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projectroxas2009-03-21 05:51 pm
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PR AU plottings by yours truly
OKAY I FIGURED SOME STUFF OUT-ish.
■ Instead of Anna taking over when their mother turns a certain age, what if it's when ANNA turns like. Eighteen or something? I imagine them being around 16 in this AU, though we never established said age. Still, it seems more plausible to me.
■ Maybe along the way Rob is spotted (with Riku) & since Rob has a mark on his head + Riku went missing, the person goes to tell the guards in his village since I'm preeeetty sure everything has been out to the open. There are like reward(s) for details/catching them.
■ Rob & Riku barely get out of that mess (maybe one gets away, to tell the queen[s] the 411), which is Riku's cue to say that something needs to be done (i.e. Rob's idea of staging his own death).
■ A month goes by & Riku is spotted with a ~masked man~ which uh. Makes people jump to conclusions. Rumors start up, people begin to say that RIKU is the one who murdered Rob (which would be plausible, seeing as how they ARE essentially from rivaling kingdoms) and the ~unknown man~ they saw was the person who helped him do it.
Word gets out to R&A's kingdom, Anna hears about this & yeah, he's pissed. Gonna say that he mourned for the longest time before RAGE, because he didn't have anything to rage at just yet (nobody was really to blame at the beginning, etc.), which means the following:
■ Basically their signals get crossed so it's sort of a... huge misunderstanding. Only not. If that makes any sense at all. Perhaps R&A's mom thinks that this was their (the other kingdom's) idea all along? To be sneaky bastards or... something like that.
But yes, when Anna hears about Riku & the ~masked man~ & how they "killed" Rob, that's why he'll be like WAR WAR WAR I WANT TO SEE BLOOD GD IT. Though if their mother doesn't want that (though at this point it might be a different story?) then Anna will remind her that they (the other kingdom) are probably staging their war tactics right now, that they need to have the upper hand, etc. Which is why Anna wants to announce it before THEY do, because uh. DIVINE JUSTICE.
So he's essentially going to be up against Rob and Riku, but he doesn't know it, of course.
■ ... hm hm hm. How about Riku and Rob (& the heir) thinks that everything is going pretty smoothly, then they come back and are like "SHIT WHAT'S GOING ON THERE'S A WAR?! WE WERE AWAY FOR LIKE, EVER, BUT SERIOUSLY, WHAT." Because I'm assuming they'd avoid all possible contact with anyone from anywhere & would take the "back roads", so to say. Which means they'd be lost from all human contact. No knowledge of a war even starting.
Though I'm going to say on the eve of the war Rob does the visiting thing, Anna BAWS and says he did a terrible thing (after Rob comes back he'll go back to being him, simply because he was only blinded by, you guessed it, RAGE), they hug and kiss and cuddle and lalala whatever.
THEN Rob can explain as much as he can for the night, which includes the heir. Now why the hell would we need an heir in the first place, other than her glaring at me in the back of my mind?
Well, for one Rob needs a good reason to run off. If he runs off just to run off it would be like... a spoiled kid not getting what he wants so he runs away from home. Sure, he has motives behind it, but I like the idea of him being tipped off. Anyway, I'm going to say that Anna once told Rob that he just wants everything to stay the same. That he selfishly wants them to just be them & let that be that. Basically he doesn't want to rule, and if he doesn't rule he doesn't want ROB to rule because it'll change everything. Though he knows he has to do it, which is why he doesn't rebel or anything. Take it in stride, etc. ... not that he's opposed to marrying Rob, of course, which he'd explain in full detail like the good boy he is, it's just that there are so many circumstances surrounding said marriage & the bad baggage that comes with it..
■ Hm. This makes me think that Anna... actually really does love their mother. A lot. Maybe he feels sorry for her in a lot of ways, but I get the feeling that he adores her because she IS his mother. Yet another reason why he lets her do what she pleases with him.
■ ... so back to the heir. Rob wouldn't want anything to happen to Anna, right? Knowing that Anna doesn't want that kind of life would fuel him to do something about it, obviously. So I think. Hm. The only peaceful way to go about it ('cause just flat-out attacking a kingdom without any motives behind it other than "I'm saving my brother from certain emotional doom" doesn't work) would to try to find someone who is rightfully supposed to take over. Their mother is old enough (not like, granny old, just oldER) and the heir is old enough to rightfully take over according to their laws, but then that's where the kingdom itself splits in half after Rob
SO BASICALLY:
1. R&A's mom tells Rob he's not a proper suitor/he's not a good image for them or w/e. Cue him being banashed from their kingdom.
