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The [[Emperor]] is the only position that exists at more than one site.  It is also among the oldest traditions.  The Emperor and Empress are the people who traditionally preside over the [[Passionfruit]], and are usually quite knowledgeable about tradition.

==Carlisle==

At both sessions, the Emperor and Empress have traditional headgear that are passed down to succeeding royalty.  First Session's Emperor and Empress have a crown and a tiara respectively.  Second Session instead has two crowns handmade from colored duct tape for both the Emperor and the Empress. 

The role of the royalty at Carlisle is to act as sort of student administrators.  For example, when there was a conflict about Goth Day, the Empress made the final verdict.  Their main duty is to run every aspect of Passionfruit.  It is traditional for the Emperor to make the first toast, and the Empress, the last. The Emperor and Empress are responsible for coming up with devirginizations/den00bifications to initiate those to those who are new to the site or were absent the year before. The administration has disallowed both these terms in recent years, so they are now referred to as Passionfruit Games.

Quite some time ago, the Empress and Emperor were referred to as the "juice coordinators" who would traditionally purchase a large amount of Passionfruit juice for the whole circle.  Then, people realized the ineffectiveness of this and started to bring their own juice, soda, water, etc., to Passionfruit.  In addition, upon the departure of Gary Noritz, who facilitated finding and purchasing cases of passionfruit juice, the drink became difficult to obtain. However, for Passionfruit 10.1, Liam McNamara, the Jesus for the session, managed to acquire several containers of passionfruit juice. The mixing of passionfruit juice with red Powerade during the Last Supper became a tradition soon after. (Passionfruit juice is available at some farmer markets, as well as supermarkets such as Whole Foods).

During 15.2, Nathan Pugh made history as the first male Empress. The Emperor of 15.2 Zak Klein passed his crown down to Ilana Miller for 16.2, marking the first time the Emperor will be a female.

* '''2001'''
*: First Session:
*: Second Session: Owen Gentry and Pammy Woodward
* '''2002'''
*: First Session:
*: Second Session: Lizzie Wade
* '''2003'''
*: First Session:
*: Second Session: Laura and ???
* '''2004'''
*: First Session:
*: Second Session: Annie and George
* '''2005'''
*: First Session: Franklyn and Nabil
*: Second Session: Ben and Tini
* '''2006'''
*: First Session: Ali Greenberg and Matt Carroll
*: Second Session: McKenzie Hull and Holly Murray
* '''2007'''
*: First Session:  Kimmi Cheng and Clara Pelaez
*: Second Session: Mike Schumacher and Jackie Mora
* '''2008'''
*: First Session: NEW: Ryan Heaney and Ross "Sarge" Slaughter
*: Second Session: Allie Prescott and Rachel Hull
*'''2009'''
*: First Session: Alex "Jake" Jacobsen and [[user: Jkim1593| Jeanette Kim]]
*: Second Session: [[user: Emperorjake| Jake Meyers]] and Eddie Cytryn
*'''2010'''
*: First Session: [[user:Rosalie| Rosalie Nathans]] and Albert Han
*: Second Session: Patrick Kennedy and [[user: Maybemicaela| Micaela Rodríguez]]
*'''2011'''
*: First Session: Colin Mark and Evan Chernack
*: Second Session: [[user: Julia.gureck| Julia Gureck]] and [[user: KilltheKingKirby| Jonathan Kirby]]
*'''2012'''
*: First Session: [[user:Melonchollie| Michelle Kim]] and [[user:Swine09survivor| Bobby Zipp]]
*: Second Session: [[User:BradP27| Fish Stark]] and [[user:Thenonbritishbritshnationalist| Rebecca Trickey]]
*'''2013'''
*: First Session: Maya Hoke and [[user:Jujube| Julia Gollin]]
*: Second Session: [[user:Dryrun| Duncan Rheingans-Yoo]] and Dayna Levine
*'''2014'''
*: First Session: Alexis Onsi and Andrew Scheirer
*: Second Session: Max Holmes and Adonis Doherty
*'''2015'''
*: First Session: [[user:Devereaux| Matthew Sims]] and Anshuman Sinha
*: Second Session: Zak Klein and [[user:Off-the-Wallflower| Nathan Pugh]]
*'''2016'''
*: First Session: [[user:Jay.hyphen| Jared Brunner]] and M Benesch
*:Second Session: Ilana Miller and Sarah Baldino

==Lancaster==

The Emperor/Empress is the person who makes the first speech at [[Passionfruit]].  Unlike other positions, it is not decided the previous year but rather at by application at the no-more meeting. There can be more than one; for example, in 06.2 there were two, and at 05.2 there were four (two males and two females, in reference to ''The Chronicles of Narnia'').

