#artist giltori
Queen of Victory, Queen of Nothing
[Context: so a friend and I (Go follow @agnerd-bot he’s like me but a better writer and far more tolerable human being) both have our own takes on a Boudica character… yeah it was inevitable “what if they met” came up.]
“…pathetic. You still don’t understand, do you? You still hold onto a delusional hope that things will be better? That someone like youcan be a champion in this hellhole? Look around you, ‘Queen of Victory’. You are nothing but alone here, doomed to fail time and again. Doomed to relive the greatest failure you ever knew. What’s the point in even trying to pretend that this can end in anything buttragedy? It’s time you face the truth. 'Boudica’ can never be happy. 'Boudica’ can never find peace. The only thing 'Boudica’ knows is death and destruction. You claim to fight for the Iceni, don’t you? Then fight with all their scorn and hatred. It doesn’t matter if they are Roman, Gaelic, Norse, or otherwise. Burn it down. Burn it all down and drag each and every person who stands in your way down into the pits of despair. Let them know the grief and anguish that plagued our land. Let them know our people’s pain, and let them die screaming and wailing.”
“…Do you truly think happiness is what I seek? Are you that far gone, to see anything less than senseless violence as naïveté? For me, happiness…Happiness is but a fleeting memory. The joy I felt by my husband’s side, with my daughters in my arms, has long passed, never to return.
But that’s precisely why I cannot stop. I can never let this hatred spiral, nor this fire spread. I must save it - I must treasure it like love. That’s how, when the time is right, it can burn bright enough to bring justice.
It was never about us. It was never about revenge. It was about getting rid of them. It…It was about ensuring a different world, a world in which no one else will suffer at their hands as our loved ones did.
…but…if you’ve lost sight of that world…then I suppose their conquest has taken even you from me as well.”
