, and doesn't include the epilogue. I did not have time to read Elbert's ending, so this will not be posted. Hopefully, someone else is kind enough to do so. Jude/Alfons STANS - I have their brief scene translated.

Someone may have already posted the fully translated story. If so, then great! I haven't searched for it myself, so please don't be sore if you've done so. Since we all use different translators, and I like to think we can fill in the blanks of each other's translations.

///Alternate translation.

***See translation notes.

Not 100% accurate. Please expect inaccuracies and grammatical errors. Cybird owns everything.

Kate is in the kitchen at Crown Castle. Everyone is excitedly making chocolate for V-Day, and Kate is conversing with staff and the sign language she’s been learning.

Soon, Ellis and Elbert pop into the kitchen each drawn to the happy sounds and atmosphere. Kate explains they’ve been making chocolates, and she secretly hopes they didn't notice the conversation she was having with the staff.

Elbert says he wants one and Ellis follows suit. Kate says she’s made chocolates for all the members of Crown. (Though it’s just small and basic - equal for everyone).

The boys notice a large chocolate cake and ask about it. Kate tells them it’s the for the “favorite" of Valentine’s Day.

Ellis & Elbert: “Favorite”?

Well, of course they both want the chocolate cake. She offers to make another cake together with them, but Elbert is like: That's a thought, but I want this one. Kate notices that they aren’t fighting with each other or anything like that, but now she’s at a loss.

Then Liam pops into the kitchen because something interesting is happening. He gives the three the idea that Elbert and Ellis should work at serving Kate all day -much like the two princes are trying to do to the princess in a play he is rehearsing- whoever provides the best service and woos the princess get the cake.

They both agreed to the competition. Later on Elbert suggests they write up Kate’s report of a previous mission she, William and Harrison went on. She agrees, but Elbert has to give up the task to Ellis because he has no experience with typewriters. He dictates the report and Ellis types. Kate is impressed he knows how to use one. Well, there’s lots of paperwork to do for Jude on top of more grueling tasks.

As they’re talking a dusky voice interrupts them.

Jude: Oh? Two men waiting on ya. What a big ego.

Alfons: A future where Kate will be in control of Crown may not be far off.

Elbert & Ellis: Al..../Jude.

Ellis: I'm currently serving Kate right now.

Jude: To think ya'd enjoy being laid on a woman's backside with pleasure. A terrible hobby. ***

Alfons: Isn't El also enjoying being laid on Kate's backside?***

Elbert: ....? I wonder if that's true?

(I can't keep up with the rush!)

Ellis: Oh, that's right. What kind of service would Jude be happy with?

Jude: That's already decided. I'd cry for joy if you took the initiative and finished your work before I gave you instructions.

Ellis: I do it sometimes, but I've never seen you cry with joy.....(Ellis' face LOL).

Jude: Be more determined.

Elbert: What about you, Al?

Alfons: Of course, there are things I can't say during the day and such services like these....

Kate: Mr. Alfons!

Alfons: Yes, yes, I know. You want to use it as a reference for your next service, right?

Alfons: Speaking of service.....

Kate is now being massaged by both Elbert and Ellis at the same time at Alfons' suggestion of their next service. Elbert is massaging her shoulders and Ellis her legs. They ask if she is feeling good. (I wish I was her).

She tells them that she feels good and all of a sudden she let's out a moan from how good it feels. She apologizes for the weird noise and the boys smile. Elbert says that he doesn't mind hearing more pretty noises from her, and Ellis says she looks like she feels good and calls her cute.

They ask her who is winning at this point and Kate still hasn't made up her mind because they've both done so many wonderful things for her. Making tea, bringing her tea cakes etc. She asks them to do a favor for her....

They finish up shopping in town. (I think she had to pick up more ribbons for gifts iirc.) Next thing you know, there is a runaway carriage barreling towards them.

Kate opens her eyes to see that Elbert is holding both her and a little boy in his arms and Ellis is reigning the horse and carriage in. She thanks Elbert and Ellis both. Ellis admits defeat because it was Elbert who rescues Kate like a prince and therefore, he is not a prince. (My heart omg.)

Elbert stops him saying he didn't get a chance to rescue Kate because Elbert directed him to stop the carriage and if the carriage hadn't been stopped, then there would've been more damage or worse. Therefore, it's Ellis for the win!

Later, Kate and Ellis are alone by the river and she is tending to his wounds.

Ellis: Even if you're not so gentle, I won't break you know.

FLASHBACK

Elbert: In the past, I accidentally stepped on Ellis' shadow during a mission.

Lord Elbert's ability is to invoke the most traumatic memory of the person's shadow he's stepped on.

Kate: So, what about Ellis?

Lord Elbert didn't answer my question.

But the silence was the answer itself.

Elbert: When I apologized, Ellis just forced a smile. (OMG, really my heart.)

FLASHBACK END

Ellis only thinks about making other people happy other than himself.

I think it also means not letting the other person understand his own pain and sadness.

Kate: Ok, it's not bleeding, but you should see Roger later, just in case.

Kate: Why did you say you wanted my chocolate cake?

Ellis: Eh.

Kate: Ellis you're a kind person who puts other people's happiness first.

