bakerstreet | The lady of House Atreides

Companion to Royalty Meme

There's one truth you must know of royalty: though power may lay in their hands, the crown is a cage. Whether you've always been noble, came into this position recently by complete surprise, or a simple person caught in the fray, you're realizing that leaders actually lead very little - even down to choosing who they spend their most intimate moments with. From eternal bonds of matrimonies to the distractions provided by courtesans, the people behind the throne make the rules. They cannot risk losing control of their most elevated and strategically placed pawn with a match gone wrong, which could create a domino effect and doom possibly thousands.

So, what part do you play in this game?

Lifetime Royal: This is what you've been raised to do.
Sudden Royal: You just learned of your position, which has been secret from you your entire life, or you unexpectedly inherited the job.
Spouse: You're to be married to nobility.
Concubine or Courtesan: For the royal, you're to be a sexual diversion.
Unaffiliated: You're either a lower-ranking noble or a peasant, but you're free from all the machinations of the shadowy cabal...for now.

How willing are you?

Completely Willing: Either you love the person you know you'll be matched with, or you're excited about the possibilities.
Wary: There's no choice in the matter for you, so you may as well approach this situation cautiously.
Unwilling: You didn't want to be matched up with someone. At all. Ever.

What path will you follow, once you're set upon it (there is, after all, little choice for the chosen ones)?

Prepared for This: Either you're a royal and have been one since birth, or you knew you'd marry or sexually entertain one.
Make Up for Lost Time: This life wasn't the one you lived until now, but times change. You're important or will be a companion to a very important person, like it or not.
A Sacrificial Token: Somewhere along the line, your people royally pissed off someone in a key position. So, in an attempt to smooth out relations, you've been given away as a gift to the highest power, either as a spouse for a political alliance or as a concubine or courtesan.
Pomp and Circumstance: All proper, this arrangement. You're to be married, as you've been promised to each other by your respective families. Consummation on the wedding night is key. Perhaps it's encouraged that the two of you act as if this is really a love match, to add insult to injury.
Genuine Love: Speaking of love matches, congratulations! You're one of the incredible few who gets to marry for love, so your lovemaking should be all the more enthused.
Only a Plaything: Heavy is the head who wears the crown, so you're expected to take on some side entertainment even if that's not your preference. Or you could be the courtesan...such a pretty, perfumed word for what the role really is...
Volunteered: You wanted this position, either of spouse or concubine. Your reasons are your own.
Cruel: You're powerful. You can do what you want to this person, a mere ant in comparison to you.
Forbidden: Even the most powerful can't have everything they want, such as someone who's promised to or with another; taking them for your own would create strife and destroy alliances, even to the point of tempting war.
Work Your Way Up: There's always a right tool for the job and you find no shame in using your own special tools to better your life.
Give Me an Heir: Whether you're legitimate or a concubine used as a surrogate, you must help in continuing the royal line.
Mutual Benefit: Both of you are comfortable with this arrangement because you're either compatible or it takes the pressure off of you otherwise.
Want to be More: Though you've been relegated to courtesan, you want to be there one and only spouse...no matter if that role is already filled or not.
Growing Affection: It may have started as all puppet strings and power plays, but now, you lo- care for them.
Loved Before: Before you became so important and powerful, before you became the focus of all the world, it seems, they were there with you. They were with you then, and you want them to be with you now. They ground you and they care about you for you.
Because You're Normal: They're outside of all the court's nonsense, and that's appealing to you. It's like a breath of fresh air.
WILDCARD

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(Canonically he essentially is Stolas's courtesan, but he can be unaffiliated or play with your character being a royal in hell that's aware of what's going on between him and Stolas if you don't want to play out a romantic tie with Blitzo.)

[the royalty.]

[ooc: Open to discussion.]

(Can be either the royal or the companion.)

[ companion to rey palpatine? idk let's au something! ]

[ooc; let's discuss options.]

