The Descendants of the Rose

 

 

For Versailles, everything starts with the song "The Revenant Choir", the video starts with a spoken introduction, a female voice which tells the story of "Descendants of the Rose" ...

« Aristocrats beautifully attired in a world filled with the smell of roses. There lived two clans,one, who believed that death brings everlasting happiness.the others seek eternal life. One day, both dreams become reality,the others would never be destroyed.They were forced to live in loneliness, like a never ending punishment.
June 2007. The others time had come. Descendants of the rose appeared. Within meaning, the memory of that day came flooding back and the story begins... »

The next album, "Noble" will offer a video "Aristrocrats Symphony" which plants a dark and romantic universe

For their major, they released the single "Ascendead Master" accompanied by a short three-part film which tells the story of a little girl saved by a Vampire president of a company that researches eternal life.

The Pamphlet sold during the 2011 "Holy Grail" tour contains a story that tells the complete story of "Descendants of the Rose" in three chapters ("Lyrical Sympathy" - "Noble" - "Jubilee") which is the web of the Versailles group. This story begins with a resumption of the spoken introduction to the song "The Revenant Choir" and weaves a narrative around the lyrics of the songs subsequently created in "Noble" and "Jubilee", also including the story of the short film " Ascendead Master ". The script and the creation process does not seem as successful as "Lillie Charlotte", because the story seems to have been written after the fact, based on the songs.

There remains a nice story that gives meaning to the texts of Kamijo and which demonstrates a concern to link all of this in a coherent scenario.

An extract in English is available on the forum of the Court of Versailles. This is the text of the booklet sold during the European tour.

 

 

 The Story of the Descendants of The Rose

 

 

Lyrical Sympathy

There was a time when noble people were routinely wearing gorgeous dresses and the whole nation was filled with sweet aroma of roses. Two opposite cliques were insisting their belief was the ultimate truth. One is Thanathos who claims “Death” is the last true of happiness of human beings. The other is Philia who seeks for “Eternal Life”.
Thanatosians’ important ritual day was about to come. It only happens once in 1,000 years. Feeling insecure about not being sure of exactly what was going to happen, Flowery was also excited about experienced the “Ultimate Happiness” as one of the chosen people allowed to join this rare ritual. 
Truth revealed. The ritual required all the chosen people to cease one other life for the sake of getting the last true happiness. Everyone took a shot of aphrodisiac, instantly became a cold-blooded murderer and sudden bloodshed took place. Pure-hearted Flowery couldn’t take it and eventually became the only survivor. It was Louis, Flowery’s lover and a pur sang vampire who finally gave her the last happiness she hoped for.
Flowery had kept asking Louis decay together naturally as they get older whereas Louis had tried hard to convince her of an eternal life. He didn’t mean to give her a death. All he wanted was to give her an eternal life. Ironically, for Louis who cannot decay nor die, Flowery’s blood was nothing but victual. Crimson blood all over the floor and the lifeless body of his girl were left. Flowery was gone for good. Devastated Louis locked himself in his coffin for an eternal sleep. Just like his beloved Flowery. Since then, the day has been remembered as “The Red Carpet Day”.
 

 

 

Noble
 

Some hundred years went by. A pur sang vampire Louis was awakened by the descendants of Philians. What he saw there now was not what he used to appreciate… Still the same town but nothing glitz and glamour was left at all. One day, some whores found dead in a whorehouse outside of town. Crimson blood underneath the dead whores was all over the floor, reminding everyone of legendary The Red Carpet Day. Was it a copycat murder? Were Thanatosians still alive? From that day on, spooky dark shadow always followed Louis and his fellow descendants of Philians. Some days later, children went missing one after another when they touched red roses. All the roses were considered dangerous. Scared people got rid of them immediately. 
When the last single rose disappeared, the spooky dark shadow unmasked right in front of Louis and the descendants. The phantoms of dead Thanatosians it was. Ugly hearts and malicious acts of the people in this era woke them up from a long deep sleep. Louis and his fellow descendants were determined to put them back to sleep but by doing so, they surprisingly found themselves learning the history of ruthful destiny Thanatosians had been through. It was all cursed by their belief in the last true happiness only achievable by ceasing one other life. In the ugly world where people would crap on others for their personal greed, Louis made up his mind to cleanse them by sucking their blood. Red roses are the symbol of true love and they must come back to bloom again with purity in love of human beings. 
 

 

 

Jubilee

A dying girl transferred to hospital suffered cardiopulmonary arrest. She got seriously injured and unfortunately lost her parents in a car accident that day. Suddenly someone performed a miracle to save her life and she was adopted by the president called Louis of a life insurance company “DESCENDANT OF THE ROSE”, coincided with the announcement to launch a brand-new insurance product “Eternal Life”. He gave a press conference at an old castle while the media gave considerable attention to the odd coincidence between what happened to his recently adopted daughter and the name of his new product. 
Suzanne, one the nurses at the girl’s surgery, cherished a secret suspicion against the girl’s resuscitation almost contrary to nature and did a secret investigation all by herself. Which eventually led her to the fact that DESCENDANT OF THE ROSE is a disguise of a pur sang vampire Louis, yet she knew none of his true intention. Even though she felt fear and insecurity to the existence of a vampire for real, deep down inside, she was dying for a bite on the neck… Yes, she wanted to be like all the reporters at the old castle that experienced a sudden chaotic cleansing by Louis. And when her turn came, she never fought against Louis. She is the reincarnation of Flowery. 
Louis took her to a journey of the descendant of the rose’s history: their loneliness in living the darkness for hundreds of years, their true love for human beings, Louis’s determination to wipe out ugliness in human… All ran through in her mind in a heartbeat. That is exactly how Louis cleanses people’s heart. He sucks ugliness with blood and in return, he pours his aspiration full of love into heart that should be inherited by the next generation. 
At least, it worked that way until Louis and Suzanne returned from their journey. What they see now is a different world from how it was a moment before. Somehow reality has been replaced with dreams… 

 

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