*snaps fingers* The youngest sister, she has a name and a personality! Her name is Julianne -- or possibly Juliet -- Jules for short.
Richard is very much with the not dead, and has been back at Home doing army stuff for the past ten years or so -- I mean, lobbying to go back to New Crane (which was the official name of the colony? maybe? maybe not) for a while now, obviously, but it never went through, so he's been colonel-ing along, doing his job, until the navy happened to find the colony again. At which point things get...interesting. They ship back Jaime first (and let me tell you, Jaime has MAJOR daddy issues, I mean MAJOR. He was the last person in the colony to see his father alive! He saw his father dying! He rode hellbent for leather back to the house with his father's life's blood drying on his face! His father's last words to him were, "TAKE CARE OF THEM ALL"!) and Richard tries to make him into a proper Homeland gentleman -- he actually wants him to go to the military academy as a cadet, and I think we can see that this is going to go badly. Then they ship Victoria home, which is at the same time Skandar and Jules go missing, and Jaime and Victoria take up with each other again. Of course, Richard is just trying to pretend that nothing's happened except some minor mishap that needs to be corrected as soon as possible, which, okay, NO. These kids are warriors and politicians and GROWNUPS, more or less.
He tries to marry Victoria off. That goes badly. And, oh, the rumors, which Richard steadfastly tries to ignore -- there are the rumors brought back with the sailors who ferried them Home, because it's fairly common knowledge, and of course that somehow makes its way into Society. As well as their level of education and/or civilization -- there are the people who just flock to the Society events to see them and wonder, "I heard they wear skins and speak in grunts!" "No, I heard that he eats with his bare hands!" and while they are more or less perfectly civilized -- different manners, different body language, different experience, but quite well trained by Lady Lucy -- one of these days Jaime's going to snap and do something savage just because he's tired off being stared at.
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Richard is very much with the not dead, and has been back at Home doing army stuff for the past ten years or so -- I mean, lobbying to go back to New Crane (which was the official name of the colony? maybe? maybe not) for a while now, obviously, but it never went through, so he's been colonel-ing along, doing his job, until the navy happened to find the colony again. At which point things get...interesting. They ship back Jaime first (and let me tell you, Jaime has MAJOR daddy issues, I mean MAJOR. He was the last person in the colony to see his father alive! He saw his father dying! He rode hellbent for leather back to the house with his father's life's blood drying on his face! His father's last words to him were, "TAKE CARE OF THEM ALL"!) and Richard tries to make him into a proper Homeland gentleman -- he actually wants him to go to the military academy as a cadet, and I think we can see that this is going to go badly. Then they ship Victoria home, which is at the same time Skandar and Jules go missing, and Jaime and Victoria take up with each other again. Of course, Richard is just trying to pretend that nothing's happened except some minor mishap that needs to be corrected as soon as possible, which, okay, NO. These kids are warriors and politicians and GROWNUPS, more or less.
He tries to marry Victoria off. That goes badly. And, oh, the rumors, which Richard steadfastly tries to ignore -- there are the rumors brought back with the sailors who ferried them Home, because it's fairly common knowledge, and of course that somehow makes its way into Society. As well as their level of education and/or civilization -- there are the people who just flock to the Society events to see them and wonder, "I heard they wear skins and speak in grunts!" "No, I heard that he eats with his bare hands!" and while they are more or less perfectly civilized -- different manners, different body language, different experience, but quite well trained by Lady Lucy -- one of these days Jaime's going to snap and do something savage just because he's tired off being stared at.
*cough* I...have certain parts of it thought out?
Oooh, that sounds interesting!