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Letters to Regal Rat: #6
To His Exalted Highness, King Ross II
Also known as the superhero Regal Rat
Dear Sir:
I think you are the first ever monarch I've ever heard that was addressed as "His Exalted Highness." Is that the official title for you? Or were there others? I ask so that I do not do it wrong; although I'm not from Wildcat City, my family moved there due to a job transfer my dad got, but the first we plan on doing is joining some of the other tourists in visiting the homes of the royal Forsythians. The first one will be yours.
But the real question I meant to ask when writing this letter was this: when the idea of the Drumbums first got popular, it was also met with tons of criticism from angry parents who did not want their kids to expose themselves to anything controversial. (I think CNG may have killed 55% of the parents, or something; I could be wrong.) How did you react to such people?
Also, what was your surname, by the way?
Sincerely,
Adeline Barber, age 21 (human being)
Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Now living in Wildcat City
P.S. I am so grateful Wildcat City exists; I will never be able to picture the United States of America without it.
Regal Rat's response:
Dear Adeline:
I am bothered by such people you mentioned in your letter, but truth be told, I'm too busy with my own life to pay attention to the haters. I think most of them just jumped to conclusions and made false assumptions about the Drumbum concept; while the Snare Soldier requires his recruits to be in good physical shape as well as play or sing music, he doesn't require them to bodybuild like he does, or parade around in swimwear like he does. That's just something he himself was doing because he was working a second job as a model just to pay the bills, since after his military career ended, he was struggling to find work. He didn't want to lose his talents for music, however. That's why he founded the Drumbums to see if he could combine the two things together. Amazingly, it worked, and soon other planets of the Forsythe System wanted to see how they could do the same thing.
What you also have to bear in mind is that these ignorant humans did not understand that our cultures had many things in common, but were otherwise nothing like the ones in the United States; at least, not all of it. Our friends in the UN1024s have mentioned how in the country of Iceland, muscular men going around shirtless is a common sight, but this is not because they're trying to be sex symbols. It's more to do with a show of unity and Icelandic patriotism. Ask Leonhard the Mighty Lion and he will tell you the same thing. That's really what was going on with our culture on Ratatat. The humans were just too endowed in their political correctness, and as we have seen from the CNG crisis until its demise in 2022, CNG was killing those people for being too politcally correct. (Now it did kill those who were the extreme opposite as well, but that's a discussion for another day.)
How do I deal with them? I just ignore them and let them make idiots of themselves, for only God can be the One to judge them. (Notice I captialized those words on purpose.)
As for the titles of respect, we didn't really have official titles; our subjects called us all sorts of things, but "Your Majesty" was the most common. When we got to Earth, however, we felt it necessary to use different heraldry titles to help the people of this world tell us apart, since there's me, two lions, and a white tiger; we just chose them at random. This is why the others are His Majesty, King Leo V (Kriegland), His Royal Highness, King Lacklund VII (1776), and His Mightiness, King Lionel XVIII (Leonine). But any title of respect works. In return, we promise to be respectful of you and the public who come to visit us when we do those tourism days, and so we look forward to your company the day you and your family do visit us.
I hope that helps, and thank you for writing to me.
Yours truly,
His Exalted Highness, King Ross II of Ratatat
Also known as the superhero Regal Rat.
P.S. My surname is Mernard. I don't think I made that clear to anybody who asked me. All royal families do have surnames; the British royal family is of the House of Windsor, for example. King Leo's is Bourbon (ironic because drinking led to the death penalty on Kriegland, but you can't control that), while King Lionel's is March. I don't know what King Lacklund's is; not even he knows because CNG destroyed all records of his birth. The C.I.D.F. have a way to fix that, though.
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Letters to Regal Rat: #6
To His Exalted Highness, King Ross II
Also known as the superhero Regal Rat
Dear Sir:
I think you are the first ever monarch I've ever heard that was addressed as "His Exalted Highness." Is that the official title for you? Or were there others? I ask so that I do not do it wrong; although I'm not from Wildcat City, my family moved there due to a job transfer my dad got, but the first we plan on doing is joining some of the other tourists in visiting the homes of the royal Forsythians. The first one will be yours.
But the real question I meant to ask when writing this letter was this: when the idea of the Drumbums first got popular, it was also met with tons of criticism from angry parents who did not want their kids to expose themselves to anything controversial. (I think CNG may have killed 55% of the parents, or something; I could be wrong.) How did you react to such people?
Also, what was your surname, by the way?
Sincerely,
Adeline Barber, age 21 (human being)
Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Now living in Wildcat City
P.S. I am so grateful Wildcat City exists; I will never be able to picture the United States of America without it.
Regal Rat's response:
Dear Adeline:
I am bothered by such people you mentioned in your letter, but truth be told, I'm too busy with my own life to pay attention to the haters. I think most of them just jumped to conclusions and made false assumptions about the Drumbum concept; while the Snare Soldier requires his recruits to be in good physical shape as well as play or sing music, he doesn't require them to bodybuild like he does, or parade around in swimwear like he does. That's just something he himself was doing because he was working a second job as a model just to pay the bills, since after his military career ended, he was struggling to find work. He didn't want to lose his talents for music, however. That's why he founded the Drumbums to see if he could combine the two things together. Amazingly, it worked, and soon other planets of the Forsythe System wanted to see how they could do the same thing.
What you also have to bear in mind is that these ignorant humans did not understand that our cultures had many things in common, but were otherwise nothing like the ones in the United States; at least, not all of it. Our friends in the UN1024s have mentioned how in the country of Iceland, muscular men going around shirtless is a common sight, but this is not because they're trying to be sex symbols. It's more to do with a show of unity and Icelandic patriotism. Ask Leonhard the Mighty Lion and he will tell you the same thing. That's really what was going on with our culture on Ratatat. The humans were just too endowed in their political correctness, and as we have seen from the CNG crisis until its demise in 2022, CNG was killing those people for being too politcally correct. (Now it did kill those who were the extreme opposite as well, but that's a discussion for another day.)
How do I deal with them? I just ignore them and let them make idiots of themselves, for only God can be the One to judge them. (Notice I captialized those words on purpose.)
As for the titles of respect, we didn't really have official titles; our subjects called us all sorts of things, but "Your Majesty" was the most common. When we got to Earth, however, we felt it necessary to use different heraldry titles to help the people of this world tell us apart, since there's me, two lions, and a white tiger; we just chose them at random. This is why the others are His Majesty, King Leo V (Kriegland), His Royal Highness, King Lacklund VII (1776), and His Mightiness, King Lionel XVIII (Leonine). But any title of respect works. In return, we promise to be respectful of you and the public who come to visit us when we do those tourism days, and so we look forward to your company the day you and your family do visit us.
I hope that helps, and thank you for writing to me.
Yours truly,
His Exalted Highness, King Ross II of Ratatat
Also known as the superhero Regal Rat.
P.S. My surname is Mernard. I don't think I made that clear to anybody who asked me. All royal families do have surnames; the British royal family is of the House of Windsor, for example. King Leo's is Bourbon (ironic because drinking led to the death penalty on Kriegland, but you can't control that), while King Lionel's is March. I don't know what King Lacklund's is; not even he knows because CNG destroyed all records of his birth. The C.I.D.F. have a way to fix that, though.
Regal Rat's sixth letter.
Regal Rat, Leo himself, G-52s, etc. © me and me alone
Parallels of Leo are joint-owned by me and Chuong
Regal Rat, Leo himself, G-52s, etc. © me and me alone
Parallels of Leo are joint-owned by me and Chuong
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