* '''1998'''
*: First Session: ?
*: Second Session: Jon Rin and ?
* '''1999'''
*: First Session: Michael Mishkin and ?
*: Second Session: ?
* '''2000'''
*: First Session: Elspeth (Beth) Kursh and Tom Weingarten
*: Second Session: Rose Ginsberg and Daniel Vitolo
* '''2001'''
*: First Session: Ken Levin and Chelsea Seachord
*: Second Session: Kayla Armstrong and Deb Streusand
* '''2002'''
*: First Session: Maura Spiegelman and "The Original" Andy Bartholomew
*: Second Session: Belle Saxton and Andy "UnAndy" Schlesinger
* '''2003'''
*: First Session: Natalie Bau and Tim Hwang
*: Second Session: Maddie Morrison, Tom "Lord of Lemmings" Wilson, and Jai Dhyani  
* '''2004'''
*: First Session: Liz and Dave
*: Second Session:
* '''2005'''
*: First Session: Alyssa Gottschlich
*: Second Session: Will Colmer, David "Pickle" Kotsonis , Marley Teter, Nikka Rosenstein
* '''2006'''
*: First Session: Alexa "Lexxie" Kottmeyer and Aliza Alperin-Sheriff
*: Second Session: Alexander James Maestro Quinones Leroy Bangs a.k.a. QB, Colin Mahaffey
* '''2007'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: Alexa Fredston-Hermann and Julia "Juice" Revzin
* '''2008'''
*: First Session: See below. 
*: Second Session: Noelle Aly, Caroline, Maddy Jennewein, Julie Leghorn
* '''2009'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: [[User:Dtree1992|Daniel Tracht]], Lena Beckenstein, Bee Lockwood
* '''2010'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: [[User:D short|Declan Kennedy]]
* '''2011'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: Jess Weber
* '''2011'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: Lilly Clark
* '''2013'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: Anne Mancini
* '''2014'''
*: First Session: See below.
*: Second Session: Christian Wolpert
* '''2015'''
*: First Session: See below
*: Second Session: Hannah Hildebolt

===Trinity===

:''Main article: [[Trinity (Session 1)]]

In 07.1, the Emperor position of First Session was replaced with a new trio of positions called the Trinity, based on the Catholic Holy Trinity and in reference to the verse in Don McLean's "[[American Pie]]" which goes:

:"And the three men I admire most
:The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
:They caught the last train for the coast
:The day the music died."

The Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost now fill the roles of Emperors of Passionfruit and execute the Last Supper.

==Saratoga Springs==

The royalty at Saraotoga Springs, besides being knowledgeable about tradition and making the last Passionfruit speeches, organize Blammo and Spirit Days. These are the Emperors and Empresses listed by year of reign.  Two Emperors and two Empresses are crowned each session just to make sure at least one comes back the following year.  This tradition began in 2005 when Riley O'Neill was the only one to return of four royalty chosen.  It was passed down to Session 2 when David "Bex" Becker and Lina Huo (First Session Royalty) attended the Second Session Passionfruit of 2006 and told Youngin Lim to pick four, just in case.

Note: For session 1, please organize in order so that we can preserve who picked who. EX: 2005: a, b, c, d - 2006: a's pick, b's pick, c's pick, d's pick.

