#murder queen

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1st March 2021

Fandom and Jensen's friends and costars wish his happy birthday. To the point of trending on both twitter and tumblr. Jensen is active on twitter, for the first time in months, liking birthday wishes tweets.

Some people start fandom wars under Antony Starr's tweets (stop it. He is not a source of Jensen knowledge, just don't ok?)

Kim Rhodes say again on tiktok that she didn't see the finale. Says that cast has own convention groupchat.

Last entrence ticket for virtual meet and greet with Jensen gets auctioned for over 1700$. Fandom dissapointinted with con organisers, and rightfully so.

What will happen tomorrow?

I’ve been having a lot of random, rambling thoughts especially after the latest chapter of TRR.

Something bugs me about the whole MurderKing/MurderQueen scenario. With all the dedication towards the stability of the throne, and after watching too much stuff on the History channel, I’m wondering if there might be a third group sprung on us, either at the end of book two or at the probable beginning of a book thee.

What I’m picturing is some sort of “secret society” – sort of an Illuminati/Mafia cross – that so long as the ruling monarch lets them do what they need to do behind the scenes, all is peaceful but once certain “lines” are crossed, they send in their people.

Let’s look at Constantine’s 3 queens. Leo’s mother “couldn’t handle court pressure and left” (I don’t know why but I suspect or thought I read somewhere that she actually died – I can’t imagine Leo having no contact with her once she left for his entire life, if she was still alive – he seems to be the kind that would have looked for her during his wanderings). Liam’s mother, apparently a popular queen, was murdered. Then we have Regina, who steps in, doesn’t have to have children since there is an heir and a spare, just do queenly duties. She is apparently “perfectly groomed” to be the queen.

Now let’s look at the next generation. Leo is to be king, Liam is the spare. Madeline spends a lot of time with the royal family, apparently being groomed by Regina as future queen because Adelaide seems to be a bit of a “loose cannon” to raise the perfect future queen. Olivia is there but she is a wild card. She’s someone that Regina most likely can’t control other than teaching her “social graces”. Olivia is still allowed to be in the mix because Liam, at that point, isn’t heir. Madeline sails through Leo’s social season with the queen’s support, possibly aided by the fact that Leo doesn’t want to be king, and he isn’t interested in any of the other women enough to actually favor anyone himself (in the end letting Regina’s “choice” of Madeline sail through).

Then Leo abdicates, throwing a wrench in all of the plans. Madeline is “out” as fiancée. Liam then has to endure the social season and Olivia, as a childhood friend, is high placed for being his most likely choice. But Madeline could possibly still squeak through since there seems to have never been any romance between Olivia and Liam. The MC comes from absolutely nowhere, making all plans go awry. After what happens with Leo and the ROE MC, Regina decides (or is told) to approach this situation more cautiously, observe, and feel her out.

Suddenly Constantine decides to abdicate. The MC is still too unknown and Olivia too much of a wild card. Madeline has to be queen, hence the attempts at blackmail. As a member of the nobility, Olivia takes the threat seriously and backs out while the MC doesn’t take it seriously.

And then, here we are.

Bringing Drake into the mix, he is Liam’s best friend, but he’s also to a degree seeing Bastien as a father figure. Bastien very easily could have brought Drake into full on training to be a royal bodyguard and set him up to be Liam’s personal bodyguard. Instead he keeps him out of it. If there’s a background power pulling the strings behind the throne, Bastien is probably very aware of it and by not getting Drake into guard training leaves Drake free and out of the loop to really be by Liam’s side. Drake is free to act in Liam’s best interests and move as Liam’s best friend – he’s not subject to the whims of king, queen, or any possible secret society.

I wonder if the assassination attempt on Liam was actually a “warning message” to someone. “Keep in line and no one gets hurt.” It’s a very strong message. At the time Bastien is still assigned to Leo and needs someone he both he and Liam trust implicitly – that’s Drake.

The MC’s setup at the hands of Bastien would have come at the request of this society. It’s possible even that Olivia’s parents were part of the society, then murdered when they refused to take orders. The society could have/would have the blackmail material on them easily. Not so simple with the MC. It’s possible there was an “or else” involved with regards to Bastien’s orders to set up the MC. Bastien isn’t married and doesn’t have children (that we know of) but there could be a sibling or parent in danger if he doesn’t comply – or even possibly a threat towards Savannah (since he was a father figure to Drake and her after their father died and it’s possible he also knew where she went/what happened).

It’s even possible that Constantine’s retirement is coming about because of this “secret society”. Perhaps they “ordered” it so they could get a very early grip on Liam. Or perhaps he’s ill and trying to escape it, even if that leaves Liam at their mercy before he’s ready.

I know that for some the MurderKing/MurderQueen scenario seems most likely, but something just makes me feel that it’s too easy for that to be the situation. Even Madeline’s comment about women knowing their place makes me feel like there is some sort of group behind everything. It almost reminds me of “Dune”. I don’t know if anyone has ever seen the movie/read the books, but in the end the Bene Gesseret are the women behind the power, providing women who become queens and consorts while still being loyal to the society and its directives. Their main thing is the bloodlines, not the actual ruling, but setting up the queens to help maintain power in the kingdom seems like a secret society thing. I’m sure if the situation were flipped and Constantine had 2 daughters, the society would’ve provided a “prince consort” groomed by them instead.

Madeline’s only driving force is being queen. She doesn’t care about love. Her duty/job is to become the next queen. She’s so matter-of-fact about it that it’s creepy. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Leo or Liam. She’s not interested in them, let alone a relationship. Which then makes me wonder about Regina’s relationship behind the scenes with Constantine. Were they in love? Did she even pretend to be in love with him or try to win his heart? Or was it a “business arrangement”? Leo shows her respect as his father’s queen but she’s obviously not a close stepmother. Liam doesn’t even really seem to be that “close” to her as if she always kept her stepsons at arm’s length. Like I said in another thread, I suspect that Madeline is fine having the MC as Liam’s lover because perhaps she also has no interest in sleeping with Liam or even having children. The MC’s presence could give her an excuse to say “Unfortunately I am unable to bear children but the MC has kindly offered to be a surrogate so the kingdom will have heirs,” and then later allow her to be ‘Nanny’ so Madeline doesn’t have to be involved in that part of the title ‘queen’. I wonder even if she prefers women or is asexual, but she knows her “duty” is to become queen so her personal preferences don’t even matter.

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Shake your bones

 Larissa R. / larissapinupart /Murder Queen