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[nothinglikea]

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[onebadapple]

Oh, well, I can understand as your fiancé he would want your mother's approval. But I suppose I don't understand wanting her approval because she's ah, born rich? If anything, I think it's much more impressive to earn wealth, whatever that means to you. You have to work for it rather than just being born in the right place to the right people. The dwarfs worked every single day for the wealth in their mines. They had been cultivating it for decades with their hard work.

Society is so strange to me sometimes. I wonder if I would understand it better if I had been raised like a proper princess.

I'm safer here than I was back home. My stepmother was actively seeking to kill me, this place isn't hunting me down, it just... has it's dangers, is all.

(CW: mental illness)

[nothinglikea]

Your dwarfs came by their money sensibly, to try and earn it for themselves. It wasn't so back home for most people I knew. There were endless parades of people whose money dated back generations, all of whom knew each other and none of whom actually seemed to like one another. I'm so grateful it's not that way here, I think I'd go entirely mad.

It's strange to me as well and my ex-fiancé referred to us as royalty, given our wealth and influence. He gave me this...awful, gaudy necklace with a blue diamond which used to belong to Louis XVI, a dreadful thing. Though...were you raised as royalty, I can't imagine a single change to your wonderful, kind personality. You are as you were meant to be, kind and gentle and loving.

Yes, it does. Though, I'd take this place over home any day. [tentatively] What...about you? Would you like to stay?

[onebadapple]

The dwarfs are very sensible, that is true. They are so sweet and wise. But I'm sorry to hear that all those people don't like one another! It seems... terribly troublesome to spend all your time disliking one another!

Is that terribly important? That the necklace belonged to a king? Blue isn't even your favorite color.

I would like to stay, the only way this place could be practically perfect in every way is if my dwarfs somehow made it here, or at the very least, knew I was okay.

(CW: Titanic deaths, colonization)

[nothinglikea]

It was incredibly troublesome. But, in the end...a great number of those men on the Titanic chose to die so that their wives could survive. John Jacob Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador and Ira Strauss...they chose to die so that others would have a chance at life. If only their sacrifices weren't taken in vain.

The jewel belonged to a king of India which had been colonized. Those colonizers chose to take the diamond and present it to Louis XVI. Then Louis XVI lost his head, along with the rest of his family, and the diamond was thought lost. Until it showed up recut as a giant heart.

If you're given a window between worlds the way Argonaut did last year, would you wish to see them?

[onebadapple]

Oh, I'm sorry that happened. Rose, darling, this isn't... the first time you've mentioned something horrible about the Titanic. You don't need to tell me if you don't wish to, but you always get such a sad look in your eyes and your smile falls. I'm sorry to hear those men died at all, but I suppose it shows that when feet are to the fire, they can show the truth of their affections.

Well, if you do want a jewel of some sort, you will let me know, won't you? I will find some way to get you one. Whatever it may be, I will try as I can to get it for you.

Oh yes, absolutely, if only to let them know I'm alright now, safe and sound.