#ayse hatun

[hundredthousandtimes]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2024:

Day 3 - Favourite costume(s):

Kurulus Osman costume by: Serdar Basbug

[awkward-sultana]

Magnificent Century + Hairpieces in 1.10: The Troubled Days

[anastasiasultana]

MERVE OFLAZ AS AYŞE HATUN

sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment

@moonsingh @idle-teen28 <333

[karlagathons]

Honestly, I think this is where Ayşe starts to actively dislike Hürrem. She was jealous of her quick rise in status, of course, but this is different. These girls are fighting for their lives, and Hürrem can't seem to take it seriously at all.

[palaceoftears]

They look so cute here. I love how Ayse takes care of Hurrem even when she doesn't like her (and later she'll do it for Gulnihal!) and also this is like the first scene where Hurrem actually shows concern for Gulnihal, asking for her to stay there instead of doing chores

[idle-teen28]

Harem girls so jealous that they steal nigar's earrings those bitches 😒

[dyingroses]

Some Magnificent Century + AO3 tags

[mc-critical]

I genuinely came to appreciate Ayşe Hatun a lot more on this rewatch. I love how well-constructed she is: she's the first established woman of SS's favourites' floor who, however, hasn't gotten further than a favourite, which makes her the main representative of both the harem concubines in Topkapi in the present through her embodying their collective wish to rise higher themselves, resenting everyone else who does that instead of them, and Manisa's past in terms of the harem through her having achieved her status there and actually enjoying that status for a bit (SS inviting her to a halvet in E01, them giving her seperate chambers in E02) instead of mourning it [which differentiates her from Mahidevran, Gülfem and pretty much the whole Manisa gang - they all have particular experiences that can't be replicated in this new reality (or in Gülfem's case, these experiences are merely lost hardships endured in the even more distant past, right on the spot, and moved on from as much as possible, so the character is introduced to us from that point), Ayşe's predicament is the only one that completely builds off of Manisa's]. This allows her to have rapports with as many people as possible, as fleshed out as they can be, that linger or evolve naturally, all building up to the plots she's involved in and her subsequent finish: her respect for Mahidevran which introduces the importance of her position for the concubines and makes her defend her in E10 and E13, these respective scandals inciting Nigar's "two sultanas" dilemma and letting Hürrem lose her composure completely due to the provocations; her neutral politeness/affability to rivalry to straight-up enmity with Hürrem, each stage reached organically with each event and setting up the concubines' further enstrangement from Hürrem, the temporary peace (E11-12) and the final E13 scandal; her genuine fondness of Gülnihal, revealing more of her caring side and intensifying her already bad blood with Hürrem; her resentment and distrust of Sadika, both bringing her even closer to the main ağas and kalfas, to the heart of the action, and alienating her from them, from the concubines, as she now has a separate plot... and then we lose her. There're also her reverence of Ibrahim, Sümbül and Nigar, coming out due to her involvement not just with Sadika but with the poison as well, and her familiarity with Gülşah, inciting her assistance in stealing the ring. We get to know her and care about her (and also root for her to quite an extent as we know she's right about Sadika), so when she's taken away from us, it's a big deal - a big showcase of the humanity and the involvement of the side characters the show will gradually lose as we lean more inside the empire instead (and I see this not as a flaw, but as a feature; well, most of the time...).