Overwhelmed by media scrutiny and still hurt by Louis's behavior, Laura decides to leave their shared accommodation at the Naval Academy of Poulmic. As her brother Adrien helps her pack up her belongings, Napoleon V arrives hoping to speak with her. Upon discovering that she is leaving, he is overcome with emotion. Beneath his anger lies a deeper fear: that he may lose Laura forever.
Laura: Donāt worry, Mom. Adrien and I are almost doneā¦ There are only two or three bags leftā¦
Laura: No, Iām not forgetting anything, and honestly, even if I do, itās not a big dealā¦ Yes, yes, Iām sureā¦ If I stay here, Iāll never make it through the yearā¦
Laura: I know Louis never wanted any of thisā¦ We already talked about itā¦ Itās just that he wonāt leave me alone andā
Laura: Ah!
(Napoleon suddenly appears inside the apartment. Laura startles and drops her phone.)
Napoleon: Laura?... Youāre leaving?
Napoleon: You didnāt tell me. My security agents can help youā
Laura: No, itās fine. I had nothing to tell you or your agents before today.
Napoleon: Is this because ofā
Laura: Louis, stop. Please !
(Napoleon bends down to help her pick up her phone.)
Laura: Weāve already talked about this enough. I donāt have the strength to do it anymore.
Napoleon: Exactlyā¦ We should talk about it.
Laura: Talk about what exactly?
Napoleon: A lot of things.
(He hands her phone back. She sets her box down with a sigh.)
Laura: Thank youā¦ What are you even doing here?
Napoleon: I wanted to wait for you here. To apologize. For the past few days.
Laura: Iām the one whoās sorry, Louis. Iām not made forā
Napoleon: Who cares what they think?
Laura: Maybe you donāt. I do.
Napoleon: Are you punishing me? If you leave the flatshare, the paparazzi will notice.
Laura: Donāt make this unfair. Iām doing what youāre incapable of doing.
Napoleon: Meaning?
Laura: Setting a boundary between us.
(Napoleon struggles to take the remark.)
Napoleon: I told you the truth, thatās all!
Laura: And what exactly am I supposed to do with that, Louis? You love me? Fine. Youāre the Emperor. Youāre married to Charlotte. Youāre going to have a child. Andā¦
(She stops for a brief moment.)
Laura: ā¦Youāre looking somewhere else! Youāre putting me through this!
Napoleon: I love you! And you love me too, I know it!
Laura: I donāt have to endure your aristocratic little games! If you loved me before your marriage, you should have thought about it then!
Napoleon: I lacked courage, thatās true! Until today!
Laura: Youāre right, I love you! But it terrifies me, and now itās too late, and thatās the truth too! You have to accept it, otherwise weāllā
Napoleon: Laura, calm down, you donāt really thinkā
Laura: Listen to me!
Napoleon: I donāt agree with you. We can fix our mistakes, together.
(Laura turns Napoleon toward the apartment exit, once again terrified by the intensity of the feelings they share.)
Laura: You drive me insaneā¦
Napoleon: Laura, donāt go.
Laura: Youāre forcing me to.
Laura: If I give in, my life will be dragged through the mud forever, unfairly.
Napoleon: At least let us tryā¦
Laura: No means no! Good God, Louis!
Napoleon: I canāt spend years passing by your side pretending none of this exists! Itās impossible!
(A man in his thirties appears, his coat still damp from the rain. The same dark eyes as Laura, the same restraint in his movements.)
Adrien Delcroix, her older brother.
Adrien: Laura? Thereās nothing left upstairs.
Laura: Adrienā¦ Mon grand frĆØreā¦
(Adrien looks toward Napoleon. He greets him briefly, without open hostility, but without any particular deference either.)
Adrien: Wait for me in the car. Iāll bring down whatās left.
Laura: Alright.
Napoleon: Laura...
(Laura leaves the apartment.)
Adrien: Sireā¦ My sister explained everything to me.
(Napoleon sighs. As if this situation were not already humiliating enough.)
Adrien: Pleaseā¦ let her breathe. She needs it.
Napoleon: What exactly are you accusing me of?
Adrien: Nothing, Your Majesty.
