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ROUND TWO
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The 6 Wives of Loki the 8th 5/6 [WIP]

[phoenixfawkes12]

Loki was aging and he needed another son. He was a second son himself, and knew the importance of having the “spare heir.” He had two daughters, but neither could rule alone. If anything were to happen to Edward, the conflicting religious civil war could tear England apart. Keeping true to his pattern of behavior, Loki went looking for his next Consort from the ranks of the previous one’s inner circle. There was a nimble youth by the name of Antony Howard, who insisted on being called Tony. As it turned out, he was the cousin of Natasha Boleyn.

Tony enthralled the King. He was adventurous, young, nimble, and seemingly most important of all, completely uninhibited sexually. The King acted like a young man again, unpained by his infirmities. His injured leg seemed to bother him less and he laughed more. He credited it all to his “rose without a thorn.” Loki heaped praise and gifts on the newest Consort. His chambers were covered in the finest garments, the most decedent food, and the most beautiful jewels. Anything Tony wanted, he was given.

Yet two years into the marriage, the Consort had yet to conceive. The King began to become suspicious of the Consort’s activities. Tony had brought many of his childhood friends to places at court. He had also been spending a great deal of time with Virginia ‘Pepper’ Culpepper, one of the King’s chamberlains. These meetings were facilitated with the aid of James ‘Rhodey’ Boleyn, Lord Rochford, the chief lord of the Consort’s chambers. Boleyn was another relation of Natasha, being married to the Queen’s brother George. The affair between Culpepper and the Consort was discovered. Pepper was arrested and quickly executed for having carnal knowledge of the Consort.

Tony was confined to chambers while the affair was investigated. As Loki left church at the chapel in Hampton Court, Tony escaped his rooms and run for the King to beg mercy. The guards caught his just before he reached the King and he was drug screaming back to his rooms. Shortly thereafter, the Consort was arrested and charged with high treason and adultery, just as her cousin had been before him. He was sentenced to death.
Rhodey went insane in prison, leading the King to amend the law allowing for the execution of the mentally ill.

Tony and Rhodey were lead to the scaffold on Tower Green. As Tony stood to address to masses viewing his execution, he defied the King and refused to ask for forgiveness or the King’s grace.

Instead he stated: “I come here to die. I die a King, but I should rather have died the husband of Pepper.”

So it was that the fifth spouse of Loki the 8th shared his cousin’s fate and lost his head to the executioner’s blade.

Re: The 6 Wives of Loki the 8th 5/6 [WIP]

[phoenixfawkes12]

Oh, Tony is SO Catherine Howard. And yay Pepper as Culpepper (oh my God, I forgot about the name, that's too perfect!) and Rhodey as Jane Boleyn.

On to the end--and STEVE!