France/CS Presents

**Careful! This page may contain spoilers for all CS Presents entries. Read at your own risk!**

Just like in Country Stories, France acts as the main protagonist of the CS Presents, having a relevant role in every entry of the series.

## Chaos

During the events of Chaos, France is portrayed as the central figure of the Entente Powers, with countries such as United Kingdom, Russia, Italy and United States fighting alongside her.

In the 1914-1918 period, the main factor that differentiates this France from the one in the present era is clearly her age; during the First World War, France is a 30-year old woman with pale skin accompanied by long, dark chocolate brown hair let loose and stylized in natural ringlets and dark blue eyes, similar to the appearance her brothers have in the present era. A very notable trait of Chaos France is her mouth, that while delicate as always, never shows even the smallest signs of smiling.

France's personality during Chaos differs greatly from the one she has in the present day as well, during the story, France is shown as a hot-tempered woman who has a tendency to commit the mistake of acting by impulse, not allowing herself to think things through first. France's code of action still resides on principles such as honor and vindication, giving her a vengeful character that doesn't let go of even the tiniest details easily. Finally, this France has a hard time believing in things such as teamwork and trust, for she prefers working alone with noone contradicting her, and will only accept working together when the situation is desperate enough; she is also able to feel joy and happiness from time to time, even if her incapability to smile fails to show that. One thing that has no place for France under any circumstance, however, is love, something she deems nonexistent, as merely an illusion people have to escape reality in the most nonsensical way, something she seems to have learned the hard way.

### Role

France's first appearance in Chaos is on **Time Bomb**, where she attends a quick reunion with Russia and complains about how calm he is about the war that's coming, leavinfg shortly after.

France's next major appearance happens on **Schlieffen**, where it is explained she was given an ultimatum off-screen, and after not answering it, war against Germany began. She had a quick encounter with Baden, who apparently also confronted her in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, and after being unable to defeat him and viceversa, the battle came to a halt. Following this battle, we see a direct encounter with Germany and her fighting for the first time along with Great Britain in **Trenches**, where she helps her ally dig them in the race to the sea, turning the western front into a stationary war. Her only appearance in **Alps** was on Italy's flashback, where she convinces him into joining the Entente.

Her next appearance, now into war doomed Europe, in on **ANZAC**, where she fights with Great Britain about the situation of the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

She appears briefly in **Armament**, having a phone call with Paris before she was cut off by enemy fire, she is also later mentioned in **Outside battle** and **Under pressure.**

In-between these brief appearances, she played a major role in **Verdun**, where she was shown battling against Germany, trying to bleed him out as he was trying to do the same thing to her, in the end, she was able to "tactically win" but ended up with multiple wounds, including a shot in her leg, which caused it to be red colored for many months to come.

Her next appearance after a long absence happens on **Broken Entente**, where she takes the main role and travels all the way thorugh Europe in order to reach Russia, on her way, she interacts with Italy, Serbia, Greece and meets the "Austrohungarian Slavs", Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Bohemia (who'll be later known as Czechia). She later appears on **Final Stand,** battling against Germany on her own for the last time, acting notably friendlier towards Great Britain for the first time. She appears right after said volume on **Hopeless,** where she leads the full Entente's charge against Germany.

Further appearances include **Surrender** and **Versailles? Vengeance?** During the former one, France appears at the final chunk of it, using her magic to persuade Germany into surrendering, thing she achieves with lots of effort. In the latter one, France, along with Great Britain, host the signing of the Versailles Treaty, acting vengeful and merciless towards Germany; unknown to her, she has just worsened her fate in the future.

## Trivia

* While her main novel self is depicted as "Queen Butterfly", France during CS Presents is depicted as the "Thousand thorn flower", this refers to two things:
	1. Her apparent obsession with a certain purple flower, that she carries around everywhere
	2. Her old ability, which consists on being able to pressure people into doing whatever she wants them to, creating an extremely painful illusion of rose thorns that slowly envelop her target's body until the suffering forces them to give in.
* During Chaos, Peace Out and bits of Chaos 2 and BIFF, France's human name is "Fleur Terrefriche"; which can be translated to "flower of the wasteland", contrasting greatly with her current name.
* During Chaos, Peace Out!, Chaos 2 and the first half of BIFF, her designated oshi mark is the withered flower (🥀)
	+ During the second half of BIFF and the entirety of Defrost, her oshi mark switches to the usual butterfly.

## Gallery

France's Chaos visualA promotional drawing of Chaos featuring FranceA promotional propaganda poster showcasing the Triple EntenteBanner image of the "Verdun" volume, depicting the battle of the same nameBanner image of the "Broken Entente" volume, foreshadowing her travesy across EuropeOld Chaos cover, France present on the bottom leftChaos' new cover featuring France