FRAGMENTS OF A DYNASTY
Summary: Mary's thoughts on how she had become the infamous Bloody Mary Pairings: Henry/all six wives implied and Mary/Philip of Spain/Philip of Bavaria/others It was in her blood. The fanaticism, the obsession, the hate, the bitterness, the bloodthirstiness, the devotion, the pride, the temper, and the stubbornness. It was all in her blood. She can so easily blame this on her family. Her grandmother Isabella of Castile had given her the fanaticism of Catholicism, she had started the Inquisition, she had crusaded in God's name, and she had been Mary's idol when she was a young child. Isabella started the burnings Mary just brought them to England. Her great grandmother Margret was just as devoted to the Catholic faith as her maternal grandmother and mother. Her grandfather was prideful, stubborn, temperamental, and bitter. Much like her father. They all obsessed and hated something. So her faults were her inheritance. But she would not have used this flaws if it had not been for the situation. One day she was a beloved princess, the pearl of her father's world, the apple of everyone's eye, the prettiest little girl in all of England. Then the next she was an unwanted, in the way, insignificant, no good, lousy, disobedient bastard. And it was all Anne Boleyn's fault. That harlot who dared turn her bewitching eyes on her father. The whore who thought she had the grace and right to sit herself on Mary's mother's throne. The slut who spread her legs and failed to do every vile whispered promise of bearing a son. She caused this mess. She whispered ideas of Reformation and Divorce in between pants of disgusting lust. She manipulated and pushed and smirked her way up the ladder to be a false Queen. Though her father was not far in the blame. He could have reverted back once he saw the error of his ways; he could have married Jane Seymour as Katherine of Aragon's widow, Defender of the Faith, and loving father to his only heir the Princess Mary. Instead he hastily wedded after killing one wife and denounced both Mary and Elizabeth as bastards while praying for that much desired son. He continued to wed and throw away wife after wife, he refused to go back to Rome, and he dissolved the Monasteries, and allowed heretics to grow stronger within his Court. It was her father's fault. It was also the fault of her brother Edward and his advisors who also persecuted her and her people for their faith. It was the fault of Lady Jane Grey who did not convert and remained her beloved cousin but stood up as a martyr to the Protestant faith. It was the fault of Elizabeth who was young, beautiful, the image of Anne Boleyn and Henry Tudor, a Protestant, and heir apparent – and therefore far superior to Mary. It was the fault of her advisors and Catholic fanatics who wished to stamp out Protestantism and whispered poison into her already bitter heart. It was the fault of her husband for breaking her heart and refusing to come home. It was the fault of Philip of Bavaria who never wrote to her after winning and then breaking her heart. It was the fault of all those princes and lords who kept breaking their promises to marry her. It was the fault of the people for being so ready to rebel. But, no matter how much she tries to deny it, it was her fault for keeping hold of every bitter feeling, every childhood resentment, every jealousy, and every heartbreak. And that is what led to her to be Bloody Mary.
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