Adrien: With all due respect, Laura is suffering terribly from all of this ā the rumors, the paparazzi harassing her. If you truly care about her wellbeing, then stop insisting.
Napoleon: Iāll pay for whatever care and security she needs.
Adrien: That wonāt be necessary, Your Majesty. And it would only attract more attentionā¦
Napoleon: I insist.
The morning after his return to Versailles, Napoleon V joins Charlotte at the Petit Trianon for what appears to be a peaceful breakfast. But beneath the quiet intimacy of the moment, the Regent calmly confronts her husband about the scandal caused by the photos published in Voici. Already familiar with Laura Delcroix from their years at Polytechnique, Charlotte refuses to see the young woman as a romantic rival and instead condemns Louisās irresponsibility for dragging a serious and discreet naval cadet into a humiliating media scandal. Ashamed, Napoleon tries to apologize, but Charlotte ultimately chooses to end the conversation without drama, revealing a disappointment far colder.
Charlotte: You look better.
Napoleon: I was sleeping quite well until a valet opened the curtains.
Charlotte: That must be less disturbing than the bugle at military school.
Charlotte: Itās also out of love. They donāt just want to blame you for what happened.
Napoleon: Do you really read that trash?
Charlotte: Apparently, the whole Francesim does.
Charlotte: Louis. Laura was already spending her time correcting your mistakes at Polytechnique while Joachim was trying to organize clandestine parties.
Charlotte: She is serious. Discreet. Hard-working. You should not have dragged her into your nonsense.
Napoleon: We didnāt force her.
Charlotte: The country is going through a major crisis. Polynesia is threatening self-determination. I am pregnant. I am finishing my studies. And I have to govern the Regency while my husband is on the cover of Voici, drunk outside a nightclub.
Napoleon: Iām sorry. I thoughtā
Charlotte: Letās not talk about it anymore. Thatās all I had to say.
you donāt realize how important lunch is until youāre wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then itās 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.
lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.
Tucked away deep in the countryside of Windenburg, the so-called "lodge" sits within the Kingswood, a 1,000-acre forest where Kings would hunt during the summertime. Originally known as Ludlow House, the manor was constructed by Prince Edward, Duke of Windslar, third son of the King, in the 1730s. Edward constructed a large Georgian manor, meant to compete with his elder brother's residence, Sulani House. Like his brother, he dedicated it to his own wife, Charlotte Cecil, and ordered the construction of the famed Love Maze. Edward would often host his elder brother, King Edmund, who enjoyed hunting in the Kingswood during the summertime. Edward's son, Prince William, inherited the estate along with his father's substantial debt in 1750, and decided to sell the house to his cousin, King Edmund IX. The King gifted the manor to his new wife, Queen Odette, after the birth of their first child in 1753. Odette used the lodge as an escape from the stuffiness of court life at Windslar and Verdun. The lodge, quietly nestled in the countryside, provided a sanctuary for her new family. Odette redecorated the lodge and ordered many renovation projects throughout her tenure as consort. The lodge hosted Odette's prized collection of antique Hellenistic and Classical sculptures, along with many of her favorite paintings from the Royal Collection. The Royal Family would spend the summers at the lodge during Queen Odette's ownership, and later in December for Christmas. Odette retired to the lodge permanently in 1814. The lodge remained at the center of the Royal Family until the 1830s, when Odette passed away at the age of 94. She left the residence to her granddaughter, Queen Mary II, who used the lodge sometimes during her early marriage. Mary leased the property to her step-grandson, the King of Brindleton, after the family was deposed in the first Brindletonian Revolution in the 1880s, which they used until the monarchy's restoration in 1906. Mary's successor, and granddaughter, Alexandra II, converted the lodge into a museum in 1923, dedicated to the House of Wittenburg and its history.
Why is your FamilyEcho taking forever? What are you doing with it?
Hiya! Thank you for the ask :D
It's taking a while because I enjoy looking at all the pretty pictures. & being sad and angry for the young girls who were repeatedly used as tools for the continuance of their dynasty. And reading about how they found happiness within their constraints.
