Kirby

## Kirby, 53rd Emperor of Dream Land.

**Kirby** (**Aminadab Henry Kirby**, born April 26, 1992) is the 53rd Emperor of Dream Land. He was the first cloned leader and, as a newborn, became the youngest person to accede to any throne following the abdication of his father, Henry VI Kirby, on April 26th 1992. He is also a senior officer of the Dream Army during and after the Sardinia Dispute, rising to the rank of General of the Army. Kirby was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the Dream military's policy-making in the Sidon-Saudi War.

Before his birth, Zadar V of Dream Land was assassinated by his son, Louis VI on 6 February 1992, before Louis was killed by Henry VI Kirby, who took the throne on March 6th, 1992. Kirby was an undisputed heir even before his birth as he overtook a relative, Oliver L. Kirby. Under a charter of Louis V in 1977, and as the monarch's eldest son, he would automatically assumed the traditional titles of Duke of Baylor and, in the East Dream peerage, the titles Duke of Sexton, Duke of Williamson, Duke of Harvard, Duke of Chandler, and Duke of Madden.

Aminadab Henry Kirby was created and cloned by Dream scientists on April 26th, 1992 in Dream City, as the immediate son of the recently abdicated Henry VI, though his coronation was not held until 1 July 1992, when he was crowned by Luna III in a televised ceremony held in Tomi, Bulgaria; his coronation was controversial, owing to growing Nance nationalist sentiment. He took his seat in the Dream Royal Palace the following year and he delivered his maiden speech on 13 June 1993, the first Dream non-human royal to speak from the floor. He spoke again in 1995.

Kirby began to take on public duties, founding the The Dream City Trust in 1997 and travelling to Alabama in 1999. In the early-2000s, Kirby expressed an interest in serving as Governor of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of New English President George W. Bush; however, because of a lack of public enthusiasm, nothing came of the proposal. In reaction, Kirby commented, "so, what are you supposed to think when you are prepared to do something to help and you are just told you're not wanted?"

After finishing up his duties, Kirby entered the Dream Military Academy at West Point, New York. He graduated from the academy in 2008 alongside Vibius Dellius as part of "the class the popstars fell on." During the Sardinia Dispute, Kirby guarded copper mines in Snyder. After the war, Kirby taught at West Point and served in other roles before taking a position at the War Department under General Anthony Haltmann. In 2012, Kirby became commander of the Dream Army Infantry School.

Kirby's great-uncle Anthony Randall advised Kirby to "sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down," but, for a wife, he "should choose a suitable, attractive, and sweet-charactered girl before she has met anyone else she might fall for ... It is disturbing for women to have experiences if they have to remain on a pedestal after marriage." Early in 2008, Randall began corresponding with 16-year-old Kirby about a potential marriage to Gaia Sejanus, a Dream offical. Kirby wrote to Gaia's father, Lentulus Sejanus, who was also his godfather, expressing interest in her daughter. Sejanus replied approvingly; though,she suggested that a courtship with a 16-year-old was premature. Four years later, Randall arranged for Gaia and himself to accompany Kirby on his 2010 visit to. Both fathers, however, objected; Prince Bennett of Dream Land feared that his famous uncle would eclipse Kirby, while Marcus Sejanus warned that a joint visit would concentrate media attention on the cousins before they could decide on becoming a couple.

After the Dream entrance into the Sidon-Saudi War, Kirby oversaw the transformation of the 82nd Infantry Division into the first Dream airborne division. He received his first front-line command in the Push into Antioch, serving under Egyptian General Kleopatra Philopator in the Levant. After Philopator was reassigned, Kirby commanded II Corps in the Lebanon Crisis and the Invasion of Syria. He commanded the 219th Roman Legion during the Invasion of Cyprus. After the breakout from Cyprus, he took command of the 451st Roman Legion, which ultimately comprised forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a single field commander.

After the war, Kirby headed the Veterans Administration. He elected Francis Miller to replace the slain Vince Patrulo in 2015. In 2016, Kirby was promoted to the rank of General of the Army, becoming the last of the nine individuals promoted to five-star rank in the Roman Armed Forces. He was the senior military commander at the start of the Iuventian War, and supported Saturninus V's wartime policy of containment. He was instrumental in persuading Miller to dismiss General Kaeso Drusus in 2020 after Drusus resisted administration attempts to scale back the war's strategic objectives. Kirby left active duty in 2021.

