AgatheLilithBlack

Agathe Lilith Black, also known (by PrincessAlice) as The Evil Sorceress, is...a very strange woman. Truthfully, we're not even sure how to describe her. Agathe formerly claimed to be the head of state of Centralia and currently serves as Prime Minister of Discordantia under TsarinaMalice.

President of Centralia

In late December, Agathe began campaigning for the office of President of Centralia. No such office exists, of course, as Centralia has always been a unitary absolute monarchy. Nevertheless, this bizarre campaign somehow...uh..."succeeded"?...with Agathe being unanimously elected President of Centralia. (The unanimity is less impressive than it sounds, given that there was only one elector, a commoner named Edlyn, who seemed to go along with it just for the novelty.)

Queen of the Centralians

Less than a week after her election as President of Centralia, Agathe announced that she had been "unanimously acclaimed popular monarch of Centralia by a joint declaration of the Parliament, the House of Representatives, the House of Outliers, the Builders' Guild, the Builders' League, the Centralian Candy Manufacture Authority, the House of Lords, and the Council on Absurd Mathematics." (Most of those entities either no longer exist, never existed, or are forever trapped in a quantum superposition of existence and nonexistence.) She began stying herself as Agathe I, Queen of the Centralians, and began issuing directives that probably at least some people complied with, maybe.

PrincessAlice vehemently maintained that she was still the true ruler of Centralia, stating that "the notion that Centralia could ever be ruled by a childish, egotistical, tyrannical brat with delusions of grandeur is absurd on its face." When it became clear that at least some among the Centralian aristocracy recognized Agathe's claim to the throne, Princess Alice became exasperated, shouting that Agathe was "clearly just making all of this up!" The RoyalLibrarian pointed out that Princess Alice also frequently makes things up about Centralia and its governance, to which the Princess responded "Yes, but the stuff I make up is real!"

The Alligator Rebellion

On January 17, less than two weeks after proclaiming herself Queen of the Centralians, Agathe ordered the removal of all alligators from the palace moat. While Agathe never provided a rationale, many suspected the order was an act of retribution against an alligator friend of Princess Alice who suggested that the Princess could competently lead a rebellion against Agathe's regime.

Agathe's order drew immediate backlash, with commoners and aristocracy alike feverently renouncing their support for the new regime. What happened next is...very much unclear. It seems like Agathe just kind of gave up and fled the country? Whatever happened, Agathe clearly wasn't the queen anymore, if she ever even was to begin with.

While all of this transpired, Princess Alice was away at the boarding school in Havensborough. Although her advisors attempted to relay the sequence of events to her, she still didn't really understand what actually happened, and mostly just found herself relieved to not have to deal with "that 'queen' nonsense" anymore, at least for the time being.

Prime Minister of Discordantia

Weeks after being deposed from whatever position she questionably held in Centralia, Agathe approached TsarinaMalice, Supreme Leader of Discordantia, with a proposal, offering her services as "a highly competent chief advisor with no ulterior motives whatsoever." Malice, all too happy to push the responsibilities of managing a government off on someone else so she could have more time to play SimCity 3000, accepted the arrangement, on the condition that "it's still my name that strikes terror in the hearts of the populace, not yours."

Agathe's authority as prime minister is symbolized by a cheaply made XS-Mart employee name tag, though her name is misspelled. (The person making it was told "Agathe" is spelled "with an E", so they wrote "AGETHA".)

In popular culture

A dramatized account of these events, from the perspective of an ordinary Centralian office worker, was portrayed in the film Who Was She and Why Did She Do That? The film went on to win an award for Most Existentially Unsettling Picture.

CategoryCharacters CategoryDiscordantia CategoryRoyalty CategoryContributionsBySalixBabylonika