Saiunkoku: The Age of Silver: The Road Not Taken

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

The Road Not Taken

The point of divergence from canon, when Seien chooses blood over peace. Drama, I-3

It was good, if a little strange, still, to sit in the sun, warm and safe with nothing to worry about.

Comments

[branchandroot]

I'm really very taken with him this way. *grins* Of course, he's going to get out of hand, a bit, eventually, but that's what Shuurei and Ensei are for.

Ryuuk: *indignant* What about me?

*dry* You'd still think he was the most perfect thing in the universe if he killed and ate your mother.

Ryuuki: ... well yeah.

Okay, maybe not the best possible example. Still.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: Oh, dear. I laugh much. Ryuuki's mother must have been beautiful, judging by her son, but she was a lousy excuse for a human being. Who but a monster could abuse chibi Ryuuki, who is conceivably the cutest thing ever to exist?

Poor kid was totally surrounded by monsters, it seems. Geez, the previous Emperor must have had some kind of curse, only two of his offspring turned out decently . . .

[branchandroot]

Sure seems that way, doesn't it? I mean, wow. I keep looking at the concubines and thinking "you actually went to /bed/ with these women?"