Thank you! I’m just tired of the usual gorgeous six pack abs hero.
I love those cute little girls and I want to see more like this so if anyone know a good manga please tell me
Geraldine Chaplin! The oldest of Charlie's 8 children
It's an AU fanfic so other than the characters, it's got very little to do with FMA. But it's a great piece of work especially for those looking for Royai (Roy-Hawkeye). It's still an ongoing fanfic at 88 chapters, so yeah a lot of time has been put in to really flesh it out. It recently got updated so I'm looking to connect with fanfic readers and writers. You're free to comment with fanfic suggestions, opinions, disc etc. Thank you :)
I saw this one when I went to return my copy of Matriarch to the library and thought, why not. It was a good ride. Can't say that I learned a ton about Wallis, but it was more than interesting enough to hold my attention for a week's worth of lunch breaks.
Birmingham makes it clear early on, and reiterates it throughout the book, that nobody really could string together an accurate, true description of Wallis Simpson - and after finishing the book, that's the same feel I get. She was certainly ambitious in social climbing - but did she actually expect the King to give up everything for her? Did she really want him to? I don't know, and I'm not sure Birmingham or anyone else does either.
(Interestingly - this book was published only a few years before she died; I wonder if he would have had more access to sources, people willing to speak up, after her death; maybe it wouldn't have mattered; it's a pretty darn well researched book.)
The person that comes across least favorably in this book is definitely Edward. He seems to be beyond full of himself to the point of weirdness (there's an interesting passage about how he would randomly decide that he only wanted to speak German, and would do so at evening parties and not care in the least that nobody could understand him. wtf??), not at all above using people and ditching them when he decided they weren't useful anymore, and dim witted to the point that... he honestly seems downright stupid at times. Birmingham takes the liberty of going on several diversions from the actual story where he talks about ALL THE WAYS that Edward/Wallis could have avoided ending up in dilemma #239482390483, all except for the whims of the King (or ex-King, depending on the time) and there were times when Wallis knew he was making bad decisions...but... le roi le veut.
The story drags a bit during the later years, not because of the author, but just because the couple don't really do much beyond buy buy buy (Wallis) and whine whine whine (Edward). Birmingham notes here again that there were a number of ways Edward could have actually made himself useful or applied himself to...but surprise... he didn't. ("And yet it would be wrong to conclude that he was simply lazy...the fact seems to be that he did not understand the concept of work. To him, work was rank and status. It did not involve contributing something. Though servile by nature, he had no idea of what service was.")
To Wallis's credit it sounds like she did the best
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“...and a nifty suit for Geraldine Chaplin’s Duchess of Windsor.”
im King Henrique II of Portugal,he was the first ruler in 200 years that had good enough marshall to lead the armies.
it was late 1300s,early 1400s,i was starting t get sick of the game,(not ck2)but my game as Portugal because i felt i didnt have anywhere else to go,i had most of iberia but i will never get it all,because the hre is WAY TOO MUCH POWERFUL,they had at ease more 50k troops than me at the time,in time i could expelled france and galicia out of iberia,but not the hre,so i started looking elsewhere and i got claims and the hability to press claims on cornwall and ireland,but i turn to what it was the only north africa nation that wasnt european and i got three new counties,wasnt it worth it,i dont know,i lost so many troops trying to get 3 counties,i was caught by suprised by the low atrittion but then i got an ultimatum
some count or duke hated me and revolted,his demand was that i resign as King for my 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER,but THEN a claimant came
King Rodrigo for Portugal,he was of my dinasty and he had a strong claim because he was the grandson or great grandson of a King Egas
his army was really big,i couldnt win,i didnt have enough money and no allies,i was dommed,so i surrender for the first war thinking that way rodrigo war gets killed,but nop, i resign my daughter took over,then i resign again and i surrender for rodrigo,i though,since he is of my dinasty,that means im gonna play as him,right,WRONG,i discover you always play as the holder of your primary title,but since i was stripped of the kingdom,i got the duchie,so now i only had the duchie of Portucale
AND DIDNT HAVE THE ENTIRE DUCHIE,Bragança was the new capital of kingdom,so there i was a 9 year old with a really shitty steadwarship,i had 1 and on top of it all,my new king made the giant mistake of creating the kingdom of leon,i knew in the moment sonner or later,leon would be independent once more,i had destroyed leon centuries ago,i was so fucked,Leonor wanted her birthright,she deserve to be queen of Portugal
THEN A LIGHT CAME THROUGH THE DARKNESS,my sister was the duchess of beja and the duchess of galicia and she also had the county of Lisboa,Lisboa was one of the counties i always kept for myself as king or queen,it was the second county that provided me with more troops,3.6k,only Porto beats that,our father was our heir,to galicia,portucale,beja and lisboa,the next line was me for galica,beja and lisboa and my sister for portucale,so naturally i put both my father and
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