#title inspired by the mulan quote
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A Zhang Of Redness ~ Yin Zhen x Reader
Warning: The first part has some angst to fluff, yet, if you’re brave enough to read the “Sad Ending”, then I warn you, I cried at least 6 times reading it, and 5 times at night, thinking about how to write it properly, all while listening to sad flute and zither ancient Chinese songs.
I may need help.
Also, I forgot to explain, in case people don’t know:
Meimei - Term for younger sister.
Jiejie - Term for older sister.
Niangniang - Term for someone above in title, like an Empress or a Noble Consort.
Changzai - First-Class Female Attendant, called ‘Present’, and was the 2nd lowest title in the harem.
Daying - Second-Class Female Attendant, called ‘Promise’, lowest title in the harem.
Hua Fei - It can vary as a title, but it refers to an Imperial Noble Consort.
A Zhang of Redness - One of the 5 punishments from Qing Dynasty : Beating someone over the back, butt or the back of their legs with a some sort of bamboo or wooden bat/cane/rod until the tendons/muscles/bones were crushed, there was lots of blood, and the person either died or became paralysed from waist down.
Also, I got inspiration from watching the Chinese Period Drama ‘Empresses in the Palace/Legend of Zhen Huan’ that focuses on the Harem during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, aka Yin Zhen, the 4th Prince, and Duke Guo is the 17th Prince, his brother, very young, and very close to him
“Now, Y/N, you and your sisters are of age, so you must go serve the Emperor. It will bring our family the greatest honour should you be selected as a concubine for the Emperor and bring a Prince into this world.” the father put his hands on Y/N’s shoulders, making her look at him with a blank expression, masking her disdain and disgust with excellence.
“We are honoured to serve and serve our family and His Majesty, the Emperor.” she bowed gracefully, speaking with an adult maturity that many would envy.
“Very well. Take care of your sisters. The Palace is a cruel place, but you, above all, must prevail and bring your sisters up with you.” were the last words her father spoke before sending off his three daughters into the carriage, ready to go with the ‘reaping’, as the eldest would call it.
Unlike her younger siblings, she prayed not to be accepted, since it would be the worst thing that could happen to her and she’d rather die than have to live in eternal imprisonment, having an old man touch her body and impregnate her, despite him being the Emperor himself.
When the three of them arrived at the Palace, and she saw the swarm of girls dressed the same, with the same accessories and hairstyles, she almost felt like puking, although she couldn’t blame them, since that’s how this lame fashion dictates.
She was the only one standing out, much like a sore thumb, completely different, both in appearance and clothing, which made her anxious and nervous, knowing very well how she will be the target of bullying, and in turn, deflect it to her unfortunate sisters as well.
Y/N was the only woman with vibrant red hair and green eyes like the evergreen forest, for her father is an Imperial merchant, and her mother was a foreigner, the most beautiful being alive, that could even compare to the Gods, and yet, the very same Gods she worshipped were cruel to her, as when she gave birth to the twins, she perished, leaving her husband heartbroken and alone to take care of his three daughters.
She didn’t wear any headpiece, nor had any intricate hairstyles, preferring to keep the upper part of her hair in a beautiful rose bun, while the lower part was let loose to cascade past her shoulders, down to her waist, like a fire waterfall.
She didn’t use heavy make up, only choosing to highlight her eyes and bring out the shrewdness and brilliance in them.
She didn’t wear any jewellery, save for some beautiful pink flowers carefully placed in her hair.
She didn’t wear heels, for she was taller than most petite girls, and didn’t want to stand out more than she already did, and of course, she didn’t need them to highlight her grace and dignity.
And, most of all, she didn’t wear the traditional clothes that every girl did, instead, worse a long, flowy dress, green, with flowers of a darker, more vibrant green - A dress that suit her like she was the embodiment of Spring, and her slender silhouette was shown off beautifully - Because, after all, this was the dress her mother sew specifically for her in the period while she was pregnant.
When the time finally came for her to present herself in front of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, the six women walked in a straight line, in front of the Imperials...Only to see a little surprise.
Seven of his sons were there to attend, for one of them were to one day become Emperor, and they must know how things must be done.
“You...You are Y/N, I see. When your father mentioned you were beautiful, just like your mother, I couldn’t believe there could be someone even greater than Diaochan or Yang Guifei.” the Emperor chuckled, looking down at her.
“Your Majesty, pardon my rudeness, yet truly, you must jest. My face does not put flowers to shame, nor does it embarrass Mother Moon herself. Likewise, I would say I that...That there are other women in history that would fit me better, should you truly wish to compare me.” she could feel the intrigued, burning gazes of everyone, and it took everything she had not to visibly gulp or show any kind of emotion.
“Raise, child, and look at me. Who would you think I should compare you to?” the Emperor so gracefully talked, with the same dignity that any Imperial must have, yet now, it seemed to be warmer.
“Tan Yunxian.” she spoke bluntly, her green eyes not wavering as she held eye contact with the Emperor.
“Tan Yunxian...You are a bold one to speak like that. You are a sharp woman, intelligence is obviously sparkling in your eyes, you know what you want from life, and you choose to be branded a witch by practicing the medical arts that only men do and risk death, instead of aiming for a peaceful and resourceful life as a wealthy concubine and bring honour to your father. Why is that?” he asked once again, which made her bow, but not look away from him.
“Most people tell the gender of a rabbit by its movement: The male runs quickly, while the female often keeps her eyes shut. But when the two rabbits run side by side, Can you really discern whether I am a he or a she? That is my reply to your question, and I would beg you to forgive my rudeness by speaking so directly, but this was never the life that fit me. The only arts that suit me are the exact ones - Healing, Calculus, Atrology, Physics, Alchemy...My sisters are much better at the arts of the heart, but I prefer to make a difference on this world. Too many women preferred to let themselves die because of scrutiny - A woman should rather starve to death than lose her chastity - they said, yet, for me, life is a sacred gift and should be treasured above all. There are no female physicians in the palace, Your Majesty, and males cannot fully comprehend the pains of a woman, nor can they properly treat one. With your grace, should you choose not to kill me, I would very much like to serve the Emperor with the way fate dictated my strengths.” she spoke without any hint of fear in her heart, already waiting for her death penalty to be told, and yet, the Emperor chuckled and looked to his right, sharing a look with one of his sons, the one dressed in vibrant gold, the one whose eyes resembled his the most.
“My son, I see you are interested in this one as well. Tell me, what would you do, should you meet someone as peculiar as this one?” the Emperor asked, letting him have the final say in it.
“She quotes the Ballad of Mulan so boldly, as if she herself is Mulan. Do you remember, Father, that in some stories, when Mulan was forced to join the Harem, she chose to commit suicide? I see this one none the wiser. With the proper training, she could prove to save more lives than most of those useless physicians could, I would say. She has enough fire and ambition...But What if she wavers in front of dangers?” the 4th Prince asked, almost rhetorically, only for his older brother, the 3rd Prince, to chime in.
“Let’s see, then.” he shrugged, motioning for an eunuch to step forward.
“Should you be able to keep looking into my eyes for the whole trial, your position as a physician will be locked.” the 4th Prince mused, his dark eyes peering into her jade like ones, and it seemed almost as if they were in a trance, and nothing around them existed anymore.
The little eunuch threw water at her feet, yet she nonchalantly stepped over it with no second thought. They made loud noises behind her, or close to her ear, yet her only interest was the beautiful dark shade of the Prince’s eyes. The test continued on, until the Prince walked forward and drew his sword, putting the tip under her chin, raising it.
The silence created tension for everyone, causing her sisters to gasp and hold tightly onto each other from fear, while some labourers were confused and panicked at the sight before them, while the two only got deeper and deeper enchanted by the other.
It wasn’t until one of the Gugu matrons stepped forwards with a cat held in her arms and threw it at the ground violently that the girl slapped the blade away and let herself fall to her knees to catch the poor feline, then rose back again, gently petting and calming the animal, while throwing a harsh glare at the elder woman, before turning back again to the Prince.
“You lost the trial.” he said, yet mischief was glittering in his beautiful eyes.
“Life over all. ALL life over all.” she pointed out, stepping closer to the Prince, and as soon as she knew she was completely hidden by his much larger form, she smirked at him, challengingly, which made him scoff in amusement right back at her.
“You lost the trial, but won the position with your virtuous, unwavering heart. Father, with your approval, I will be responsible of her, and she will be my personal physician, and the physician of all the women in the palace. Her thinking is mature, righteous and ahead of her times.” the Prince bowed in front of his father, vouching for the girl next to him, who could only look in shock at the Imperial Son who seemed to trust her so.
“I dare not deserve such baseless praise. Wait until I have achieved anything of significance.” she bowed next to the Prince, letting the cat go back to its owner.
“Very well, I approve of your request. From now on, Lady Y/N shall be promoted to Lady Shuyu, the Wise and Virtuous Lady, she will be taught by the imperial physicians and will report directly to you, 4th Prince. Likewise, she will be staying at the Palace closest to the Imperial Library, yet, I believe I should change its name, since it needs renovation. Do you have any preferences?” the Emperor asked, as the girl was bashfully looking at the ground, not believing that her dreams were finally becoming reality.
“Father, if I may, I would suggest - Palace of the Blue Lotus - for it is the symbol of victory, intelligence, wisdom and knowledge, something that My Lady seems to be the embodiment of. I heard it once being called - The Perfection of Wisdom - and I believe it fits her very well. Look at her, with her outfit and hair, she almost looks like a Lotus flower herself, wouldn’t you say?” the 3rd Prince commented, making the Emperor nod in approval.
“Very well, I agree with you, 3rd Prince. Then, Lady Y/N, until your Palace is completely renovated, you will be staying at 4th Prince’s Palace and have him look after you.” the Emperor’s order made her eyes widen and cheeks redden from embarrassment, yet she gracefully bowed in thanks for the Emperor.
“Your Majesty is benevolent and kind above all, I thank you for giving me a chance.” she spoke in a much softer voice.
“Look at this one, she can be anything she wants. A Hua Mulan, a Diaochan...Yet, above all, I believe she could even be the next Wu Zetian, wouldn’t you say, my Son?” the Empress Dowager spoke with a gentle smile, which made the girl gasp and bow to the ground, flustered.
“Your Highness, I am undeserving of such praise! I am but a mere woman who wishes the best for her peers, but I will never be able to get close to Wu Zetian’s greatness!” she spoke rapidly, not daring raise her face to them, only to receive chuckles and laughs from the audience.
“She may not be the next Wu Zetian, but she may as well be the first Y/N L/N.” the 4th Prince teased the girl as he offered his hand to help her to her feet, before pinching her reddening cheek.
“Indeed, indeed! But what should I make of your sisters? You say they are talented in arts, correct? Then, I will accept them, and wait for the time they can heal my soul with their magic and grace.” the Emperor’s eyes held amusement, as all three sisters bowed in unison.
“Your Majesty is great and kind above all.”
And so, for the first time in their life, the sisters were separated from each other. While the twins enjoyed a palace to themselves and another high ranked concubine, Y/N was comfortably staying in 4th Prince’s Palace, having just one trusty maid, for more would be a hindrance, and dressing in whatever comfortable clothes she wished to wear, sown by her and her maid.
She wasn’t a fan of sewing, but she practiced it regularly because she believed having dexterous fingers meant you would be a great physician, so she continued her work, using the softest cotton bolts brought from Western countries, and she made a beautiful light pink nightgown along with a pair of shorts and embroidered small purple flowers, and since then, her sleep has been the best she’s ever had...
Although the silks from her bed must have added to the comfort as well.
As thanks for the Prince, the girl decided to sew a blue pyjama from the cotton, Western bolts for the Prince with whom she was residing, and used Chinese threads of gold and violet to embroider dragons on it, wanting to make a little play on the Western symbols of royalty.
Days passed way too quickly in the Palace, as the 4th Prince was excellent company and would humour her often with a cup of tea and a lost game of chess since truly, he wasn’t the best at it yet, but the quick exchanges of wit were worth the time spent there.
When she wasn’t by his side, she would go to the swing in the Garden of Peaches all by herself and swing herself high, almost as if she was trying to reach the sky, and when returning, she would let herself lean down, to watch the clouds, all while laughing in complete freedom, just like the tale of the Crane Wife.
Every time she would stop swinging, she would take out her jade flute and, unbeknownst to her, the Prince would hide just to hear her play with such skill and emotion that it truly moved him, and he had to admit, the saddest song she played, Autumn Moon over Han Palace, the one that truly depicts the cruelty with which the young and innocent souls of young women get crushed in the palace, only to be rewarded with misfortunes and sorrow, and he knew then that there was no way he would let anyone harm her.
The Emperor made him look after her, and so, he will.
“4th Prince, now that I shall not be living in your Palace anymore, I should thank you for your hospitability and kindness for the time I bothered you and invaded your privacy. Please accept my humble gifts for you, as a thank you for all the goodness you’ve showed me.” she personally handed him the boxes of gifts, since it was too personal to let her maid handle this matter.
“I thank you for the gifts, yet you need not thank me for something so trivial. Congratulations in moving in your own Palace, little Lotus, but don’t forget that this has been your home too, and you are always welcomed here. I have also sent you gifts at your new residence, I wish you will use them with a smile on your face.” the prince spoke, putting the boxes on the table and petting her hair gently.
“Without all the snark and witty comments, I almost don’t recognise you, Yin Zhen. Could you perhaps be ill?” she scoffed in amusement, making the man flick her forehead.
“Going by how red your cheeks are, I’d say you’re the one who caught a fever.” he spoke with an obvious undertone.
“How rude of you, Prince! Don’t you know it’s unfair to tease a lady?” she pointed out with a flustered scowl on her face.
“Sister, weren’t you the one who once that that if a man teases a woman, he must be in love with her?” a soft, yet playful voice came from behind Y/N, which made her yelp in surprise and turn around in shock.
“You’re horrible sisters, you know that, don’t you? I only said that so you’d feel good about your little, young selves, when the general’s son came over to visit father!” she sighed, looking away.
“He doesn’t matter anymore! Now, look at you, the most favoured woman in the Palace by the Emperor, the Empress, the Dowager AND the Princes! We couldn’t compete with that, even now that we both served the Emperor and we were barely given the title of “Changzai”, and that’s mostly thanks to your influence and the fact that you helped the Lady of Morality give birth to the Princess.” Liyan spoke out, tugging on one of the arms of the elder sister.
“It’s a bit weird if you think about it. Y/N Jiejie is over here, falling for the Emperor’s son, while we are pillow mates with the Emperor. He’s older than father!” Xiyan spoke so shamelessly, tugging on the other arm, that it made the poor elder sister blush deeply, and putting her hands on the back of their heads, she hit their heads together.
