"And I'll be sure to give you at least two older siblings, Alicia, so nobody will be expecting you to be ready to inherit.

"Let's go on to your Fiance.  the Prince Charming, the Dark Rival, and the Noble Prodigy.  The Prince Charming, you'll both recognize as the standard fairy-tale prince archetype - though as Alicia is the Princess, he'll by default be the son of the highest-ranking duke instead; or he could be a distant cousin.  The Dark Rival is the rival of the Prince Charming, less optimistic and sincere; the archatypical cynical rival.  The Noble Prodigy is a member of the lowest rank of the nobility, but has already made a name for himself--by default as a warrior and commander, driven by some tragedy in his past.

"By default, the Prince Charming or Dark Rival would be the same age as you, and your classmate in the Royal Academy; the Noble Prodigy would be older and have already graduated the Academy."

"There's no reason the Prince Charming has to be from the same country as us, although that does lead directly into the 'required to politick' trap I just dodged...wait a minute, is the assumption here that Villarosa is the Kingdom?  Like, there's only one?  That won't do, just on a logistics and specialization basis!  You gotta have some diversity!"

"Of course not; it's just that the story's set up to be in Villarosa.  But we could say he's from another kingdom and going to the Royal Academy of Villarosa anyway, right?"

"Of course, but then your marriage would be significant for international politics..."

"That's what I just said..."

"Mmmm.

"...Okay, actually, though, I think I want the primogeniture to be a lot more elective than 'oldest sibling first', that's a horrible way to organize a government.  Dunno how much you can twiddle that, but.  I don't want to just watch someone do something stupid with my kingdom just because I'm not the oldest kid either, even if that does mean having to worry about inheritance...  I guess actually the question is - 'what can we call a monarch before the worldbuilding's not to spec?'."

"A good question!  Elective monarchies certainly count if they're elected by the nobility from within the royal house.  If they're elected by the nobility from among themselves, I'm pretty sure they count.  If they're elected by all the people... that would be much more dubious, and I'm not sure whether the Will would count that.

"Or you can go more wild and say the monarch's chosen by prophecy or lot, or appointed by the previous monarch... and as long as it's within the royal family, with maybe a few exceptions, I'm sure it'd count."

"I think allowing the previous monarch to select whosoever they wish, with perhaps the lords having a three-quarters veto or vote of no confidence, at which point...hmm.  Something ought to happen.  Maybe then it's prophecy's turn.  Anyway I think Queen Padmé Amidala would have words for the Will if it didn't count her.  And I wouldn't put it past her to win that argument.  ...But actually, let me just..."

It's time for more diagrams!

"Something like that would give a lot of interesting angles, and I think it'd work well at giving the kingdom good kings - better than simple inheritance or election.  Maybe let the monarch select any of his or her children or anyone in the family, subject to veto; or let him or her select other people if the lords actually agree...?

"And then various traditions and encrustments and rights of individual noblemen around that such as could naturally develop over the generations."

"Sounds reasonable to me; my brain is spitting out a constitutional monarchy in far more detail than I'm able to easily render but if you want it I suppose that's quite fine."

"Which leaves who the Prince Charming is going to be, if we're going to have him.  I'm fine with either him or a Noble Prodigy who's still in school... and if we do have a Prince Charming who's a prince from another country, there is going to be some political interest in your marriage, though less so given this succession style."

"I'm not...entirely against...having things that interact with the political situation; I just don't want that to be a day-to-day element of my life."

"Then a Prince Charming from another country," says the angel, who's in favor of figuratively bouncing political situations off Alicia.  "Any ideas on what that country should be, or should that be left up to the worldbuilding team?""

"Hmm, I'm not sure...Maybe they should have a complementary skill in magic to us two?  Also I definitely have aesthetic opinions about Prince design, but I imagine you have a better idea than I do what will work there."

"Anyway, I'd like there to be a Senate of some form, for the common people to have a say.  Back on the question of governance, rather than Princes."

"That wouldn't be a proper Senate, but we could have some sort of Assembly like that...  At least for the different shires?  And maybe those assemblies could send delegates to for an all-kingdom Assembly every so often...  I didn't have one of those, but it could be a good thing sometimes."

Maybe, she thinks, kings or queens who haven't been spending a lot of time among the common people might need that.  From what she's heard, her great-grandfather really badly needed one of those.

The angel nods, noting down the plan for the indirectly-elected Assemblies.

"And don't worry, we'll make sure the Prince's aesthetics match up with yours."

"Is the Prince necessarily male, incidentally?  I don't normally..."  She waves a hand, vaguely.  "Though I suppose I've ever done."

"I - I sure hope he is, if I'm going to - in any version of the story -"

She swallows.  "I've heard of women" - she waves her hand vaguely - "- together, but I've never wanted to try it."

The angel makes another note on her pad.  "Then we can make sure he meets both your... criteria."

"Right.  I'm, not going to get into that."

She... won't try to get more into that if Alicia doesn't either.

"I am very sorry that that brought up a squick and also very glad we caught it beforehand.  I do not want to know what else could've gone wrong there."

Flip, flip back more on her pad...

"One more question while we're designing the country:  Should Villarosa - or should the world - be peopled by humans, or other races as well?  Unfortunately we can only provide two standard sapient races; we tend to call them 'Humans' and 'Elves', but you can make them whatever you want."

"Would we be Elves?"

"Typically yes; however, you would need to take one more Flaw to balance that out - since presumably Elves are better in many ways than humans."