⚜ ── THE CATALOGUE NECTARINE ── ⚜
a narrative Fallen London character repository
Here's something my friend and me have been slowly working on since Charahub closed in early 2019; a little website to collate all the lore for the myriad of characters we created together.
It’s not completely finished but we’ve put so much love into this project of ours that I really wanted to show it off as a sort-of love letter to the Fallen London universe and how much enjoyment it brought us.
The internet as it was meant to be: a free space with privacy, and powerful tools in the hands of people. Create your guild and add mini-app
I don't really do this sort of thing often or at all, but it's very rare these days that a site endears me so much. I've been hanging around this small community called Surikata and it's been a breath of fresh air after every social media just trying to be twitter all over again. I would love to see it flourish.
If you're looking for another space away from Tumblr, maybe you'll like this one. I'm millea over there, feel free to add me.
halcyon days at taoyuan is super fun, i've been playing it a lot to relax lately. here i tried to draw my character in the game's style. plus a version in the original resolution:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Hey @milleart, I'm your Secret Santa for @fyeah7kpp's 7KPP Secret Santa 2024-2025
Above is a two chaptered story featuring Nayeli and Blain, and a short story featuring Lien Hua and to a small extent, Jarrod, respectively
I apologise for not using most of the information you've helpfully provided in your asks, and I thank you for bearing with me throughout the event
Below the cut is an extra featuring Lien Hua as I personally feel that I didn't do her or you justice enough
As a Chinese, I'm thrilled to learn that Lien Hua likes baos and that pandan mantous are Lien Hua-coded! Pandan mantous are actually what I ate for recess in primary school, granted it was mainly because it only costed 20 cents back then but it was also filling (for a child) and it wasn't too 'in your face' taste-wise
Please excuse my poor handwriting, my goal was to make it as messy as possible while also using a single stroke per character. I've never written in Traditional Chinese before so some characters barely resemble the actual characters...
didn't do me justice enough?! no way!! i've been rereading everything on my tiny mobile screen over and over and over again since the moment you posted till now that i can finally sit down and type a proper comment - and then some more on ao3, just you wait :3c!!!! thank you so much for all the effort you put into everything, i am genuinely blown away by your generosity. i'd say you made my day but i think you just made my month.
in awe of all these little details we discussed shine through in little ways and ahhh you even drew lien hua too ;w; i love the warm candlelight atmosphere and all the titles on the books and the plate of mantous and the stars shining just outside of the window---!! thank you so much, i mean it.
also it's so nice my little musings could bring back a childhood memory for you!! if i had the option as a kid i'd probably buy them everyday, i never had the chance to try mantous until recently and i fell in love with the delicate flavour. i think i'm gonna cycle to the store they sell them at and get myself some this weekend (´┓`*)
also damn don't we all miss the prices of things from our childhood… i remember being able to find what amounts to just a few cents on the ground and fund myself a whole bag of chips. where have those times gone ;w;
@fyeah7kpp exchange gift for @anisedreams, and hope you're feeling better!
i saw that last exchange you got some gorgeous artworks of your corval lady, layla, so i wanted to give you a drawing of lorena to match! i hope that i did her justice ♡
hello! it's your 7kpp secret santa again! as always, forgive me for spamming your inbox with questions about your ocs! i really can't help but learn more about ocs in general ^_^|||
questions i wanted to ask are:
how bad is lien hua's eyesight without her glasses? is she the type to be bothered by smudges on them?
are lien hua and nayeli left or right handed, or ambidextrous?
what time do they usually wake up if left unattended? i don't know the time system in 7kpp, but given that birthdays are like us, maybe so is the time system?
in a modern au, what would their life be like?
given that nayeli doesn't have jasper, ria and sayra with her, what are her assigned servants and butler like?
hey hey o/ sorry for the late reply, work's been a bit busy. but good busy!! hope you've been doing fine too ~
Lien Hua is very nearsighted, things are quite blurry without her glasses and she feels very uncomfortable and helpless without them. During the exile she had a bad fall and broke her glasses and that was what finally caused her to openly break down crying. Smudges are annoying! Thankfully most of her robes have nice long sleeves she can use to polish her glasses, it's also a little moment for her to gather her thoughts.
They're both right-handed, though Nay's not terrible with her left hand, goes with her sleight-of-hand abilities... but writing, not so much.
Lien Hua's a morning person, if left to her own devices she would usually be up and about before 8. That also means she doesn't stay up very long most of the time! She gets talkative when sleepy, though, half-asleep Lien Hua is probably the most unguarded you're going to get her.
