Electro Queen
Minstrel
Hello everyone. My name is the Electro Queen, or EQ as my subjects refer to me as, and this is my first time posting a question on this website.
My question (well, questions actually, I’ve got more than one) is primarily centred around morality and partly around royalty. It’s mainly for a mini plot that’s part of this huge fantasy story I’m currently writing. It’s quite big for a mini plot though, so to help make answering the questions easier, here’s the abridged version of said plot:
Story takes place in kingdom full of Pyro Mages. Queen of kingdom gives birth to two baby boys at roughly the same time as each other. King nurtures firstborn into being a selfish, heartless and merciless king just like he currently is. Second son gets constantly ignored by everyone except his mother who eventually divorces the king and steps down from her position as queen. Second son grows up to be a depressed, resentful man thanks in no small part to his mother’s absence from most of his life, his brother’s constant belittling and boastfulness and his father’s unsupportive and abusive attitude towards him. Second son marries a beautiful woman who gives birth to a beautiful baby girl but she dies during the birthing process. Firstborn son also marries a beautiful woman (who’s only doing so to get her and her family out of poverty) who gives birth to a baby boy seven 8 years after the other son’s wife gave birth to her child and died. The resentful brother formulates a plan to train and groom his daughter into a merciless, assassin-like killer that’ll kill the current king in the middle of the night while he drugs the 10-year-old prince to sleep, sneaks him out of the kingdom and once he becomes king, deliver the child back to the kingdom and trick everyone into thinking he had saved him from a kidnapper. The plan goes wrong however, and the daughter fails to kill the king due to the queen’s interference and the second born son is caught before he can make his way out of the kingdom with the prince. The second born son tries to kill the king in a last-ditch-effort by throwing a dagger at him but the queen jumps in the way to save both the son and her husband. The daughter of the second born son is imprisoned deep in the kingdom’s darkest dungeon and the king explains to her that the reason he hasn’t killed her for treason and murder (she didn’t kill the king, but she did kill the soldiers guarding him and his wife’s bedroom) is because he can’t bring himself to end the life of his brother’s only child and he’s perfectly willing to forgive her crimes and release her if she’s willing to hear him out. The girl has been so thoroughly corrupted by his father’s teachings however, and her belief that the firstborn son is pure evil is so strong that she refuses to believe or even pay attention to anything he says (the fact that the king’s guards shot her father to death with several arrows doesn’t help either).
Ok so… that was a lot to go through, even for a shorthand version. I skipped over several bits of the mini plot that I didn’t think were important to bring up but everything you just read were more or less the only things you needed to know in order to answer my questions. Speaking of which, here they are in order of most important to least important:
Q1: So the daughter of the second born son was trained from the age of six for 10 years by her father to be a merciless, cold-blooded killer conditioned into believing that the current king was a spiteful, selfish man who’s oppressive rule over the kingdom held everyone back from living their lives and achieving their full potential. She accepted everything she was told without question, never got the chance to develop her own views or opinions on anything in her life and genuinely believed that she was doing a good thing by killing the current king and that killing anyone else who impeded that goal was ultimately for the greater good (she felt bad about killing the king’s guards but was under the impression that that was a necessary evil). This girl, simply put, was not allowed to live a life one would describe as satisfying or fulfilling. Now one of the main themes of my story is redemption and many other supposedly evil characters in the plot get the chance to make up for their past crimes and join the side of good by the end of their arcs. Given everything I’ve just told you about the second son’s daughter, is the idea of her getting redeemed believable? I know this is a fictional world home to magical beings and creatures where real-life laws and politics don’t hold nearly as much importance, but I don’t want to write another one of those woke TV show characters where one of the female antagonists gets redeemed and forgiven for their crimes despite doing things that anyone with half a brain would find unforgivable (E.G. the Diamonds from Steven Universe or Reva from Kenobi).
Q2: So the kingdom’s previous king and queen had two sons and the firstborn son is obviously the prince but before he becomes the new king, what would the younger brother be known as? Is there a title for that? Can there be two princes? When the older son has a child what does that make the younger son? What does that make his daughter as well actually?
Q3: So like I said before the younger brother’s plan is to have his daughter kill the current king in the middle of the night while he sneaks the son out of the kingdom. Theoretically speaking, if the plan actually did work as intended, would the right to rule the kingdom go to the younger brother or the older brother’s wife? Like, what’s valued higher here, birthright or status?
