#Duchess's pick

[spectral-musette]

okay okay I originally misread today’s Satine week prompt as “Senate gals” instead of “Senate gala”, so here’s Satine and her besties from the Senate, Padme Amidala and Riyo Chuchi, also looking gala-ready.

#Satine Kryze #Duchess Satine #Satine week #Riyo Chuchi #Padme Amidala #Star Wars art #Star Wars the Clone Wars #TCW #my art #pencil sketches #Padme absolutely picked out all these gowns #she wants to see Obi-Wan blush every time he looks at Satine #more than usual I mean #I don't recall that Satine and Riyo interact on screen but I do think they would get along very well

[rights-for-redshirts]

AU where Anakin drops out of training halfway through his Padawanship and starts a mechanic shop of his own. This, predictably, saves the galaxy.

Because let's be real, he would be insanely good at it. This leads to several patents running under his name by the time he is 18, including but not limited to

A very easy and cheap to build scanner that *can* be used for detecting slave chips (the Hutts are Not Amused by the skyrocketing number of freedom trail escapees. There is a bounty on his head because he is silently donating a lot of his money to the people organizing said freedom trails. Anakin is aware of this but doesn't let it show. It is a badge of honor, but not one everyone knows how to read. The people who do know know either way.)

a little addition to hyperspace antennae bc he wanted!! to talk to!! his mother!! more often!! that coincidentally completely revolutionized military communication (Anakin is unaware of this)

some type of hyperspace engine modification just because ships and space travel are cool. This also starts to revolutionise research in that area; "The Force told me I could" may not be a valid basis for a scientific project, but "How the kriff does that mechanic DO THAT" sure is

Probably some lightsaber modifications bc come. On. There's no way he wouldn't find a way to improve those. (In the ensuing legal battle, it is noted that the construction and possession of lightsabers is no longer prohibited to the general public. Some Jedi Shadows slip away and do some investigating into when exactly that was changed. And by whom.)

He can’t buy his mother back because even though he has the money now, Watto won't sell her in the hopes of extorting him with her welfare. Anakin is this close to hiring a bounty hunter to deal with this and rescue his mum by himself. Only is Shmi happily busy directing her fellow slaves to operation centers and has no intention of stopping by leaving the planet ("Mum, don't you always say the true tragedy in the galaxy is that nobody helps each other?" Yeah, that woman is SO organizing the resistance against the Hutts.)

While the Jedi aren't really allowed to help because of politics, a good deal of them (the chaotic good alignment faction, i.e. Quinlan Vos & Company) help whenever they can, brokering peace with the original natives (Tuskens and Jawas) to facilitate escape through the desert and prepare an interim government for the inevitable slave/native revolt against the hutts. The council turns a blind eye to this, because a) they know it's the right thing to do and b) the lightsaber permit headache.

It's up to you which faction Obi-Wan belongs to.

The Techno Union is extremely unhappy about their monopoly on, well, technology being broken. This leads to some more legal battles that ... idk, I didn’t think this through, but they lose. Badly, and this proceeds to drag the Banking Clan and Trade Federation down with them as further investigations are opened.

Padmé delightedly pounces on the opportunity to drag all of them down and get revenge on Nute Gunray; she and Anakin make a magnificent team by combining political/legal and technical/market expertise into hell of a headache for the people who would otherwise fund the Separatists. There may or may not be a passionate kiss over some legal evidence and spare parts.

Sidious, who had so far been trying to push all the pieces into position he will need for the Clone Wars while keeping Anakin friendly to him and slowly building public support, now has his hands full juggling a) the lightsaber construction legislature investigation from the Jedi, of which they keep him duly informed (stressful), b) Anakin hyperfixating on mechanics so badly he hardly has time to spiral, never mind build up resentment against the Jedi, c) the Techno Union, the Banking Clans and the Trade Federation slowly crumbling under the combined weight of Skywalker being stubborn, Amidala campaigning and R2 slicing some pretty damning evidence, taking the financial backing for the droid army with them; d) what do you mean, the attempt on Shmi Skywalker's life was thwarted by a random Jedi "passing through" and several hundred newly freed slaves?? Since when did the Outer Rim start getting democratic??, e) with the slow, but steady dismantling of the three most powerful enterprises in the Republic, the main reasons for secession (Republic inefficiency, corruption, and corporate greed using monopolies to choke smaller planets into financial ruin and dependency) slowly falling away, the reasons for a war also fade into nothingness and the Republic returns to functionality.

