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Title: Stigma, Promises
Fandom: 추노/Chuno
Rating: G
Character: Song Taeha, Eonnyeon/Kim Hyewon
Summary: His whole life, he was taught about the order of how things should be and should remain. It never crossed his mind that it was wrong or he would break it someday. But compared to petty ranks, love and upholding his promised were more important.
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A slave.
A brand that he loathed being placed on him. A fate he bitterly accepted for his and his retinue's sake. Since purpose far greater than a noble death existed, that demanded their survival. Since if they perished, a child or two would lose its protector. And two children had perished, leaving one remaining.
It's a brand he's desperate to forget. For all the insults, ill-treatments and name-callings he recieved. To endure everything and watching a former compeer basking in the light that was once his.
It wasn't easy for him, as he believed the same goes for his fellow compeers; wherever they were. It was hard to fake his own injuries to appear that it no longer healed but worsen, while trying to recover his strength. It's hard for him to endure being treated as a dim-witted fool; an act the late crown prince would have been amazed to see he accomplished. Being a prideful man he is.
It's hard for him to endure being treated as nothing by a former compeer, whom he had respected and protected. Even if that gesture weren't conveyed properly and had been interpreted differently.
He didn't realize this before, he was afraid of that brand. So much that he denied its reality as if it was separate. He did not want to think about it!
“...I never envisioned a world without slavery...”
Yet he had to force himself to face it, or lose an important part of his life. And she had accepted him when he thought he was the runaway slave and she the noble...
“I could not think about that...”
As he wept, he recalled Daegil's reproach towards him and he was right. Why would status and rank mattered if you truly loved someone? Why should one sacrificed one's heart for such a petty thing?
“...we would never betray our fealty to each other...”
He had promised her his heart. He had promised her his fealty!
“Leaving in this manner is not fealty!”
He can't let either of them betray their promises...
Fandom: 추노/Chuno
Rating: G
Character: Song Taeha, Eonnyeon/Kim Hyewon
Summary: His whole life, he was taught about the order of how things should be and should remain. It never crossed his mind that it was wrong or he would break it someday. But compared to petty ranks, love and upholding his promised were more important.
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A slave.
A brand that he loathed being placed on him. A fate he bitterly accepted for his and his retinue's sake. Since purpose far greater than a noble death existed, that demanded their survival. Since if they perished, a child or two would lose its protector. And two children had perished, leaving one remaining.
It's a brand he's desperate to forget. For all the insults, ill-treatments and name-callings he recieved. To endure everything and watching a former compeer basking in the light that was once his.
It wasn't easy for him, as he believed the same goes for his fellow compeers; wherever they were. It was hard to fake his own injuries to appear that it no longer healed but worsen, while trying to recover his strength. It's hard for him to endure being treated as a dim-witted fool; an act the late crown prince would have been amazed to see he accomplished. Being a prideful man he is.
It's hard for him to endure being treated as nothing by a former compeer, whom he had respected and protected. Even if that gesture weren't conveyed properly and had been interpreted differently.
He didn't realize this before, he was afraid of that brand. So much that he denied its reality as if it was separate. He did not want to think about it!
“...I never envisioned a world without slavery...”
Yet he had to force himself to face it, or lose an important part of his life. And she had accepted him when he thought he was the runaway slave and she the noble...
“I could not think about that...”
As he wept, he recalled Daegil's reproach towards him and he was right. Why would status and rank mattered if you truly loved someone? Why should one sacrificed one's heart for such a petty thing?
“...we would never betray our fealty to each other...”
He had promised her his heart. He had promised her his fealty!
“Leaving in this manner is not fealty!”
He can't let either of them betray their promises...
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