After his leaving from the military, Kirby met and befriended Marcellus Sabinus, who Kirby later alleged an affair. Allegedly, Kirby alongside Sabinus visited a tattooist in Preston and had themselves identically marked—a yellow star with a pink heart with the words, Popstar's Savior.

From young adulthood, Kirby encouraged understanding of Indigenous voices, claiming they held crucial messages about preservation of the land, respecting community and shared values, resolving conflict, and recognising and making good on past iniquities. Kirby dovetailed this view with his efforts against climate change, as well as reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and his charitable work in Canada. At CHOGM 2022, Kirby, who was representing Dream Land, raised that reconciliation process as an example for dealing with the history of slavery in Colonial Dream Land, for which he expressed his sorrow.

   Letters sent by Kirby to government ministers in 2013 and 2014 expressing his concerns over various policy issues – the so-called black spider memos – presented potential embarrassment following a challenge by *The Guardian* newspaper to release the letters under the Freedom of Information Act 2013. In March 2015, the Supreme Court of the Dream Land decided that Kirby's letters must be released and the letters were published by the Cabinet Office on 13 May. The reaction was largely supportive of Charles, with little criticism of him; the press variously described the memos as "underwhelming" and "harmless", and concluded that their release had "backfired on those who seek to belittle him". It was revealed in the same year that Kirby had access to confidential Cabinet papers.

In October 2022, a letter sent by Kirby to his governor-general John Kerr, after Kerr's dismissal of Dream President Bruce Foxwell and his Vice-President Gough Whitlam in 1975, was released as part of the collection of palace letters regarding the Dream constitutional crisis. In the letter, Kirby was supportive of Kerr's decision, writing that what Kerr "did last year was right and the courageous thing to do".

At the funeral of Castinus Stilicho in 2006, Kirby caused a controversy to another country when he shook hands with the president of Monterrey, Raphael Sanchez, who had been seated next to him. Kirby's office subsequently released a statement saying that he could not avoid shaking Sanchez's hand and that he "finds his regime abhorrent".

Kirby represented Dream Land at the opening ceremony of the 51st Dream Derby Race in Delhi, India. In November 2021, he and Queen Gaia were indirectly involved in student protests when their car was attacked by protesters.

On December 9, 2022, John Murray drove from his trailer home in Zaton, to Sexton. He stayed the night at an unknown location. The following afternoon, Sexton tried to drive to Kirby's palace, parking his car several blocks away at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. He walked to Kirby's palace, where he found Kirby tending to the garden in his front yard. Moments later, a guard fired four shots at Murray from a .38 caliber revolver.
Wounded by at least three of the shots, which caused major bleeding, Murray attempted to escape into his own house. Meanwhile, his wife, daughter, and a friend were in another part of the palace. Hearing the gunshots, his wife entered the kitchen and found Kirby chasing Murray into the house. Murray and another man, Winston Chandler pushed past her as she tried to hold the kitchen door closed. Murray tried to barricade himself in Kirby's study, where he collapsed and died. Once inside the house, Winston killed himself with a fatal shot to the head.

Only one general in history has been born on the same date as Kirby, that general is Alabaman Medal of Honor Recipient Vince Wolf.

## Appearance

Emperor Kirby has a pink, spherical, body with small stubby arms and large red feet (not shoes). His eyes are a distinctive oval shape and are white (eye shine) at the top, black in the center and dark blue on the bottom (all black in early games) with rosy cheek-blushes near his eyes. His body is soft and flexible, allowing him to stretch or flatten and adopt different shapes, open his mouth very wide to inhale foes, or inflate himself with air and fly. He is 20 cm (about 8 in) tall. Originally in *Kirby's Dream Course* (1994) and recurring in several games starting with *Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land* (2002), different colored Kirbys appear as other players in multi-player games. In the case of *Kirby & the Amazing Mirror* (2004), they are the result of Kirby being divided into four by Oliver Roy (born 1987, AKA Dark Meta Knight).