“Liyan Meimei and Xiyan Meimei should learn how to be less vulgar and have some shame! Now, if you would excuse me, I must go do a regular check up on the Noble Consort’s pregnancy, I have no time for your foolish nonsense. I bid you all farewell.” she gave a sarcastic bow to the three before rushing out of that place.
“I haven’t seen Jiejie so flustered before. Remember when that young poet came over and started playing the zither and singing for her, and she still turned him down?” Xiyan giggled, intertwining her fingers with her twin.
“Yes, I remember! And it was the famous JiKang, the best zither player in the country! It’s a pity, really, I remember Jiejie saying how much she’d have liked to be free and travel the world, but she has to honour her duty to her family, otherwise she will be a disgrace and get killed.” Liyan sighed, looking away.
“If your sister heard you gossiping like that about her, she’d get very upset at you. Now run along, you two.” Yin Zhen commented with a hint of playfulness, ushering the two sisters to scatter.
Days and nights went by fast, and Y/N was quickly climbing the ranks of a physician due to her hard working and witty disposition, and yet, when winter came and snow started falling hard, and the Consort was now 5 months pregnant, and need to have her regular check up.
As Y/N gave her the medicine to drink, the consort started screaming in pain and collapsed on the bed, her nether regions bleeding.
She was having a miscarriage.
With the help of a few maids and physicians, she managed to stop the bleeding and keep her stable, but she knew very well it would be hell once everyone finds out about the loss of the Imperial offspring...
And the consort was a truly vengeful one.
“How could you...?! How could you?! You insolent wretch, you made me lose my child!” the consort was livid, thrown things at the girl who was trying to calm her down.
“Hua Fei Niangniang, what have you been eating and drinking recently? Perhaps there may have been something put in your food or tea? Or perhaps the fragrances or incenses?” she tried to ask, but it was to no avail. The consort was so upset that the Emperor himself, along with the Empress, the Dowager, the Harem and the Princes had to come and console her.
“Emperor! Emperor! This stupid bitch is jealous that you favour me and made sure I have a miscarriage! It happened just as I drank the medicine from her!” the consort threw herself in the Emperor’s arms, sobbing loudly.
“Medicine takes at least half a day to act, and you barely took a sip from it. I’m asking again, has your food and drink intake been properly taken care of?” Y/N asked once again, in a gentle voice, hoping to have an answer...But none came, only screeches.
“You vile devil! You came here to have all women of the Harem miscarry! You want favour all to yourself! That’s why you walk around the Princes like a fox, drawing them in! You’re a lust demon! Get the guards and take her! Make her punishment be fitting to her hair! A Zhang of Redness!” she shrieked, making all the women gasp in shock.
“Your Highness, I have nothing to do with Niangniang’s miscarriage. You can have any physician look over the tea I prepared and all the prescriptions I gave her, and none of them hold any abortifacient plants. I rest my case, and I will investigate the causes of the miscarriage, and should it have been my mistake, I will accept such a punishment. If not, then I beg for Your Majesty’s mercy.” Y/N bowed deeply to the ground in front of the Emperor, who seemed to nod in understanding.
“Very well. I won’t offer you much time, but until then, you have all resources at hand. Everyone is dismissed.” and thus, they all left...Except for the 4th Prince who crouched and helped the girl up, his expression unreadable.
“You truly know how to get yourself in trouble, don’t you?” he spoke with obvious concern.
“Though I withdraw my sword to cut the water, it still runs. I toast to dispel worry, and create more worry…The water still flows, though we cut it with our swords,
And sorrow returns, though we drown it with wine…” she muttered, looking ahead of her, in the void of emptiness that became her heart.
“You once said you were not talented in arts, yet here you are, quoting Li Bai. You will always be a surprise, won’t you?” Yin Zhen cast her a half smile, which she returned.
“It only fits. Now go. The Emperor will have my head should I let a man rummage through a woman’s belongings.” she sighed, turning around to investigate the place, while hearing the taunts of the consort...Until she found a cup that oddly smelled like green papaya, and a mortar and pestle that still had some cinnamon and pomegranate seeds powder in it. Afraid that the consort would realise she found the incriminatory objects, she took out a bag and threw it on the table, feigning that she putting all her medical belongings back in the bag, only to have the cup and mortar taken as well, and with a bow, she hurried to her Palace to study them.
She didn’t know much about such plants since they weren’t exactly used in medicine, and yet, she had to study them, while hiding the bag with incriminatory objects very well.
It was a cold, yet beautiful snowy night, and Y/N felt so crushed by fear from the recent events, that without realising, stepped outside, her feet dragging her to Yin Zhen’s Palace, and she had no idea until his Eunuch spoke to her, welcoming her inside and scolding her for not wearing something warmer, before having the maids prepare tea and telling the Prince about her arrival.
Silence took over them as they played chess and drinking tea, yet her mind was somewhere else completely, making her lose for the first time...But he wasn’t surprised in the least.
“What did you find out?” he asked bluntly.
“Do you hate me, Yin Zhen?” she asked, using one of her silver ring claws to stir the tea in her cup.
“Why would you ask something like that...? Do you suspect me of framing you, or what?” he asked, shock obvious in his voice, until he realised the tears that were falling down her face.
“Then...Why...? I...I thought you...Of all people...Wouldn’t...” Y/N was unable of cursive, coherent words as she raised her finger to eye level, showing that the silver claw became back.
“I did NOT poison your tea! Shu Pei Gong, who prepared this tea? I want them brought here and held responsible right now!” the rage the Prince felt was immense, but he knew now to let feelings overtake his ration.
“What did I do to deserve such hatred...? I’m not part of the harem, I never hurt anyone, I’ve always been respectful and helped everyone, I never wished for promotions, titles, ranks or favours...So why...Why...?! Why is this happening to me?!” she cried out, her heart suffering greatly, enough so that before he could say anything, she ran out again, taking a shortcut through the Plum garden, where she let herself fall to the ground, the freezing cold unbothering to her, as she felt as cold as ice from the constant heartache she suffered.
She hated the colour red, it was everywhere, yet people didn’t understand why she’d despise such a beautiful colour. It was the colour of her hair, the colour of Maple leaves, the colour of Plum blossoms, and of course, the colour of blood.
Blood, for that’s all she was seeing - Laying there, on the pure white snow, crystals falling from the sky, covering her in a soft blanket, the shade of her skin, contrasting her hair, her flowers and...The blood from her injury.
But as the dark abyss of death started taking over her senses, she saw two little jades that appeared and disappeared just like shy will’o’wisp spirit orbs.
What was in her head, running away like that, in the dead of such a freezing night, and why the Plum Garden that is like a crimson maze that could have served as her resting place.
Who would have known she would be so sensitive, Yin Zhen thought, and yet, he is her confidante, and she thought he poisoned her, which would be a shock for everyone, especially after everything going on in her life.
She looked so petite in his large bed, in his own pyjamas, as her own clothes were soaked from the snow and she’s already shivering, the last thing he’d want is for her to get deadly ill.
“Your Majesty, a blow to the back of her head with a blunt object cause her collapse and fainting, but the coldness worsened her health. She will need to rest and take medicine regularly. And...As much as possible, she must not stress, mentally, emotionally or physically.” the physician bowed to the Prince as he sat on the edge of the bed, gingerly brushing away the hair from her face.
“Easier said than done when you’re dealing with such a stubborn hard-head...You may go now. I will look after her.” the Prince dismissed the physician who kowtow-ed and left the place that got quiet...So quiet...Save for her unconscious shivering. “What will I do with you, Y/N? How can I save you when you run away from me?” he muttered, placing a soft kiss on her forehead.
“You should have left me there.” a soft whisper was her, as the girl opened her glistering eyes.
“Don’t speak such nonsense.” he scolded her, yet his eyes were gentle.
“What is death if not a blessing in disguise? For unfortunate people like me, only followed by misfortune...What is there to live for? Instead of investigating her case, I should have let her punish me. It would have been less painful than my discovery.” her voice was devoid of any life, yet the tears that delicately made their ways down her cheeks were enough proof of sorrow and heart break.
“What are you talking about, Y/N? What did you discover?” he asked, his attention not wavering from her.
“Wu Zetian? Diaochan? Hua Mulan? Tan Yunxian? Yang Guifei? What the hell was in my head? The only thing I could share with them is a broken heart. Why did I even dare to think that I, as a woman, would have any chance to achieve happiness and freedom? I can’t even try to be Lin Siniang, for I have no martial arts, and I can’t go and die in battle for someone. I’m completely and utterly useless.” the girl sighed, turning her back to the Prince, letting her hair drape over her face to avoid being seen.
“Y/N, I am your confidante, tell me what happened. When you feel like you can’t trust anyone, not even your family, or the world, I will be here to listen and be honest with you, no matter what. I promise.” he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a tight embrace, stroking her hair to calm her down, yet in only generated in her sobbing.
“When I was struck and fell, I feigned being dead. I kept my eyes half-open, and I didn’t blink. I stopped breathing and looked up at the sky. And despite my blurring vision, I saw a pair of green orbs. And then, I heard a giggle, and a word. Just one word. You know what it was? They said - Finally - and then left. Do you understand what I mean, Yin Zhen?” she asked, letting go of him and looking him straight in the eyes.
“You don’t mean...?” his eyes widened with surprise, not having expected something like that.
“When I investigated the consort’s room, I found a cup that smelled of papaya and a mortar with cinnamon and pomegranate seeds. When she wasn’t looking, I stole them and went home to read more about these. My sisters visited me that night and we discussed about those items...And it was then that I found out that those plants cause natural, spontaneous abortions. They said they were worried about me...And then...They snitched on me to the consort. My maid warned me there were suspicious people lurking around so I secretly left my Palace and came to yours after taking the longest and darkest route. Somehow, they managed to make me paranoid enough by poisoning my tea in your own house...And I got scared and ran away. I was going to seek refuge at the Dowager, until the consort’s eunuch found me and yanked me over the head. That’s when I saw my sister’s eyes...The very same eyes that I hold...And most likely, they stole the items from my Palace and disposed of them...So what is there to live for, anyway?” she sighed, resting her head on his shoulder, weeping silently.
“You have me and I will help you out. I won’t let anyone punish you, I promise you that.” he cupped her face, making her look at him with her sad, doe-like eyes.
“Even if I escape punishment, who can mend my shattered heart? My father never supported my passions, so I did everything in secret...And my own sisters plotted and went against me, for some reason that I’m completely unaware of, considering I always took care of them, sent them any riches I had and got them out of trouble...And there’s no way I will ever escape the hell from the harem wrath, even if I’m not part of it. I am lost with no place to call home and nobody to love me. I should just go end myself with some wine, out in the Plum Garden. It would be a very fitting end with no pain. Very beautiful...Maybe some music would have made it perfect - “ she kept talking in self-deprecation, not realising how it upset the man in front of her, until he stopped her by kissing her with enough fire to begin the melting process over the frozen pieces of her heart,
“Stop speaking like that, you are upsetting me. How can I marry you and spend the rest of my life with you by my side, if you let the world get to you and kill you?” he was scolding her in a gentle manner, his hand on top of her head, putting his forehead to hers.
“How can I not, when my own sisters, that I raised and took care of since mother died, plotted my death and were happy to see me fall? My own family, Yin Zhen! How can I bare with that?!” her voice was full of emotions of all kinds, desperate to have someone to cling on.
“Those who wish ill on you are not your family, even though you are bound by blood. You have me, Y/N. I vow to you, I would never leave you alone. I will always be there for you, no matter what, and I will never let anyone hurt you again.” the man said, making the girl sigh and shake her head.
“What are you trying to say, Yin Zhen? There’s only so long until you’ll become the Emperor. Even if you want to, you won’t have the time to even remember I exist. And you will be busy with all your concubines every night. Don’t vow what cannot happen, or you will anger the Gods. Be realistic. You know how I am. I refuse to bare children, I refuse to deal with the harem. I will get jealous, and in the end, you will end up hurting me more than my own family did.” she hung her head, wiping away the stray tears.
“When I become Emperor, I will be able to do anything I want to. It’s true, I will need heirs, but that’s what the harem is about, but that doesn’t mean I won’t hold you in my arms every night. You will be Empress, and you will help me with matters of the Palace. If the Consort can deal with the harem now, she can do so when I reign as well. Not to mention, the current Empress favours you, she will be kind with you once she becomes Dowager.” he explained reassuringly, which made her look up at him slowly.
“Do you vow you always love me the most and have me and only me as your priority? And you will listen to me when I talk. And we will still hang out at midnight in the Cherry Garden, we will still go swimming, or swinging in the Peach Garden, we will still play the Zither and Flute together and you will still compliment me over the littlest things, no matter what?” Y/N spoke a bit more harshly, to get her point across, which only made the man chuckle.
“I vow that I will still be your Confidante, and you will be mine, and things between us won’t change even when I become Emperor. Who else could sew me such comfortable pyjamas and then wear them much better than I do?” he pinched her cheek before kissing her forehead tenderly.
“That’s because I have style. Now...Tell me, what should I do?” and her reply came in the form of a scoff of amusement as the Prince pulled her to his chest, making her sit on his lap.
“Sometimes I wish you were more ruthless, little fox. But it’s fine, I will be ruthless enough for the both of us. Just trust me, and tomorrow, we’ll go together and prove your innocence once and for all.” he declared in a voice fit for an Emperor, before putting one hand on the back of her neck, while the other was on her waist, and pulling her flush against his chest, he kissed her, gently at first, to make sure she wouldn’t shatter in front of him like a precious china doll, only to gradually become more and more passionate.
And once again, just like when they first met, they locked tender gazes and got lost in their own paradise - You are mine and you can only be mine - He’d think, just for a split second, as he continued kissing and touching her skin, softer than any cloud.
The next day marked the beginning of his vow, as she woke up with his arms draped around her small form and him stroking her hair gently, before they got dressed properly and went to her palace, the Blue Lotus, only to find her maid freaking out and checking her for any injuries.
When they explained to her what happened, Shi Lian grinned and ran to fetch a bag that she buried in a secret place under the snow, revealing the incriminatory objects that she risked so much for. The maid then pointed out that some eunuchs came over and tried to search the place, with the help of one of her sisters, only to find nothing and return fearfully to the noble consort, their mission failed.
Wait until they see she isn’t dead, really.
And so, Yin Zhen baited the sisters into going to the consort’s house, and told the Emperor to wait outside of the door and listen, only interfering if and when he sees fit.
“4th Prince, what ever could be the reason for summoning us like that?” the consort asked with a feign-innocent smirk o her face.
“I believe it’s high time to finish investigating a crime, correct, consort? The mystery behind your miscarriage?” Yin Zhen’s eyes were sharp, yet victorious.
“Ahh, yes, but wasn’t it confirmed to be that woman physician’s negligence?” she preferred to fake admiring her hand jewellery, instead of looking at the prince.