[ooc; very open to au's. let's discuss options.]

[Assumed cr preferred. Can AU Connor into other canons so long as he stays an android]

Edited 2022-04-15 03:44 (UTC)

[I think it would be interesting to have the monk who probably isn't use to royalty become some advisor or companion to a royal person. Totally confused, but willing to make it work.]

[AUs and assumed CR welcome.]

[ooc: open to discussion.]

[Open to characters over 18. He's either unaffiliated--a bodyguard or other employee of the crown (or, at least, that's his cover story)--or a lifetime royal.]

[A lifetime royal, naturally.]

[Noctis sleeps quite a bit for someone who isn't seen very often doing a lot, and always seems tired for someone who sleeps so much.

But in his dreams he is traversing perilous landscapes, fighting the nastiest monsters, sailing across vast oceans and leaping through windy skies— many of those dreams ending in nightmares, with her in his arms, losing strength, floating away on waves of blue petals. Lifetimes of dreams and nightmares play over and over in every sleep, different each time, the same each time.

When he wakes up this time, Lunafreya is there, just ahead of him, surrounded by those same petals; a courtyard channels the sunlight down as if it was made to make her sparkle, and Noctis has to smile, sleepy though it comes. It's short-lived, though, as an ache shoots through Noctis's shoulder from the strange tilt of his head during his nap. He straightens up, groaning, yawning, stretching— as he separates himself from the frame of the gazebo 'window' he's been sleeping against.

Stepping forward on his uneven post-injury gait (the same way he walks in every dream, he'd notice, if he bothered to remember) Noctis approaches Lunafreya, stepping as gingerly as he can through grass and around flowers.]

Luna.

[His voice is soft, warm, round. It's almost low as a whisper, like the sound of his steps shifting through the grass.]

What are you up to?

( OOC: He fits the role of backwater country lad who can be companion to royalty, or finds himself in a position of power by marrying into it and complains the whole way about how silly nobles are. You will not make him wear the fancy clothes (just throw his out behind his back, that's the canon way.) )

[ The royal. ]

[ business as usual. ]

The lady of House Atreides

Blitzo | Helluva Boss | OTA

luci(fer), the devil. ota.

Ayame Sohma | Fruits Basket

Nico Acosta | OC | OTA

Evie Montgomery | OC | OTA

Amelia Atwater | OC | OTA

Charles Desjardins | OC | OTA

Renge Houshakuji | Ouran High School Host Club | ota

Akko Kagari | Little Witch Academia | ota

Nabiki Tendo | Ranma 1/2 | ota

rey | star wars

Numar Duvaineth | OC | OTA

elia martell | asoiaf | ota

Duo Maxwell | Gundam Wing | M/M

Zell Dincht | Final Fantasy VIII | M/M

anna of arendelle | frozen | ota

Tifa Lockhart | Final Fantasy VII/VIIR | M/F

Noctis Lucis Caelum | Final Fantasy XV | M/M

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf | M/M

Alina Starkov | Grishaverse | M/F

margaery tyrell | asoiaf/got | ota

jyn erso || rogue one || ota

cassian andor || rogue one || ota

rey || star wars || ota

ben solo || star wars || ota

bodhi rook || rogue one || ota

rose tico || star wars || ota

rk800 "connor" | detroit: become human

no subject

Shuichi Saihara | DRV3 | OTA

Jyn Erso | Rogue One | OTA

Cassia Andor | Rogue One | OTA

Essa Erso-Andor | Rogue One OC | OTA

Alvin Svent | Tales of Xillia

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret | Final Fantasy XV

2-ish 15-ish

Mat Cauthon | The Wheel of Time

Cassian Andor | Rogue One | OTA

Rey | Star Wars | OTA

Somnus | FFXV

anthony bridgerton | bridgerton

Ben Solo | Star Wars | OTA

Elia Broch | Star Wars OC | OTA

Isa Trevyal | Star Wars OC | OTA