Kate: If that's the case, I figured you'd give the cake to Lord Elbert to make him happy.

Ellis: You said that you'd like to see a fight over the chocolates with the maids at least once, right?

(Ah.)......(Pfft haha, they heard you my dear.)

Kate: So, you wanted it to make me happy.

At that moment, I felt as if the sunset on the riverside in front of me was shaking painfully.

Ellis: I wanted to make both you and El happy, so I was going to give it to El in the end.

Kate: That's just like you, Ellis.

As he gazed at the deep red surface of the water, Ellis' voices trailed off.

Ellis: I've always done that until now.

Ellis: Anything that I could give. I would give.

Kate: Anything?

Ellis: Before I met you, I had a slightly difficult mission to complete.

Ellis: I had to hide by myself in a ship's baggage storage area in order to gather information.

Since Ellis said it was a difficult mission, it must've been harsh.

Ellis: There was another man in the baggage storage area as well.

Kate: Who....

Ellis: A person's identity and background I didn't know.

Ellis: That person seemed to have been hiding for much longer than me, and was dazed from hunger and fatigue.

Ellis: So, I gave him all the candy and bread that I had.

(What?)

Kate: But, then what did you eat Ellis....

Ellis: Yea. For a moment there, I almost died.

Ellis: When I was almost in danger, Jude came for me.

Ellis: Jude was unusually angry at that time. "If you die, you don't have any children."///"If you die, I would have lost everything."***

Kate: That's right...even if I were Jude, I'd be angry.

Ellis: Hehe, I'll be in trouble if you get angry with me.

Ellis rearranged his fingers on his lap.

Ellis: I can understand why Jude was angry and the logic behind it.

Ellis: But I....I thought it would be okay.

Kate: Its...

Kate: Is it because the happiness of other's is more important than your own desires?

Kate: Ellis. I'm sure I wanted to give you the "favorite" from the beginning.

Ellis: If I say I want it, will you be happy?

Fin.

***The translation rendered Jude's line as being 'laid upon a woman's backside'. However, the same character "尻" was rendered as being 'laid upon a Kate's a**. Even though it's something my beloved crass would totally say, I decided on 'backside' this time around.

***The initial translation said: If you die, I would've lost everything. However, the line includes the character for child and a particle that includes it in a form set. I suck at particles, but I decided to go with: If you die, you don't have any children, because Jude would be worried about losing his childless assistant (whom is an asset that helps him in his goal to fulfill some almost unattainable promise). Childless Ellis = No kids to fulfill his place. (Idk I tried though).

[darkpeacemusic]

𝚂𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚊 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚜!

Slendrina is the oldest child out of the Slender Pact, having died at the age 18 during the experiment 84 series which consisted of herself, her father, mother and her four uncles.

She was later separated from her family after the hospital where she was experimented on caught fire and destroyed the building, making her and her mother left behind (Her mother had died due to the smoke and her father and uncles escaped without her knowing)

She would spend years looking for her father, hoping he was still alive.

In 2015, she would reunite with her father but she wasn't very happy to see him.

She ended up yelling at him for leaving her behind when the building burnt down, leaving her to wander the earth for years.

It would take many months for Slendrina to forgive her father for everything.

She would later forgive her father after he explained that he didn't mean to leave her behind and he tried to go back for her before Trenderman stopped him.

She and her father have the closest bond out of the Slender Pact.

She met some of the proxies at the time who were Masky, Hoodie, Cat Hunter, Kate, Charlie, Toby, LJ, Kagekao, Ally, and Ben.

Jeff, Charlie, Lucy, Ben, Lily, and Lulu are her most closest "siblings".

Though she used to be jealous of Nightmare Ally due to Ally and Slenderman's father-daughter, she now thinks Nightmare Ally as her little sister.

She also has a very close bond with one of her youngest cousins, Sally.

She dresses in a Victorian gothic style.

Like her father, her favorite music is classical.

She loves to read and her favorite books are anything by Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Roald Dahl.

Her favorite shows are the Addams Family (1960), Ruby Gloom, Hazbin Hotel, and The Haunting on Bly Manor.

Her killing style is similar to her father's.

Jeff, Lily, Lulu, Lucy, Ben, Ally, and Charlie all call her "big sister" sometimes which Slendrina finds it adorable.

She is usually seen reading in the library room, playing with the kid proxies, hanging out with her father, or down in the basement, helping the medical proxies.

She hates it when her "siblings" are upset and does her best to comfort them.

She regards LJ, Jason, Candy Pop, Hobo Heart, and Jill as her best friends.

She talks in a whispery kind of voice, almost similar to Fluttershy's from My Little Pony.

She calls Slenderman "dad", "father", or "papa".

She doesn't like Will and EJ due to them secretly being Zalgoids and doesn't trust them very much.

She loves anything by Tim Burton and Stephen King.

Her teleportation skills aren't as great as her father which is why she can't teleport like her father can.

She is secretly a fan of Monster High and Ever After High after Nina introduced to her when she came over to the Slender Manor one day.

She wears pearl necklaces and bracelets.

She loves anything vintage and her room is filled with vintage stuff.

Most of her dresses were designed by her uncle Trender.

She suffers from depression and PTSD.

She is never seen without her teddy bear as it was a gift by her father when she was 6.