By that time, the Jedi Shadows, led by Mace Windu (who traced the lightsaber construction thing) and the Jedi Slave Freeers (who traced the attempt on Shmi's life) meet up in front of the chancellor's office like the spidermen meme, down to kill a chancellor for completely different but both very valid reasons.

Upon opening the door, they find Padmé Amidala with a Ysalamiri lizard and a blaster. The unexploded (because Force-blocked) body of the Chancellor is lying in front of her, three smoking holes in his chest (he tried to blackmail her into leaving the Techno Union alone by way of her affair with Anakin (that she, as a Senator from Naboo, is not allowed to have). She brought the lizard without knowing it blocked the Force, but she got it as a gift from Anakin, who told her it would keep her safe if ...).

Mace Windu deactivates his lightsaber and tells Padmé with a straight face to drop the gun. There might be fingerprints on it that could lead to the culprit.

#Credits roll #After the Kaminoans contact the Republic in annoyance about their ordered army they haven't picked up #They instantly get sued for human rights violations #The clones are depending on personal preference integrated into the Jedi Service Corps or Mandalore #Obi-Wan is chosen for the negotiations over citizenship with Duchess Kryze. The credits include a shot of them bickering over a #cake that may or may not be for a wedding #Dooku is on Serenno on a beach and argues pilosophy with the council over holocall. #star wars #au #clone wars #sw #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #long post #Anidala

[countessdelannoy]

HRH Prince François Henri Luis Marie Guillaume of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, Prince de Bourbon de Parme -- b. 27 March 2023

François is a relatively uncommon name in the Grand Ducal Family; it is one of the middle names of Prince Robert, the first cousin of the Grand Duke, as well as Prince Wenceslas, one of the sons of Prince Jean and the Grand Duke's nephew.

Henri of course honors the current Grand Duke, who is little Prince François's grandfather.

Luis honors the Hereditary Grand Duke's younger brother, Prince Louis, as well as several other family members who have or had the name, including Prince Guillaume, the Hereditary Grand Duke's godfather, as well as Count Paul de Lannoy, the Hereditary Grand Duchess's late grandfather. The Spanish form possibly honors the Hereditary Grand Duke's Cuban heritage.

Marie is a long-standing tradition in the Grand Ducal Family honoring the Virgin Mary. Nearly all members of the Grand Ducal Family and the Lannoy family have this name, including both the Hereditary Grand Duke and Hereditary Grand Duchess.

Guillaume honors the Hereditary Grand Duke, his uncle and godfather Prince Guillaume, as well as four former reigning Grand Dukes.

#prince francois #prince francois of luxembourg #luxembourg grand ducal family #hereditary grand duchess stephanie #hereditary grand duke guillaume #princess stephanie #prince guillaume #mine #my babies are having another baby #francois? okay then #y'all make it really hard to do family histories of names when you pick names that aren't used in the family just saying #did i have this sitting in my drafts since november? maybe. you can't prove anything.

[bloodiegawz]

and the other half. now there's a dozen

#twst #twisted wonderland #twst oc #gawzdrawz #pick your favorites now everyone #twst: soleil thistlevire #twst: willoughby williweed #twst: darling duchess #twst: emcy automata #twst: mariano incubo #twst: olive lepfoot

[maddie-zylophone-hatter]

Eah color picked pride flags my beloved

#eah #ever after high #color picked flags #pride flag edit #darling charming #briar beauty #bunny blanc #lilly-bo peep #blondie lockes #daring charming #duchess swan #ginger breadhouse

[jessicas-pi]

one of my mutuals was on a real obitine kick a day or two ago and it inspired me to draw a scene from what is definitely gonna be my favorite chapter of book 2 in the Time Heals 'verse:

"I'M A LITTLE BUSY, SKYWALKER!"