Looking forward to being a part of this amazing website
My question (well, questions actually, I’ve got more than one) is primarily centred around morality and partly around royalty. It’s mainly for a mini plot that’s part of this huge fantasy story I’m currently writing. It’s quite big for a mini plot though, so to help make answering the questions easier, here’s the abridged version of said plot:
Story takes place in kingdom full of Pyro Mages. Queen of kingdom gives birth to two baby boys at roughly the same time as each other. King nurtures firstborn into being a selfish, heartless and merciless king just like he currently is. Second son gets constantly ignored by everyone except his mother who eventually divorces the king and steps down from her position as queen. Second son grows up to be a depressed, resentful man thanks in no small part to his mother’s absence from most of his life, his brother’s constant belittling and boastfulness and his father’s unsupportive and abusive attitude towards him. Second son marries a beautiful woman who gives birth to a beautiful baby girl but she dies during the birthing process. Firstborn son also marries a beautiful woman (who’s only doing so to get her and her family out of poverty) who gives birth to a baby boy seven 8 years after the other son’s wife gave birth to her child and died. The resentful brother formulates a plan to train and groom his daughter into a merciless, assassin-like killer that’ll kill the current king in the middle of the night while he drugs the 10-year-old prince to sleep, sneaks him out of the kingdom and once he becomes king, deliver the child back to the kingdom and trick everyone into thinking he had saved him from a kidnapper. The plan goes wrong however, and the daughter fails to kill the king due to the queen’s interference and the second born son is caught before he can make his way out of the kingdom with the prince. The second born son tries to kill the king in a last-ditch-effort by throwing a dagger at him but the queen jumps in the way to save both the son and her husband. The daughter of the second born son is imprisoned deep in the kingdom’s darkest dungeon and the king explains to her that the reason he hasn’t killed her for treason and murder (she didn’t kill the king, but she did kill the soldiers guarding him and his wife’s bedroom) is because he can’t bring himself to end the life of his brother’s only child and he’s perfectly willing to forgive her crimes and release her if she’s willing to hear him out. The girl has been so thoroughly corrupted by his father’s teachings however, and her belief that the firstborn son is pure evil is so strong that she refuses to believe or even pay attention to anything he says (the fact that the king’s guards shot her father to death with several arrows doesn’t help either).
Ok so… that was a lot to go through, even for a shorthand version. I skipped over several bits of the mini plot that I didn’t think were important to bring up but everything you just read were more or less the only things you needed to know in order to answer my questions. Speaking of which, here they are in order of most important to least important:
Q1: So the daughter of the second born son was trained from the age of six for 10 years by her father to be a merciless, cold-blooded killer conditioned into believing that the current king was a spiteful, selfish man who’s oppressive rule over the kingdom held everyone back from living their lives and achieving their full potential. She accepted everything she was told without question, never got the chance to develop her own views or opinions on anything in her life and genuinely believed that she was doing a good thing by killing the current king and that killing anyone else who impeded that goal was ultimately for the greater good (she felt bad about killing the king’s guards but was under the impression that that was a necessary evil). This girl, simply put, was not allowed to live a life one would describe as satisfying or fulfilling. Now one of the main themes of my story is redemption and many other supposedly evil characters in the plot get the chance to make up for their past crimes and join the side of good by the end of their arcs. Given everything I’ve just told you about the second son’s daughter, is the idea of her getting redeemed believable? I know this is a fictional world home to magical beings and creatures where real-life laws and politics don’t hold nearly as much importance, but I don’t want to write another one of those woke TV show characters where one of the female antagonists gets redeemed and forgiven for their crimes despite doing things that anyone with half a brain would find unforgivable (E.G. the Diamonds from Steven Universe or Reva from Kenobi).
Q2: So the kingdom’s previous king and queen had two sons and the firstborn son is obviously the prince but before he becomes the new king, what would the younger brother be known as? Is there a title for that? Can there be two princes? When the older son has a child what does that make the younger son? What does that make his daughter as well actually?
Q3: So like I said before the younger brother’s plan is to have his daughter kill the current king in the middle of the night while he sneaks the son out of the kingdom. Theoretically speaking, if the plan actually did work as intended, would the right to rule the kingdom go to the younger brother or the older brother’s wife? Like, what’s valued higher here, birthright or status?
Looking forward to being a part of this amazing website