Editing Princess: The Hopeful (section)

====Tears====
All about doing what the Queen of Tears did by transporting Alhambra into the Darkness: Protecting one's loved ones, no matter the cost to anyone else. Unlike all of the other Queens fighting the Darkness, the Tears' primary goal is not the struggle against evil, keeping Alhambra safe is. The problem is, Alhambra is in the Dark World, an environment only slightly less lethal than the Warp. So in order to keep the city safe they 'tax' the Earth of Light (believing the Earth belongs to them in the same way as a province would belong to a medieval monarch and thus owes them fealty, consciously or not) in order to burn it in lanterns to keep the Darkness at bay. As such they're basically disliked by the other Courts, but unfortunately, they have a lot of manpower and old magic items from the Fall of the Kingdoms, and Alhambra is really hard to get into and out of, meaning you can't just attack them straight on, otherwise the Storms would have done so by now. Working for the Queen of Tears has a few advantages such as the ability to shelter loved ones in Alhambra which, despite its location, is one of the safest places in existence due to how heavily guarded it is (and note that if you're using the vocation version of the game line, the Darkness has rules to mechanically find and attack your family and people near to you so this is not a random 'perk'). The Tears Invocation and Charms meanwhile are a mix between screwing with an enemy's mind (most often in morally comprising ways) and defense, with a few Darkness (note the capital D there: it's evil Darkness) powers as well. Tears' signature emotions are Depression and Resolve. ''Eg:'' Akemi Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Tears' Invocation is Lacrima whose element is Darkness.

If you're wondering why they don't just move Alhambra again, this time to someplace where they won't require extra Light just to survive, they either cannot, or the simpler answer might be that the Queen of Tears never thought of it. And if she ''did'' ever realize that she could have solved almost all her problems a long time ago and done anything other than what she had to do (and the consequences of which she's had to live with for all this time), she'd drop to Belief 0 and become a Dethroned, basically a Puella Magi Madoka Magica witch, only this time with the power of a demigod. Yeah, not a good thing at all.

She is probably not totally beyond redemption... but that doesn't mean that she isn't still making the world worse.