2. Now that Rob can't really... do anything about that, he gets told about another child of the previous wife, smart Rob figures everything out (if he brings her back then their mother has to step down from the throne, meaning Anna would be safe, meaning they'd all live HAPPILY EVER AFTER~).
3. Rob leaves! Baw from Anna.
4. Anna, while Rob is gone, gets reeled into meeting people who will take Rob's place instead. He meets Riku, stuff happens, lalala Riku decided to go off to find Rob.
5. Riku finds Rob after x-amount of time & tells him what he needs to tell him. Like uh. What's going on, that R&A's mom is trying to find a proper suitor for Anna, that he was chosen as one of them but decided that he'd rather find Rob & tell him this 'cause he's... already met Anna and sort of understand that it's not what he wants.
6. Riku & Rob go along their merry little adventure ('cause Riku wants to stick around & help him whether he likes it or not, dohoho).
7. Someone spots Riku & Rob, they barely get out of THAT mess, which leads to them needing a cover-up somehow.
8. Cue Rob's faked death 'cause Riku just ran away, he isn't really... the biggest part of this mess. Meaning they're moreso after ROB, not him, and he's cocky and thinks it doesn't matter yadda yadda aka he's just being himself. [or insert ideas here]
9. Anna hears about Rob's death, time to mourn for over 9000 years, etc. he won't get pissed until he finds out WHO supposedly "killed him".
[this part needs more work... help help help help my brain is not working properly]
10. Along the way they get spotted again by someone from R&A's kingdom, but this time Riku is with hidden!Rob, who is mistaken for an assassin or something. Cue them thinking Riku's kingdom was out to get them the entire time, blah blah blah while Riku's kingdom is sort of uh. Behind on the times. News doesn't travel THAT quickly in such a small span of time. They still think Rob manipulated Riku somehow, etc. they're still pissed about that.
[/end needing more work]
11. Rob finds the heir, they're going back to the kingdom finally, and they go home only to notice that... there's something off. Why in the world are there soldiers everywhere, etc.
[dunno if we need to add some more stuff here or something 'cause from #11 onward either needs some work or something sigh]
12. Rob ninjas in the palace to find Anna, they have their moment, then... something.
12b. Possibly change this?? Or leave it? Or HALP.
■ Instead of Anna taking over when their mother turns a certain age, what if it's when ANNA turns like. Eighteen or something? I imagine them being around 16 in this AU, though we never established said age. Still, it seems more plausible to me.
■ Maybe along the way Rob is spotted (with Riku) & since Rob has a mark on his head + Riku went missing, the person goes to tell the guards in his village since I'm preeeetty sure everything has been out to the open. There are like reward(s) for details/catching them.
■ Rob & Riku barely get out of that mess (maybe one gets away, to tell the queen[s] the 411), which is Riku's cue to say that something needs to be done (i.e. Rob's idea of staging his own death).
■ A month goes by & Riku is spotted with a ~masked man~ which uh. Makes people jump to conclusions. Rumors start up, people begin to say that RIKU is the one who murdered Rob (which would be plausible, seeing as how they ARE essentially from rivaling kingdoms) and the ~unknown man~ they saw was the person who helped him do it.
Word gets out to R&A's kingdom, Anna hears about this & yeah, he's pissed. Gonna say that he mourned for the longest time before RAGE, because he didn't have anything to rage at just yet (nobody was really to blame at the beginning, etc.), which means the following:
A. Riku's kingdom hears that he was spotted with Rob, which makes the king & queen RAGE. Not at Riku because I imagine they're very prideful (imagining them being the type to defend anything in THEIR kingdom 'cause THEY'RE never wrong), but because he's with ROB. They'll probably think that Rob was the one who ~lured him in~ and this will make them even more pissed.
B. R&A's kingdom hears about Riku being around Rob, cue more RAGE because, well. They're both not exactly... the type of people who are great representatives of their kingdom(s). Rob is basically a betrayer & Riku is as well. But the rules of said kingdoms are prideful, meaning there is no way in hell either is going to say "YEAH LET'S TEAM UP TEEHEE~" Too much conflict between them to begin with.
■ Basically their signals get crossed so it's sort of a... huge misunderstanding. Only not. If that makes any sense at all. Perhaps R&A's mom thinks that this was their (the other kingdom's) idea all along? To be sneaky bastards or... something like that.