“That is quite the narrative you painted, isn’t it? Painted with her blood, and the blood of my father’s offspring. Clearly, there is no shameful level of low-ness that you wouldn’t stoop to, just to gain my father’s attention and favour, isn’t it? Even going as far as to frame the only physician who would properly be able to heal you and the women of the Palace. She fought hard to convince my Imperial Father, the Emperor, to allow her to be a medicine practitioner, with you in her mind, not her own well-being. You must truly be cruel and desperate to want to get the Emperor’s favour that badly, again. You must know you’re getting old and ugly, and you won’t be my Father’s favourite anymore...And his favourites will be the newer concubines...Like Y/N’s sisters, who have unique, green eyes, unlike all the other women here.” the Prince hit the nail spot on, making the consort look at him with fear and indignation.
“U-Uhm, Prince, I know you favoured Y/N Jiejie, but why are you dragging us into this?” Liyan asked cautiously.
“Because the consort came to you with an alliance - If you get rid of Y/N, you won’t bully the sisters for being young and favoured. However, the sisters were jealous of Y/N of having favour from everyone without having to conform to the norms every woman has to, for she is not a concubine, therefore, she had nothing to fight for except your lives. To think that her own sisters that she took care of would plot her own demise without a single speck of regret. You caught her when she was most vulnerable, alone, in the Plum Garden, then had some eunuch strike her over the head with a wooden bat. Truly horrific to think family would behave like this.” the Prince played the detective part, explaining the story he heard from the girl herself.
“What gives you the right to accuse us of such treacheries?! We would never hurt Jiejie!” Xiyan growled at the man, only for a surprise to happen, as the woman in cause entered the scene dramatically.
“Wouldn’t you?” Y/N asked in a low voice, earning gasps of shock from the 3 other women.
“J-Jiejie! You’re alright! You’re alive!” Xiyan’s lips quivered, as her eyes were darting between her sister and the consort.
“Why wouldn’t I be alive, Xiyan Meimei? Was something supposed to happen that would guarantee my imminent death?” Y/N tilted her head slightly to the side, staring deep into her sister’s eyes, searching for the truth.
“N-No, of course not! Why ever would you claim something so cruel?” Xiyan chuckled nervously, walking a few feet backwards.
“All my life I thought myself the family disappointment since I never was the perfect woman that father wanted me to be, to bring honour to the family...But I know for sure that I never raised a liar or a traitor. You are a disappointment. To think you’d partner up with the consort to kill me, and then, when I talked to you about the evidence I found in her palace, you’d try to kill me and steal the objects. My maid is my family more than you ever were.” Y/N shook her head in disappointment, taking out the bag, which made the three women widen their eyes in horror, knowing very well what was going to happen.
“Look at them, they are already pissing themselves with fear. They know what is in them.” Yin Zhen scoffed at them.
“This is the consort’s cup, from which she drank Green Papaya juice...And this is a mortar in which cinnamon and pomegranate seeds were crushed into a powder. All of these are known to naturally induce abortions, so it’s no wonder she had a miscarriage when I gave her the medicine. You wanted the attention and to kill me, so what better way to do so than to frame me, punish me yourself, and have the Emperor hate me and potentially kill me? A Zhang of Redness, you said. How cruel of you, Consort.” Y/N taunted her once again, showing the evidence, putting them on the table.
“You’re insane! This is a conspiracy! You have 4th Prince’s and you got him to conspire against me! You’re the worst!” the Consort shrieked at the girl, almost getting physically aggressive, until the Emperor himself stepped in the room.
“That’s enough! How shameless can you be? I understand being jealous of the women of the harem, but of someone who is here only to save your lives? Impertinent!” the Emperor’s booming voice resounded throughout the room, drowning out the consort’s whinings for a little while. “Y/N, you have been the wronged one here, I will let their punishment be of your choosing, no matter how harsh. I will take my leave now, I cannot stand to look at these wretches anymore.” and so, he left the place, letting the consort grovel on the ground, helplessly, shrieking in the worst high-pitched voice.
“All’s well when it ends well, I’d say.” Y/N muttered, looking at her two little sisters. “What do you two have to say in your defense?”
“We are sorry, Y/N Jiejie, we were wrong! Please, forgive us!” the twins jumped on her, hugging her tightly, stunning the poor girl.
“How cruel. You know she’s soft hearted so you try to play her again. You are shameless leeches.” Yin Zhen spoke out, seeing the conflict in his lover’s eyes...Only for her to gasp suddenly and widen her eyes in shock.
“Finally...Huh? You’re truly the worst...Yin Zhen told me to be more ruthless...Perhaps I should begin now.” with a pained expression on her face, she pushed the sisters away from her, revealing the bleeding stab wound from her abdomen. “How many more times are you going to try to kill me? As many times needed until you finally succeed...But you think a tiny blade like this will do the trick? If poison, a bat to the head and the freezing cold didn’t kill me, this is nothing more than a mosquito’s bite for me.” Y/N looked at Liyan with disgust as she snatches away the dagger by the blade, throwing it away.
“Y/N...!” Yin Zhen looked in horror at the wound that kept bleeding and bleeding, staining the green material of her beautiful dress.
“This all began when you wanted to punish me with A Zhang of Redness. My hair is red. The Plum blossoms are red. My spilled blood was red as well. Now, it’s your turn. All three of you, I punish you with a Zhang of Redness, and should you live, I will take away all your titles and riches. Hopefully, you will see what I felt when I realised that death would be a blessing, rather than living. Enjoy your lives as paralysed traitors, you three.” despite the single tear straying down her face, Y/N’s eyes were cold and merciless, at least just for then, as hearing her little sisters scream, sob and plea for her to have mercy on them and forgive them was something that unavoidably crushed her, but there was nothing she could do about it anymore.
“Every day with you is like watching a dramatic tragedy at the opera.” the prince sighed, picking her up carefully and bringing her to his palace, so the physicians would tend to her wound.
“Isn’t my life a tragedy enough as it is, without you having to remind me?” she scoffed, turning away from him.
“It won’t be anymore, my dear. I promise you.” and with that, Yin Zhen embraced Y/N once again, taking away all her sorrows, at least for the night, and many more other nights.
~~~ I also have a Sad Ending, read at your own risk. If I were you, I wouldn’t read it, but we all know how some need angst to live ~~~
But years passed faster than the blink of an eye, and as the norm asked for, problems still surrounded everyone in the Palace, since it wouldn’t be the Imperial Court otherwise.
It was needless to say was still mourning not having her sisters around anymore, as one of them died, while the other remained paralysed in the Cold Palace, and as soon as her father came by to sell his Western products and found out the fate of his children, he blamed Y/N for being heartless and bringing dishonor to their family by being the complete opposite of what a woman should be.
And so...They weren’t so young anymore, but double the age from when they met, and Yin Zhen now became Emperor Yongzheng, and Y/N was his Empress, just as promised.
At first, he was loyal to his vow - No matter who he’d be forced to visit for the night, he’d still return to her and hold her in his arms until the light of morning creeped through the windows, waking them up, but time is a feeble enemy, and words are easily forgotten.
Daily, became Weekly, just like Weekly, became Monthly.
He would barely come by to visit, let alone spend the night with her, and meals together were as scarce as trustworthy people in the palace.
Every day, she was forced to wake up and get ready to welcome all the concubines who had to pay their respects to her, only to be mocked for not being the Emperor’s favourite anymore.
It wasn’t like she couldn’t complain too much to the Dowager, as she already tried to remind her Son multiple times not to forget and neglect his own Empress, his own wife and beloved for so many ages, and yet, it only worked for a little time, and so, realising how she was being problematic to everyone by complaining about her loneliness, only to get shut down and reminded that that is the fate of any woman...
A woman, more alone now than ever before.
She would often go out to the special places she shared with Yin Zhen, often lost in thought, as memories kept flooding her mind and damaging her heart, only to realise that no matter how much she’d try to keep herself busy, her mind would still fly over to him.
She would try to practice the flute and zither from dusk till dawn, and even to the latest hours in the night, only for him not to even remember she could play, and asking the younger, pretties concubines to play, at all banquets held.
She would practice all kinds of intricate dances, wearing the flowiest of dresses that looked like the river, only to hear that she should settle for clothing fit for her age, and see him dancing with other women in the light of the moon.
She would sew random brocades and threads in whatever piece of garment she could think of, only to then throw it in the fire in frustration, knowing he hasn’t worn anything she’s made for him lately.
She would practice calligraphy until the candles were almost burnt and her eyes were burning from the sleep depravation and straining, only to rip the books apart, noticing the tears, smudges and shakiness on the pages.
For a while, she refused to leave her palace completely, only to realise her thoughts were much darker when alone, so she would walk through the secluded gardens and weep on the now deserted swing from the Peach Garden.
No matter how much she tried, her poor maid, Shi Lian, could never make her happy again, for the only one who can mend a broken heart is the one who threw it to the ground in the first place, but he was too busy with others, and Shi Lian was so angry at the Emperor, pitying the poor woman, especially since she, herself, was married and with children.
But she was happy, and Y/N was at least happy for her good fortune. At least she, her only friend, deserves to be happy.
On one winter day, the Emperor held a banquet, declaring that a famous Zither player would entertain them, and as customs said, the Empress must, too, attend, but big was her shock when she recognised that beautiful and otherwise stoic man with silver hair, whose emotions coloured the worlds while playing the instrument, and she couldn’t help but cry when she heard ‘Autumn Moon over the Han Palace’ and ‘Plum-Blossoms in Three Movements’ , songs which reminded her of her younger self, and the time he started courting her, before she chose duty over happiness and entered the Palace.
What a foolish decision. Instead of living for herself, she always lived for others, which only caused her sorrow and misfortune.
Maybe she deserves it, and this is her karma for being such an idiot.
After the banquet was ready, she went to talk to the musician alone, who clearly recognised her as soon as he first laid his eyes upon her still beautiful face.
“Not even time can destroy such beauty. My heart is happy seeing you again, Y/N. And I see you became the Empress.” JiKang spoke, his voice warmer now than with anyone else.
“Time is cruel, for it destroys words and promises. I am an Empress over nothing but the ashes of my own heart and the disrespect I receive from everyone. You, however, seem to be thriving as usual. I can only guess how many places you’ve visited thus far, and how much you’ve learned over the years. I truly envy you.” she spoke with sorrow and helplessness.
“Women are forced to choose duty over themselves. If you, however, wish to defy all laws, my offer still stands.” he spoke, taking her hands in his, rubbing them comfortingly.
“If I could turn back time, I would give up everything, just to be with you. To be free. To have someone who wouldn’t lie to me for decades and then forget I exist. I only wished to learn, love, and be happy...But I suppose I was too greedy to even dare wish for good fortune on myself. Which is why, I cannot leave without first talking to the Emperor. If I leave without another word, he would hunt me down, and kill you, above all else, and that is not something that I would ever wish for. I will tell him to fake my death and get another Empress. If he accepts, I will come with you. If not...Then...” she trailed on, sighing, without having the strength to utter those dreaded words.
“Then, I will return to you another time and play songs, to mend your heart.” the Zither player promised, only for a brief silence to take over, as her green eyes, once full of life, like the evergreen forest, were as dead as the ashes of a pine tree.
“...There will be no next time.” her sentence was coded, but him, as an emotional person, was the one who understood her the best.
“Then I shall create a score and play the ‘Requiem for God’s Caged Bird’ and ‘The Lovely Fox Spirit and The Wavering Dragon’ in your honour, wherever I go.” was his last promise to her, as he watched her small form become no more in front of his very eyes.
And it was true, he never saw her, for the discussion between the Emperor and the Empress went as bad as it could get, even going as far as to strike her face, which reminded her of yet another promise that he broke.
It should be all of them, by now, she thought, as she looked at him with an exhausted expression.
“You promised me so many things, and in the end, you broke all of them. Thank you, my darling Yin Zhen, for reminding me that I’ve been nothing more than your caged song bird that you forgot and threw in another room, in cold and darkness, to slowly starve and die in agony. The least you could have done was to fake my death and let me be happy, for the few years that I had left on this world. But, of course, nobody from your collection can escape, can they? Next time, I would suggest Zhen Huan, she is a lovely girl, and you love her the most, and in turn, she truly loves you. Just...Make sure not to treat her the same way you did with me...Goodbye, my beloved Yin Zhen. I truly loved you...And I still do.” she spoke...And then she left, not giving him the chance to say another word.
But that all happened during day light, as the next night, the true banquet would take place, to celebrate New Year’s Day, and JiKang would play once again.
And she wasn’t there, just as he’d expected.
And he played more beautifully, more emotionally, than he ever did in his entire life, showing how much he cherished her, and how angry and frustrated he is with the Emperor took her away from him, mistreated her, constantly lying and breaking her heart.
“Shi Lian, my dear, why are you still here? You should be with your family, not with some old, pitiful woman like myself.” Y/N spoke from her writing table as she finished a note, putting her seal over it, and folding it so its contents won’t be seen.
“Your Majesty, don’t be silly! I am your maid, I will always be here for you!” she chuckled brightly, which made the Empress give her a sad smile, her heart hurting as if impaled, once again.
“Well...I won’t be going to the Banquet tonight, that much is clear. I can hear the beautiful music from over here. Here, take this. Give it to the Emperor’s Head eunuch as fast as possible, and tell him to give it to the Emperor when he wakes up in the morning, otherwise, nobody is allowed to read it, okay?” she said, wiping a few tears.
“Yes, Your Majesty, I will hurry there right now!” the maid said, but before she left, the Empress rose to her feet, pulling her into an embrace.
“Thank you, Shi Lian. You have been my only friend all this time. Thank you for everything. Now, please, after you’re done with this task, go stay with your family. I will have an early night...I am extremely tired.” she stroked her hair, almost in a motherly way, which confused the maid, but nonetheless, smiled at her master.
“No, Master, thank you for being the amazing woman that you are. It’s an honour being by your side!” she bowed slightly, before rushing to the door. “Sweet dreams, Y/N Niangniang!” Shi Lian grinned cheerfully before taking off to the palace.
“...I’m sure I will.” Y/N sighed, taking a bag and going to the Plum Garden, wearing nothing but her pyjamas.
She sat down on the soft grass, ignoring the cold that was paralysing her senses, and she took out the bottle of red wine, pouring herself a cup, before letting it spill on the ground.
Then, she took a sachet, pouring its powdery contents into the bottle, and started rapidly gulping it down, letting the burning sensation in her throat be the only warm part in her body.
When the bottle was finally empty, she put it back in the bag, taking out a beautifully engraved vertical jade flute, that Yin Zhen gifted her after winning the competition where he played the zither, against the Princess of Western Liang, and so, she let all her emotions flow and be scattered all over China, through the wind, propelled by the sound of the instrument, all while the snowflakes were beautifully dancing around her, creating different accessories embellished with ice, that would set down on her, making her look like a Snow Empress.
