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Hi! If I ever decide to reopen, it wouldn't be a problem so long as your English is understandable, but right now we're still on hiatus here at TRE. I do appreciate all the love on my bios and the new followers though :) 

Prince Alfred prefers to be known as Alfie, just as he prefers to be known as anything but the twin to mean-spirited Poppy. He's frequently found spending some time with her younger victims, trying to reassure them that Poppy doesn't mean what she says and improve the general way that other royals view their family and country. He's tried his best to distance himself from his sister; he's painfully aware that her behavior is really reflecting poorly on their kingdom and that if he can't step up and show people what it really means to be an Emerson. He believes the throne must be won with understanding, not fear or intimidation, and hopes that he can use that to quietly slip past his sister in the race for the throne. Alfie is very much into history, and he's been using the lessons his family history has illuminated for him to guide him in his quest to rule. Just two generations ago, Pitcairn was able to negotiate a treaty to gain its independence from Great Britain, but the peace between them is awkward at best, and under the wrong leadership, either kingdom could easily find a reason to go to war with the other. Alfie isn't a huge fan of Oliver or Hollis Ackerley as potential rulers of Britain, but he knows that his sister ruling opposite one of them would spell disaster for Pitcairn. He loves his sister dearly, but he can't help but hope that the Council gets wind of her terrible behavior so that she will either be forced to behave like a true princess or that she'll be out of the race for the crown. Really, he's only thinking of the best for his kingdom.

Prince Jesoni has been forced to grow up a little too fast for his liking. Six years ago, his parents divorced. Divorces are rare in the royal community, and usually only occur if one spouse has broken the law or wronged the other. In King Udre's case, however, he simply cited "personal reasons" and went on his merry way, leaving Jez and his younger brother Tev to follow along blindly. Their mother was forced to distance herself from her boys, and Jez resents his father for keeping his mother away from him. Since the divorce, King Udre has been more focused on the kingdom and hasn't spent a lot of time with his sons. Jez felt immense pressure to then step in and be a father figure for Tev, since their own father was shirking his responsibilities. Jez's only problem with playing both father and brother is that his time and energy is being spent everywhere except preparing himself for the throne. He loves Tev more than anything in the world, but he wants the throne for himself. He thinks emotionally and mentally that he's better equipped to deal with the challenges that come with the throne than Tev is. However, as his final year at the Academy is starting, he's realizing just how ill-equipped they both are to make a bid for the Fijian throne. They have so few connections to other kingdoms and no idea how to improve the upward mobility of their kingdom. Jez is trying to cram four years of fatherly help and knowledge into less than one year for himself and three years for Tev, using what he can glean from peers, teachers, and anyone else who will help, but it's proving to be more stress than he expected. His escape is his art, which hardly anyone knows about. Jesoni likes to sketch to blow off steam, mostly people and places he's fond of, but he's very private about it. Tev is really the only person who's ever seen him sketch, and to the few other people who know he draws (like best friend Quentin Sals), he only shows finished products; no one's allowed to watch him work. Jez is pretty reserved compared to the rest of his classmates, so it's been - and is still going to be - an uphill climb to get noticed amidst class loudmouths like Oliver Ackerley, or lunkhead jocks like Henrie Lothair. He's not sure if he's up to the challenge, but maybe if he can't beat 'em, he might consider joining 'em...

