#princess malini

[trixdraws]

"𝙄𝙛 𝙄 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡."

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A fanart of Princess Malini from 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀 books by Tasha Suri 🔥 I'm soo excited for The Lotus Empire release. Another reason why November can't come soon enough!

And this is actually my first piece done with Clip Studio Paint! Been trying to dump Adobe for a while now but the recent AI news was the last straw for a lot of artist including me. So. Here we are.

[dingdongbitxh]

Reading The Jasmine Throne rn (and loving it) and lowkey, Malini reminds me vaguely of Azula

Like they're both princesses of kingdoms who are colonizing other places, they're both very manipulative for the sake of survival and willing to use others, there's also Malini's ladies-in-waiting who are currently dead but remind me vaguely of Mai and Ty Lee.

The difference is again their upbringing. Azula had only her father to turn to despite the abuse and was created into a weapon while Malini was actively abused by her tyrant brother in a way she wasn't manipulated to worship him and came to despise him as she should. Hence, the expectations from them were also different and the way they plot and manipulate for their survival turned out different.

I think it'd be cool to mix around stories and ideas like that though like a fanfic where Azula upset Ozai and he sent her off and had her poisoned daily like Malini while she plotted her escape (with yuri) or maybe where she plotted to get him off the throne (I've read fics like these they're very fun) with Zuko as Aditya maybe (i havent finished the book yet so idk what happens gang). I'd love to see a jasmine throne au with Azutara lowkey with Katara as Priya and Azula as Malini

[raptorladylover6969]

I think they’d be the bestest of friends lowkey

[halcyon-hyacinth]

Yo. I finished the oleander sword. Cried like a big dumb baby. So good, so human, so intense, I just. Wow.

The sheer amount of yearning in that thing was giving me flashbacks to my own situationship. Talk about whiplash, I felt horrifically seen.

Shout out Tasha Suri fr. She needs to go to jail.

oh my god THANK YOU FOR READING!!!!

The Oleander Sword is truly one of my fave books of all time... Priya, Bhumika, and Malini have me in a chokehold.

I still haven't read the final book, The Lotus Empire, cause I've been waiting on a friend to mail me one they got signed by the author. Tho I might just bite the bullet and stop by a bookstore this weekend... we shall see.

I'm glad you enjoyed the book! More people need to get tf on this series. It's so damn good.

[itmightrain]

"I thought you of all people would understand my need to be free of such things. You were the most spiritual of the three of us as a girl. Do you remember that? No devotee of the Nameless certainly, but you used to make me take you to the Mothers' shrine so you could lay jasmine blossoms and kiss their feet."

"That was before the first time that Chandra hurt me," Malini said crisply. "That ended my childhood fantasies abruptly."

He stared at her uncomprehending. "When," he said, "did he hurt you as a child?"

She sucked in a breath. He didn't remember.

She wanted to lift her hair and bare her neck. She wanted to show him how she had been hurt. To show him not simply the physical scar, but the way Chandra's cruelties large and small had flayed her sense of self until she was raw, a furious tangle of nerves, until she was forced to build herself armor, jagged and cruel, to be able to survive. But he would not understand. He had never understood. Her hurts and her terrors, which had consumed her all her life, had always been small to him. He had either never truly seen them or simply easily forgotten them.

- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

[fallenight]

Finished reading The Jasmine Throne and I can't stop thinking about her

[raptorladylover6969]

TASHA SURI WHEN I CATCH YOU….IM NOT EVEN HALFWAY FINISHED THE BOOK YET BUT I ALREADY WANNA CRY.

[halcyon-hyacinth]

Regarding the priesthood's behavior in The Oleander Sword, I believe they're missing out on something important. They wish for Malini to burn, but they seem to not know that doing so would be getting rid of Divyanshi's last living scion and the throne would be left empty with no one to take charge of the empire.

I honestly don't think they care.

I think they see Malini burning as solving their problems and finishing the work of the mothers who died centuries ago. As long as they retain power and control over who takes over, Malini burning suits them just fine.

It'll complete their theology and solve the issue of the yaksa coming back (even tho it really won't).