Prince Marcus Reigns: Incest/Poly/Fantasy

Yes, the Princess is dead. Long Live the Prince. After a short reign, Princess Katherine has died and her nephew Prince Marcus has ascended the throne of the Principality of Gavinium. Despite rumors of assassination, her death is presumed to be natural, and no one dares to bring charges against the new sovereign. For one thing, to do so is itself an act of treason. For another, the courts wouldn't hear of it.

Following the incestuous and polygamous customs and laws of his dynasty, Prince Marcus has a favorite sister-wife: Princess Nina. That he is required by law and custom to choose her older sister Princess Jeanne as his official consort is beside the point. He will do as expected and sleep with all of his women, and will certainly enjoy it more than he did sleeping with Princess Katherine. But his heart belongs to Princess Nina in a way that it can never belong to his other wives.

I need a Princess Nina for sure for their first night together. Princess Jeanne is a nice bonus, but can be an NPC if necessary. Princess Nina is vital to the story.

((ooc: I would be willing to join if you like..))

Sure....as Princess Nina or Princess Jeanne? Feel free to post ASAP, as my opening post did have Prince Marcus's thoughts.

((Princess Nina))
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((That's princess Nina))


Princess Nina sat in her room after she heard the news of Princess Katherine. She really did not know how to take it. Yes she was happy that she finally got her Prince. But by death, was that really something to be happy about. Standing in front of her mirror she looked at her self and put on a soft and fake smile. She had a lot to do now, and she had very little time to get it all done in. Standing there she starred at herself. Her smile disappearing as she looked at her reflection.

What have I become? Happy that someone died so that I can have my Prince. Only to share him with someone else....What am I doing?...Doing what is right by my people and by our laws I suppose.

Sighing softly she walked away from her mirror and sat down on her bed. She really had no idea what to think, but she knew that visitors were on their way and she needed to get ready. Nodding she stood up and took off her silk robe laying it neatly on her bed. Walking over to her closet she stared at all of her clothes not certain as to what would be the proper attire for the evenings guest. Smiling she pulled out a simple silk golden dress and pulled it on. Grabbing her matching gold heals she pulled them on and walked back over to her mirror grabbing her brush. Brushing out her hair she stared blankly at herself and sighed. Setting the brush down she walked out of her room and down to the family area. Where she waited for her guests arrival.

Marcus, Prince of Gavinium:

Marcus felt a sense of freedom and exhilaration at the knowledge that his duty was fulfilled toward Princess Jeanne and he could now enjoy the company and body of his beloved younger sister Princess Nina.

He didn't personally shed any tears over the death of Princess Katherine. The lady was physically beautiful, but her malice, spite, and jealousy were quite unappealing. She didn't keep him from bedding the other women of the harem, but she had specifically denied him the one woman for whom he felt love as well as lust. She allowed him to sleep with only those women that she felt were less of a threat. As if she should care....she had her official consort, Prince Lionel, didn't she?

But she always felt the need to control him. So he had been sleeping with Princess Jeanne, Princess Laura, and even his niece Princess Melinda (something that Princess Katherine insisted upon, in fact).....but his aunt refused to let him bed his beloved Princess Nina. She was of age, after all....twenty to Princess Melinda's 18...for instance...so why forbid it? The other men got to sleep with her.....though not with Princess Katherine and Princess Melinda (except him and Prince Lionel....her logic on that escaped him).

And by the same arcane laws which made him heir apparent as the oldest offspring of the family harem.....his aunt had that right. Did he kill her? Yes, but that was his secret....for love and freedom, he committed an act so rare that it was almost unthinkable...regicide.

But he would now think of the consummation ahead of him...his reward for taking the chance....for her.

Nina sat there waiting her guest, as two of the Prince's guards and his butler arrived at her private estate she greated them smiling and nodding her head lightly. Of all the girls in the harem she was the only one to show anyone any amount of respect, and that was not the only thing that set her apart from the others. She hated the laws and as soon as she could she intended to leave. She did not want to be someone's slave any longer. Although she truly loved Marcus she did not want to only be his slave and share him with the entire harem. But because of her family she had no choice at this time.

"Ma'am We will be escorting you to the Prince."

Nodding softly she follwed them as they took her to where the Prince was residing at. It had not been the home she had expected instead it was a small cottage in the middle of no where. Getting out she walked up to the house and alloed the guards to lead her inside and to where they were told to take her. Sitting in the living room she sighed as her thoughts raced around her and her mind turned into one big puzzle.

((ok what time frame is this like is it current times or back in the day type of thing.))