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Princess Poppy is mean as mean can be… or at least, that's what she overheard some of the freshmen telling each other. But of course, Poppy doesn’t take shit from anybody, especially not some silly freshmen, so she snuck up behind them and started "poking fun". Of course, poking fun is more like ripping apart when you run with - or from - Poppy. With a name so sweet you'd think she would be too, but she loves to take people down a notch or six just for funsies. She likes to watch the little freshmen run away crying after she tells them exactly what they're going to grow up to be - fat, entitled, lazy arses who couldn't keep control of a country even if it was handed to them on a silver platter. Poppy very much feels the pressure though, of the impending responsibility waiting for her. She knows it could only be her to win the throne; her twin brother Alfie is too weak and too wishy-washy, too much of a people-pleaser, to win the throne. She also thinks he might be gay, not that he would ever admit to it if he wanted the throne. She wants to distance herself as much as possible from her brother in public, because if they appear too close it could damage her reputation in more ways than one, but behind closed doors, she really does love him. He's the one person she's always spared from her poison barbs, though she could probably sling the best, most hurtful insults of all at him. And if she's really honest if with herself, she knows Alfred has the smarts to be king, just maybe not the guts. Poppy is arguably the best-traveled royal of her generation - she spent the year before she came to the Academy traveling all across Europe and Asia, and is near fluent in ten languages. Of course, this means some of her favorite insults can't be understood by the average freshman, but Poppy is usually able to get her point across. Poppy's reputation, however, is starting to precede her, and the Council may not be so keen on having a queen who makes her underlings cry for sport. She may need to be a little more careful who she targets, because even royals will tattle to Mummy and Daddy.

Princess Wendy is a people-watcher, a listener rather than a talker, which is rare in a royal. Most people take her for quiet and innocent, so they baby her, treat her with kid gloves, like there are still things in the world she doesn't understand. How very wrong they are, though. Wendy has been quietly listening to the world, watching it, seeing all that it has to offer and all the things people try to hide from her. She's heard about the sordid affairs Jez and Tev Udre's dad has been having, about the so-called prophetic dreams Joelle Clovis has been sneaking upstairs to tell her brother at night, and she could've saved Carolina, Masha, and Georg the heartbreak of Sascha leaving their little polyamorous tryst if only she'd spoken up. Wendy likes to believe that the reason she knows so much is because the universe trusts her. She is very into meditation and introspection, and thinks of communing with nature and the universe as the most necessary and vital part of her day. Some kingdoms have religions, some have old mythologies that have drifted by the wayside, but Wendy has her peacetime. Of course, she has to keep it secret. She tried telling best friend Kenneth Rufford about the whole process, and he just gave her a look that telepathically said, "You're kidding, right?" She played it off and told him it was something she'd seen on TV, and she's never told anybody since. But honestly, she believes that the royal world misunderstands the concept of peace, and thus misunderstands its purpose. However, knowing all that she knows, she knows she cannot say this to anyone, because it would be tantamount to treason and cause to excommunicate her from the royal community. Wendy believes the world could benefit from her leadership, however small her kingdom may be, so as perfect as her sister Faith can be, Wendy has to be better.

Prince Xavier would rather not be a Yount, honestly. He thinks his parents and brother incredibly silly for their uppity attitude, and finds their high standards downright imbecilic. He frequently sneaks out of the castle and makes friends with commoners, and most of the time, has had to keep them secret from his mother, lest she reprimand him. He figures that's the least she'll do anyway, she's very much against punishment of any kind. It's one of the many beliefs he disagrees with her on, which is why he really wouldn't care to be king of his islands. He's intentionally taken a back seat in the race for the throne for multiple reasons, but the primary one is that his views do not mesh with the majority of his people or with his parents before him. Xavier isn't one to be a mover and shaker, so he doesn't want to make his kingdom's policies do a complete 180, which is what would happen if he took the throne, so he figures he'll let Upton take it. Unfortunately, the world doesn't forget a pretty face like his, so it's been a little more difficult than he anticipated to try to fade into the background. A lot of girls have been noticing him recently, too, like Elisabeta Eberle. He couldn't help but notice her eyeing him at the second-year's welcome-back dinner, but he's not particularly interested in her... or really any girl for that matter. He wants to keep his options open until girls start pledging to him. He's not totally sure he only like girls either; he's definitely gotten some vibes from some of the guys in his class that he's about 90% sure are not on the straight and narrow... and he's kinda thinking he might want to pick up what they're laying down, y'know? He just... wants to keep his options open. Yeah.