Nay's a 10AM sort of gal when not sailing but she's adaptable, on a ship you have to alternate watches so you don't always get to sleep great hours; she's used to getting as much as she can out of whatever time she gets! Master of naps in weird spots.
I'm not sure about a modern AU! I would really have to think deep about it, because so much of who they are is defined by the setting and the limitations placed upon them. So in a modern setting they would both be very, very different people - just not sure different how.
i just saw the last part got cut off, that's what i get for using this cursed website on mobile :v
re: nay's assigned servants, i actually had them thought-out when i was planning her joint 'verse with lien hua! just need to decide on their names still, the hardest part as always ..
nay's butler is a newbie at this whole summit thing, he's doing his best but nothing really prepared him for the reality of it, and especially not for nay. he's earnest and well-mannered but if jasper's composure is made of iron, this guy's? wet paper. he's trying so hard to be professional but nay's too unpredictable and he doesn't have enough experience to handle things going off-script.
nay's two maids are practically night and day compared to eachother.
one is a stern and no-nonsense older woman who's worked several summits before. she feels she's seen everything at this point and has no patience for noble antics. she's unimpressed by just about everyone and isn't afraid to make a sharp remark though she mostly keeps her thoughts to herself. mostly. out of the three of her assigned servants, nayeli listens to her advice most.
the other maid is much younger and oh-so-excited for the drama of the summit. she knows she shouldn't be gossiping but...! she's all about the scandals, the romance, the secrets! she's a great source for a little behind-the-scenes info and she's absolutely stoked to hear some info from nay in return. she's good friends with the butler and thinks he should just relax a little.
hello! it's your 7kpp secret santa again! as always, forgive me for spamming your inbox with questions about your ocs! i really can't help but learn more about ocs in general ^_^|||
questions i wanted to ask are:
how bad is lien hua's eyesight without her glasses? is she the type to be bothered by smudges on them?
are lien hua and nayeli left or right handed, or ambidextrous?
what time do they usually wake up if left unattended? i don't know the time system in 7kpp, but given that birthdays are like us, maybe so is the time system?
in a modern au, what would their life be like?
given that nayeli doesn't have jasper, ria and sayra with her, what are her assigned servants and butler like?
hey hey o/ sorry for the late reply, work's been a bit busy. but good busy!! hope you've been doing fine too ~
Lien Hua is very nearsighted, things are quite blurry without her glasses and she feels very uncomfortable and helpless without them. During the exile she had a bad fall and broke her glasses and that was what finally caused her to openly break down crying. Smudges are annoying! Thankfully most of her robes have nice long sleeves she can use to polish her glasses, it's also a little moment for her to gather her thoughts.
They're both right-handed, though Nay's not terrible with her left hand, goes with her sleight-of-hand abilities... but writing, not so much.
Lien Hua's a morning person, if left to her own devices she would usually be up and about before 8. That also means she doesn't stay up very long most of the time! She gets talkative when sleepy, though, half-asleep Lien Hua is probably the most unguarded you're going to get her.
Nay's a 10AM sort of gal when not sailing but she's adaptable, on a ship you have to alternate watches so you don't always get to sleep great hours; she's used to getting as much as she can out of whatever time she gets! Master of naps in weird spots.
I'm not sure about a modern AU! I would really have to think deep about it, because so much of who they are is defined by the setting and the limitations placed upon them. So in a modern setting they would both be very, very different people - just not sure different how.
hello! it's your 7kpp secret santa again! just dropping by to ask one teeny question, what did lien hua do with jarrod before his welcome feast convo? i really don't think she will subtly insult him as funny as the image is XD
also not related to the gift:
what's lien hua and nayeli's highest stat?
oh and food!
as well as favorite constellations! (it's so hard to not like shiny dots in the sky for me, they're pretty!)
side note: i'm so sorry for asking question after question across so many asks, you can definitely tell that i'm not the organized type >_<|||
organisation is overrated! also your ask sent me on a super fun spiral learning more about chinese astronomy and astrology, so thank you for that ~
Lien Hua just stared him down. Thanks to her jiyeli heritage and upbringing she has that little disappointed asian lady stare that makes you feel like your entire lineage is currently wishing you hadn't been the fastest sperm. :')
Lien Hua's best stat is intelligence. Her worst are grace and self-defense. She trips a lot… Nayeli's best stat is cunning. Her worst is academics.
Lien Hua really likes all types of steamed buns, think baozi or goubuli, but her absolute favourite are these slightly sweet types of mantou buns, they're fluffy and just the right amount of flavour. I recently had the loveliest pandan mantou and I took one bite and was like 'this is Lien Hua food'. She also enjoys all sorts of fragrant teas. That's why she appreciates Jasper so much, he brews a damn good tea.