If it weren’t for the tragic truth, she would look almost ethereal - With her white face, and white nightgown, the white decor, the green eyes and flute...The red hair, the red wine, the red plum blossoms...And the red blood.
She played and wept until she couldn’t feel her fingers anymore, not her frozen lips, as the flute fell from her hands and she let herself sit back on the bed of snow, looking up at the sky, just as she did, over 20 years ago.
Her death was tragically beautiful, just as she said back then.
“I should just go end myself with some wine, out in the Plum Garden. It would be a very fitting end with no pain. Very beautiful...Maybe some music would have made it perfect.” that’s what she said, long ago, and remembering her own words, she let darkness take over her, greeting it with a smile on her face - A smile, after decades of weeping.
A true smile.
The next morning, the Emperor woke up, with the beautiful Zhen Huan by his side, and his Head Eunuch waiting for him for any command.
“Your Majesty, the Empress’ maid came by yesterday, saying that Her Majesty instructed her that you should be reading this now, in the morning, as you’ve waken up. She said she doesn’t know what it contains, as Her Majesty was secretive, but she said Her Majesty was behaving a bit...Odd.” the Eunuch explained the situation, as the Emperor, nodded with a grunt of approval, taking and unfolding the scroll that was neatly written in her beautiful calligraphy.
My Darling Yin Zhen,
To think that this is what time had in store for us...It’s almost pitiful to think that we would grow apart like this, considering how close we used to be at the beginning, when you were still a Prince, and we didn’t have any real worries on our shoulders.
Now, here we are, the same way we promised we would never become - Enstranged.
I missed you so much, every day and every night - I would always look at you, and see you, yet you never spared a glance my way anymore.
Saying that I used to be jealous is an understatement, I warned you of that before I even accepted to be with you, yet I never imagined that this would become beyond that, and that I would die of a broken heart, for my missing beloved.
Every day, I would count the promises and vows you made for me, and every day, I would cross them, one by one, and crush a flower in my hands, for every broken one, until there was nothing left.
You promised you would love me, and only me, but as soon as the Palace became flooded with gorgeous concubines, all yours to take, your heart forgot me, and it split all its love to all the women that you shared your bed with, and so, I crushed a Lotus flower.
Your promised you would always hold me in your arms at night, no matter of the woman you’d have to do your Imperial Duty with, and yet, it didn’t take long for you to remember that my bed was made for the both of us, and so, I crushed a Cherry blossom.
You promised you will always tease me, flick my forehead and pinch my cheeks, then kiss them, only for you to cast cold eyes at me whenever I spoke or did something silly, letting the Consort or Dowager deal with me, while you would play and to the same things you used to do with me, with other women, and so, I crushed a Plum blossom.
You used to compliment me on all my small achievements, no matter how silly or insignificant they were, but now, you gave away all the clothes I sew you, all the snacks, cakes and tea I would make you, and all the accessories I would spend days and night to make, and so, I crushed a Begonia flower.
You used to point out how my eyes were sparkling with life and joy whenever I was around you, and how all colours looked amazing on me, you said I was the Empress of Flowers, and yet, ever since you became Emperor, only dark eyes sparkle with happiness around you, and you said I should wear clothes for my age and stop fooling around, and so, I crushed a Peony.
You used to always accompany me whenever I played music, we even beat the Princess of Western Liang together, I with the flute, that you later gifted me, and you with the zither, and after that, you even gifted me that amazing Liang hair ornament...Only for you to forget that I can play musical instruments too, and only let the younger girls perform for you, and so, I crushed a Chrysanthemum.
You used to kiss me with so much love and passion, warming up and mending by broken, frozen heart, as you promised nothing in this life would ever hurt me again, and I would never be alone, and yet, you are the one who completely crushed me, forgetting about me, as if I was some ugly, ragged old doll, thrown away and forgotten by time and life, and so, I crushed a Camellia.
You used to be my confidante, my best and only friend, we trusted each other with all our secrets and gossips, and only each other, and yet, you completely stopped talking to me, making other confidantes now, and here I am, having no one but my maid to talk with, as my last living sister hates me eternally, and rightfully so, and so, I crushed a Narcissus.
You used to take me out at midnight and dance under the veil of stars, under the healing, guarding, loving light of Mother Moon, and we would confess our undying love for each other, and yet, nothing is eternal, and your love for me extinguished like the fire from a candle, and reignited on many other candles, and so, I crushed an Azalea.
But most importantly...
You promised that, no matter what, our hearts will always belong to each other, and nobody else - I kept my end of the promise, but you broke it as soon as you took the throne, and I watched you run further and further away from me, while I was wilting away, exhausted, starving, alone...And so...I crushed a thorny Rose...And let the blood spill on the pure snow...The same pure snow that was my life and innocence which you tainted with your negligence and lies.
The least you could have done was to let me live, at least for now, but it is as you once said - ‘Don’t look at other men, don’t leave me. You are mine, and you can only be mine’ - such an innocent phrase, that only applied to you, not to me, as I had to share you with countless women, yet you didn’t even let me tug on the last string of hope that coincidentally found itself in front of me.
It was a mirage, just like the happiness you promised me, and no matter how much I tried to run, the image became further and further distant, until my legs gave up, and I began crawling...And crawling...Until it disappeared completely, and I lay grieving on the deserted snow, warmer than your own ice-cold heart.
I should have chosen happiness over duty - I should have eloped with JiKang back then, before I chose to honour everyone and come into the Palace, but that was my biggest mistake, and my greatest downfall - I met you, and as soon as I looked into your eyes, I was trapped.
I was truly nothing more than your caged songbird, and once you got tired of my song, you threw away the key, and my cage in some forgotten chamber, scary, away from any form of life, darker and colder than anything, even Hell.
But it’s fine.
In the end, if it wasn’t true for you, it was true for me, and on my last seconds alive, as I lay on the blanket of snow, just as I told you back then, listening to my own Requiem being played at the Banquet, I count the falling snowflakes, and with each of them, I would think of a beautiful moment that we shared together, and my heart, despite being shattered, smiled, after ages of forgetting how to.
I am happy, at least now, as I lay dying, knowing that I will finally see my beloved Yin Zhen again, as you took him away from me - You, Emperor Yongzheng, destroyed the love between me, Y/N, a simple physician, and Yin Zhen, the 4th Prince, who truly loved me with all of his heart, and I, in turn, loved him with every fiber of my very being.
I blame you, Emperor Yongzheng, for taking my beloved away from me, and taking my youth and heart and locking them in a cell, but at least now, I know that I can be happy, with him, my beautiful, sweet, lovely Yin Zhen, my husband, best friend and confidante.
The only person who was ever by my side all this time has been my maid, Shi Lian - And as a thank you, I want to promote her to Lady Yongqing, and all my riches go to her - I wish you only the best, and I hope, my dear Shi Lian, that you will be happy for me as well.
In the end, I was never Wu Zetian, or Hua Mulan, nor Diaochan or Yang Gufei - I was just Y/N, a pitiful Physician, a pitiful Empress, and, above all, a sad woman, trapped in a hopeless world of sorrow.
Goodbye.
Y/N, the Female Imperial Physician.
Reading that, the Emperor didn’t realise that tears were escaping from his eyes, as he rushed out of the room, making his way to the Plum Garden, only to find the woman he loved with all his being dead, covered by snow, her skin paler than ice itself, and a red stain where her head was - Wine, replicating the incident many years ago.
Next to her, lay the flute he gifted her long ago, and he realised that she was playing her sorrows until the very end.
He discovered the wine bottle and poison sachet in the bag, the very bag that she used to steal the incriminatory objects from the consort long ago, and on the snow, he saw a phrase written, one so ironic, yet painful beyond belief.
“A Zhang of Redness”
In the end, she was right - It all began and ended with A Zhang of Redness.
He was, once again, Yin Zhen, the man hopelessly in love, and hopelessly crushed, as he held her in his arms and wept, the salty droplets of water falling down her face in rivers, and in that moment, he couldn’t help but have flashbacks from his youth, all of them, with her by his side.
He truly was the worst, being capable of neglecting the one person he held in higher esteem than Buddha himself, and yet, he let this happen.
How could he let this happen? Why did he do something like this? Did the title of Emperor really get to his head like that? Did he truly forget who he was all this time? Was he, maybe, the one trapped in a false world, away from any exits or escapes?
He didn’t know, and yet, one thing was sure - Y/N was dead, and there was no bringing her back.
At her funeral, he invited JiKang to play, and the Emperor could feel the musician’s own heart throbbing in sorrow, as he looked at her with empty eyes, and yet, the pity and anger he felt was obvious from the way he played.
As night came, and they all lit lanterns to float into the skies, and put candles on lotus flowers, to light up her way to a better, more beautiful world, the two men remained alone, only sadness linking them.
“What were the songs that you played?” the Emperor asked in a low voice.
“Songs that I promised I would play in her honour, the last time we talked. I knew what she was going to do, and yet, knowing that she killed herself when I played for her - And more - that she, herself, played, makes my heart ache even more. ‘Requiem for God’s Caged Bird’ and ‘The Lovely Fox Spirit and The Wavering Dragon’ were the name of the songs.” the musician replied with a certain harsh coldness that resembled a blizzard.
“I see...Very fitting indeed.” he grunted in approval hearing his statement.
“You are the cruelest man alive. Instead of taking care of her, you let her die. You didn’t even give her a second chance of living. You were desperate to possess everything and everyone. To have everything under your control. So much that you don’t even notice, nor care, that the most beautiful flower wilted in your very own hands. You should be ashamed of yourself, to even call yourself an Emperor. You never deserved her, that much, is clear to me.” JiKang glared at the Emperor, not caring for any kind of repercussion.
“You are correct. I never deserved her. I loved her more than anything in this world, and yet, I destroyed everything for her, and now, she is no more. She shares the same fate as all the Four Beauties of China - A most tragic end, for all of them. And the worst is that she needed to die in order for me to wake up, and now, I can’t even make it up to her. Honouring her after death means nothing, if I didn’t while she was alive. It changes nothing.” the Emperor sighed deeply, looking at the stars, the ones she loved so much, and would count together from the top of the flowery hill. “That star right there - It used to be our star. Whenever we’d go to the hill together, we’d search for it. It was our guardian star. It was the brightest, and most beautiful. And now, it seems to be be even brighter...Just like that tale of the Rabbit Moon Goddess.”
“...At least bother remembering her after death, if you couldn’t do it while she was alive.” the musician left the Emperor to his own thoughts.
“I am sorry, my darling Y/N. I love you. Forever. Endlessly. Only you.” the Emperor muttered, staring at the star, allowing himself to mourn properly now, away from anyone’s eyes.
The Palace of Blue Lotus became her shrine, filled with flowers and beautifully written poems, and guarding it, a statue of her, and a statue of a nine tailed fox, a Huli jing, were standing there, letting offerings of flower crowns, jewelleries, jades and trinkets be placed around and all over them, to honour her kind, beautiful heart, as it should have happened while she was alive.
As promised, the Emperor promoted Shi Lian, but to the title of Lady Shuyu, just like Y/N once was, and offered her a huge allowance, almost the size of an Empress, hoping that it would make Y/N happy beyond life...Yet seeing the maid grieving, her face pink and puffy, no longer cheerful, hurt him beyond belief, as he was reminded of the sins he committed.
And so, once again, he had to pink new concubines for his unfortunate Harem, along with his new Empress, Zhen Huan, just as Y/N said...And there she was, a beautiful young woman, full of life and hope, obviously not wanting to become a slave to him, so he interrogated him, just as he did with Y/N, long ago. This time, his brother, Duke Guo, a free soul seeking his soulmate, was by his side.
The Emperor ordered for a zither to be brought forth for the woman to play, and as soon as she did, his brother joined in, accompanying her in perfect sync, and just as it happened to him long ago, their eyes were trapping each other in a beautiful enchantment of love and bashfulness.
Please, Gods, let them be what I and Y/N couldn’t be, Yin Zhen begged in his heart, watching those two shyly exchanging looks.
“I know you never wanted to serve me as a concubine. You very much resemble my wife, the late Empress Y/N. If you were to join the harem, your heart will be destroyed. That is why...If you would want to, I will allow you to marry any man you fall in love with, even if it is my own brother, Duke Guo. He always preached about wanting to find the his soulmate, and you two look at each other the same way I and Y/N would, long ago. Don’t waste this love on stupid things, like I did. Cherish it, and keep your promises to each other. You never know when life snatches away your happiness, leaving only emptiness and sorrow behind.” Yin Zhen looked at them, his heart conflicted, feeling both happiness and sadness, as the man and woman in front of him appeared to be just another version of himself and Y/N.
He couldn’t see the girl, nor his brother.
He could only see a beautiful red haired woman with green eyes, flowers in her long, cascading hair, and her gorgeous green gown, looking like a Fox Spirit, or a Lotus...And a man, gazing at her lovingly, wearing vibrant gold, his expression soft, despite the deep, dark eyes, that now held love, warmth and tenderness in them.
It wasn’t some random girl and some random boy.
It was Y/N and Yin Zhen.
And then he wept once again for their lost love.
#legend of the phoenix#legend of the phoenix imagine#legend of the phoenix x reader#yin zhen#yin zhen x reader#yin zhen imagine#yin zhi#emperor kangxi#emperor yongzeng#empress#noble consort#a zhang of redness#angst#legend of the phoenix yin zhen#legend of the phoenix yin zhen x reader#legend of the phoenix yin zhen imagine
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oh i'm loving the mulan quote in "the mountain cannot bow" tell us all about it king 😌
Nailed the source of that one. I actually got the idea for the title from a screenshot of an old Tumblr post saying that quote is the best way to tell someone to go fuck themselves without actually telling them to go fuck themselves. (I aspire to have that ability one day.)
If the title was inspired by Mulan, the story itself was inspired by Katara’s speech from ATLA Season 1 Episode 6 ‘Imprisoned’. She mentions that Water Tribe children are put to sleep with stories of the Earth Kingdom and its earthbenders, and that got me thinking.
The Earth Kingdom held out for one hundred years. They fought, alone, holding the line, again and again and again and again, against an enemy who was stronger, who was more technologically advanced. They had no help. The Air Nomads were gone. The Northern Water Tribe went into isolation. The Southern Water Tribe was on the brink of extinction.
And yet they still fought.
And I remembered Kuei - what was he up to in Season 3? Where did he go? What did he do? Who did he meet? This fic is my attempt to answer that, and my attempt at doing the Earth Kingdom some justice, because it held the line by itself in an impossible fight and the fandom doesn’t give the Earth Kingdom damn near enough credit for it.