"Mm-hm. So, Obi-Wan and the Duchess are totally flirting. Do you think I would cause a diplomatic incident if I yelled 'just kiss already?' Sabine, don't you dare hang up on me, this is an extremely important question!"

#in which obi wan has TWO padawans picking on him about the duchess instead of ONE #sabine totally painted obi wan's armor when he wasn't paying attention #the time heals 'verse #star wars #star wars rebels #star wars tcw #star wars the clone wars #sabine wren #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #satine kryze #obitine #fic art #jessica's art #yes sabine has the darksaber. no i will not elaborate.

[turnleftaticela]

Yay ranking party if I had to rank Duke it would be

Duke’s Travels+Duke’s End sorry it makes no sense to me to count them separately

Behind the Lines

Turn It On Again

Guide Vocal i know it’s absurd to have it so high but it means so much to me

Heathaze

Please Don’t Ask

Man of Our Times = Misunderstanding idk

Duchess

Cul-de-Sac

Alone Tonight

That was so hard

#post #gen #Maybe it’s sacrilege to have Duchess so low but I love it I would just pick the other ones to listen to first

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

Do you have any thoughts on Second Names for Dutchess and the Kittens? How do you think they work? (Like, I HC then as something the cat in question has to find themself)

hmmmmm...

well, first, i think they come up with their Second Names after coming into the Junkyard! Thomas helps a bit, but he tells them that their Second Name is their decision, so the kittens definitely spend quite a bit of time figuring out their names!

I think that when a cat finds their Second Name, it's a name that just feels right, especially if they're choosing it for themselves. Cats like Tugger, Mistoffelees, Demeter, they were named by parents, but other cats like Cassandra, Amunet, Alonzo, they choose their Name for themselves!

so when they do all figure out their Names, Thomas is absolutely elated! I imagine him in their little den, hugging his family close and calling them all by their new Names as the kittens giggle and Duchess snuggles close to him 😭

Duchess - Larisa

Marie - Talulla

Toulouse - Tiago

Berlioz - Enzo

i think they're part of that group of cats who still go by their First Name even amongst Jellicles, but they also love using their Second Names now that they've found them! Especially Duchess, using her Name makes her feel even more at home, since she was once a Jellicle herself.

#note: i picked these names bc they sound good lmao #thomas o'malley #duchess #marie #berlioz #toulouse #cats the musical #the aristocats

[xamassed]

I just want to imagine one of Mammon’s brothers is picking on him, and Duchess ( being the protective mama she is ) randomly repeats something embarrassing that brother said ages ago just to shut them up.

#「 ( mammon ; headcanon ) 」 #( duchess: you pick on my boy :/ ) #( she WILL embarrass them all )

[myprinceandprincessofwalesblog]

#duchess of cambridge #Duke of Cambridge #Prince George #Princess Charlotte #lol at William and Zara teasing George #bigger lol at George picking his nose and getting caught on camera

[xproblematiquexx]

Ok, enough with this nonsense! David will you please come back and pick me up? I’m done waiting, I don’t like here and I miss you, so hurry up!

#i miss you #david bowie #the dope duchess waiting for her thin white duke #starman david bowie #the thin white duke #where are you #hurry up #I’m done waiting! #the dope duchess #come and pick me up #please save me

[mromalley]

tags

#thats pure O'Malley baby. right off the cuff (visage) #well you see i'm not exactly her husband(musings) #obviously a philanderer who triffles with unsuspecting women's hearts(aesthetics) #boy your eyes are like sapphires(duchess) #kittens in trouble? there's no time to lose!(marie toulouse & berlioz) #everyone is picking up on that feline beat 'cause everything else is obsolete(music) #abraham delacey guiseppe casey(the alley cat/animation)

[tossawary]

One of my personal nitpicks for historical fantasy is a lack of servants, staff, subordinates, and... idk... subjects? Like, their absence is not... a total dealbreaker for me, depending on the situations the characters are in and whether or not I can just assume that other people are there in the background... but so many of the protagonists in historical fantasy stuff are higher-ranking (very often royalty), and/or have busy jobs, and/or have enormous houses that would necessitate having at least part-time staff.