But yes, when Anna hears about Riku & the ~masked man~ & how they "killed" Rob, that's why he'll be like WAR WAR WAR I WANT TO SEE BLOOD GD IT. Though if their mother doesn't want that (though at this point it might be a different story?) then Anna will remind her that they (the other kingdom) are probably staging their war tactics right now, that they need to have the upper hand, etc. Which is why Anna wants to announce it before THEY do, because uh. DIVINE JUSTICE.
So he's essentially going to be up against Rob and Riku, but he doesn't know it, of course.
■ ... hm hm hm. How about Riku and Rob (& the heir) thinks that everything is going pretty smoothly, then they come back and are like "SHIT WHAT'S GOING ON THERE'S A WAR?! WE WERE AWAY FOR LIKE, EVER, BUT SERIOUSLY, WHAT." Because I'm assuming they'd avoid all possible contact with anyone from anywhere & would take the "back roads", so to say. Which means they'd be lost from all human contact. No knowledge of a war even starting.
Though I'm going to say on the eve of the war Rob does the visiting thing, Anna BAWS and says he did a terrible thing (after Rob comes back he'll go back to being him, simply because he was only blinded by, you guessed it, RAGE), they hug and kiss and cuddle and lalala whatever.
THEN Rob can explain as much as he can for the night, which includes the heir. Now why the hell would we need an heir in the first place, other than her glaring at me in the back of my mind?
Well, for one Rob needs a good reason to run off. If he runs off just to run off it would be like... a spoiled kid not getting what he wants so he runs away from home. Sure, he has motives behind it, but I like the idea of him being tipped off. Anyway, I'm going to say that Anna once told Rob that he just wants everything to stay the same. That he selfishly wants them to just be them & let that be that. Basically he doesn't want to rule, and if he doesn't rule he doesn't want ROB to rule because it'll change everything. Though he knows he has to do it, which is why he doesn't rebel or anything. Take it in stride, etc. ... not that he's opposed to marrying Rob, of course, which he'd explain in full detail like the good boy he is, it's just that there are so many circumstances surrounding said marriage & the bad baggage that comes with it..
■ Hm. This makes me think that Anna... actually really does love their mother. A lot. Maybe he feels sorry for her in a lot of ways, but I get the feeling that he adores her because she IS his mother. Yet another reason why he lets her do what she pleases with him.
■ ... so back to the heir. Rob wouldn't want anything to happen to Anna, right? Knowing that Anna doesn't want that kind of life would fuel him to do something about it, obviously. So I think. Hm. The only peaceful way to go about it ('cause just flat-out attacking a kingdom without any motives behind it other than "I'm saving my brother from certain emotional doom" doesn't work) would to try to find someone who is rightfully supposed to take over. Their mother is old enough (not like, granny old, just oldER) and the heir is old enough to rightfully take over according to their laws, but then that's where the kingdom itself splits in half after Rob
SO BASICALLY:
1. R&A's mom tells Rob he's not a proper suitor/he's not a good image for them or w/e. Cue him being banashed from their kingdom.
2. Now that Rob can't really... do anything about that, he gets told about another child of the previous wife, smart Rob figures everything out (if he brings her back then their mother has to step down from the throne, meaning Anna would be safe, meaning they'd all live HAPPILY EVER AFTER~).
3. Rob leaves! Baw from Anna.
4. Anna, while Rob is gone, gets reeled into meeting people who will take Rob's place instead. He meets Riku, stuff happens, lalala Riku decided to go off to find Rob.
5. Riku finds Rob after x-amount of time & tells him what he needs to tell him. Like uh. What's going on, that R&A's mom is trying to find a proper suitor for Anna, that he was chosen as one of them but decided that he'd rather find Rob & tell him this 'cause he's... already met Anna and sort of understand that it's not what he wants.
6. Riku & Rob go along their merry little adventure ('cause Riku wants to stick around & help him whether he likes it or not, dohoho).
7. Someone spots Riku & Rob, they barely get out of THAT mess, which leads to them needing a cover-up somehow.
8. Cue Rob's faked death 'cause Riku just ran away, he isn't really... the biggest part of this mess. Meaning they're moreso after ROB, not him, and he's cocky and thinks it doesn't matter yadda yadda aka he's just being himself. [or insert ideas here]
9. Anna hears about Rob's death, time to mourn for over 9000 years, etc. he won't get pissed until he finds out WHO supposedly "killed him".