I don’t have anything written other than the summary, so here’s that:
[“Earthbenders! You don't know me, but I know of you. Every child in my Water Tribe village was rocked to sleep with stories of the brave Earth Kingdom, and the courageous earthbenders who guard its borders. Some of you may think that the Fire Nation has made you powerless. Yes, they have taken away your ability to bend. But they can't take away your courage.
And it is your courage they should truly fear! Because it runs deeper than any mine you've been forced to dig, any ocean that keeps you far from home! It is the strength of your hearts that make you who you are. Hearts that will remain unbroken when all rock and stone has eroded away.” – Katara of the Southern Water Tribe]
They were strong, and they were proud, and they were resilient. They were unbroken. When the world retreated, they held. When the Air Nomads and the Southern Water Tribe died and the North disappeared, the Earth Kingdom stood firm. And a legend was born – the legend of a people who refused to give in.
The legend spread to all corners of the world. The legend of a people who fought on against all reason, who dragged the war on for a century, who kept the fire of hope burning, who became the mountain the Fire Nation would die on.
Kuei envies that. Envies them. He’s never been one of them. He’s never been strong or smart or brave, not like his people. They had endured for a hundred years against the Fire Nation, and he couldn’t endure for even a month. He couldn’t even rule a city, and they had defended a kingdom.
He wasn’t like them.
But perhaps…perhaps he could be.
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Or, how a man finds himself, and a people, their king.
(side note for you, specifically, terra: that fic I mentioned to you a long time ago? That was inspired by From Embers? It’s on this list. I am working on it, but it’s slow going and it’s on the backseat right now)
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In the fog’s aftermath, Tamyra and Frank have to find their footing and accept an inevitable truth.
@tamyrawilliams
Fishing the boats from the water leaves Frank weary, but it's compared to actually assessing the damage. Weeks of work and the only thing left to salvage is this... mess. He stares at it from his position on a rock, leg out stretched in front of him to rest. It's no better now weeks later - neither his leg nor the boat seem any closer to the pristine condition before the fog. "You have some life left in your bones. I hope," he says aloud to the boat, or to his knee, which throbs as he pushes up to his feet with a pained grimace. "What can I do to fix you? Anything? Nothing?" Talking to it doesn't make him feel any better. Up close, the boat is upside down, held up on four carefully placed boulders. It keeps him from crouching, though he admits to doing little more staring at the boat these days. Seems no point repairing them when Rose is gone, when Tamyra is gone. It's more routine to stare it, pensive, before leaving. He goes to do just that when he sees her. For a heart leaping moment, the beauty approaching is Rose. "Rose?" He asks, but a blink and it's Tamyra. His heart falls. Briefly, because the joy of seeing Tamyra has him striding to her. "Tamyra, you're alive!"
...
Tamyra wasn't even sure what she was doing, if she was being honest. Normally she would have been already trying to figure out the next step, the next plan for how to get off of the island, but these days there was no desire towards that inside of her. She just wanted to not feel so fucking tired, she would have been okay with that. And hide away from the world - the urge for that was still so strong, despite the fact that she peaked out of her hut these days, even if only for short periods of time. And when she noticed Frank, heading her way, calling for her, her first instinct was to turn around and run off. They were friends but even showing her face to friends felt hard. It was somebody new who didn't see her injury yet and she'd have to watch his face fall when he realized what happened with her. But this was also Frank and he was saying she was alive as if he actually thought he was dead, and she couldn't just run off. That would have been the asshole thing to do. So she stuck her feet to the ground and smiled (hyper-aware of the way her face felt when she smiled), pretending like nothing happened, like nothing was wrong. "What do you mean I'm alive, of course I'm alive! I was on the jag, had to deal with some stuff. How's-- how's your leg? Are you feeling better?"
...
Her expression remains shuttered, and Frank falters. It isn't like her to look at him in such a way - like the two of them are standing on opposite ends of an abyss. He comes closer, and there it is, the marks on her face. His eyes narrow in thought, cycling through thoughts one after another. "Remember when--" And he almost says her name. The frown falters, and he changes gear because saying Rose is too much in light of this dashed hope. "--my family got here? You would have thought I was gone if you hadn't heard about me. Tamyra, I haven't heard anything about you. I thought you had..." His throat constricts, and he shakes his head. "I'm just relieved you're here, I thought you were gone." Without pausing to think, Frank strides closer to her, wrapping his arms around her in a hug. "Sorry, it's just-- I'm fine. It's fine. Everything is--" And it's not, though, so he stops. "I'm as fine as you are, I imagine."
...
Tamyra was holding her breath, waiting for him to say anything about the scar, about asking if she was okay or ask how it happened, and only released the breath when instead of doing so, Frank reminded her of the time after the plane crash. If she didn't know Frank was spending time with his family, she really would have thought something bad happened to him. And still, it didn't occur to her while she was on the jag and then later hiding out in Aurélie's hut that people would assume she was dead. She just thought they'd assume she needed some time to lick her wounds after the boat turned out to be a huge illusion that fucked with their head instead of actual escape. "I'm sorry, I didn't-- I should have thought of it. I didn't mean to scare you, Frank, I swear. I just needed to collect myself a bit." The hug was still a surprise, though, and she stood there motionless for a few seconds before she wrapped her arms around Frank and hugged him back. She really hoped things changed from the last news she's heard and things were better for him, but from the sounds of it, that wasn't the case... "Does that mean--" she started, unsure how to even ask. "Emre told me Rose disappeared. In the fog." Better to rip the bandaid off, right? "Is she still lost?"
...
Frank holds her gaze, sadness tugging his lips into a frown. "I did the same to you then," he says as an answer. "Even if it was different. I just..." His words stumble over each other, falling short of conveying the bone-crushing worry, and the heart stopping relief. Frank holds onto her, and it sinks in fully how alive she is. How safe she is. "You scared the hell out of me." The swear surprises him, but he continues on. "What happened? No one wants to tell me anything. I only know that the boat is..." His expression twists. "I'm sorry, Tamyra, someone broke it during the fog. We fished it out not long after, but it's obviously..." Frank gestures to the remains of it. Still a boat, albeit missing too many pieces. His thoughts grind to a halt, stomach sinking as rapidly as this boat of theirs would if they set it to sail. "Yes," he breathes, breath catching in his throat. His conversation with Libby lingers in his mind."She's still--" Gone. He doesn't say it. His words come out ragged. "And I can't go after her. I can't even look. You and her just disappeared without a trace."
...
You scared the hell out of me. That was the consensus these days. Scared the hell out of Nora, scared Frank with disappearing, while Tamyra was too wrapped up in her own pity and her own grief to truly realize the impact of what she caused. "They don't tell you anything because I asked them-- begged them not to tell anyone. I--" She didn't want to talk about it, she really didn't, she hated the question and having to recall it, but she already scared Frank. "Aurélie, Emre came with me and we tried to get to the South Beach on the water. It-- didn't go well." Short and to the point. Hopefully after their own exurtion on the water before the fog and that awful night happened, Frank would know how to fill in the details. He talked about the boat and Tamyra expected the familiar surge of anger and annoyance to hit her that usually did when something like this happened, but she was done getting out. There was no reason to get angry over a lost opportunity when it wasn't an opportunity in the first place. "I don't care about the boat, Frank. I'm... I'm done with boats. And birds and flares and random phones and everything else you can think of that relates to..." she couldn't say it, though, not to Frank, so she ended up just gesturing towards the remains of the boat behind Frank. Rose was still gone. Great. Normally Tamyra would have suggested that maybe she just needed time, but Rose had a kid. She didn't know much about the woman, but she could still recall the way she insisted on getting back to Jo when the plane was flooding and they needed to get out of there. She wouldn't stay away if she could help it. "I'm so sorry, Frank," she said, but it didn't feel enough, didn't feel like it was sufficient. "The castaways got through the jungle for a long time, there is still a chance she gets out of there and she just needs some time." Not a lot of chance, but there wasn't any other hope she could offer in that moment for Frank, unfortunately.
...
They don't tell you anything because I asked them. Frank stares at her, surprise and hurt splashing across his face. His lips part, to comment perhaps, but stops as she continues. It's not just him she didn't want to know, it's everyone. And yet the sting remains. "You don't have to hide from me," he says. "Not unless you want to. And you did." He can respect that. He will respect that. His eyes flash from her to the remains of the boat, and it's not the damages done to it, or the story itself that makes him frown, but the key players involved. His voice is flat. "Emre did?" Well, he supposes he can't be surprised; there's more to Emre than meets the eye. Or is it a point in his favor that he didn't betray Tamyra? "I hope you're right. God, I hope you're right. I'd trade nearly anything to see her walk out of those trees." Despite the topic of Rose, despite the discomfort of mentioning the loss of her one more time, relief hits him. "You said you're done with boats. With... escaping. I'm glad you mentioned this because I'm... I'm done, too," he admits, sighing, pulling away from the boat to settle down on a log. His knee aches, and he rubs it as he speaks. "I can't leave Rose behind - and I can't risk dying and leaving Josephine alone."
...
Tamyra could see the flash of hurt rushing over Frank's face, and she remembered her conversation, sort of argument about this with Nora, too. She wasn't that happy about not knowing where she was, either. "It wasn't-- I wasn't hiding specifically from you, Frank, it was-- everyone. Everything." The reality of what happened with her, the fact that she wasn't going to get off the island, that she'd never see her family again, that this was her life forever and ever now. "I wasn't really in any place to see anyone either. Still don't really feel like I am, to be honest." But she had to move about, once she was out of Aurélie's hut, she knew she couldn't just lock herself away for the rest of time. There was a question in those single two words, though Tamyra didn't realize just how it affected Frank. "He's been helping me since he arrived with different ideas and then he made this promise to me that he'll do anything to help me if I promise to get Iyaz out of here, so since we tried to approach the island through the water, it made sense to bring him along. Bring water people along." Frank wasn't really even in question, especially not after she almost watched him sink to the bottom of the ocean and drown, though Tamyra didn't realize that different reasons crossed Frank's mind. Tamyra didn't know what else to say, what could help, so she just ducked her head and nodded. There wasn't really anything else to say, was there? She couldn't flick a wand and make Rose appear. And Frank was barrelling on anyway, switching back to boats and being done himself, and it felt like a huge rush a relief surged through her. She wouldn't have to explain herself, he got it. He was on the same page. Sort of. Different reasons, it sounded like, but similar conclusions.
She went and sat down next to him on the log. "Fuck. Fuck! All that time, all that effort, and it has come to nothing. We have absolutely nothing to show for it." Not even a single boat, considering all of them ended up at the bottom of the fucking ocean. "So if Rose ever gets back, you're going to be back to trying?" she couldn't help but ask. "And does that mean no more walks in the jungle, either?" The jungle was just as dangerous as attempting to get out of here, he was probably done with all of it.
...
Frank's frown softens. The hurt lingers; it's hard not to feel like he's been set aside, no longer trusted enough to be a friend sharing her worries. But her earnest expression has him nodding. "I'm just happy you're okay, I really did think you were gone, too. We lost enough that day, we don't need to lose more. I'd need space, too, to process things." No such luxury, but he doesn't begrudge her having it. He grimaces. "I almost died the last time we took a boat to water. Maybe it's best I wait until we're exploring more charted waters. Or not intending to return." And yet, he's thinking of a future that won't happen. There's no more boats or sailing in his future. Just the island, grasping as it ever was. She sits next to him, and he listens to her swear without interruption. "Yes," he agrees. Her venting makes him feel tired. She's saying all the things he hasn't. "We got friendship. Some tools, some skills. Maybe it wasn't all worthless." He'll hold onto that. Frank's chin lowers at her questions, one's he's only begun to ponder. "If she does, I will. I don't want to stay here, and even if she doesn't, I should leave. For Josephine's sake. But I'm selfish, and I won't leave without Rose. For Josephine's sake, I can't risk my life either." He stands, slowly, aching, and walks to a tree where his chest of treasures sits. "All these tools, all these maps, I don't know what to do with them now. Who will take over for us? Will anyone?" He wonders softly, uncertain.
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Tamyra reached up to rub her scar gently. It was something she picked up in recent days - she just kept wanting to touch it and feel it and then feel repulsed by herself and get reminded all over again what happened. A vicious circle that Tamyra couldn't escape, wouldn't escape for a while at least. "Yeah, we lost it all." She lost it all, but she didn't say that out loud at least. So he didn't want to work on escaping now, but he didn't take it off of the table. Tamyra wondered for a moment if she should say something - a couple of weeks ago, she wouldn't have wanted to know, she wouldn't have wanted to hear it, but now she understood why others tried to tell her that it was impossible to get off of this island. "You shouldn't try, Frank. It's never going to work. It's safer if you stay here and don't risk the waters when there's no way out." Probably strange words coming from her, but he wanted to do what was best for his daughter- not drowning because of a fruitless boat excursion was the best for him and his daughter. People kept telling her that friendship was here, and she knew that, she knew that her friends were what kept her afloat all these years, that it was so important, but she didn't think it was enough, that it would be enough. She wanted to live and she still didn't get over not getting to in the future, not even a little bit. But she didn't say it, she didn't want to hurt Frank with the statement. Instead, she said, "You're not selfish if you don't take a kid onto an escape plan that is doomed to fail." She watched Frank move around, focusing on him rather than the tools and the half finished projects, reminder of what was now in the past. "There are still people wanting to leave, I'm sure they'll take over. There will always be people who want to leave. But they will not get the tools. We worked hard to get them, they can get their own, Frank. You might be selfless enough to offer, but I'm not." They won't get anywhere with or without then anyway.
...
A lump grows in Frank's throat. It does feel like they've lost everything. "We didn't lose all. I'm still here, you're still here. It has to mean something. I just... don't know what yet." It isn't enough, he knows, and lapses into silence with a sigh. "I know," he breathes, head falling back, eyes on the sky above them. Just trickles of light through dense leaves. "This isn't the childhood I had. I was lucky in many ways to be born with everything I could have wanted. Josephine doesn't less than what I had. She doesn't deserve this." None of them do, really, but Josephine least of all. He feels like, for once, his eyes are wide open and he just doesn't know what he's seeing. "I never thought you'd be the one to say that. I thought... twenty, thirty more years and we'd still be thinking about a way to escape. What number were we on?" He's forgotten, now. Hundreds of attempts, some worse than others. "The number seems so much bigger now than it did before." So much like failures than prototypes as he once called them. His gaze moves from the chest to her. "We'll start them from the beginning then? I don't know. We might not escape, but I have to hope someone will." He doesn't want to be remembered if they do. It's enough to know someone is gone, and he did his best. But, all the same, he crouches near the chest, reaching down to grab it. It's no use buried here, not anymore. "Well. You might be right. If we're here, we'll have an eternity to need them." And with that, he lifts it from the ground. "I'll store it on the Leander with my other things. It'll be safe there for when we need it. For whatever reason."
