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2020-03-06
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Heirs to the Crown | Drabbles

Summary:

The queen had stood by the window for a while by now, pondering over the letter in her hands with crinkled eyebrows and staring out at the balcony as though it had personally offended her. The afternoon sun was beating down on the marble in a blinding fashion, so Endres didn't like to watch his sister for an excessive amount of time and instead dedicated his attention again to the foreword the medical scholars had asked him to write. They remained like this for a few minutes of silence until Malika turned around with a sigh and observed the prince's writing.


Vignettes and short drabbles that may or may not be shown in the comic for one or another reason. Tags & rating might change but I will put a notice on the corresponding chapters as well.

Notes:

Soooo... I'm actually doing this as it seems ^^;

I'm currently scripting the comic these drabbles are based on, these are scenes that are not always canon-compliant, some are pairings/scenes that I personally like but I know won't happen in the canon story-line, some will actually be canon, some happen in-between the canon story-line, and some might even make it into the comic in one or another form. I won't tell you which is which because partially I don't know myself yet, and it prevents blatand spoilers to be absolutely obvious. I sometimes just like to write them down in prose just to remember the mood I was going for, and I thought I'd share!

If you still think even a hint of what might happen is too much, you might not wanna read this. However, most of the stuff already got somewhat spoilt on twitter etc. so idk how effective a spoiler warning would be. I currently plan to post Heirs to the Crown on Tapas but I really don't know how long it will take for me to get there.
Since I don't expect anyone to know who the characters are or how they look like, I actually have an interactive character chart.
If you want to learn more about their world, you can read a bit on World Anvil, which is my worldbuilding wiki more or less.

I try to keep the vignettes quite bite-sized so I don't overwhelm you guys with too many characters or anything. I hope you enjoy!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: A Prince's Agony

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The queen had stood by the window for a while by now, pondering over the letter in her hands with crinkled eyebrows and staring out at the balcony as though it had personally offended her. The afternoon sun was beating down on the marble in a blinding fashion, so Endres didn't like to watch his sister for an excessive amount of time and instead dedicated his attention again to the foreword the medical scholars had asked him to write. They remained like this for a few minutes of silence until Malika turned around with a sigh and observed the prince's writing.

"It is no use," she said, obviously still unsatisfied with the content of the letter, "I hope you don't mind a short vacation to Chunnan to clear up this mess."

"Chunnan?!"

It wasn't like Endres explicitly disliked that town but there was only so much religious zealots he could bear. Malika scoffed.

"You know that the royal family couldn't participate in the Ianh Te for almost a decade by now. They are becoming impatient without the blessing."

"Cousin Seto is younger than me and much more suitable."

Endres hadn't really seen the boy since after the latter's naming ceremony but he knew that Master Liwang always seemed very fond of the youth. If he remembered correctly he was about sixteen by now and probably would be excited to travel to the Eastern provinces.

"It is not like you are too old either. Take Cousin Seto as your company if you will, he is an intelligent boy so it will compensate for Ardseong not coming with you. I need him to take care of something else."

Now it was Endres' time to frown. He at least had hoped to drag Caspar with him into the nuisance that was Ianh Te but apparently his sister denied him that specific pleasure. The more embarrassing thing, he just realised, was that Malika immediately knew Endres would choose him over anyone else. If it was this obvious to his sister already, he should seriously make his favourism less obvious.

"I will propose your majesty's suggestion to his family," Endres said, pulling out a new piece of paper to start the letter, the queen nodding in satisfaction.