[this part needs more work... help help help help my brain is not working properly]
10. Along the way they get spotted again by someone from R&A's kingdom, but this time Riku is with hidden!Rob, who is mistaken for an assassin or something. Cue them thinking Riku's kingdom was out to get them the entire time, blah blah blah while Riku's kingdom is sort of uh. Behind on the times. News doesn't travel THAT quickly in such a small span of time. They still think Rob manipulated Riku somehow, etc. they're still pissed about that.
[/end needing more work]
11. Rob finds the heir, they're going back to the kingdom finally, and they go home only to notice that... there's something off. Why in the world are there soldiers everywhere, etc.
[dunno if we need to add some more stuff here or something 'cause from #11 onward either needs some work or something sigh]
12. Rob ninjas in the palace to find Anna, they have their moment, then... something.
12b. Possibly change this?? Or leave it? Or HALP.
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MARRIAGE SITUATION
I actually like the idea that they might get married! -- but even beyond that, since Anna is easily the most important person in Rob's live, I don't see Rob being too opposed to it. In fact, he might be relieved? 'cause it'd take literally over 9000 years for him to approve of a proper "husband" (or wife, doesn't matter) for Anna. So when mother dearest suggested it to him, he probably took it in a stride, even agreed, which... might have been a surprise to the mother since she almost constantly butts head with him constantly.
Just a tidbit on the mother though - I kind of want... the mother to really love R&A, just in a twisted way. She could know she's not "good enough" to rule, so she pushes that "privliege" onto R&A, etc. etc. FOR THEIR OWN GOOD or whatever. It's easier for someone to act vicious/manipulative if they think they're doing the ~*right thing*~, so.
This probably happened when they were younger (much younger?) or something. Maybe 10? Or 12-ish.
BANISHMENT
Now, let's say mommy loves R&A. I don't know why she'd banish Rob? So he'd probably take the initiative to leave the kingdom (even if she didn't love him, he'd probably take the first step). But he wouldn't leave without telling Anna, so he'd probably tell Anna? Like, even if even if it was a short goodbye "I have a mission see you in a while" or something like that. Just. Promising to come back, which adds to Anna's RAGE later on.
Yes.
HEIR-FINDING
THIS... needs a lot of work. It's what I see as the weakest part of this whole thing? I guess Rob could do a lot of snooping after he realizes mommy wants to put them on the throne (& he knows Anna doesn't want that). So he asks around and/or looks in the library or whatever. Information gathering, etc. He starts really getting politics because of this (& by doing this, he's also able to protect Anna in a sense too, I guess, since I'd imagine there'd always be people out there that are jealous of R&A's position with their bloodline & all.) At the moment, Rob's purpose in life is just... to protect Anna. And to make sure Anna is happy. Etc. Anyway, he does that for a few years, finally gets a wind that there might be a heir.
Okay, but here... I was thinking maybe he did some searching on his own without leaving the kingdom for a bit. Like, he'd do it on his "free time" or whatnot. It's only when he realizes that he can't do it on his own that he'd turn to Riku for help or something. This period of time would really strain him, so he'd turn to Anna for support a lot, etc. I JUST WANT MORE CUDDLE TIMES OKAY.
& uh. What else. The "staged death"... maybe the heir is in Riku's kingdom? I mean, since the two kingdoms are kinda... enemies, what better place to hide the heir, right? & since Rob's turned out to become a prominent figure (not just in name, but because he did that snooping politically), so Riku's gotta sneak Rob in. Before this sneaking happens, Rob goes & has that short goodbye scene with Anna & THEN OKAY DEATH SCENE HERE WE GO
"DEATH" SCENE
Just using your scenario here. Rob could have laid low for a few months to get the people used to the idea that Rob is... missing. Later on, Riku manages to sneak Rob into his kingdom, but someone finds out about it, so they gotta cover it up, etc. & then the Masked Wonder Rob makes his entrance.
But since people swore that Riku was traveling with "Rob" before, they just. Assume that Riku killed him since "masked man" is pretty suspicious, etc. I'unno. orz
WAR STUFF
What you have is good to me? So not much to say. Just reiterating that I REALLY LIKE ANNA HERE.
HEIR STUFF
Riku & Rob probably kept tabs on everything that's going on or whatever, etc. etc. They realize the kingdom's getting way too close to war, whatever. I guess by then they could have found the heir by now & Rob might get to the point of pleading with her 'cause... Anna. Anna in a war. Anna LEADING a war. Loooots of bad pings, etc. Pride doesn't compare to Anna in the long run.
DRAMATIC RETURN
REUNION SCENE AWW (looking forward to this, dude)
... that's it for my commentary on the backstory. The rest, we can talk it out?
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