sigelphoenix

Title: "Long Live the King"
Characters: Erazema
Word Count: ~2100
Summary: I had a conversation with ratzeo about what's going on in Erazema's head, and though he (of course) gave me no concrete answers, we talked about the two most likely possibilities based on the knowledge we've been able to glean. I tried to share this information with lunapome and starbird, but condensing the conversation down to an abstract summary ended up with me sort of verbally flailing and not being very coherent, so I thought it would be easier to explain it narratively. So consider these two snippets as separate possible versions of canon. (Unless, of course, she's just been mind whammied or blackmailed or otherwise is not in possession of her own mind and will, in which case this whole thing is non-canon.)
Notes: The title is meant to refer to Coldplay's "Viva La Vida", which lunapome suggested as Erazema's image song.

( 'And I discovered that my castles stand / Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand' )

( 'Just a puppet on a lonely string / Oh who would ever want to be king?' )