The Plalipian Royal Academy
HEYA tumblr void! Long time no post!
I've been super crazy busy lately, but I missed posting and yapping on here! I'm excited to get back on here, so if your feed gets bombarded with a bunch of posts, I apologize in advance :,D!
SO what I wanted to yap about today is the Plalipian Royal Academy! I talk about it a lot, and it's super important to the story, but I've never totally explained it all. Not that it's super complicated or a crazy concept or anything (you can pretty much understand what it is from the name alone) but there are some fun lore things connected to it, so I thought I'd ramble! Hopefully, this sounds vaguely coherent L OL
The purpose of the Plalipian Royal Academy is to train and prepare young Plalipians for eventual King/Queenhood, making them capable monarchs for the people, as well as trained and knowledgeable. Situated at the planets capital country, Plalipia, the school runs all year round, accepting admissions consistently. This makes it so any particular student can be accepted into the school at any point in the year, and begin classes almost immedietly. This also leads most of the students to have varying graduation dates, with not enough overlap to do an official "graduaton ceremony" for a particular class.
Any Plalipian of at least 21 years of age is eligible to apply, (even those not of royal lineage) and if accepted, will be enrolled in a 4 year program, typically graduating at age 25. The 4 year program is not very flexible, with students required to complete the program in exactly the 4 years time period given, no more or less is accepted. Because of this, while the school isn't competitive per say, there is a pressure to stay on top of all assignments/classes, as to not fall behind and get kicked out.
The actual application process consists of 3 parts:
Letter of Recommendation/vouch of character
Interview with a member of staff
The letter of recommendation and interview actually don't have much of a bearing whether the student gets in or not, as the admissions process almost all hinges on the Exam. The Exam consists of a lot of what the student will be learning within the school, and judges the student's readiness to become an eventual monarch. The test is notoriously difficult, and can only be taken once.
Special Privileges of Those With Royal Lineage
While anyone is eligible and encouraged to apply, the statistics of students who come from a long line of royals to students of common birth are staggering. Additionally, children of royal families are typically enrolled in private schooling from a young age, of which they are trained and taught exactly what they need to know for the exam, as royal families have access to the exam's format and questions.
Moreover, while denied, there are many rumors of students with royal blood being admitted despite doing poorly on the exams, or wealthy families paying large sums to skip the examination process altogether.
After graduation, students are given an Academy diploma, and officially gain a royal title of Prince or Princess. Becoming potential "heirs" to the thrones in the varying contries of the planet, they are now eligible to succeed monarchs who pass away or retire.
When a particular monarch retires, and they have no elegible heir, the people choose from the pool of Plalipian Royal Academy graduates to fill the empty throne. For many countries across the planet, there have been many diverse and different rulers over the span of many years, as monarchs typically retire without an heir that has attended the academy.
Not all have been this way however, with the most extreme case of this is with the Stellae royal family, who's direct bloodline have ruled the capital country of Plalipia for generations.
Royals Who Choose Not To Go
The children of the current monarchs are given and are able to indulge in various "royal" privileges, the biggest one being their wealth/royal inheritance. If a particular child decides not to go to the Academy, their inheritance is legally revoked, and they are unable to access it. For a lot of upcoming students with a royal line, this is one of the prime motivators for attendance. (*cough cough POMELO cough cough*)
Hopefully that makes sense! It was tricky for me to try to lay it all out into words for the first time, (which is why I'm trying to do this more!) but hopefully this boring little dump was vaguely nice to read 😭 !
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