Trinity Blood fic: Inception & a small rant

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Inception G. AU. Post Empire arc. Spoilers for Stories Untold VII. 1717 words.
It’s hard for rebels to do anything but succeed when their leader is a martyr.


On another Trinity Blood note I’m beginning to wonder if one fandom perception that I keep arguing against stems from the fact that Caterina and siblings are all the illegitimate children of the previous pope. Because I keep coming across the notion that allegedly the Catholic Church has changed to the degree that clergy can marry which isn’t at all supported in canon. It’s not alluded to at all and the only evidence I can see that supposedly supports this is the fact that Gregorio XXX canonically fathered three children and recognised them enough that they could obtain positions of power within the Church. Which would be a fine argument if they were legitimate and in reality popes recognising illegitimate offspring and raising them to positions of power hadn’t happened before, Pope Alexander VI being the most glaring example.
Maybe it’s just me but has nobody heard the name Borgia anymore?


Also, today it's finally dawned on me to look up the spelling of Guderian’s name in my copy of Canon. And it turns out that it ought to be spelt ‘グデーリアン’ so at least I can change the appropriate tag which has read ‘牙’ for lack of inspiration for quite some time.

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Seth is glorious failure in a nutshell. She has all the positive attributes that anyone could wish for and yet still she fails spectacularly. Granted, you could probably argue similar of Dietrich but in his case he willingly embraces his damnation and that speaks more about his self-awareness which is something that Seth just doesn’t appear to have. But then Seth really is a character I love to hate because of all her unfulfilled potential. If you glance over my theories about the series I’m sure at least half of them are long-winded explanations of why Seth went wrong .

The business of Francesco being disqualified due to his illegitimacy is as levyrasputin has pointed out a fault of that abomination that is Wikipedia. Though if anybody did want to cling to such things as a citable sources it would be easy enough to suggest that because Caterina had the support of the elder Cardinals she might have deliberately upheld that rule only to change it when she felt that Alessandro was old enough to be crowned Pope, thereby baring Francesco from the papal throne for as long as she needed to cultivate a suitable replacement. That said, with this (http://imperial-artist.livejournal.com/468202.html) sort of idiocy being regular Wikipedia fare, well...