#like ffs you can't just walk into a place like Pogtopia going 'hi I promise I'm a good Krafta' | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

hollenka99 · 16 days

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YouTube yesterday: Hey btw The Longest Johns just released a song about Horatio Nelson's death.

Me: Cool, excuse me as I stare off into space and think about L'Manburgian soldiers' reaction to hearing about Kiril's dying to withering whenever I play the song.

#regicide au #like yes I know realistically Kiril would be a bit of a controversial figure in L'Manburg #his father (and ancestry in general tbh) represents centuries of colonialism and oppression #like ffs you can't just walk into a place like Pogtopia going 'hi I promise I'm a good Krafta'#when you've had to spend the past few years drastically unlearning all the colonialist propaganda you were fed as a child #anyway Artur is representative of continuing the oppression of an entire people no matter how hard you have to grind your boot on them #while Kiril represents the effort to at least make a start on fixing the mistakes of the past #with liberation in the hopes that will open the door for reparations etc #not that he ever expects to see that because he'll be dead from fratricide #(not to mention shit like that will take generations for the wounds to begin healing so no veteran of this war will live to see it either)#he still wants to do *something* as a way to work towards that better future though #a war of independence sure as fuck wasn't what he imagined but 'the universal language is violence' yada yada #it certainly seems to be Artur's universal language #and Kiril gains an even better image of himself as a general who is willing to fight and potentially die with his soldiers #those under his command absolutely have deep respect for him thanks to how he conducts himself #...and then the withered arrows start flying #people are going to end up talking about how he never let on he was hit himself #he simply visited the affected soldiers in the infirmary some of whom were doomed to die in one of the worst ways possible #then he was gone. just grabbed by his brother so he could be killed in Rayusel (or away from the public eye in general)#rumours are going to fly about all sorts of things pertaining to Kiril's final hours but one thing is for sure #there is going to be grief amongst the soldiers who loved him #'let him die in peace' ...yeah they really are going to hope that somehow he didn't suffer as much as a typical withering victim #god I am just shaking this song vigourously by its shoulders I swear

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