But it's mainly taking forever & a day, because the information can be incredibly hard to connect without accessible or reliable documentation as to who people, especially women, were. It started with the Habsburgs & the French & extended into almost anyone who had the connections to be anyone... Which in turn really outlined that there is no social mobility, it's proxy governments all the way down. Resulting in horrible conditions, from the fall of rome and into our present.
Anyway, I read something not too long ago about women being more likely to have trendy names, as they've not been the ones, "carrying on," the family tree for most of history. And for the working class, I'm sure that's true, but for anyone with any amount of blue blood? Out the window entirely. Each family has a pool of names that only changes/expands when there's enough kids in a generation to need something new. & then it's everywhere, again. And it isn't merely based in the family name, but their connections, proxy governments, and cadet branches.
If the mother is someone important, like a countess, you can almost guarentee that her first son will have a name from her dynasy. To then be traded among the list of names that have already been used. Everything is to renew a claim, because you never know when you're the one up to bat. It took a lot of time to realize this, and once I did, it was like a lightbulb moment.
I started knowing where to look, based on name, year, and spouse or child. Like, "a new Guelph? Named Sybille? I've done enough reading to know who her daddy, and her daddy's daddy, and her daddy's daddy's daddy is. Though Margaret is a little more complicated, I have very few connections left to make. The ones I'm making now are just... In my own time. They require thought, like, "are you significant enough to waste my free time on?" "You did something heionous, does anyone cool descend from you, or should I just delete you now?" and "Who really cares about Waldeck?" This is a hobby & I intend to enjoy it.
...I also intended to make them into sims, but seeing as there's likely going to be four thousand + of them, I'm probably going to copy my dear friend @royaltysimblr and do portraits of who I want, when I want, as I want.
Iāve discovered a father of eight who, during the third crusade, had a fifteen person kill streak & was told by his teammates to stay with the squad, replied with āI would rather be where they donāt know me,ā and proceeded to die with his horse where they didnāt know him.
I'm convinced that Napoleon's empire failed because he didn't set up a proper proxy government. Not any of the geopolitical bullshit, he set his dynasty on thrones and said "This is good. More of this. for us." He had all those adopted children & foreign thrones, but he kept them under his own belt. He should have taken Marie Louise and milked her family for all it was worth. & he should have done to Sweden what the Habsburgs did to Spain. He could have had a dynasty, instead he took an empire.
Cadoudal, dismayed at the news of Napoleon's proclamation, reputedly exclaimed, "We wanted to make a king, but we made an emperor".
I wasnāt expecting to like paralives, from the moment of its being rumored, but I bought it because I love playing games in betaā¦ And now Iām in love. Itās so cute!!!! And so are all the townies. Iām having a great time. I love the build/buy and how interactions work. Itās so fun to be excited about a life simulator again. I canāt wait to watch it grow š»
Royal Simblr Monarch who ruins every holiday weekend āļø Royal Simblr Spare who gets remarried to the former PMās wife without their reigning parent in attendance āļø Royal Simblr Monarch who edges their citizens with war to make big bucks on mobile trading app āļø Royal Simblr Monarch who rises to power and immediately makes friends with their countryās biggest political op āļø Royal Simblr Monarch who paints themself as Jesus āļø Royal Simblr Monarch who allows their proxy government to bribe every level of government into participating in their wars of aggression āļø Royal Simblr Monarch who goes mask off with their defense budget purposes āļø Royal Simblr Monarch is the Monarch of Peace and Love āļø
Hey so if you use generative AI to write anything, it will give you the most over used, unoriginal, and non-subversive response every time. Use your noggin.
dl | patreon | includes 8 low poly nail shapes (round, oval, square, squoval, almond, stiletto, coffin, and duck), hq base bake texture, and EA nails to use for weight/placement reference. blender 2.79+. more info & tou under the cut. nail as cc example used here.
this kit will require basic blender knowledge, mostly how to move meshes and transfer weights from one mesh to another (ea nails to the new ones)! each nail is about 300 poly, so a basic set will be in the 3k poly range.
each nail was made from scratch and uv mapped to its own shape. you can edit them however you want and simply "unwrap" since the seam is already made (the red line)!
**the nail shapes are not aligned to the fingernails themselves, you'll have to do that yourself.
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