Nayeli's huge on fresh fruit, growing up on a tropical island does that to you. As a kid she'd climb trees just to pick the yummiest, freshest mangos, genips and starfruits. …As an adult, she still does it. Nothing better than sitting on a tree branch, juice dripping down your chin as you enjoy the flavours. She also loves all sorts of aromatic meat dishes, think adding lemongrass, pineapple etc to give the flavour freshness. Yum ~
I don't know if the 7KPP world has the same constellations as ours, but if it does? The Purple Forbidden Enclosure, especially the parts that map to what's commonly known as Ursa Major. It contains the literary star, Wen Chang, associated with wisdom, learning, and the pursuit of knowledge - something Lien Hua deeply values.
But the Big Dipper is there too - and that's what astronomers would use to mark the passage of time and seasons. It's practical and steady, unchanging~
hi! it's your 7kpp secret santa here! again! despite sending you an ask very recently! i'm so sorry for that but i have to know:
did lien hua tell the matchmaker that she wanted to be with jarrod in week 3, or is it only through a political marriage in week 6?
did nayeli bring up blain as a candidate to the matchmaker and how do you think she reacted if nayeli did ask about him?
no worries!!!! it's fun getting asks <3 thank you for being patient with all these rambly replies of mine~
the first part i'll reply with your follow-up ask in mind!
By Week 3, Lien Hua only tells the MM she's maybe looking for a political alliance. The entire scheme develops afterwards, when Sayra confides in her (I imagine it happens a bit earlier than in the actual game) about her true identity and worries for the future. And then Lien Hua's brain gears really start working. Because she's in a position to really help the person she's grown to care for deeply, and hopefully prevent a war that would devastate so many lives, including those of numerous friends she's made during the Summit.
And Sayra, Sayra doesn't want a war, either. Not if she can help it. Enough people have died for the cause, and she's terrified of leading even more towards a bloody end. And Lien Hua's done things that many would consider impossible. And - that's Sayra's cynical side speaking - she's gathered allies that, if push comes to shove, might be turned to the rebel side if the plan fails.
The alliance is convenient for the royals' side, too. Sure, she's not Jarrod's dream wife but they get along and she doesn't really care about him staying loyal to her. And she's into politics and all this boring crap he doesn't have the patience to deal with which means she can do it for him. And for Gisette, Lien Hua isn't a bad piece on the board. She's more than capable of keeping up with Gisette's schemes, but also nowhere near important enough politically that she'd be terribly missed if she would have to be eliminated. Plus she handles her brother well, freeing Gisette's somewhat from the duty of saving Jarrod from being a complete diplomatic disaster.
And so, by week 6 it's agreed on.
Nayeli absolutely asked. And the Matchmaker, polite as ever, told her that she clearly must be some kind of a masochist because she refuses to believe Nay would be blind or stupid enough to be unaware of exactly what Blain thinks about her. :D
hi! it's your 7kpp secret santa here! just wanted to ask a question, so no need for the interviewer hat this time! i wanted to ask what are lien hua and nayeli's heights? i had this question ever since reading that jarrod and blain are the 2nd and 9th tallest delegates! it would be nice to know what are the delegates' exact heights, but aly telling us that jarrod is over 6ft is at least something to go on off!
side note, your 7kpp wiki is very much appreciated! thank you for all your efforts, i cannot for the life of me do coding so all the more props to you!
sorry again for the random ask, i just like learning about other people's ocs!
I knowwww right, I wish Aly could be a bit more specific at times >.< And more willing to give names to characters, you have no idea how much it rankles me that we know the name of Jarrod's mom but not his dad, or how only one of Zarad's brothers has a name. COME ONNNN
Lien Hua's 1.55m (which google tells me is 5'1 in feet?), so she's notably shorter than Jarrod but thankfully there are convenient ways to get him down to her level hahaha.
Nay's 1.65 (so I think 5'4?), I imagine she's just a little shorter than Blain?
