[sixteen] Kimbote + Marie Antionette

With our collective association of Kimbote’s character traits, such as “elegant”, “handsome”, the “exiled King Charles Xavier II of Zembla”, etc., he begins to take on the trappings of a bourgeois aristocrat. More specifically a bourgeois aristocrat that reminisces about the days before “violent revolutionaries” (like Gratus) “ruined everything” by destroying his “perfectly ordered” kingdom and where the general populace often took time to indulge in the hobby of parachuting. It seems another historical reference to Kimbote is apt, Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette. Like the King and Queen, Kimbote (in his “position” as King Charles II) seemed blinded to the “true suffering of his (non-existent) subjects” and is therefore aghast when “revolutionaries” come to upset the “perfect order” he fatally believes exists within Zembla. If he had been living at the time of the last French monarchy, I can imagine him parading around with Marie Antoinette on her Hameau de la reine or “little farm” at Versailles while completely oblivious to the fact that commoners, revolutionaries, etc. are about to turn the course of history upside-down.