Prince Upton is just as uppity as his name suggests. Though Wallis & Futuna broke away from France about sixty or so years ago, the French snobbery is still very much present in the character of the locals. His parents have ensured that no matter the state of the economy in their islands, they always lived in the lap of luxury, which Upton rather appreciated. Heavily involved in the international theatre community, Upton is a great talent and has been in many international productions, but his parents have always made it very clear that despite his success, he cannot become distracted and lose sight of the end goal - the throne. The Queen, Upton's mother, loves both him and his brother equally, but when it comes to ruling Wallis and Futuna, Upton just makes more sense. His policies, beliefs, and goals jive much more with not only his parents' way of ruling, but with the desires of his people. And their father? Well, Upton is his favorite, and he believes his oldest son will do the best job of keeping the country independent from France. He and the French king go way back, and he refuses to let that man steal anything more from him. So he has coached Upton into the best shape of his life, mentally and physically, in order to prepare to take the throne. Of course, it helps that Upton and his father share a few key qualities, like their need to look their best. Neither is ever caught without their hair perfectly coiffed or their collar turned down; they always dress just a little nicer than the occasion calls for, so that they are always the best-dressed men in the room. This has garnered Upton some attention with the princesses of the Academy, but thus far, he's never gotten past a second date with any of them. His younger brother, Xavier, seems to be doing better and the only advice he could give his older brother was, "Dude, you're more of a girl than they are. And most girls don't dig that. Be cool." Upton could hardly decipher his brother's common slang, but he denies any reason anyone has ever given him for why he might be unsuccessful with women. So he just carries on and thinks that it's their loss, and he will eventually find the woman who can appreciate the time and care he gives to the way he presents himself in public. Sure, he may be a bit over-dramatic, self-obsessed, and meticulous, but it's all in the quest for the throne, so it's completely justified. Right?

Princess Faith has had a lot of pressure put on her to be the perfect princess, and one day, the perfect queen. You see, a few generations ago, some of the older kingdoms - America, France, Great Britain, in particular - began to colonize some of the smaller islands adrift in the lawless country of the high seas. In America, one of the king's most trusted advisors, Hunter Garrett, was sent to rule over the kingdom's newest colony, the American Samoa. The disconnect between ruler and people became greater and greater until one woman, Tanya Garrett - Faith's grandmother - was able to connect with the natives and staged a coup against the American authority. Small battles were waged, because America didn't care too much about losing the little island, and Samoa became an independent kingdom. Faith has been told time and again how important her leadership is, and how much she reminds people of her grandmother, she is really starting to feel just how much people expect of her. She's the typical older sister, a bit bossy, very type A, definitely the perfectionist, but she's also very protective of her little sister, Wendy. She's been mothering the girl pretty much since she was born. She didn't start out a perfectionist though; she just started hearing it so often that she became convinced that perfection was required of her, by her parents, by her people, by her boyfriends... it's started to become a bit much for Faith, and her obsessive-compulsive disorder has really started to get out of control. She focuses in on one thing very easily, starts to pick apart everything wrong with it, and won't stop until it's absolutely 100% perfect. It started when she heard the first rumor of being one of the guys' "perfect woman." She later found out it was Chris Rufford, and the next time she looked in the mirror, she saw so many things wrong with herself, she was so bothered that she began to change herself. Just a few minor changes here and there - straightening her hair, clearing up her skin, plucking her eyebrows, losing a few pounds... it was nothing, really. She did it all without a word or complaint, because it would make her better than she was before. She's also incredibly germ-ophobic, because she couldn't stand to be sick and miss everything. She'd be way too far behind, she protests. She's hoping that she'll end up with a boyfriend pretty soon, but she really doesn't care. So she says. She knows it'll up her chances at the throne, and she wants to do all she can not just to meet, but to exceed everyone's expectations for her. 

