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nellycanwrite · 1 year

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Imagine Namor and Filipino!Diwata!Reader in pre-colonial Philippines with a hint of Ibong Adarna (Adarna Bird)

Context for my non Filipino readers: a Diwata is a mythical being in Filipino folklore; often described as a lesser god, a nature spirit or a fairy. They guard natural features, most usually forests.

Ibong Adarna is a Filipino epic that tells the tale of an ailing king who sent his three sons to capture a magical bird that can cure any illness with its song. The king declared that whoever captures the bird will inherit the throne.

Namor has heard stories of a magical bird that can heal any sort of ailments with its song. His mother would also tell him this tale when he was still a child. He has searched far and wide through the years after his mother's passing, hoping to bring back this mythical creature for his people—so they will never experience any sort of illness as long as he has possession of the bird.

Namor would land on an island in the Pacific, untouched by the hands of the conquistadors that have started to scour through the lands and enslaved the natives. They were scared of this island, he had heard, for there was a greater being that guarded it. A Diwata, the natives called you. A fairy, an enchantress, guardian spirit of the island.

He would hear the most beautiful voice when he passed through this island, paired with the chirping of the most exquisite bird he had ever seen. Its feathers sparkled under the bright sun, the colors reminiscent to a rainbow during a summer shower.

Then he will see you—the most gorgeous thing he would lay his eyes upon. Your legs dangled by the precipice, fauna growing by your waist as you sang the hymns of nature in your mother tongue. Other animals would gather around you as well, tiny deer mice, the occasional mischievous monkey, a flock of sparrows, and any other land dwelling creature that would so hear you and rest by the cliff side near the sea.

Most notably, though, was the mythical bird perched by your side, preening its feathers whilst you sang. It would chirp occasionally in response to you. He could already feel his tired wings relax with its song.

Imagine him approaching you ever so slowly, his wings bringing him up to level himself in front of you.

But you would stare at him quizzically, cocking your head to the side.

You would glance at the Ibong Adarna by your side, its mystical eyes also staring at this strange man. It would then continue to preen its feathers, but the song that it once sung now silent.

You would blink and stare at the man again, only this time you were more wary.

Before Namor could say anything, a strong gush of wind would temporarily blind him. When he opened his eyes again, you nor the Ibong Adarna could be seen. The animals would retreat back and leave him alone by the cliffside.

He thought you were a figment his imagination. But a rainbow feather from the mythical bird was enough evidence for him that he had seen you; that you were real.

And he would come again and again just to see you; for the sea longs for the songs of the land and dreams to finally touch his waters to your roots.

And thus the story of how the sea fell in love with the land began.

#SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP #SHOULD I MAKE THIS A FIC OR SHOULD IT JUST REMAIN AN IMAGINE #EEEEEEEEEE #anyways #namor x reader #namor x diwata!filipina!reader #namor x filipina!reader #namor #namor x filipino reader #namor x filipino!reader #namor x poc!reader #k'uk'ulkan #k'uk'ulkan x reader #namor fanfiction

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nellycanwrite · 1 year

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Imagine if Filipino!Reader falls into an enchanted lake rumored to have diwatas* and would sometimes spirit away troubled souls and then when they surface, they see themselves in the pool near Namor's hut. Before he could reach them, ask them for their name and their purpose, they suddenly plunge back into the water and back into the lake. It was like a two-way mirror of sorts, two sides of water that connect two worlds. They would transcend space (maybe time ehem) and maybe, just maybe, new rumors about a diwata circulate in the villages.

And then lo and behold they would meet each other at the most unconventional times, and Namor would actually look forward to these little visits. Maybe reader has a power that they possess, something close to nature, but they're time is always brief before reader has to fall back into the lake again so they never got to figure out what exactly they are😩

But it's just a theory, a new fic theory—//SLAPPED

Diwata: a nature spirit; fairy; in Filipino folklore they are considered spirits, usually a lesser god or goddess, and are believed to guard nature (usually forests).

#nawh please i have too many deadlines for this #but imagine Diwata!Filipino!Reader #im going insane fr fr #but i haven't done any research yet so this is entirely just something from the top of my head UGH #namor x reader #namor x filipina!reader #namor x filipino!reader #namor x diwata!filipina!reader

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nellycanwrite · 1 year

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NELLYYYYY OMYGOD YES PAKITULOY PO YUNG NAMOR AND FILIPINA!DIWATA AS A FIC YOU, MAAM, HAVE A GALAXY BRAIN 😭🥹🥹 ITS SOOOO GOOODDD WHAAATTT (although it gave me war flashbacks when our teacher made us read and study ibong adarna at nakakadugo ng ilong yung filipino ni balagtas 😫)

NFBSJSJDJSJWKSJDJSOW AS SOON AS I POST THE PART 2 OF MY ATTUMA FIC I'LL START WRITING RIGHT AWAAAAAY😩💖

And don't worry, I'll only take a bit of inspiration from the original epic so the fic will be super friendly to our non-Filipino readers! And deadass same; I got war flashbacks just thinking about all the memories from my high school years while suffering from remembering all the character names😭 But now that I read it leisurely, it's such a fun read!

Also I just want to celebrate our culture while using fanfics as a leverage of doing so🥺 Wakanda Forever is such a gift to all our POC brothers and sisters and I love how I can write our culture into my fics😩

#I'm so excited to write this deadass #EEEEEEE #namor x filipino reader #namor x filipina!reader #namor x filipino!reader #namor #namor x reader #namor x diwata!filipina!reader

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