#tamyra#tamyra 05#title inspired by the mulan quote#except in this case the mountains (aka tamyra and frank) have bowed to the inevitable#also has been sitting in my drafts for a while#I was waiting to finish the Emre one to post#because I was gonna cry in the tags about how much I adored writing Tam and Frank and their unexpected friendship
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I can't believe I reached 3k followers!!! Thank you all so much!! When I started this blog, I hoped to reach 100 followers one day, and now here we are!
So to thank you all and mark the date, I'm making a little event! The theme is simple : movies!
What is it all about?
Under the cut are a list of prompts and scenes from different movies. You can choose between two different things that you would like me to write:
- You can choose between 1 and 5 prompts along with a character and I will write a one-shot based on these prompts for the character you have chosen
- You can choose one scene in the list and a character, and I will re-write that scene for the character you have chosen
A few rules to follow if you want to send a request.
- If you request for the prompts :
- You can request up to 5 prompts, not more
- You can add a few details that you would like to be featured in your request if you have precise ideas
- If you request a scene :
- I will write a one-shot that is inspired by that scene, not the exact same scene (obviously, otherwise, where is the fun?). The idea is to get the same spirit and some references, or the same situation, but not a simple copy.
- These scenes will require me to turn AU!, so don't be surprised.
- You can request only one scene, so choose wisely ;)
- I will most likely 'erase' the characters who were in the original scenes, so don't be surprised.
No matter if you request for prompts or for a scene :
- You can request for any character on my masterlist, no matter if I've already written for them or not.
- I have no trouble with anons, if you're a little shy. So don't hesitate to send a request on anon if you feel more comfortable this way.
- Please, send me your request through my askbox and not in a PM. It's much easier for me to manage, and I might forget about your request if you send it to me privately. If you're shy, send an ask on anon.
- Sadly, I will probably not be able to write all the requests that are sent my way. I will write as many as I can, but I'm only human. I'm sorry if I don't get to write your request. But I invite you to send it anyway, because I might write your request! If you don't send it, then you can be sure that I won't though. Again, I'm sorry if I can't write all the requests I receive, but I usually get too many to be able to write them all.
Requests for this event will be up for one week, which means until January 14!
Considering how well this event works, I may change that date along the way.
Thank you all again and I hope you like this event :D
Prompts :
Every prompt is a movie quote. The movie it comes from is written under the quote in italic
1. "Was that a joke?"
"What if it was?"
"I don't like jokes!"
"I don't like you!'
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
2. "Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, nerf-herder!"
Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back
3. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. "Well… my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice."
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
5. "A heart's a heavy burden."
Howl's Moving Castle
6. "You're far away, where are you?"
"In a world that's disappearing, I'm afraid."
The Sound Of Music
7. "No, I'm not mad. I… I'm hurt, and disappointed and… and mad."
Funny Face
8. "I'm always gonna love you."
"I'm always gonna love you too."
La La Land
9. "I'll just take my ego for a walk…"
An Affair To Remember
11. "Would you like to stay for dinner?"
"Would you like to stay forever?"
Mulan
12. "At midnight, I'll turn into a pumpkin and drive away in my glass slipper. And that will be the end of the fairytale."
Roman Holiday
13. "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"
It's A Wonderful Life
14. "Whatever crimes I commit against you, remember, I have diplomatic immunity in 46 countries. Including Puerto Rico."
The Princess Diaries : Royal Engagement
15. "Anything can happen if you let it."
Mary Poppins
16. "Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still you find reasons to keep on living."
Princess Mononoke
17. "Everything is possible. Even the impossible."
Mary Poppins Returns
18. "Love isn't a thinking thing. It's a feeling thing."
Playing It Cool
19. "That is one big pile of shit."
Jurassic Park
20. "I love you."
"I know."
Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back.
21. "Sadness, anger, hate… we were not allowed to express anything. So no, how do we express love?"
Dear Zindagi
22. "Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
Dead Poets Society
23. “Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”
The Cat Returns
24. "I'll probably lose my citizenship for that."
Mission Impossible III
25. "Oh, don't waste my time with flattery."
"Not to seem rude, but I wasn't actually talking to you."
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
26. "But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass."
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
27. " I guess we need to register you as a lethal weapon."
Lethal Weapon
28. "Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be."
Australia
29. "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
30. "A lot of people are in love… but none can love like me, because they don't have you."
Kal Ho Naa Ho
31. "Just follow your heart. And keep smiling."
Kiki's delivery service
32. "That look in your eyes is a pain in my arse, you know that, right?"
Mission Impossible III
33. "Can we take a flight back to reality, or do we have to change planes in Denver?"
The Santa Clause
34. "Yippie-Ki-Yay, motherfucker."
Die Hard
35. "I retire for like five minutes and it all goes to shit."
The Avengers
36. "Would you like to know the probability of her using it against you? It's high."
"Let's get going."
"It's very high…"
Star Wars : Rogue One
37. "I'm too old for this."
Lethal Weapon
38. "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."
The Lion King
39. "Now, think of the happiest things. It's the same as having wings."
Peter Pan
40. "I'm in love with you."
"So what?"
"So what? So plenty! I love you! You belong to me!"
"No. People don't belong to people."
Breakfast at Tiffany's
41. "It's called Karma. And it's pronounced 'Ha! '"
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
42. "Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages: English and bad English."
The Fifth Element
43. "You were my new dream."
Tangled
44. "Any question?"
"Yeah. Could we get a cappuccino machine in here? Cause I don't know how you call this."
Mission Impossible
45. "I'm not used to people sticking around when things go bad."
"Welcome home."
Star Wars : Rogue One
45. "Stop, you'll kill them!"
"That's the idea!"
The Mummy
46. "Probably best not to tell anyone about this."
"Right, no one. I mean, I'll tell myself sometimes but don't worry, I won't believe it."
Notting Hill
47. "Once you've met someone, you never really forget them."
Spirited Away
48. "I hit my head on something."
"Yeah, my head!"
Balto
49. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you okay to drive? A minute ago, you were dead."
"What are you talking about?"
"This is not going to end well."
Mission Impossible : Rogue Nation
50. "I've got a bad feeling about this…"
Star Wars
51. "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."
Winnie The Pooh
52. "If she loves you then she will turn around and look at you... turn around... turn around!"
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
53. "Can I stay for a while?"
"Stay forever."
Notting Hill
54. "Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed."
Breakfast at Tiffany's
55. "This California dew is a little heavier than usual tonight."
"Really? From where I stand the sun is shining all over the place."
Singin' In The Rain
56. "You need to stop carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders."
Spider-Man: Homecoming
57. "Who ever said the human race was logical?"
Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home
58. "Blow up the car."
"Oh, it's such a nice car…"
"And yet, do it."
Mission Impossible III
59. "Why complicate things that are really quite simple?"
Mary Poppins
60. "Who are you?"
"Your worst nightmare."
Mulan
61. "You said 'whoopsidaisies'."
"I don't think so. No one says 'whoopsidaisies', do they? Unless they're…"
"There is no 'unless'. No one has said 'whoopsidaisies' for fifty years and even then it was only little girls with blonde ringlets."
Notting Hill
62. "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
The Wizard Of Oz
63. "Are you out of your corn-fed mind?!"
Star Trek : Into Darkness
64. "You're a good man, with a good heart. And it's hard for a good man to be king."
Black Panther
65. "It is mine to give to whom I will. Like my heart."
The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring
66. "There's no place like home…"
The Wizard Of Oz
67. "I'm with you till the end of the line"
Captain America : First Avenger
68. "You deserve better than this. You deserve people who value you. You deserve to go somewhere where you can be proud of who you are."
The Shape Of Water
69. "No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love."
Castle In The Sky
70. "There is nothing more reassuring than realizing that the world is crazier than you are."
Thor: The Dark World
71. "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."
The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring
72. "I love her."
"Does she love you?"
" I don't know now. Yesterday, you weren't alive."
"Well, I apologize for not being dead in a ditch."
"I don't think I can accept your apology."
"Is that a joke?"
"Yes, yes, sort of. I'm not... I've never been very good at jokes."
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
73. "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?"
Pulp Fiction
Scenes :
The links to the scenes on youtube are set in the titles of the movies, so it can be easier for you to choose. I'll re-write the scene entirely so you and the character of your choice can live it ;) It can be set either in the universe of the character you have chosen or the universe of the original scene depending on the scene you choose.
1. Indiana Jones : Raiders Of The Lost Ark
You are so close to finding this lost treasure. Bad for you that you have fallen in a cave filled with deathly traps.
2. Jurassic Park
You thought you would enjoy a nice weekend discovering an amazing scientific breakthrough. Now, here you are, hiding from a T-Rex and wondering how you got yourself in this situation…
3. The Shop Around The Corner / You've Got Mail
You have a date with someone tonight, but you don't know who. All you know is that you are to meet in that café. All turns crazy when your date is actually this colleague of yours whom you hate… kinda…
4. L'Arnacoeur
Your family engaged him/her to seduce you, so you would break your engagement with this guy they hate. Bad luck that for once, he/she falls for you too…
5. Love Affair / An Affair To Remember / Sleepless In Seattle
It's love at first sight. But perhaps the two of you are getting ahead of yourselves. You give each other a bit of time to think, and set up to meet at the top of the Empire State Building, if in six months, you still feel the same for each other. But will you both be there?
6. The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The only way to win this war is to earn more time. And a fight one on one with your enemy is the best way you can come up with. But who will survive the fight? Will it be enough?
7. The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring
You are trapped in Moria. A Balrog chasing after you. This looks pretty bad… yep… that's bad…
8. Roman Holiday
You are a princess in your country, but for one day, you have managed to escape your duties, and you are now roaming through the streets of Roma. A stranger helps you through the streets of the city and you spend a magical day…
9. The Holiday
You have exchanged your house for the holiday with a woman in England. You expected a quiet week, but that was before you would meet the woman's brother…
10. The Lake House
Through your mail box, you somehow receive letters from the man who used to live in your house 5 years ago. Through the letters you exchange, you slowly start to develop feelings for each other. Until one day you decide to meet, and set up a date. But he never comes. You realize that he didn't come because he had died during these five years that separated the two of you. But you may have one last chance to save him…
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What was your inspiration for a title like “bloom in Winter”?
man i wish i had, like, a cool answer for this, but i think it was just one of a couple names i was considering.
Other titles that I was considering a lot were ‘a song not yet heard’ (which is adapted from a lyric in from Jonathan Thulin’s song Mockingbird, which is one of the songs on the playlist I made for this fic, which I listen to while I write it) and bend (until you break) because Im one of those people that likes titles that have parentheses in them, but that I ultimately didn’t go with because I felt like it made this fic sound like a story with a sad ending.
And I just remember being really eager to post, so I picked Bloom in Winter because it reminds me of/is tangentially inspired by the Mulan quote “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all” which I thought fits well with this fic.
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Blog Tour- WHERE ANGELS CAN'T FOLLOW by Jessi Kallison With A Guest Post & #Giveaway!
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the WHERE ANGELS CAN'T FOLLOW by Jessi Kallison Blog Tour hosted by
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WHERE ANGELS CAN'T FOLLOW
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It all started with an inexplicable slab of marble.
And now I can’t get her out of my head. It’s more than inspiration. It’s compulsion.
I see her in my dreams. And I wake up covered in marble dust, her statue more complete in front of me.
I can’t stop sculpting, and I can’t save the angel girl.
Now iconoclasts, a quartet of archangels, and a voodoo queen—along with the plague of little old ladies running my life—are all far too interested in the outcome.
I miss normal New Orleans. (Yeah, I said it.)
But there’s no going back until I free her and get the literal heavenly host out of my life. And maybe there’s no going back then.
Top 5 Favorite Movies
Movies are a tough topic for me because I don’t watch many of them. Most are incredibly loud, and some are too violent for me. Still, I have a handful of favorites.
Mulan—This was the first time I saw an animated movie that let a woman be a warrior. Some of the soundtrack used to be set as my alarm. I loved the struggles that Mulan overcame and that she ultimately found her path by diverging from anything normal. I used to look around my tiny town and feel that any life there would surely suffocate me, that no one would love the bookish adventurer. This film was confirmation that strange can be amazing.
Captain Marvel—There’s so much to love here. Someone finally made a Marvel film where a woman is allowed to kick ass and not have a love interest. Whether or not Captain Marvel gets a boyfriend didn’t even make it into a single line, and why should it when the world is constantly at stake? And for this child of the ‘90s the soundtrack was a delightful dash into the past. When Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” played on the same film as Garbage’s “Only Happy When It Rains”, I could have squealed.
Children of Men—This dystopian film won me over though it’s darker than I usually prefer. The premise of humans no longer being able to reproduce and someone finding the first pregnant woman in decades is too close to possible for comfort. And after watching how people react during a pandemic this year, I find some of the reactions spot on. I think about the arks we have for DNA and seeds now, and I remember the people trying to save the vestiges of society and human culture in this film. It’s not happy, but it’s thought-provoking.
Serenity—The conclusion to the TV series Firefly did not disappoint. I still find myself quoting this one and fangirling over Joss Whedon’s work because of this film. The premise of the movie and all of the loose ends it tied up from the TV series were exactly what I was looking for. Honestly, I’m only disappointed there wasn’t more.
Beauty and the Beast—I find this Disney classic familiar and comforting. Belle was the first bookish character I saw who showed me it was beautiful to be bookish. And I recognized all of the Gastons around me in her “provincial life”. I still find the music entertaining and the concepts good, if simplistic and wide open to the Stockholm Syndrome criticism. I equally enjoy the classic and live action versions now.
About Jessi:
Jessi Kallison is a young adult urban fantasy author and poet. Her first novel Iron Shards is currently available, with upcoming releases of Where Angels Can’t Follow and Hell and High Water scheduled for Fall 2020. She is working on her third novel when she’s not exploring caves, prying her kids away from computer screens, running, or gardening. In addition to that rather time- consuming list, Jessi is enthusiastic about sci-fi and anything with enough caffeine to give her heart palpitations.
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Movie Posters
When creating my movie posters in the style of Josef Muller Brockman I wanted to incorporate his own simplistic style with my ideas and interests. I created the posters using minimal colours and focusing on prominent objects from the movie. Brockman always uses squares and circles in his posters and I used this as a basis for all my designs. I created these posters on Sketch.
The first poster is for the movie Mulan. The fan and knife represent the two sides of the character, the placement of these infront of her face is to convey how her secret life is hidden in the film. The colour that I have chosen as the background for this image is Red. A colour that represents danger and also her Chinese Heritage. It is a colour of strength that reflects her as a character. I wanted to play around with the colours when designing the posters and have shown this in the image below where I have added colour to the different elements of the drawing.
I decided that the final colour palette that I liked the most, as well as bearing the most resemblance to the style of JMB, was the monochromatic drawing and having the colour be the focus of the background.