Princess Yoselin isn't exactly the paragon of what royalty should be, but she'll be damned if she admits it. The way she walks and talks, you'd think she was already Queen and just about to finish taking over the world. She's the stereotypical only child - raised by doting, hyper-attentive parents, very used to getting what she wants whenever she wants it, wants all the attention all the time. Though a lot of her HBIC act is just that - an act - people often take Yoselin very seriously. She can be rather catty - she and best friend Poppy Emerson could be considered the mean girls at the Academy, and they play for keeps. Yoselin was the only freshman girl to withstand Poppy's torments first semester last year, and so Poppy took Yoselin under her wing, and as it turned out, the younger girl had a natural mean streak. Despite the attitude, Yoselin actually does have some good qualities for a queen, which is good, considering she's Dominica's only option for the job. She's got plenty of options in terms of pledge material, and the girl is persuasive to boot. She has literally charmed people out of their pants and flounced away like everything was completely normal. Unfortunately, her talent for entrancing boys has a downside - she's kind of the school bicycle. Anybody with the right amount of alcohol and a basic knowledge of what turns her on can get it, and in the royal world, sleeping around is definitely looked down upon, especially once it gets public, like Yoselin's reputation is starting to become. She may be good with people, but it might be a miracle for Yoselin to convince her people that she really can rule properly after the reputation she's created for herself at the Academy - or for her to mend her public image by the time she's crowned. 

Prince Daniel and Prince Tahvo are partners in crime. The only difference between them - Daniel doesn't get caught. He feels a little bit guilty that Tahvo's taken all the heat for their little drug-dealing fiasco last semester, and let's not forget the European History prank war during exams... Somehow, Daniel always manages to weasel out of the blame when they take the boys in separately for questioning, and Tahvo gets stuck with all the consequences. Danny is a smooth talker; he loves to charm people, especially girls, in order to get his way. Despite the fact that the Academy is so small, he and Tahvo have managed to get this far in their friendship without sharing a girl. However, Danny's afraid he's about to cross that line. He and Zahira Nasr actually spent some time together over the summer and he thinks she's really been digging on him, but he knows she and Tahvo definitely hooked up more than once last year. Daniel and Tahvo are bros, but he doesn't know if that's a boundary he's willing to break yet, or how his bro will feel about it. So in case it wasn't obvious, the whole construct of guilt, blame, and responsibility is kind of a big factor in Daniel's life. A lot of it stems from the pressure his parents have put on him as an only child, how much he is needed by his people, how he's been destined since birth for this, yada yada yada. The rest of it stems from the pressure he puts on himself to live up to people's expectations of him. Danny's a perfectionist, very Type A, but he almost has to keep that part of him hidden in order to really let the rest of himself out. It's the one part of his personality that isn't the laid-back no-rules couldn't-care-less kind of guy, the guy he is when he's scheming up new stunts with Tahvo. Reconciling those two parts of himself, however, is becoming very difficult and very stressful for Danny. Maybe he's starting to outgrow the crazy rule-breaker lifestyle. Maybe it is time to grow up...

Prince Tahvo has been secluded all summer, and he has gone absolutely stir-crazy. After the antics he got up to last year at the Academy, his parents essentially put him under house arrest and haven't allowed him to go anywhere. He's been disrespectful to his teachers, he skips class, he's even been dealing drugs, "corrupting the young innocence of his classmates," as the Headmaster put it in his end-of-year report sent to Tahvo's parents. He just doesn't understand how his best friend, Daniel Ferrugia of Malta, keeps getting off scot-free! They don't get caught that often, honestly; most of the shit they get into, nobody ever finds out about it. For real though, Tahvo's just thankful the only thing they got caught dealing was marijuana - they'd just finished selling all the harder stuff mere hours before the Royal Guard showed up. The thing is, though - Tahvo knows he can fuck up as much as he wants. He's an only child, so kicking him out of school puts the Council in an even worse situation than keeping him in. Who cares what he does so long as he graduates, right? He has to be king one way or another. Despite the fact that he never goes to class, he somehow gets all the work in, and actually doesn't do too poorly. Miraculously, he and roommate Tev Udre actually get along really well and were given the same schedule this year, so Tev just comes back to their dorm, tells Tahvo what's due, and he's just got this natural knack for being able to say what people like to hear. As long as he does that, the attendance really isn't that big of a portion of the grade, so why go to class? Sleeping, drinking, smoking, and having sex is so much more fun. He'll grow up once he absolutely has to, but absolutely no sooner. 

