Saiunkoku: The Age of Silver: Peaches and Thorns

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Peaches and Thorns

Shoukun and Seien talk about freedom, and she gathers a promise from him. Drama, I-3

She sighed. "My little Seiran." Very quietly she added, "If the palace will be such a cage to you, I will be sad to see you walk back in and pick up your chains again."

Comments

[branchandroot]

*hearts* I think she is immensely cool; be sure to read the sidestory Shadow summarizes, about everyone's dreams. Shoukun just kicks butt.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

She kicks immense amounts of rear end. Ah, I adore the scene she has with young Reishin where she's talking about the flaws in his character, it's so funny . . .

[branchandroot]

Oh yes, and the scene in that novel winter sidestory where she nails Eigetsu with her fan to make him shut up and not wake baby!Shuurei. *giggles* She is just infinitely cool.

[lazulisong.livejournal.com]

okay now I gotta know -- where's that at?

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

Uuum . . . I'm fairly certain it shows up in the anime, because I can see the scene perfectly in my head, but I don't recall which episode it was. And since I know what was said, that means it must be in the already-subbed episodes. ::frowns, trying to recall:: I don't think I'm making this up, though I'm deeply suspicious of my mental capacity when it comes to memory-related questions. Nor am I going to be able to check my eps for another couple of hours, but when I find it I'll let you know . . .

[branchandroot]

Not that one; it's the most recent summary/translation Kage's done, out of the latest issue of Beans. *wry* I have to admit, though, it's such a vivid scene it really does feel like we've already seen it animated. I can totally hear Shoukun's tone of voice.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

It's seriously not in the anime? ::unnerved:: But . . . I can totally see it, sepia flashback-tones and all, and Reishin holding Shuurei, and Shoukun playing the erhu . . . I could have sworn it was in the anime . . .

All right, that's it. ::grits teeth:: My memory is to be taken out back and shot, post haste.

[branchandroot]

Ah, /that/ is a real anime moment, the one with Reishin and Shoukun. The dream-story, where Eigetsu finds Shoukun with Shuurei is novel-only. *grins* Perhaps you can let your memory live.

[branchandroot]

*fishes around* I memoried all Kage's translation posts I could find. That story is here and my memory category for the whole lot is here. It's a bit out of order; also, some of the /best/ stuff is in the comments. Shadow really needs to be fed cookies or truffles or something for doing all this.