You’re welcome!
Note, by the way, that I’m part of a certain 49.4%.
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So, what I’m hearing is that if, say, something untowards happened to your goldfish, that’d get me more Aki faster? 
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It might, but Mr Gills is trained in all sorts of Fish Jujitsu, so… Good luck. 
And besides, you’d never hurt an innocent little animal, would you?
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What a wasted opportunity to say Su Shitsu.
Sigh, I guess not. 
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So, if I have this right, the King was a Roman from North Africa and the Queen…where was she from again?
Because that coat of arms is very Western European nobility. Byzantine nobility usually used monograms of the individual or family name organized around a cross. They started doing coats of arms around the 12th century or so but even then it was sparse and the monogram was usually included.
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The Queen was Byzantine.
The King wasn’t Roman, either. By the time he was born, uh… Rome wasn’t in North Africa.
And it is western looking, but note that the King and Queen didn’t only stick to the Byzantine Empire while doing their ‘adventurers’ period. They roamed much of Europe (which is partly how they found out about ‘Vinland’. They made friends in Scandinavia who came to trade with them once they took over Crete), and picked stuff up from a lot of it.
You should consider a lot of what the King and Queen did was on the basis of “this sounds badass”. It’s the same with their family name. The King being an orphan, and the Queen being a commoner, neither of them obviously had one.
But the Queen gave herself one, and she did it way before they took over Crete.
50% of the Monarchs’ actions are on the “Fuck you, you’re not better than me” mentality, and the other 50% on the “Hey, King, look at what these Andalus dudes are doing, doesn’t it sound cool as shit?” thought process.
The Queen had a pretty big chip on her shoulder against the noble classes. It’s part of why she’s so proud of knowing Latin- she thinks she’s ‘reclaiming’ something that the ‘great and noble’ forgot was beautiful.
Remember, after all, that the King and Queen were essentially still children when they became rulers of Crete. The King was 21, and the Queen was 22.
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Oof, yeah, jacked up my chronology rather badly.
Dang it you’re gonna get the trads on the Monarch hype train too.
Cut to the Kievan Rus’ scratching their heads and wondering why so many of the passing Scandinavian merchants were babbling on about some island in the Aegean in the same breath as Constantinople the Great.
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The Queen is a bit of an unifying figure from what I’ve intended. There’s some reason to be wary, of course – the Queen was just as strong as the King, and the King was legitimately considering wiping Germany off the map during WW2 – but if the MC ever gets to meet her, my intent is that they come off with a positive impression. She’s a woman with a lot of opinions and she has her flaws (at least when considering the King), but she’s not necessarily a bad person. Just… not one to cross.
“Wait, okay, hold on. I thought the Romans hated mead. Why are you taking so much?”
“Oh, no, this is for that Moat City, the one on the island. The Queen adores the stuff. It’s the whole reason we’re even going down there.”
“What.”
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One lucky traveling merchant just gets sponsored by the Cretan state to make annual Swedish mead runs.
The Queen introduces the delightful beverage to her courtiers at a soon-to-be-infamous soiree called the Swedish Mead Ball.
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IRL Crete is known for its wine.
AToH Crete is known for its mead. 
I actually had an idea way back for a tradition in Crete that the last meeting of Parliament each year is celebrated by a toast with wine. Maybe I’ll change it for one with mead instead.
You laugh, but the Queen actually adored Scandinavian parties, on the basis she got to dance without a care in the world.
One of those parties is probably where she taught the King how to dance, too.
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Finally got to play this, and i must say, it’s pretty nice. I like the characters, and the writing is good. The fights also feel nice, since you feel like the protagonist has actual power, right? Which, as a flying brick, you do, if you haven’t been spending your points very wrongly.
Oh yeah, and gloria is also the most obvious soon-to-be twist villain i have ever seen. If he doesn’t betray us, i’ll eat my hat. By the time the scene when you return to the hotel happened, it became one hundred percent clear.
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Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I appreciate the compliments. 
And don’t you worry, I have quite the plan for Gloria. He is, more than almost anything else, a patriot who stands behinds the ideals of the United States of America. His dream has always been to see America prosper.
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Awww…so does this mean my mc cannot have a cute kitty at the mansion? Or do animals not like us too now?
Good for you, even though I am in the other 50.6% . There can never be enough cute guys.
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Nah, the rest of the League is fine with animals. It’s… something about Seeker specifically. You’ll find out more about it eventually.
As for a pet, probably not any time soon, I’m afraid. Any animal in close proximity to Seeker is going to be loud, and that’s going to mess with Ignis’ sleep, and there is nothing more dangerous than a sleep-deprived Ignis…
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Hmmm, you know, i have to say, it’s a shame that heroes don’t use costumes or at least some sort of personalized wear. Even if you don’t need to hide your identity due to the masks, given their popularity, being a symbol seems like something you’d want, no?
I mean, you’re going to fight a battle for the fate of humanity, and you’re wearing jeans and a t-shirt? If i saw a hero using sneakers and slacks while fighting the villain that wants to take over the world, i would cheer for the hero’s loss.
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Costumes are for lame show-offs. I’m a professional. I go in, get the job done, and then move on with my life.
Who even has the TIME to keep switching from civvies to costumes? “Wait just a minute, Mr. Pyromaniac burning down the city block, I need to change clothes”.
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Awww…just have to ruffle Mars’ hair a couple of extra times then. 
Headcanon is that because his parents moved around with him a lot and they were often fairly negligent and neglectful in the parenting department my mc has a thing of taking care of stray animals, even if he never formally had a pet.
I agree with that part.
I just want my mc to able to take the collar off fight the villains in style, or at least bit more style than jeans a t-shirt and sneakers. Could at least do in a men in black style suit (only with a black t-shirt instead of the button-down shirt and tie). That seems like a happy median, because you also cannot do it in too stylish clothes, as my mc wouldn’t want to keep having his best clothes destroyed by villains.
But why get in such good shape as to have a captain America style of body if you cannot show it off?
I think that once he starts getting paid my mc would like to take advantage of his unwanted celebrity status to start to dress in his own, less conventional style, like some celebrities do.
And given that my mc is about as eccentric in fashion tastes, given enough resources, as the model I base him on in my head, that could get rather wild.
There’s a simpler solution, although only my boy First in @Snoe 's “Freak” wip makes use of that and that is to take off his clothes before fighting, in most cases.
We don’t know how fast the mc can get, but it is pretty fast. And occasionally having to fight in civilian clothes is different from always having to do that. Let’s just say my mc wouldn’t be opposed to getting his own cool and good looking hero suit.
Nova also uses a suit, yes he has to, but it does show it can be done.
@Jjcb any other hero teams who do use their own custom made superhero suits?
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What kid is going to be hopefuly when a guy in sandals and shorts appears flying over the horizon? It’s important to be a symbol. There’s a reason why people have always added useless but good looking changes to their armor in history.
And, i mean, why not just wear the suits before you go on an patrol?
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Because the problem isn’t when you’re going in patrol. It’s when you’re going out on the town and suddenly supervillain. Like literally the first fight we have. How many more people do you think he’d kill if you gave him the bonus of you stopping to go home and change your clothes?
This is doable for people like Quicksilver, the Flash, and Superman, who can literally move faster than light, but everyone else needs to just do things at a moment’s notice.
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Well everyone already knows who u are so there’s nothing to hide especially with what happened with the fire villain. But lots of people are going to be murdered while u play fancy dress so it’s not worth it
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