* '''2005'''
*: Session 1: Keane Tzong, Julia Wagner, Claire Kelley, Alex Micciche
*: Session 2: Nick Fabiani, Stacy Toesland
* '''2006'''
*: Session 1: Riley O'Neill
*: Session 2: Youngin Lim, Zemelia Miller
* '''2007'''
*: Session 1: David "Bex" Becker, Jay Margherio, Charlotte Coates, Lina Huo
*: Session 2: Primary: Edison Huff, Stef Siller Secondary: Mike Feblowitz, Hilary (the lovely) Ludlow
* '''2008'''
*: Session 1: Gage Wright, Zach Gerstein, Neha Srivastava, Liv Stillman
*:* Replaced by: Peter Yang, Jesse Muse, Aliya Dincer, Rachel Lin
*: Session 2: Bill Landis, David Clemens-Sewall, Christine Maroti, Gaby Garbasz
* '''2009'''
*: Session 1: Will Pearl, Mark McGurrin, Sabrina Zeller, Laura Spake
*: Session 2: Primary:  Alex DeBerardinis and Sam Kwan, Secondary: Nick Kwan and Jennie Robbiano
*'''2010'''
*: Session 1: Max Hengeveld, Young Guang, Katrina Ungewitter, Ivy Shen
*: Session 2: Primary: Aaron Forrest and Sophia Keskey, Secondary: Matt Simon and Sarah Woolf
*'''2011'''
*: Session 1: AJ Langevin, Aaron Wan, Gwen Luvara, Emily Gartenberg
*: Session 2: Primary: Muki Barkan and Haizen Poole, Secondary: <s>Brandon Nguyen</s> Peter Pak and Camille Goering (Brandon missed the session due to scheduling conflicts, Peter took over from being third in line)
*'''2012'''
*: Session 1: Alex Libby, James Gan, Liz Lvov, <s>Cathy Kuang</s> Heather Shen (Cathy had to attend her marriage with Harry Styles and could not make it back. Both empresses were in the same hall as a result.)
*: Session 2: Primary: Alex Libby and Leah Forrest, Secondary: Daniel "Ginger" Heins and Paroma Mallick
*'''2013'''
*:Session 1: Eric Chen, Albert Kong, Danielle Gutman, Octavia Fitzmaurice
*:Session 2: Primary: <s>Teddy Ni</s> Max Dunsker and Livvy Cashen, Secondary: <s>Max Dunsker</s> Rachel Novick and David Bai (Teddy Ni could not return due to scheduling conflicts)
*'''2014'''
*:Session 1: TJ Noel-Sullivan, Alex Eishingdrelo, <s>Anusha Purakayastha</s> Katie Miles, Charlotte Keeley
*:Session 2: Primary: Suraag Srinivas and <s>Kimberly Katz</s> Nellie Spektor, Secondary: Luke Stocker and <s>Aleah Newhouse</s> Emma Nance
*'''2015'''
*:Session 1: Griffin Badalamente, Ryan Guo, [[User:Ahl6456|Ashley Lee]], <s>Maya Amitai</s> Qing Woon
*:Session 2: Primary: Kunal Sengupta and Leila Eshghi (BATMAN), Secondary: Jack Schumann and Evelyn Mesler
*'''2016'''
*:Session 1: Byron Sun, Duncan Freeman, Carly James, Vicky Filipou
*:Session 2: Primary: Duncan Freeman and Dheivanai "D." Moorthy, Secondary: Michael Chen and Emily Leibiger

==Princeton==

At Princeton, it was decided that the Passionfruit Emperor and Empress should come from different CTY sites to show the combining of sites within the Princeton site. Together, the sites create a happy family. The royal family of 2009 was...

*'''2009'''
*: Emperor: [[User:Julie | Julie]] of Lancaster and [[User:Rae Spasmodic | Rachel Hall]] of Carlisle
*: Empress: Johnine Licht of Siena (she also attended Lancaster 08.1)

==Johns Hopkins==
Beginning in 10.2, The Emperor/Empress of JHU wears a "crown," which in reality is a comically large blue and yellow sparkly hat. At Passionfruit, the reigning Emperor/Empress crowns their successor by passing on said hat. The transition of BLAMMO divinity is also incorporated into Passionfruit, and involves the passing of the Most Epic Tome of BLAMMO to the next God/Goddess. In 11.2, new artefacts such as the Duct Tape Tie and the Emperor's New Shoes were introduced by Karl Heinlein.

In the "Wilderness Year" of 12.2, there was much confusion and anarchy involved in deciding who would succeed the self-proclaimed God. The said God had decided to declare himself as Emperor, but relinquished his powers last minute to a flying squirrel, who then crowned a separate Empress from the already-crowned Goddess. 

*'''2009'''
*: Session One: 
*: Session Two: Katelin Schutz, Kitty Bernardo (two Empresses, no Emperor)
*'''2010'''
*: Session One:
*: Session Two: Trinity King
*'''2011'''
*: Session One:
*: Session Two: Karl Heinlein
*'''2013'''
*: Session One: Mina, Bryan Li (two Emperors, no Empress)
*: Session Two: [[User: Longlive10.2|Amanda Sin]]
*'''2014'''
*: Session One: 
*: Session Two: Michael Todd
*'''2015'''
*: Session One:
*: Session Two: Milo Richards

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