[ SECRET POST #4944 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4944 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. Royalty's main function used to be leading the country and leading armies. As with all things, not everyone was necessarily good at it. Still a fuck ton of responsibility though.

[(Anonymous)]

The problem I have with this is that I think it's making a big leap between the function or role of monarchs in a monarch, and the character and personality of the individual people who were monarchs. It's true that monarchs had a real function and were at least supposed to have really serious, important responsibilities. I don't think it's true that all monarchs took those responsibilities seriously or were well-fitted to them. It's not even just a question of not being good at it, because that implies that they took it really seriously and then failed.

Like, the way the post that started this thread presented it was that characters should "at least have some semblance of that duty and responsibility" if they're going to be realistic depictions of royals. And I don't think that's historically accurate about what royals actually were like. That doesn't mean that all monarchs were bad or unserious royals either. But the idea that it's unrealistic for a royal to treat their responsibilities lightly seems genuinely really weird to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't disagree. I think the point missing here is that the characters OP is talking about were portrayed as characters who were supposed to be competent and respected. If we're talking competent and respected royalty, well then yes I would expect them to have at least some of that bearing about them.