And thank you!!! I hope it comes in handy for people. <3 The coding part wasn't terribly hard, you get a basic theme already set-up so it's mostly adjusting things.. which tumblr themes have taught me more than enough to do hahaha~
hello! it's your 7kpp secret santa again! your responses are very much appreciated! once again... *puts on interviewer hat*
if you could choose an object to represent lien hua and nayeli, what would they be and why?
if lien hua was from hise and nayeli from jiyel, how different would their lives/personalities be?
not relevant to the gift, but do you have any ocs from other backgrounds and if so, where are they from and what are they like?
thank you for reading! sorry that these questions are so odd, i like talking to fellow 7kpp fans about their ocs!
please never apologise for asking, i'm genuinely honoured that you want to hear about my ocs, past the bare minimum for the event!!! <3 so much of it i just rotate in my head like a rotisserie chicken so it's been really fun putting it all down into actual words, and it allowed me to conceptualise some more things i wouldn't have otherwise thought about!!
for an object that would represent them... lien hua took a lot of thinking, but i think maybe be a compass. she has her own internal sense of direction, of what's right and what's wrong, and like a compass, as a diplomat she tries to guide nations towards a better future. but a compass can only show you the way, it cannot make you follow it - and in the end, that's what what happened to her attempts to fix revaire. and even when she doubts herself, she is still seeking a path forward, still navigating the weight of her failures and hopes. but in the end, to use a compass, you need to know where you want to go - and that's what she'll have to discover for herself now. also, a compass was first used in china, which is one of jiyel's inspirations :D
nayeli, i wanted to say a dagger first, but i felt like that'd be too on-the-nose. i think i'd choose a letter opener - something that's not exactly a weapon but not exactly just a mundane object, mirroring how she's pulled between what her father wants for her and what she wants for herself. it's practical, but it can be ornamental, and most of all: it's small and dangerous both, something you could easily underestimate. something easily concealed, like how she hides a lot behind that carefree and irreverent attitude.
an origin swap is SUCH a fun idea since so much of a character is shaped by their upbringing, environment, and so on. and the kingdoms are all so vastly different from eachother, the impact would be that much more visible!
i think a hisean lien hua would have become an excellent navigator, her love for stars and astronomy would go so well with the skills she would need to navigate a ship (and think of how beautiful the night sky must look like in the middle of the sea...) and just like a navigator has the responsibility to lead the ship to a safe port, she would still feel the responsibility to do the same in politics. but unlike the jiyeli lien hua who works within the rules, hisean lien hua would be more relaxed, less reliant on frameworks like etiquette and much more willing to break rules outright, for the outcome she thinks is right. i think she might have gone to the summit out of her own volition, rather than making the best out of a bad situation.
nayeli in jiyel, though… it might not be a hyperlogical society like the stereotype goes, but she'd still chafe there all the same. unlike hisean nayeli, she wouldn't have had the chance to experience the other life for herself, so she might be less openly rebelious because the idea of freedom would be so ephemeral rather than something tangible she had experienced and then had to leave behind. no matter her origins, nayeli struggles with feeling like she can be liked for herself rather than what she can become or represent, and in jiyel those worries would compound a lot. she doesn't have the discipline to go for the military, but the scholarly tradition of jiyel wouldn't be much better. she's emotional and she might lose a lot of debates just because of that - and win just as many by teasing her opponent and throwing them off-guard.
most importantly, she most likely wouldn't have the chance to go to the summit because she wouldn't be able to fulfill the criteria to become one, to score perfectly in the exams. unless she did a little cheating, switching score cards around… or perhaps she'd just sneak onto the ship and try to find adventure and an enjoyable life there, full of excitement and disbelief both for just how daring the decision was.
nay and lien hua are very much my main characters, though recently i've been playing with an idea of a cynical and disillusioned countess, i don't have anything veeery concrete yet. the tomboy countess background feels ripe for a 'break of innocence' type of story, if that makes sense. from a happy and free, idyllic life with her father to the responsibility of taking over the lands and having to do things because of duty, because others are relying on you - while grieving the loss of your only parent. and all these suitors, interested only in the title, making you feel like a slab of meat on sale.
ng+ lets you have a thing with woodly even if you're a countess and there's a part in his storyline where he tells MC something along the lines that necklaces feel like collars and he doesn't want to collar or claim MC, so he gives her a ring or bracelet, don't remember. but it could be an interesting dynamic, a no strings, no obligations sort of deal.
at the same time i like the sad compromise aspect of emmett's political path and him and the countess are in very similar situations with needing to take over their respective estates, including making sure they can prosper beyond their lifetime. it could also be an interesting dynamic… aah, thinking thinking ~
… also i like the idea of countess raising pigeons for fun. coo.
Welcome to the Seven Kingdoms Wiki, a wiki dedicated to Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem by Azalyne Studios.
here's something i've been working on during my christmas break. 7kpp's one of my most cherished games and fandom's not been a great place for wikis for a while already so i decided to migrate its wiki to wiki.gg instead.
there's a lot that is already complete, especially the late-game challenges and such, but i'm nowhere near done. still, it might already come in handy so feel free to take a look.
i mostly work on whatever i feel like working on but the general plan is to finish the early-game challenges, get the minor/unromanceable characters done and then get to the LIs whose paths i already played through.