Prince Luis has often been called fake. When there's no royal adults around, Luis is a biker dude, showing off his tattoos, hair unkempt, blaring his hard rock and heavy metal through his ever-present headphones. But as soon as a teacher or Councilmember turns the corner and can see him, he's already pulled on a button-up, stuffed his iPod in his pocket, and combed his hair, greeting them professionally and politely. His friends can only laugh and congratulate him on his quick-change, but others are annoyed by his duplicitous behavior, particularly his brother. At first, Román would attack him for it, calling him an impostor and asking how he could possibly do something to separate the two of them so extremely. But eventually, his brother just got used to it. Oh, that's just Luis. It's what he does. Román has this crazy idea that the Council has already made all of their decisions as to who of the younger royal generation will ascend the thrones, but Luis, though he would never say it to his brother's face, thinks that that's a crock of shit. He knows that if any of the Council members, or any of his teachers, or really anyone who reports to the Council saw the way he looks and acts normally, they wouldn't take long to put a black mark in their books by his name. They would be searching for reasons to give the throne to Román instead, though they'd be hard-pressed to find one. If he really sat down and thought about it, Luis would probably find that neither he nor his brother is very fit to rule, at least not at their current stage of education, but he'd find that he's probably the brother who wants it the most. But does that really matter when he's constantly playing the game, trying to see how long he can hide his true self from most of the world? Deep down, Luis probably knows that this can't go on forever. The question is: will he get caught red-handed and have to show his hand, or will he grow up and take the fake persona as the royal facet of himself, the facet that will become the rest of his life?

Prince Román just doesn't care. He thinks any kind of effort to win the throne is futile, and that the Council has already decided who is going to rule pretty much every country before any of them even enter the Academy. He's pretty sure his brother has already been picked between the two of them, so why should he care about trying? He's one of a few conspiracy theorists and change advocates in the school; he's found compatriots in Breno Casimiro, Georg Lindner, and surprisingly, Adeline Herrick. He thought she was just a shy little wallflower, but after he caught her writing the blog that always verbally sparred with Avery Clovis's, he couldn't help but approach her about it. He found a quiet strength in her that he's finding very hard to let go of, and if he's not careful, he may very well end up her king of Luxembourg. Right now, he's trying pretty hard not to participate in the complete shenanigans of the system though. His brother Luis is a complete fraud, and though they were once two peas in a pod, Luis's two-faced attitude toward the royal system drove a wedge between the brothers. They still politely acknowledge the other's existence, and at home on summer holidays, they can't help but pal around. After all, who understands the struggle of a young, pressured, hormonal boy with too much responsibility than the sibling experiencing all the same challenges alongside you? Román wishes Luis would jump onboard his platform of change and try to investigate the conspiracy with him, but honestly, he's found he can't blame his brother for wanting to appear much better than he is to the elder generation. After all, somebody has to rule Panama, and he would hate to either leave his parents in the position for too long or to leave his people without a ruler. He may hate monarchy, but that doesn't mean he doesn't feel a certain sense of responsibility and duty to the people who expect either him or his brother to take care of their best interests in the near future. Román would agree with anyone who called his life a mess, because it is. He's a part of a vicious cycle he disagrees with, but he can't escape, and he's half convinced that he doesn't want to, for fear of hurting innocent people, and reconciling the two is proving to be much more difficult, especially when he's still trying not to lose sight of who he is as a person. After all, he's more than just a royal. 

