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The huge metal doors part, revealing a small figure standing at one end of the room. Whoever, or whatever, is taking the video is set at the other end of the room, overhead, where a man in regal apparel sits with a stony expression on his face.
"Announcing Prince Lelouch vi Britannia, 17th heir to the Royal Britannian Imperial throne!"
For a brief moment, there is silence as the small child walks towards the throne. Despite the distance, it is clear this child has been taught to walk with poise and dignity - pride is written all over his posture and his gait. The crowd inside the room erupts into a series of murmurs suddenly, and whatever it is that is being talked about comes to an abrupt halt again when the child finally stops walking.
"Hail, your majesty!" the child exclaims. "My mother the empress is dead."
Before he even finishes, the man on the throne nonchalantly counters, "Old news. What of it?"
This response causes the child to loose his composure as he clenches his feet and echoes the man's cold question. "What of it?"
"You sought an audience with the Emperor of Britannia simply to inform me of that?" the man counters again before turning to one of the men standing beside his throne. "Send the next one in, I have no time for these childish games!"
"Father!" the child suddenly cries, running forward to the throne. The guards standing on either side of the throne move to bar the child, but the man on the throne motions for them to halt.
"Why didn't you keep mother out of harm's way?! You're the Emperor... the greatest man in this nation! If not the world! You should have protected her and now you don't even visit Nunnally!" the child continues, having been given the allowance to do so.
"I've no use for that weakling," the man says simply, and the child merely echoes his final words in quiet disbelief. "That is what it means to be royalty."
The child hangs his head and begins to shake visibly. "...Then I don't want to be your heir-- I give up my claim to the throne!"
The crowd erupts into a cacophony of murmurs, cries, and jeers-- and the child ignores all of this as he continues his angry speech. "I'm sick of the fighting and scheming over who will succeed you father, I've had enough!"
"You are dead," the man in the throne cuts in. "You have always been dead to me, dead from the moment you were born. Who gave you the fine clothes that you wear, the comfortable home, the food that you eat, and your very life! All of those, I have given to you! In short you are nothing to me because you have never existed! Yet you dare to speak such foolishness--" And here, the man rises from his throne and walks imposingly towards the child. "to me?!"
The child squeals in fear and stumbles backward as the man approaches him, obviously bigger, louder-- his father.
"Lelouch. You are dead, therefore you are not entitled to any rights. I am sending you and Nunnally to Japan; as prince and princess, you will serve well as bargaining tools."
And here, the video fades as the crowd goes "Awwww".
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[ooc; Same as yesterday :| ]