Like, girl, you should have a maid! WHERE is your chaperone?! WHO is driving this carriage?! Where are your footmen? Are you trying to imply that a WEALTHY DUCHESS is taking a CAB?! You know that you probably have tenants, right? Where is your steward?! Where is your lawyer? Your accountant?! (Like, yeah, you're not going to have your lawyer living in your house, but you HAVE one, right???)

Or, man, you're supposed to be a military commander and you don't even have a single secretary?! Where is your SQUIRE?! (In the spirit of historical fiction, I am jumping wildly across time periods with every sentence here.) Man, I know you aren't looking after your own boots. Where are your GUARDS?! Who set up this tent for you?! Who is looking after your horse?! Who is making and carrying the incredibly valuable maps people are recklessly stabbing daggers into?!

SOMEONE has to be scrubbing these floors and delivering the mail and cooking the meals and doing laundry, and they're probably all DIFFERENT people! My dentist has at least three different receptionists and we can't even get ONE for our court wizard here? A sorcerer's apprentice to take notes? Someone like Sherlock Holmes could get away with just having a housekeeper and taking taxis, sure, but your character is supposed to be a KING?! Why is he answering his own front door? He's going to get assassinated. His SERVANTS should have SERVANTS.

Like, yes, I understand that a lot of servants in certain places at certain times were supposed to make their labor invisible, but there have always been servants who still had to interact directly with the masters of the house?! Yeah, there are potentially really messy ethics here, class divisions are bullshit, but I don't think that completely ignoring the reality that humans have ALWAYS been doing work for other humans is better than just including some well-paid and well-treated servants and employees? Because a complete absence of them, especially where logically for the worldbuilding there MUST be servants (and probably exploited servants, or worse, for some particular worldbuilds to work), often makes me think that your main characters just don't care enough to notice the "lower class" people or know their names.

Also, even Frodo Baggins had a gardener and Samwise Gamgee might be the best damn character in the story?! Sam saved the world?! Servants are PEOPLE. Servants are often the funniest and most interesting characters, tbh, with the most to say about a society and its workings (yes, Discworld is a very good book series, highly recommend), and also the joke of some romantic scene being carefully orchestrated by a stage crew of servants frantically diving into bushes to stay out of sight never gets old to me. Teamwork makes the dream work!

I don't want to gatekeep historical fiction, especially not historical fantasy, because the worlds don't necessarily have to conform to our own and may have magic and characters are often in very unique circumstances, but... sometimes I pick up a story and it's like... "Author, please tell me that you know there is a difference between a butler and a valet?!"

#tossawary reading #tossawary watching #I don't know what to tag this as #tossawary fandom #long post #where are your servants

[bluebowtied]

connections & verses tagdump !

#— 🖌 ❝ the strongest people i know | ft. family #— 🖌 ❝ light it up; don't back down | ft. duchess / mother #— 🖌 ❝ this life will be a cinch | ft. thomas / stepfather #— 🖌 ❝ satisfied with an average life | ft. marie / sister #— 🖌 ❝ screaming nothin’ but anthems | ft. berlioz / brother #— 🖌 ❝ naturellement! the aristocats! | descendants / main #— 🖌 ❝ picking up my confidence | modern / main #— 🖌 ❝ don’t you feel like a young god | camp half blood / au #— 🖌 ❝ for the price of a little sin | paranormal / au #— 🖌 ❝ scattered across my family line | crime family / au #— 🖌 ❝ i hope you make it to thirty | marvel / au #— 🖌 ❝ i hope you make it to thirty | dc / au #— 🖌 ❝ rewards for the worthy | genshin / au

[txngledbxnds]

Duch's S/O: You doing ok?

Duch: *violently stabbing pencil into her Julius Caeser pencil holder.* Just peachy! Why do you ask?

Duch's S/O: Oh...uh...no reason.

#incorrect quotes #ides of march #my contribution #I feel bad for just picking one significant other #has she has many over different aus #{duchess significant other(s/o)}

[stolligaseptember]

political intrigue?? in my julkalender???

#like the kidnapped queen and undercover prince is straightforward enough #but are kids really supposed to pick up on the chess game between the duchess and the general?????? #julkalender #kronprinsen som försvann #sweden