OOC: Will reply tomorrow morning or Sunday at latest. This is on a fictitious world with medieval/early Renaissance tech. FYI, in case you wondered, Prince Marcus and all of his wives/lovers/concubines are related. Gavinium's laws require royal family incest and strict fidelity to the family harem to prevent abuses of royal power re subjects' wives, daughters, mothers, etc. So Princess Katherine was literally his aunt, and Princesses Nina and Jeanne, etc. are literally his sisters, etc. The rule is that you can have anyone in the harem (unless the sovereign and harem owner decrees otherwise) but no one outside it. Just adding that for clarity.

Marcus, Prince of Gavinium:

Walking into the chamber, Prince Marcus and his royal attendants greeted Princess Nina at last.....her beauty reminding him of one of his reasons for loving her. Of course, Princess Jeanne and the others were beautiful....and generally great lovers....but he didn't love them. He felt lust, affection, and a grudging respect for them, but no infatuation. He enjoyed their bodies, but not their souls.

Now, at last, the one woman denied him by his aunt was in front of him. He wondered who if anyone had been intimate with her, but he waved aside such foolish jealousy. In a royal family where everyone was expected to sleep with everyone else and share each other, there was no place for such things. Usually, bad feelings were successfully banished and the Founder, Princess Sophia, was vindicated in her arrangements....but occasionally trouble came. He was resolved to avoid such madness and discourage strife unlike his late, unlamented aunt. No, he would rule more like his grandfather, Prince Maurice, with a firm, steady, benevolent, evenhanded, and sensible approach.

If only he hadn't been forced to begin his reign with a murder. But that was the past, and it was justified....it was necessary. Princess Katherine had been a tyrant, and everyone knew it. Now they could all rest easy....and he hoped that the Gods would forgive him as a consequence of his aim.

True, Prince Lionel had to be neutralized, and soon, but that could be done with ease. The old goat suspected too much and no doubt missed his prominence as Prince Consort to the late Princess Regnant.

Well, Gavinium was a city-state long at peace, and he would keep it that way.

"My dear sister, where have you been and what has kept you busy in my absence?" Prince Marcus spoke before kissing her on the mouth.

He admired that simple austerity of the cottage's surroundings that made it his favorite personal hunting lodge once again, as he awaited her reply....this enigmatic favorite sister and wife of his.

Princess Nina kissed her brother and husband of sorts back softly. Shrugging as she thought about his question she smiled and walked over to the couch and took a seat to relax for a while. No he had not told her that she could, or invited her to, but with the past few months of being left to her thoughts well she had discovered a lot. She hated how her uncle Prince Devonton ran things in there home, how he told the women that they had to do as the man said and be his slave. Well because of him she dove into books and paintings. Which enlightened her on so much, that she never knew before. She was an equal, she was no longer below anyone, and she would demand her respect even if it got her killed for treason. Of course in other areas that was illegal but here where family had power, well they tended to be able to get away with so much more.

"My thoughts have kept me fairly occupied, along with books, and paintings. But if you want to know if I have had sex anyone the answer to that question would be no I have not."

She sat there and took a deep breath looking at Marcus. Sighing softly she stood up and walked back over to him standing toe to toe with him. She did not care if what she was about to say he hit her for. She had been him plenty by Devonton to care. Her body was numb to the pain of a male fist now.

"Why did you leave me with Devonton...Of all you could have sent me away to, you sent me to him."

She said as anger began to bubble in her veins. Her aunt had told her that Marcus wanted nothing to do with her anymore and that she was to be sent away to her uncle Prince Devonton. OF course having to listen and belive her she left and had arrived to her uncle's, only to discover a world that she never knew exisited.

Marcus, Prince of Gavinium:

Marcus was quite stunned by her rage....he had no idea what had happened to his sister. It hadn't been up to him, of course. No, for one who claimed that she was trying to train him to rule, Princess Katherine kept him in the dark as much as possible. He thought from what she said that Princess Nina at least had an easy life of comfort and luxury. Her anger strongly suggested otherwise.

What had his aunt been up to, and why? And, yes, he wondered about her sex life, but now he had bigger concerns. He had to assert himself, but in a way that indicated he cared about his sister. He didn't view her as a toy, but of course he was now the head of the family and the nation. His word was law, and it affected everyone, including his favorite sister. He couldn't allow himself to go soft, though he would certainly make Prince Devonton, that scoundrel, pay for his temerity in mistreating Princess Nina.

"Nina, I think that you have been misinformed. It is for that reason alone that I am overlooking your present tone of voice. It is clear that certain things have gone amok in my absence. Even so, I will remind you that I am your brother as well as your husband now, and that I am also your lord and master by the laws of this realm. I have always protected you when I could, as an elder brother does with his beloved sister.

"Sadly, I wasn't consulted about your situation. Prince Lionel had Princess Katherine's ear, and now both he and Prince Devonton have another crime for which they must answer. I refuse to be a soft and weak ruler, but I also refuse to be needlessly cruel. Perhaps the best penalty for both of them is to make them live alone, together, with each other's foibles and forbid them any coitus but with each other. I would be within my rights as their lord and master to do precisely that.