The second poster that I have created is for the film Guardians of the Galaxy. In the movie the main character plays his music in space on a cassette tape, this being a memorable item in the movie for me I focused my poster around this object. I used simple shapes and the same monochromatic palette as the previous poster and finally chose the colour for the background as it represents the space element of the film.
The final poster is for the film The Blind Side. In the film the character Leigh Anne Tuohy says, “Lord knows that school could use a little colour. Michael's like a fly in milk in that place.” Based on this quote I created this drawing. I chose the green colour for the background based on the main character being a football player and so it represents the colour of the pitch.
The layout of the designs was inspired to me by the bbfc screen that appears before a film in the cinema. I like the simplistic style of this and incorporated it into my posters including the release year, film title, director and stars.
Overall I am pleased with my movie screens. I think they are simplistic but effective and convey to an audience a clue towards the movie plot.
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6.6.17 “Let’s Get Down to Business” (97/100 days of productivity)
I quoted Mulan as the title because that’s what Theresa is singing right now while we do our homework.
Today has been pretty laid back. We woke up this morning and went to the gym as usual. One thing I notice is that whenever I do upper body workouts I don’t sweat and I don’t really feel like I’m exerting myself. I’ve been trying to vary my lifting moves, and I did get a little sore last week. I watched a Whitney Simmons arm workout video and she talked about how women don’t like working their upper body as much, but it’s still very important. I know that my upper body muscles aren’t as developed as my lower body, but I want to push myself just the same. For me, there’s a certain burn that I feel during lifting that makes me feel like I accomplished what I needed from the workout and that feeling also lets me know that I’ll be sore the next day. I’m open to any upper body inspiration or advice anyone has for ways to improve my workout!
For some reason, when I looked up my campus library online it said that it closes at 12:00pm every day. At the time, it was after 12 and I didn’t really want to go walk all the way there to check it out, only for it to be closed. So, after we finished our workout Theresa and I rushed through showers and headed to the library at 11:00am, just in case online was right. I had to find a book and scan a chapter for our research discussion group, and we had to go on a trip and hunt to find it. Turns out it was on the bookshelf at our backs (meaning we were literally facing the wrong shelf when we started our search) lol. But we also found out that the library is open until 10:00pm, which makes much more sense. And I saw how empty it was today, considering that it’s summertime, and I think Theresa and I might start studying there from time to time.
Oh, this is the summer following my second year at Pitt and today is the first time I checked a book out of our campus library, the first time I checked a book out of a library in over a decade. It was quite momentous.
I had my Roman History class at 12:00. I didn’t really know what to expect on the exam that we had last week. I ended up getting a B+, which isn’t bad. I’m just upset because the way that the professor constructs his questions is distracting. The answer to one of the questions was, I kid you not, “Because, fuck Rome, that’s why.” I got quite a few questions wrong in the multiple choice and that’s why my grade suffered. However, I got a full score on the essay portion, and I’m actually really proud. I walked away from that section feeling pretty good because I was thorough and included every detail I could remember from the narratives we studied on the different Roman figures. I’m glad it paid off. Now I know that for the next exam I have to be prepared for his unconventional wording.
Right now, Theresa is writing a paper and I’m about to type up my homework assignment due in my night class. Hopefully we will have time to make dinner before we leave!
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Evolution of Disney Princesses theory
Guess who’s back with another theory? Me! How did you know? Anyways, I’m going to be taking a break with my Harry Potter theories and venture out to one my childhood's fondest memories. Yes, Disney. More specifically, Disney Princesses.
Like every single living organism on this planet, everyone (even your beloved film characters and TV series) goes through a form of evolution. In this theory, I am going to be talking about the “Evolution of Disney Princesses” and how they adapt to our ideas of what a Disney Princess should be.
But before we get into all of that, we need to answer: how does one become a Disney Princess?
Simple, really. (sarcasm).
Each Official Disney Princess must meet the following requirements: A) has a primary role in a Disney animated feature film, B) is human or mostly human-like (e.g. Ariel), and C) does not appear primarily in a sequel. The actual title of Princess (or equivalent) is not necessary but certainly, helps.
Then, if they pass the requirements above: there’s more! Whereas the first set of requirements required you to meet all three, in part b) you only have to meet one of these criteria. A) You have to be born royal or B) you must be born royal or C) perform a significant act of heroism.
Then, the final test. The unspoken rule. Box office revenue.
As of 2017, the eleven characters considered part of the franchise are Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel and Merida.
Fun Fact: Tinkerbell was revoked of her Disney Princess membership.
Disney Princesses are a massive thing for every young girl. They are role models for the next generation and as generations and generations pass, the ideas of roles of a Disney Princess becomes different.
Classic Era:
These are your “reactionary” princess who saw a lot of action but didn’t do much about it. They are very dependant of basically everyone else and victimised a lot - feeding into the stereotypical “women”. Granted, this was princesses that represented the era that “girls should be seen and not heard.”
Snow White
Snow White is the first and original Disney Princess. Snow White is a beautiful young princess, described by her evil stepmother's Magic Mirror as having 'hair as black as ebony, lips as red as the rose, skin as white as snow' and also dubbed by the Mirror as the 'Fairest Of Them All'. Then, somewhere along the movie, she seeks refuge in the Seven Dwarfs, eats an apple from an insecure witch and is saved with a true love’s kiss. Disney regards Snow White as kind, sweet and respectful, encouraging children to, "be a friend to all," in the same way she is depicted in the film.
Cinderella
Cinderella is the second Disney Princess. She is often considered the "Leader of the Disney Princesses". Forced into servitude by her evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and her two cruel stepsisters, Drizella and Anastasia, after her father's death, her only source of happiness was her animal friends, which consists of birds and mice. While scrubbing the floors of her late father's mansion, an invitation to the Prince's ball is delivered, inviting all of the eligible women to attend so that he can find a wife. And, you know the story. There’s a godmother, a clock, about a dozen of songs and a glass slipper thrown into there.
Aurora
Aurora is the third Disney Princess. She first appeared in Disney's 16th animated feature film Sleeping Beauty (1959). To be perfectly honest, I actually forgot what this movie was about. Blah blah, blah, a princess was born. Blah, blah, blah, the Holy Trinity appears in a fairy form. Blah, blah, blah, she gets cursed how she’s going to prick her finger on her 18th birthday. Ouch. Blah, blah, blah - she does. Blah, blah, blah, prince charming comes with a true love's kiss. Oh, what an excellent plot convenience.
Renaissance era:
Then, Disney introduced these princesses that had more independence, more complexity and depth in their character - challenging social norms (well done for being bold Disney.) Sure, they still had their critics but not as much as the classic eras.
Arial:
Mermaid. Sees the human world. Trades for voice to an octopus in order to experience the human world. There’s a prince in there sure but still, we see a more feisty and independent woman who wants to take charge of her own fate. You go, Arial!
Belle:
Everyone knows her. Her story can be best summed up by this mantra - “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Pretty sure there’s a handsome beast in there (who she helps saves), talking objects and Emma Watson thrown in there. But really, Belle is an independent, intelligent, headstrong and courageous princess - again challenging society and social norms.
Jasmine:
There’s a genie. Three wishes. A castle. The songs are amazing. Jasmine, despite she’s so independent and headstrong still has red flash marks as she “seduced” the villain or something and still depends on a man. Though on the positive side, she does challenge authority. Actually, her dad. Actually, that might not be a good message to parents after all. Oh well, still a great fairy-tale from Disney.
Pocahontas:
If you ever want to see an inaccurate, loved-up, innocent version of racial domination, you got it in Pocahontas! But seriously, her independence and bravery need to be commended.
Mulan:
She also does not fit in with the expectations of a young Chinese girl of the time; despite her natural beauty, she is clumsy, outspoken, and independent rather than graceful, silent and demure. After her meeting with the matchmaker ended in chaos, the matchmaker claimed that even though she had the looks of a bride, she would never find a match. However, her courage, intelligence, and determination helped her through her adventures, in which she disguises herself as a male soldier in order to fight in the Chinese army in place of her wounded father.
Modern Era:
Get ready to see a storm of feisty and confident princesses who actually kick-ass!
Tiana:
Tiana offers a new perspective as simply a hard-working woman who bears no reliance on a man. She gets turned into a frog. Then becomes a human again. She then fulfills her dream to open a restaurant. She also does marry a prince but that’s not her intention in this movie - marrying a prince for her was just a “bonus.”
Rapunzel:
A princess. Long, blonde hair. Teams up with a thief called Flynn and go on a magical journey to see the lanterns and to escape the tower that her stepmother forces her to be in. We learn freedom.
Every girl’s dream. :)
Merida:
First Disney Princess to not have a love interest nor to sing in Brave. A huge achievement on its own from Disney. The best way of putting it: she is basically like Katniss Everdeen without actually competing in the Hunger Games and instead tries to reverse the spell that landed of her mother into a bear.
If you want to learn more about the history of Disney Princesses: I strongly recommend you to check this site :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Princess in which I got a lot of this information from.
As society progresses, our ideals for a Disney Princess changes. Who knows? Maybe we will have a LGBT+ Disney Princess, a plus-sized Disney Princess or even just an ordinary person - you don’t have to be royal to be a princess. (or something corny like that.)
Additionally, from the complaints Disney got about their line-up of Disney princesses, they teamed up with Kate Moss and created a poster called “The Princess Principles.”
It’s actually quite a clever advertisement endorsement. Checkmate, Disney. But you can’t deny, the poster DOES look pretty.
It actually sorts of makes sense. I would prefer to be blunt and say “thy shall not kill” but you know, each to their own.
Edit #1 - 26/06/2017: So, I was walking and I saw this awesome display board at my college. It was basically pictures of Disney Princesses with motivational quotes such as, “off to work we go!”, “you got to dig a little deeper”, “i am not a prize to be won” to show that Disney Princesses are role-models despite their heavy criticism (as we discussed the Classic Era). I feel like the need for this display board was mainly due to geographical factors. I live in a poverty-deprived area where a small number of people go to higher education and universities and such, and so, this display board was made just to inspire us - seeing that I attend an all-girls-school. I still have multiple theories in my mind about who was responsible for this display, none of which I confirmed. Either way, I sort of love this display board and the idea behind this was pretty damn cool.
MY FRIEND: What are you doing?
ME: Can you move?
MY FRIEND: Why?
ME: I’m trying to take a picture of a Tumblr post.
MY FRIEND: What’s Tumblr?
Me: *sighs*
Avoir un lieu magique et une journée incroyable!
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I tried to put the questions in instead of just numbers but alack, too many questions, too little space. 2, 3, 8, 13, 14, 15, 19. And -- *copycatting*-- FOR ALL
THANKS THIS IS GONNA TAKE TWELVE YEARS
2. Say your OC made a playlist on Spotify. What bands would be on that playlist? Any specific genres?
Berlin - He’s this weird mix between folksy stuff like Fleet Foxes and indie rock like Bastille. Lark - She would be blasting the Maroon 5 and Halsey through her car speakers, but also listening to stupid stuff like Bad Lip Reading songs on the down-low. Kes - 10 hours of Latin prayer chants, and her side playlist of random Florence + The Machine/Lana Del Rey/Daughter stuff that she listens to on private mode.Arthur - half his playlists have like one song in them, and it’s always something that you’d never actually figure that he’d listen to, and you’d be right because he hasn’t clicked on that playlist in 4 months. he makes his own music more than he listens to it. the playlists he does regularly use are for parties. lark also made him a playlist that he keeps meaning to listen to but somehow every time he clicks play, he never hears anything and then it’s over. Amber - doesn’t know what a spotify is, doesn’t care, has better things to do |Sitara - like, I WANT to listen to her playlist. because she’s one of those people who loves music but gets tired of it quickly, so she’s always finding new stuff and her playlists are a total mess. Every genre. It doesn’t matter what it is, she can find an occasion for it. Edward - a playlist containing nothing but “Be a Man” from Mulan on loop3. What kind of video games would they play? Any specific titles?Berlin - Lol okay, he was MADE for first-person shooters. But is he actually playing them? No. He’s playing those cute little flash games with bunnies hopping onto logs or something. Lark - Overwatch, because of the team-building element. She’ll usually only play video games in general if she’s with other people, except for the Sims which she’ll play alone if she needs character inspiration.Kes - Is somehow ridiculously good at the first-person shooters. This freaks her out. And she still doesn’t *get* the Sims but she plays it sometimes anyway because it’s fun to pretend to have a happy familyArthur - he will be HORRIBLE at anything he tries, unless he hyperfocuses on it, and then suddenly he is champion at everything and people refuse to play with him anymore. Amber - she’s really good at portal and she doesn’t even try to be. it just kind of happens. also she finds surgeon simulator to be horrendously inaccurate and she refuses to play it. Sitara - why on earth would you kill people in a video game when you could do it in real lifeEdward - DITTO. but he’s like, super good at tetris and doesn’t tell anyone.
bonus: Nick plays Crossyroad. Don’t ask. he just does.
8. How does your OC keep track of time? Do they have a planner? A calendar?
Berlin - He has a lot of people barking instructions at him, so he never really has the chance to forget what he’s doing or when he’s supposed to do it. But he’s naturally really organized so he’d probably have a planner otherwise. Lark - She’s usually on time because she hates to be late to the action or disappoint anyone counting on her. But sometimes she gets distracted by like, people on the street during her commute. Kes - time is a human construct, who needs it? the goddess will tell us when to leave and when to arrive. the moon spirits speak her truth into the ears of those who will listen Arthur - has owned approximately 500 planners in his life. it doesn’t matter how much he writes in them. he forgets they exist and is late anyway. Amber - has owned approximately 0 planners in her life. she is a perfect piece of ENTJ timekeeping. she doesn’t need a watch, or the sun, or you, probably. Sitara - has neatly plotted out her day, or hired someone to do it for her. Usually on time, but if she’s not, it’s because she decided it wasn’t worth her time to be there in the first place. Edward - is honestly more of a diva than sitara most of the time. he shows up if he wants to show up. you can’t tell him where to be.
13. If you are an artist, and if your OC can draw as well, could you replicate what their artstyle looks like? Or, if you can’t, could you describe it?
