Emperor

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).

For session 1 in the following list, the first person listed was Empress and the latter is Emperor, and for session 2 the first listed is Emperor and the latter is Empress

• 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: Adria Simon and ???

  Second Session: Annie and George

• 2005

  First Session: Franklyn Cantor and Nabil Hasmi

  Second Session: Ben and Tini

• 2006

  First Session: Ali Greenberg and Matt Carroll

  Second Session: McKenzie Hull and Holly Murray

• 2007

  First Session: Clara Pelaez and Kimmi Cheng

  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: Jeanette Kim and Alex "Jake" Jacobsen

  Second Session: Jake Meyers and Eddie Cytryn

• 2010

  First Session: Rosalie Nathans and Albert Han

  Second Session: Patrick Kennedy and Micaela Rodríguez

• 2011

  First Session: Colin Mark

  Second Session: Julia Gureck and Jonathan Kirby

• 2012

  First Session: Michelle Kim and Bobby Zipp

  Second Session: Fish Stark and Rebecca Trickey

• 2013

  First Session: Maya Hoke and Julia Gollin

  Second Session: Duncan Rheingans-Yoo and Dayna Levine

• 2014

  First Session: Alexis Onsi and Andrew Scheirer

  Second Session: Max Holmes and Adonis Doherty

• 2015

  First Session: Matthew Sims and Anshuman Sinha

  Second Session: Zak Klein and Nathan Pugh

• 2016

  First Session: Jared Brunner and M Benesch

  Second Session: Ilana Miller and Sarah Baldino

• 2017

  First Session: Quinn Filler and Leah Branstetter

  Second Session: Mark Johnson and Kat Xie

• 2018

  First Session: Tanwi Wangikar and MJ Smith

  Second Session: Kat Kobetitsch and Sanya Tejwani

• 2019

  First Session: Jack Towers and Liz Leiser

  Second Session: Sage Eanet and Bailey Coghlan

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: Daniel Tracht, Lena Beckenstein, Bee Lockwood

• 2010

  First Session: See below.

  Second Session: 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

• 2016

  First Session: See below

  Second Session: Via Barr

• 2017

  First Session: See below

  Second Session: Elizabeth Hawk

• 2018

  First Session: See below

  Second Session: Birdy McDonnell

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 Saratoga 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: Brandon Nguyen 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, Cathy Kuang Heather Shen

  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: Teddy Ni Max Dunsker and Livvy Cashen, Secondary: Max Dunsker Rachel Novick and David Bai (Teddy Ni could not return due to scheduling conflicts)

• 2014

  Session 1: TJ Noel-Sullivan, Alex Eishingdrelo, Anusha Purakayastha Katie Miles, Charlotte Keeley

  Session 2: Primary: Suraag Srinivas and Kimberly Katz Nellie Spektor, Secondary: Luke Stocker and Aleah Newhouse Emma Nance

• 2015

  Session 1: Griffin Badalamente, Ryan Guo, Ashley Lee, Maya Amitai Qing Woon

  Session 2: Primary: Kunal Sengupta and Leila Eshghi (BATMAN), Secondary: Jack Schumann and Evelyn Mesler

• 2016

  Session 1: Duncan Freeman, Byron Sun, Carly James, Viky Filippou

  Session 2: Primary: Duncan Freeman and Dheivanai "D." Moorthy, Secondary: Michael Chen and Emily Leibiger

• 2017

  Session 1: Alexandre Jabor, Alex "D'Jamuel" Necakov Gabe Ruoff, Zivia Lichtenberg, Kaiya Vicioso

  Session 2: Primary: Franz O'Hanna and Enyo Adoboe, Secondary: Luke Farrell and Divya Popat

• 2018

  Session 1: Nelson Lin, Daniel Xu, Charlotte Murphy, Kaiti Filippou

  Session 2: Primary: Ethan Lee Edward Rigney and Amy Hidalgo, Secondary: Edward Rigney Hudson Jakubowicz and Ella Parker

• 2019

  Session 1: Robert Sheng, Eric Krieger, Mary Muromcew, Gia Mar Ramos, Noor Singh

  Session 2: Primary: John Kulak Kyle Garcia Rogers and Katie Matthews Anastasia "Nastia" Polina Daisy Fernandez, Secondary: Kyle Garcia Rogers Gary Lvov and Anastasia "Nastia" Polina

• 2020

  Session 1: Jack Schaeffer, Max Tanksley, Dorothy Zhou, Neya Kidambi

  Session 2:

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: Julie of Lancaster and Rachel Hall of Carlisle

  Empress: Johnine Licht of Siena (she also attended Lancaster 08.1)

Baltimore

Beginning in 10.2, The Emperor/Empress of JHU wears a "crown," which in reality is a comically large blue and yellow sparkly hat. (As of 17.2 and probably earlier, the Empress wears a tiara.) At Passionfruit, the reigning Emperor/Empress crowns their successor by passing on said hat/tiara. 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 artifacts 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.

In 2016, following the death of BLAMMO, Empress Tea named two successors, an emperor and an empress, to complete the Holy Trinity, along with a Rave King. In order to sort out the conflict of which successor gets the Holy Book of Love, Empress Tea wrote out another copy by hand.

The guy who was supposed to be the Empress for 2018.2 went to Carlisle with his friends, and in the confusion of trying to find another Emperor (which never happened; 18.2 is forever Emperor-less) the Book of Love, which had been sent to the Empress (Lynne Kim), was lost in the mail. Lynne hand-copied the entire thing into another composition book so there would be two Books of Love once more.

• 2009

  Session One:

  Session Two: Katelin Schutz, Kitty Bernardo (two Empresses, no Emperor)

• 2010

  Session One:

  Session Two: Trinity King (Empress)

• 2011

  Session One:

  Session Two: Karl Heinlein (Emperor)

• 2012

  Session One:

  Session Two: Unknown nevermore (God)

• 2013

  Session One: Mina, Bryan Li (two Emperors, no Empress)

  Session Two: Amanda Sin (Empress), Indie Page (Goddess of BLAMMO)

• 2014

  Session One:

  Session Two: Michael Todd

• 2015

  Session One:

  Session Two: Milo Richards

• 2016

  Session One:

  Session Two: Tea Moore

• 2017

  Session One:

  Session Two: Shelby Chatterton (Emperor/Empress as neither Jess Shannon (Empress) or Neal Krishna (Emperor) were able to return)

• 2018

  Session One:

  Session Two: Lynne Kim (Emperor/Empress), Amelia Orwant (Princess of the Blood)

• 2019

  Session One: Harper (Emperor), Bella (Empress), Ben (Poetry Goddess), Aleni (Non-Denominational Spiritual Figure)

  Session Two: Amelia Orwant (Empress), Lena Parnassa (Princess of the Blood), Sebastian Altomare (Prince of the Blood), Amanda Chen (Goddess of BLAMMO)