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[incorrect-akatsuki-no-yona]

"The average dragon lives about 500 years" factoid actually just a statistical error. An average dragon lives for approximately 27 years. Ouryuu Zeno, who is immortal and therefore cannot die, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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Hak: Man, repressing your feelings is great.

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Rapa: You must really trust your companions

Hak: I trust them about as far as I can throw them.

Rapa: …I’m sorry to hear that…

Hak: Don’t be I can throw very far

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Hak [to Jae-Ha]: So Yona’s been writing me sappy poetry and telling me she loves me???? Please help is she flirting with me or what???

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Enemy Soldier 1: You captured the Thunder Beast?

Enemy Soldier 2: I did.

Enemy Soldier 1: Princess Yona’s Thunder Beast?

Enemy Soldier 2: That's right.

Enemy Soldier 1: You are so fucked.

[incorrect-akatsuki-no-yona]

Smol theory

This is just a small theory but I hope it’s true:         So I think that when Soowon said to Geun-Tae that he has no intention of having a successor because he has an idea of who he wants to be King, he meant Hak. I know it sounds crazy but listen, he refused to marry Yona and kept trying to bring Hak and Yona together. He didn’t bother to hold search parties for Yona and Hak for too long which kind of to me suggests that he wanted them to stay alive together. IDK what do yall think of this….

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Okay so first of all: HELL YES!!!! Honestly with the way things are going that would make a lot of sense and would tie out the story quite nicely I think. And Soo-Won definitely seems the type to have planned out an end game for all of this, especially with his… uh… condition. Also, given that this story is about Yona, I think her succeeding as Queen is quite likely already (and since Hak is the love interest, he’d be King) but let’s do an analysis anyway for shits and giggles. [WARNING: Avast! Manga spoilers ahead!]

My customary disclaimer: What you’re about to read is about 98% bullshit I wrote in 20 minutes, 1.5% recall from my last reading of the manga (which feels like decades ago), and 0.5% really bad math. @incorrect-akatsuki-no-yona​ is not liable for any braincell loss incurred through reading this nonsense.

Okay so let’s start with the evidence. What we know so far about Soo-Won’s situation:

- The royal family is super messed up. We’ve got Yu-Hon (who was cool for about 3 chapters before going right back to asshole territory) committing genocide for his One Tru Luv. Then there’s Il, a religious fanatic(?) who married a woman just so they could produce a baby dragon reincarnation (creepy) and probably had a hand in his brother’s death at some point. 10/10 good job team. I’m glad to see everyone is using their words.

- Soo-Won killed King Il likely for two main reasons: 1. revenge for whatever the heck happened between Il and Yu-Hon, and 2. because he wanted to Bob the Builder fix Kouka kingdom, which admittedly, he’s done quite well at

- At some point, Soo-Won found out about the legend of the dragons and the truth of his heritage. Whether this is before or after his illness presented itself, we don’t know.

Now, onto your theory: Soo-Won planning to have Hak and Yona succeed him.

All in all, I think it’s safe to say that whatever Soo-Won’s end game is, he probably doesn’t expect to survive and has planned accordingly. I think it’s also important to acknowledge at this point that Soo-Won is probably the character (who’s currently alive) with the most complete knowledge of what has really happened in the past, and maybe has an idea of what might happen in the future (Ik-Soo always excepted, because having divine revelations is cheating).

We’ve also been told that Kashi had predicted that Yona would bring the dragons together, and that this was documented in Yong-Hi’s diary which Soo-Won has read. Going off of this, it’s possible that he could have orchestrated the entire fiasco at the castle to kick-start the pokemon dragon collection process. It is worth noting though that this interpretation assumes that Soo-Won read his mother’s diary at some point before the main story, probably at the time around his father’s death, which then informed his future plans.

What his plans are involving Yona and the dragons is something I can’t really comment on at this moment (mainly because I can’t remember anything from the manga), so I’ll leave it for now (also I could be completely wrong about this, since Soo-Won kinda also didn’t seem to care about the dragons until he actually met them?) However, long term, given Yona’s exploits, her status as the reincarnation of Hiryuu, and the fact that she’s beloved by just about everybody, she’s the prime candidate to succeed as future ruler. And given how calculating Soo-Won has shown himself to be, I’m sure he’s considered that too. Also, it might have been prophesied. Because prophecies are a thing apparently.

However, as good of a ruler Yona is, she clearly doesn’t have much military experience, largely because helicopter parent Il never really gave her any chances to learn. As she is now, if Yona were to direct Kouka’s army in battle, it probably wouldn’t go well since she has no training in strategy. The solution? Hak. We see from chapter 169 that Soo-Won and Hak had meetings in the past, where Soo-Won would expound upon military strategies that could be used in battle. Apparently these meetings stuck so well, Hak was able to recall them and make a plan on the fly in the middle of a battle.

I think in the past we’ve been lead to see Hak as more of a one man army, rather than an actual commander of troops, particularly when compared to Soo-Won’s general craftiness. For me, this chapter really showed that Hak has both the physical and tactical prowess needed to defend and maintain Kouka’s borders. Between him and Yona, Kouka would be in good hands. 

Anyway I’ve blabbed too long so I’ll end things here. Who knows, I could be completely off the rails and Soo-Won is just a Hakyona shipper. Thanks for the ask @olivia0103!

TL;DR: Crafty boi + Illness + Prophecy = Hakyona shipping (I told you there would be bad maths)

- Pip

[incorrect-akatsuki-no-yona]

hey there! love this acc <3

it seems like you'd have very good fanfic, do you have an AO3 account? if so, what's the @?

Hi anon!

Sorry it took us this long to reply to your message, glad you’re enjoying the blog (as unattended as it is lol) <3

We don’t have a AO3 account ourselves per say but I know that we have a lot of talented authors in the community! If anyone would like to reblog/comment with their fics/akayona recs please feel free!

Thanks again for your support anon!

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Kija: Zeno is like a Trojan Horse, wouldn’t you say?

Jae-Ha: That must make me Helen!

Shin-ah: What’s a Trojan Horse?

Zeno: A murderous pinata!