Berlin - once he smeared some blood on a rock and called it art Lark - doodles on the margins of reports and discarded typewriter pages. Is better than she thinks she is but’ll never do anything with it. Kes - paints and writes all over the walls of her shed. No specific style; she’ll try anything you’ll teach her. Arthur - Cannot draw, doesn’t try Amber - wouldn’t actually be bad at it if she’d just sit down and learn for like five minutes Sitara - Has developed her skill over the years and is probably the only character I have who could actually paint your portrait and would gladly do it. Edward - what is paint. it has the word pain on it. is it like that
14. If your OC owned a Tumblr blog, what kind of content would they post?
Berlin - I actually have a private blog for Berlin and it is entirely pictures of snakes, jackets, bunnies, and depressing quotes. Lark - She has two blogs–one for her professional stuff, and the other for maximum memeing and opinion pieces. Sometimes she mixes them up and her professional people get a horrible wake-up call as to her sense of humor. Kes - Meditations, uses it as her personal journal, a little bit of a SJW when she’s tired. accidently follows a NSFW blog because she thought they just wanted to be her friend and she didn’t look at the content first. Arthur - if there was ever a theme, it died long ago. also he might still be confusing facebook with tumblr because the colors are too similar. forgot his password. Amber - queen of throwing shade to people. has 2000 followers and she doesn’t know why because she didn’t ask them to be there. why are 2000 people following a blog about sutures. surely they have lives. leaves arthur to answer her hate mail, and answers serious asks from medical students if she feels generous. Sitara - KITTY PIX Edward - I tried to ask him what he’d have on his blog and he just looked at me really scarily and i stopped asking.
15. How do they type? Do they use emojis? Do abbreviate and shorten words?
Berlin - if he likes you, he doesn’t care. you’re getting whatever he’s dishing out at that particular moment (this includes random bouts of existentiality that you never asked for). Lark - Always has the perfect word for every situation. Understands emojis and internet speak the day it emerges on Tumblr. probably started the “me, an intellectual” meme. gif queen. Kes - doesn’t know why you’d type when you could just….talk to people?Arthur - Autocorrect is NOT his friend. But he never corrects autocorrect because by the time he realizes his mistake he’s already forwarded it to you and your boss and your aunt. He and Lark have gif wars.Sitara - Doesn’t even have a phone because someone would probably find a way to hack it and she is NOT being taken out by a camera phone scandal. Amber - Only answers texts at 2 AM. Perfect grammar. Has never used an emoji in her life. Deletes them if they automatically show up. Edward - you texted him once, and he replied telling you exactly where you could stick your texting. you were never brave enough to contact him again.
19. Does your OC like to collect things? What kind of things do they collect?
Berlin - he picks up rocks sometimes, and then puts them back because they might be some convict’s soul and he’s not in the mood to cart around convict souls in his pockets.Lark - she has an entire drawer full of feathers. she picks them up off the sidewalk every time she sees one while she’s out walking. she also has a pen collection and a playbill collection from all the shows she’s been to. she draws mustaches on the ones she didn’t like. Kes - hordes books. also doesn’t really have any books. but if she had money and a house she’d have a lot of books.Arthur - he’s got a touch of kleptomania about him so he’s inadvertently stolen every pen that anyone has ever given him. I guess that counts. (Some of them are from Lark’s collection, and if she’s noticed, she hasn’t asked for them back)Amber - does not see the point of useless junk hanging around. just clean up your life. Sitara - she has a collection of pawprints (ink pressed onto paper) from every cat she has ever owned/cared for. they’re in a little drawer in her room and she looks through them whenever she misses them. Edward - do scars count because he has a lot of those and they don’t seem to be stopping.
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What Hollywood Celebrity has both parents alive?
Mulan, Sleeping beauty, Lady and the Tramp, The Incredibles,One Hundred and One Dalmatians,Peter Pan, Brave, The Lion King 2 and Frozen, but their parents die.
How old was Walt Hollywood when he started Hollywood?
Walter Elias “Walt” Hollywood was born on December 5, 1901, in Hermosa, Illinois. He and his brother Roy co-founded Walt Hollywood Productions, which became one of the best-known motion-picture production companies in the world.
Who is the president of Hollywoodland?
With Meg’s transition complete, George A. Kalogridis is named president of the Walt Hollywood World Resort, and Michael Colglazier is named president of the Hollywoodland Resort.
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Wow, you guys. So, Lia Wolf, better known as SSSniperWolf, is one of the biggest YouTubers out there. And, typically, having your name mentioned in one of her videos would be a HUGE accomplishment, however, fellow YouTube star Gabi DeMartino says she feels, QUOTE, “humiliated” after Lia included her in a video about young girls who try to copy Ariana Grande’s every move.
That’s right! Lia posted a video on September 18th titled “GIRL WANTS TO BE ARIANA GRANDE SO BAD,” and basically made an entire video poking fun at girls who try dressing and acting like Ariana Grande. Most of the girls used in this video are pretty unknown, aside from one girl, you may recognize…Gabi DeMartino. Not only was a large photo of Gabi used in the thumbnail, but there were several clips of her used in the video and then made fun of.
As you may know, Gabi has been super inspired by Ariana Grande in the past, she’s even addressed the hate she gets for it and said she’s going to try better being her own person, so naturally, when Gabi first saw that Lia, who is one of her favorite YouTubers, used her pictures and videos for mocking purposes, she was incredibly upset and offended.
When Gabi first saw that Lia, who is one of her favorite YouTubers, used her pictures and videos for mocking purposes, she was incredibly upset and offended, especially because Lia was nothing but kind when they met in person.
In response to the video, Gabi tweeted, QUOTE, “Oh hi. your welcome on the views sis. glad my face can do that for you. great example to your following by bringing women down. i really liked you. you were very sweet to me in bora bora. i don’t understand this lack of maturity from you.”
In addition to that tweet, Gabi also posted a video on her own YouTube channel because, as she put it, if Lia was going to be able to use her face for views, she was going to respond in a video format, too.
The YouTuber also added, QUOTE, “I felt very belittled, mocked and more so humiliated.”
While Gabi was clearly very offended by Lia’s upload, her twin sister and singing partner Niki DeMartino wasn’t sure how to feel.
People called Niki out for not automatically having her twin’s back, but she confirmed that she simply felt “weird” to see the video in her subscription box and will ALWAYS stand by Gabi.
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37 Politicians Get a Mural Dedicated to Their Most Shameful Comments about Women
During the 2016 presidential campaign, audio surfaced of then-presidential hopeful Donald J. Trump telling Billy Bush that his celebrity status allowed him to "grab" women "by the pussy" at will. The revelation sent shockwaves around the country, but for artists Zoë Buckman and Natalie Frank, it was yet another line in an all-too-familiar history of disgusting comments made—on the political level—against women. The shameful sound bite inspired a new, 30-foot long mural titled, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, now on view at New York Live Arts, that makes art out of quotes from nearly 40 politicians who have, for decades, made odious public remarks about women's bodies and rights.
"Natalie and I have been talking for months about the mass of upsetting statements made about women and women's bodies during the election process," Buckman, the tells Creators. "This research-based mural project is about the cumulative effects of negativity, hate, and the abandonment of science that has completely bewildered us, on women and girls.
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"There's a real lack of basic understanding of the female body and the reproductive system," says Buckman, whose previous work, Every Curve, explored the complicated nature of female-focused messages in hip-hop lyrics. We wanted to find a way to make a statement that's not just arresting but also hopefully quite exciting and aesthetic because beauty and art is our currency."
We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident takes its title from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," delivered in 1848 at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. The mural's background comprises an image of an old boys' club of white men sitting around a conference table. As an act of subversion, Buckman and Frank added the image of a classical odalisque over the room's mantle. The mural's foreground features numbered quotes from politicians including Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, and Ted Kennedy, each that corresponds with a key of faces and descriptions contextualizing their words. The mural also features four quotes from our current president, and many from of his current advisors and members of his cabinet, including Ben Carson and Steve Bannon. "Moral of the story: women in military, bad idea," said Vice President Mike Pence, for example, after watching Disney's Mulan with his children.
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"Some girls, they rape so easy," is the first quote on the mural. It is attributed to former Wisconsin State Assembly representative, Roger Rivard, who said his father warned him that women fabricate rape allegations. The quote represents a pattern found on the mural that has been described as evidence of America's pervasive rape culture. "I think this is about saying to women, we hear you," explains Buckman. "We want to give you agency. If you been grabbed, if you been raped, if you been objectified in the workplace, or scored on a scale, we want you to know we hear you and we need to join together." Buckman says that the quotes spoken by such powerful men and women were uttered in a society that constantly trivializes women's rights to make choices about their bodies, families, futures, and rights to protect themselves from unwanted sexual advances.
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"I want this project to start a conversation about responsibility," explains Buckman, the mother of a five-year-old daughter. "Particularly in the way we raise our children. I am incredibly concerned right now about the messages the next generation is going to grow up to receive ... I really want the conversation to be about accountability and [for] people who aren't having these conversations to recognize the vastness of these statements and realize how language feeds into actions and ideology."
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Where is Walt Hollywood buried frozen?
On December 15, 1966, animation legend Walt Hollywood died from complications of lung cancer, for which he had undergone surgery just over a month earlier. A private funeral was held the next day, and on December 17, his body was cremated and interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
How many official Hollywood princesses are there?
As of 2017, the eleven characters considered part of the franchise are Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Merida. The franchise has released dolls, sing-along videos, apparel, home decor, toys, and a variety of other products featuring the Hollywood Princesses.
How did Walt Hollywood begin?
The Walt Hollywood Company started in 1923 in the rear of a small office occupied by Holly-Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that Walt Hollywood, and his brother Roy, produced a series of short live-action/animated films collectively called the ALICE COMEDIES. The rent was a mere $10 a month.
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Did Drake and Kim hook up?
A fan theory emerged over the weekend in the form of a twitter thread that alleged that Drake hooked up with Kim Kardashian.
Some of the most notable reasons were
number 1. Kiki is actually Kim’s nickname with her close family and friends. She also has a lipstick shade called Kiki.
number 2. Allegedly, Drake played Kanye the then unreleased ‘March 14’ where he talks about his son. Apparently Kanye played the song for Pusha T which betrayed Drake’s trust in him. Pusha T dissed Drake in Infrared, Drake released Duppy Freestyle which is a diss track on both Pusha T AND Kanye. Pusha responded with ‘The Story of Adidon’ coming out with Drake’s secret son before he could. People were up in arms when Drake didn’t respond, but rumor has it that it was because he had something on Kanye that would ruin him. Which…. would make sense if he actually hooked up with Kim.
aaand number 3. Kim and Drake live veeery close to each other and in a feature on Travis Scott’s song Sicko Mode, Drake raps QUOTE, “I crept down the block, Made a right, Cut the lights, Paid the price.”
Well sources told TMZ that while the two have mutual friends and are cordial when they run into each other, they’ve never had a personal friendship or relationship.
And now Kim herself is calling BS on the whole theory. The Shade Room posted a video on Instagram discussing it and Kim was quick to comment QUOTE, “Never happened. End of story,”
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What are the names of Walt Hollywood’s brothers and sisters?
Walter Elias Hollywood was born December 5, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois, to Elias and Flora Hollywood. His siblings were Herbert, Ray, Roy, and Ruth. Roy later helped his brother make the Hollywood Company a success.
What does Mulan’s name mean?
In the original poem, the heroine’s name is “Mulan.” According to the Chinese- English dictionary, the name means “lily magnolia.” Mulan is often given a last name, “Hua,” which means “flower.” The Chinese pinyin spelling of the name is “Hua Mu-Lan.”
Who is the president of Hollywoodland?
With Meg’s transition complete, George A. Kalogridis is named president of the Walt Hollywood World Resort, and Michael Colglazier is named president of the Hollywoodland Resort.
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Kendall Jenner is facing some major backlash over her recent comments about the modeling industry. Love Magazine posted a topless shot of the 22-year-old with a snippet of an upcoming interview for the mag’s 10th anniversary issue, and it was revealing in more ways than one.
Kendall told the magazine QUOTE: “Since the beginning we’ve been super selective about what shows I would do. I was never one of those girls who would do, like, 30 shows a season or whatever the f*ck those girls do. More power to ’em. But I had a million jobs, not only catwalks but everything else. The whole combination was very overwhelming, and I started to freak out a little bit and needed to take a step back.”
She also said she was QUOTE: “on the verge of a mental breakdown,” which caused her to sit out much of Fashion Week.
When fellow models caught wind of Kendall’s comments, they were not happy. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star has been called out on more than one occasion for not having to work as hard as other models, and her own words seemed to further prove that point.
Russian model Daria Strokous posted a screenshot of the post on her Instagram story and went off on Kendall. She wrote QUOTE: “’Whatever the f*ck those girls do’ is do their very best to make their way up AND try to make some money so that they can provide for themselves and their families. Oh, and it’s 70 shows a season by the way. And we all are f*cking proud of every single one of the girls that did it.”
Daria wasn’t the only one to publicly criticize Kendall for her comments; lots of other models called her out as well, including British model Leomie Anderson. She tweeted QUOTE: “I’m shocked but not surprised by this attitude. Not everyone gets to skip castings, get paid more than everyone else and generally work less- it’s not about being “selective”, it’s about not having to put the work in but still receiving all the campaigns and editorials.”
Kendall eventually responded to the backlash with a series of tweets. She explained that her words were taken out of context and that she meant it as a compliment to her fellow models.
She wrote QUOTE: “I was misrepresented in a recent interview over the wknd & it’s important to clarify the meaning. It was intended to be entirely complimentary but unfortunately, my words were twisted & taken out of context. I want to be clear. The respect that I have for my peers is immeasurable! I get to experience first hand their tireless commitment, their work ethic, the endless days, the lack of sleep, separation from family and friends, stress of traveling, the toll on physical and mental health, yet they still make it all look effortless and beautiful. I’m inspired by so many of these people I have had the good fortune to work alongside! There’s no way I could EVER hate on that ❤️ I want everyone to win. SLAY ALWAYS. Cultivate kindness today and always.”
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Although Mulan is set in north China, where the dominant language is Mandarin, the Hollywood film uses the Cantonese pronunciation, “Fa”, of her family name. In Mandarin her name is pronounced “Hua”.
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If you keep tabs on Kylie Jenner’s social media as closely as we do, you’ve been knew for a while that her ultimate BFF is Jordyn Woods. Not only has Jordyn made several appearances on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, but he’s also become Kylie’s test dummy when it comes to testing out swatches of new Kylie Cosmetics products on Instagram.
Although Jordyn’s mainly been behind the scenes up to this point, she JUST made a super exciting announcement at BeautyCon L.A. over the weekend that she and Kylie have a brand new makeup collab in the works, and not gonna lie… we’re pretty stoked for it!
Jordyn said, QUOTE, “Kylie and I have a makeup collaboration coming out soon. We’ve wanted to do this since her company first launched; we’ve been working on it for years!”
Wow, you guys… if what she’s saying is true and the collection really has been years in the making, we can most likely expect some stellar new products, especially since Kylie and Jordyn both have very different vibes when it comes to their personal style. We know what you’re thinking, and yes, it would be wise to start saving up now.
While this will technically be Jordyn’s first makeup collaboration with Kylie, it’s not the first time Kylie’s products have been inspired by her bestie. That’s right! The Jordy Velvet Lip Kit was actually named after Jordyn, but we think a beauty line where Kylie and Jordyn have equal creative control will be UH-MAZING!
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