Speaking of the Comyn

[james_davis_nicoll]

If you could overthrow one fictional set of aristocrats and nobles whose creator clearly thinks are the bee's knees, which lot would you pick?

I'm more inclined to be harshest towards the SFnal aristocracies, since they have actual history to have learned from.

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[quicktongue.livejournal.com]

The ones from Sleeping Beauty. I know not our usual genre, but think of all the people's lives that were thrown into turmoil when they ordered the destruction of every spinning wheel in the Kingdom. Talk about an abuse of power for personal reasons.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. I actually said that over Christmas: "And then the economy collapsed." The five year old didn't get it. Her mother did.

[casaubon.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the wicked fairy was bribed by some foreign textile magnate?
Anyway, 15 years later all the royals fell asleep for a 100 years, allowing the people to set up a autonomous collective.
I imagine there was a vicious civil war when the royals woke up again.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

A vicious civil war involving a quick visit to the royal napping vaults with extra pillows?

[casaubon.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a big thorny magic forest to stop the proles just offing the sleeping court?
Though I'm sure the peasants knew all about slash'n'burn forest clearances...

Thinking about it (probably far too deeply), it was the "good" fairy who sent the whole court to sleep rather than just allowing the princess to die.
So she probably had some power grab in mind, possibly in league with the "wicked" fairy. Come to think of it, has anyone seen them in the same room together?

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

<Growly singing voice>
There ain't no wicked fairy, just good fairy when she's drunk.
</Growly singing voice>

[zeborah]

I keep meaning to write about that.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

After 100 years? Nah. It would be like trying to re-establish the Romanov dynasty in Russia. The nobles would be socially and politically marginalised, and probably decide that exile was the best thing for them.