Princess Intira is absolutely no-nonsense. She will not take shit from anyone, and when people fail her, she doesn't take it lightly. This is, of course, what happened between her and Vitaliy Petrinova, though she knows he still doesn't understand it. He made promise after promise to her - that he would never have eyes for anyone else, that he trusted her, that he wouldn't mind giving up his throne for her, the list went on. And though they were young, Intira was under the impression that Vitya actually meant what he said, but clearly that was not the case. The boy could say he wouldn't mind being her king one day, being the househusband and raising the kids, but Intira knew better. She could see just how badly he wanted the Russian throne, and how he could never be happy just sitting around without any weight to throw around. She let him go before they could get any deeper into their relationship, and even though she knows he still doesn't understand, Intira almost thinks it's better that way. If he really knew why, he would've pushed back, argued with her, maybe even made more promises he never intended to keep. Or worse yet, maybe he actually would have kept them, no matter his unhappiness. Intira knows that they're better off this way, and that she needs to find someone who really truly does not care to be king, so he can stay at home and raise all the kids while she's off being a successful queen, maybe even Chairwoman of the Royal Council. Intira may dream big, but she knows that if she really sets her mind to it, nothing can stand in her way - not even her own sentimentality. Every once in a while, she misses Vitya, misses the closeness they once had. But she has to force herself to put it behind her. The past is the past, and the only thing that matters now is the future.

Princess Soo Yun usually hears "my little housewife" more often than her own name. Her boyfriend, Amadi Murigande, has nicknamed her as such, as well as stereotyped her as such. While she does enjoy coming over to his apartment and playing house, she doesn't appreciate him pigeonholing her into that role. She can be just as independent as her sister when she wants to be. The problem is that she rarely wants to be, so she rarely has the guts or desire to say anything to Amadi about putting her in this little box he has her in. People frequently pass over Soo Yun because her sister BC is such a strong contender for the throne; in most people's minds, the race for the crown has already been decided, and she's essentially already been written off as someone else's, probably Amadi's, queen by most of the royal world. She'd love to be queen of Korea! And she'd certainly love to break out of the role Amadi has pigeonholed her into She just doesn't think she can be. When her mother was stripped of her throne, Soo Yun was secretly relieved. The former queen had always put her down, even at a young age. She's always pit Soo Yun and BC against each other, creating constant competition between them when the sisters only wanted to be friends. When they began at the Academy, only then did the sisters discover how different their personalities were and how well they could coexist with each other. Because of their mother, they'd tried throughout childhood to be more like the other - usually, it was more of Soo Yun trying to be more like BC, but nothing was ever good enough for their mother. She's actually kinda glad their mom is gone now, but she can't exactly say that out loud. Speaking up always pissed the former queen off, so now Soo Yun is so used to keeping quiet when she has a problem, she can't really stand up for herself, and BC can only intuit her needing help but so much. If she can't learn to be okay with wanting something better for herself and changing her life in order to get it, she may end up stifling her own happiness to avoid conflict.

Princess Bong Cha, better known as BC, is the epitome of warrior princess. She doesn't just want to be queen, oh no. She wants to the best queen, no the best ruler Korea has ever had, and she wants to be the most formidable military leader in at least all of Asia, if not the world. She's not power crazy or a war monger, really, she swears. She's just out to redeem the women of her kingdom after the disgrace her mother brought to their land. A few years ago, her mother was found guilty of multiple high crimes by the Royal Council, including adultery, perjury, and embezzlement, and was stripped of her throne. BC's father rules alone now, and is completely unreceptive to the thought of remarrying. "One wife was bad enough! Why do I need another?" he always asks BC when she brings it up. She just wants her father to be taken care of, even after she ascends the throne. Taking care of people has always just come naturally to BC; she's very protective of her family and hates to feel like they're not safe or like their fate is out of her control. This is especially evident with her younger sister, Soo Yun. Even though the two are about as different as humanly possible, BC still feels incredibly protective over her sister, and she's very wary of the main influence on Soo Yun's life right now - her boyfriend, Amadi Murigande. In fact, BC is so busy concerning herself with her sister's relationship health that she's kind of neglected her own. BC often doesn't realize, and most of the time doesn't care, just how uncomfortable she can make people with her aggressive, decisive, sometimes violent and pessimistic personality and worldview. It takes the biggest toll on her own boyfriend, Carmelo Arce, who tries so hard to balance her out and be the peacemaker, but he can only do so much before he becomes frustrated, maybe even emasculated, and decides it's not worth the effort he puts in it if he can't get anything back. They spend a lot of time together, but neither of them really acts, at least in public, like they're anything more than friends. BC is just very focused on her future and her goals, but sometimes, being too future-oriented can ruin your present.