#rcmvncv.

[ncdyc]

❛   you’re being careful about what you drink... right ?  ❜   it is an unnecessary question, but saying the words exorcise some of the simmering paranoia that had grown ever since she’d noticed the proximity of his seat to the belarusian duke’s.   /.  @rcmvncv​

[frejaedb]

[ @rcmvncv​ ]

with exuberant force she pushed the door to the pool house open for a moment of shade while the children splashed away. when the door hit a stopping point, she exclaimed, “ my apologies, ” eyes meet with the czar and she grins, “ your majesty. going for a SWIM ? “

[vrnvuld]

“ milena’s taking quite long arranging her business in belarus. ” the fact that it was taking the romanovs a long time to sort things out was irritating, but having to be the one to walk 100 meters across the compound for the meeting was even worse. “ all while my sister is all but forced to beg to go visit my niece. how long do you suppose it will take before milena announces her exit ? ” [ ;; @rcmvncv​ ]

[jinlixue]

“I know you would not support me when my brother was still alive.” She had rehearsed the phrase. She had rehearsed talking about Jianguo. The past tense and every macabre word. She could finally keep her throat from clenching against her will. “But the circumstances are completely different now. Yi Gahye will take on the role of a regent and China will have a foreigner on the throne.” ( @rcmvncv​ )

[vnncli]

“ did you see who are our neighbours ? ” anneli inquired as she settled on the sofa next to him. she passed the other cup of tea to him. “ a lot of croÿs. ” she informed him, assuming he hadn’t bothered to check. “ did nadya ever tell you how they feel about you– us, now ? ” ( &. @rcmvncv​  )

[aromancva]

“ now that you’ve gone public with anneli...there’s an easy narrative to pull lenya back from belarus. without kobolkov, you’ll need to shore up support in the south. it’d give us room to negotiate for roman’s surrender and let us scout for more amenable options for the belarussian throne. ” keeping the crown upon their cousin’s pretty, fragile head was untenable and the grand duchy would need a need a new leader once rostov oblast lost the general. while soletsky may not have been keen on providing explicit support to his niece, keeping ukraine between milena and any other hidden yurivič supporters was strategic advantage. “ how was the trip to st.petersburg otherwise? ” features still into a careful neutral, impassive despite the childish urge to ask just how many nobles had been pleased to meet the czar’s fiancée. ( @rcmvncv​ )

[mchaeleicn]

the chinese were giving an impossible task, it seemed to michael. not so much that it was hard but they had made it impossible. you can’t end a blockade in a locked room. you can advisors and a bloody conference call line. he looked at people in the room with him and with a sinking feeling realized exactly the sort of people he’d been grouped with. “they’re going to kill us all. that’s the point of this, isn’t it? to prove we’re all dictators and murderers.” he meant it to be quiet but he knew his voice carried, steady and matter-of-fact. ( @rcmvncv​, @vnncli​, @maximiliians​, @catherinestuart​, @vrnvuld​, @jinlixue​, @fannicroy​, @svrgic​ )

[giselledorleans]

“ you are a DISGUSTING EXCUSE for a human being ! ” giselle strides were long as she crossed the lobby to get within a good distance from the czar. the finger she shook at him would never reach him on the other side of the bodyguards but it did not stop giselle from making sure the finger swished back and forth at his eye level. “ what kind of a person drags CHILDREN into politics ? i hope, i SINCERELY hope, you will either have none or that the mother is intelligent enough to keep them far away from you. ” [ &&. @rcmvncv​ ]

[highsocietyhq]

@rcmvncv

@vnncli

@lcmbcrdy

@eduardobolivar

[kcstyv]

alexei. 

“ ah— before i forget, ” hands pat against the pockets by his waist before slipping into the inner pocket by his chest to retrieve the suede pouch. “ from vasya. don’t feel too special though, ” he tugs the cuff of his sleeve, baring the chaotic slew of beads wrapped around his wrist. perhaps little vasilisa will work the impossible and restore a bit of youth to his complexion.  “ you look like shit. ”    * / @rcmvncv​

[kscniya]

( @rcmvncv )

“ lyosha ! ” once he’d stepped away from the duke, she snatched up her window of opportunity to catch his attention. “ not too busy i hope ? ” but of course he was — he was the czar of russia. a half hour of his time was all she’d dare to request. 

[ncdyc]

regretful monotony follows her, trailing at the edge of her shadow of what should have been unquestionable ease. nadya cannot remember the last time lyosha’s space would have felt so alien, dusky greens roving around the interior.   ❛   you picked this street ?  ❜   it had been the thing on the tip of her tongue on her walk with zhenya that first week. lyosha was further away. by himself. anya hadn’t said a thing about it, even after they’d seen where anneli was. it didn’t sit well with her.  /.  @rcmvncv​

[frejaedb]

[ GROUP 3 // @rcmvncv @vstridb @olimpiacroy @giorxcci @helenadobrasil @tvkla @maitedobrasil​ @tywysoges-g @hrhmancns ]

“ to think anywhere in ITALY would be the safest place to be ... ” she shook her head and scowled in the vague direction of the italian crown prince. it may have been an unfair comment but her ire needed a direction. her hands ran through tobias’ hair – more as a comfort to her than to him. 

[hshqedit]

HSHQ ADVENT CALENDAR: DAY 04

hshq monarchs + 𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨

[rchvnt]

❛   shannigans gastro pub. cars are waiting. i don’t think there’s prosciutto on the menu, but we can ask. otherwise there would have been no point looking for pyjama boy over here.  ❜  he’s starving.   / @leobraganca /  @aurcls​  /  @rcmvncv​

[vnncli]

DATE: sometime before the ebhan wedding idk

“ you’re seriously considering starting a war ? ” the only thing that kept her voice from rising above a loud hiss was the knowledge that there were people standing directly on the other side of his study’s doors. “ it’s somehow gotten so big that i have to be asked by thore if it’s likely to happen. thore. thore of denmark ! how does he know before i do that there’s a possibility of a europe wide war started by you, and i do not ? ” (  &. @rcmvncv​ )