"I don't know what lies they have told you, but they will pay for that as well. I personally don't care if Princess Katherine approved it. That doesn't excuse the way that they shamefully abused their influence with my predecessor. Besides, I am Prince now and I get to decide what is acceptable conduct and what is not. Yes, I like it. They will be kept under house arrest and forced into homosexual congress with each other.

"Whatever the case, I insist that you give me the love and respect that I deserve as your lord and brother, if nothing else. If I have lost all else due to the lies of others, I am saddened by that. Be that as it may, I will continue to protect and provide for you. And I will make love to you, even if you don't reciprocate or participate fully at first. In time, you will see that I had nothing to do with this.

"Well, at least they haven't raped you. Have you at least had some creature comforts and the use of a library?" he spoke, finally running out of steam and words and going from a clear and concise speech into straightforward rambling in just moments, out of sheer frustration with the real situation in which he found his beloved sister.

Nina stood there as the anger coursed through her body as she listened to her brother speak to her. She hated how he called himself her 'master'. That was only by law...and only by law could he ask her to sleep with him, he could not control her life, nor her thoughts, nor her opinions. Which she had the luxury of learning when she was sent to the library to read since she would not have sex with none of the men. They suspected she had turned the other way, but that was not the case at all. The more she read, the more that she learned. Frustration coursed through her at that thought and she shook her head and swallowed hard.

"You know are laws are rediculous Marcus.. I have to sit back share the man I love...The one who calls himself my husband...But does any of it stand for anything really...other than the fact you can claim me and control who I sleep with honestly...There is no trust...no loyalty...and the women we are nothing but tools, we have no say in what happens to us..At least not by law...So tell me what do I live for other than loving a man who I will never trully have...and being his sex slave."

Her voice was calmer now, but she was still frustrated. With the books she had read women could have one man and he only have her...and they could have a say in their lives and they were not bound by the laws that she was. Which was in and of itself the reason she so desperately wanted to sneak off into the night. But with being the Princess and holding the title that she did well that would not be the easiet thing to accomplish...In all everyone knew who she was, and getting past the family would be hard enough...but getting past the rogues that resided within the city would show true complications.

Marcus, Prince of Gavinium:

"Sister, you seem to be feeling more than thinking here. The laws were laid down by a woman, if you recall. There have been plenty of female sovereigns in Gavinium. It is not my sex, but my age that makes me your lord and liege by law.

"In any case, how have I mistreated you? I am simply enforcing the laws of the state. I had nothing to do with your exile, except that it was possibly a means to control or punish both of us. Princess Katherine was the one who ordered your banishment, and she is gone now. I didn't even know about it.

"About the laws....they are to prevent abuses of royal power that might provoke subjects and make them rise up against us, thus creating tumult. I don't sleep with common whores, and never have. I bed the women of the family, as is my duty to the realm. I wish that I could make you Princess Consort, but I legally can't, because you're only 20 and your elder sister Princess Jeanne is 25.

"Don't throw away your favorite sister and wife status for the kind of literary rubbish to which you had to resort in your solitude. It's time to read higher and worthier things, literature more suited to the preferred wife and sister of a sovereign than romance novels and such. A good look at the history and chronicles of our land or the comparative histories of our more violent and chaotic neighbors might help.

"I think that you are in a resentful and jealous mood, due to your uncertain past and built-up anxiety about the future. It is time to let that stuff go, for your own sanity. We are polygamous and incestuous because that ensures political stability and social order. Nobles and commoners know that their wives and daughters are safe from rape, and thus respect us more than they would alien princes. It is for the greater good, sister.

"Trust me. I am loyal to the state and the family, and that includes you. Loyalty has nothing to do with monogamy. I expect similar loyalty from my own flesh and blood. Trust me. I am your elder brother, and I have always protected you when I could. That I couldn't this time, through no fault of my own, is no reason to resent me. It is also no reason to spitefully deprive your sisters of my seed, not when sharing denies you nothing at all.

"I am not without feelings. I just use logic and instinct ahead of emotion when making judgments. I have to do that, as it is my duty to the state and to the family. I will leave you now for a few hours to get control of your irrational feelings, but I will be back later today. I expect to see some semblance of the darling sister that I fondly recall, the one who would have rushed into my arms, not tossed wrongful accusations and outrageous demands in my face, little sister," he said, walking off for now, more than a little disappointed in his sibling, who seemed confused and unreasonable all at once.

Is this thread dead? It sure seems to be.

OOC: Sorry I have had no interenet I have recently moved. I do apologize.

It's okay. That kind of thing does happen. Has to me before.