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[mansuetus]

[ Lucrezia is at the Space Bar, a glass of wine in hand. Pensive, she sips from it once and then again, quiet for a moment. She has been planning this for a time and yet.

And yet. ]

The Borgia family came from Spain to Rome. The father of the family, known as Rodrigo Borgia, has become Pope Alexander Sextus, elected to carry God's will and rule over Rome and the Papal States. He has a wife, beautiful and clever, Vanozza, whom the ladies of Rome, in their foolishness, dislike. Four children he has and all he brought to Rome, Juan Borgia who commands the armies of Rome, Cesare Borgia who took the red robes of the cardinal, Lucrezia Borgia who became Lucrezia Sforza of Pesaro and Gioffre Borgia, the youngest, who married Sancia of Naples. Their crest is the Borgia Bull.

[ and why is she telling all of this, well. ]

Yet there are some on this ship who knows more of me and mine than I do. The history remembers the Borgias, parents and children alike.

I would hear from those who know of my family. I would hear what their books tell.

[ a heavy burden, she asks to carry and yet. ]

I know that those tales might not be accurate to my own Rome and my own family and yet I wish to hear them still, if you would humor me.

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[wolfinthesnow]

Are you a bull, then, Lucrezia?

[mansuetus]

[ A chuckle before she makes a face. ]

A Borgia, Jon Snow. I do not believe I look or act much of a bull. Perhaps my brother Juan. He is more hot tempered than I.

[certainproclivity]

They are not altogether pleasant stories, Signorina.

[But those stories are pretty much why he's so enamored with her. WHAT IF HE NEEDED TO POISON SOMEONE.]

[mansuetus]

I much doubt anyone's story is built upon only pleasant stories and Rome is not a pleasant place at times. I would hear them still.

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[backwardscompatible]

You want spoilers.

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[mansuetus]

Would the stories spoil something for me, River Song?

[ look how she doesn't quite get it, River. ]

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[northerner]

It seems a dangerous thing, my lady, asking after the future.

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[mansuetus]

A dangerous thing.

[ she agrees, some would say foolish. She wonders if Cesare would ask. Would he care to know what became of him or will he say it doesn't matter. ]

But I cannot ignore it further. History remembers my family, my Lord. I wish to know how.

[cl_cl_claudius]

I c-cannot fault you for asking such questions, Lucrezia. It is courageous. [ More so than Claudius himself has been able to be, tbh. ] But I beg you will not take any answers too much to heart, for good or for ill.

[mansuetus]

I will try. But I fear that I do not know how to do that, not to take them to heart. If they are of my family, how will I do that?

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[ringbearer]

The future can be a heavy thing to bear, especially when you haven't reached it yet -- accomplished what you could in the now beforehand.

[ it's said a bit grimly. it's one thing to know a quest is finished, another to see it done. ]

Miss Lucrezia, wasn't it? I think it a brave thing you ask, though it might cause you harm.

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[mansuetus]

That it is why it is brave, is it not? If the risk did not exist then it would not be bravery to ask.

[ she hums for a moment. ]

I held my questions for many weeks but I fear my curiosity has finally triumphed.

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[skindeep]

My father was a history professor. Times like this, I wish he was on board.

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[mansuetus]

Did you ever care for history, Noah?

[ so odd that he looks so much like someone else on the ship but she easily tells them apart. ]

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[ryuuzaki]

I'm not completely sure you want to hear this, Lucrezia. I can't say that I know a lot about it. History isn't my specialty.

[mansuetus]

If I did not wish to hear, I would not have asked. Whatever you know of me and mine would be of value, signore.

[ a beat. ]

I am not afraid.

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[skillz]

[Lucrezia Borgia? She looks far sweeter and kinder than the history books imply.]

If there are alternative universes as the evidence suggests, what we know about the Borgia family may not even be true of yours.

[After all, she hardly looks like an incestuous, murderous vixen, though Q really should know better by now than to judge people based on their appearances.]

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[mansuetus]

I would hear it still, if you would be kind enough to indulge me, signore.

[ she is a gentle creature but appearance but marriage hardened Lucrezia and every day surviving this ship is taking a bit more of her innocence every day. Not a girl who walks on air; rather, she is a woman who knows a thing or two of politics and survival. ]

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[slipperysoul]

You know, the history books don't always get it right. It's even worse when you start getting picked up the media -- fiction and writers with nothing to do but stretch the truth and tell people that you like to sleep in coffins.

[ ... opinions, he has them. ]

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[mansuetus]

I would not blindly believe that which I will hear; yet I wish to hear what the books tell still

[ she smiles; she favors your opinions, Angel. ]

Have you read of me?

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[servant]

How much of them would you believe? If they told you something of your future, I mean.

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[mansuetus]

[ A good question you ask, Merlin; if there's anything she learned from knowing him, it is to take books with a grain of salt. ]

I don't know. I will hear them first and then decide. My family has many enemies, if some of them had wrote books of history, I fear I will hear many lies and slander.

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[adlered]

Are you truly certain that you want to know? Time has a way of changing people and finding out what happens ahead of time might be something you regret.

I'd hate to make you frown or feel regret for what you've potentially not yet done.

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[mansuetus]

I do not think I can feel regret for what I have yet to do, bella donna, so you must not worry.

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[surrogates]

I'm a bit rusty when it comes to your history but I know enough to know that what the history books say and what you are in front of me are pretty different.

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[mansuetus]

What do they say of me that is so different, signore?

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[became]

The books are usually written with their own bias.

[ oh neal. ]

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[mansuetus]

Will you shelter me from them too, Neal?