"Bringing his right hand to your lips, you press a soft kiss to his knuckles... you guide it to rest lightly over your beating heart, the way knights do to their wards." this near had me in tears. "the loudest way to say I love you" UGH this is why i love fantasy, you get all these cool world building elements. and!!!! she is being both a sister and a protector at once. BREAKING those norms in her own way, just like she did by offering herself as the exchange 👌 their relationship is gorgeous 💕
YES I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD MENTION THAT because im so weak for imagined social customs and unspoken declarations and vows (((o(*゚∀゚*)o))) and yes <3 i just had to do the trope subversion thing by adding "it is what brothers do to sisters" and "it is what knights do to their wards" :3
also, love the way u have translated kags + hinatas dynamic over. it still feels like them, even tho the power dynamic has shifted from the anime. also i cant help but think about how hinata crowns kags the king in the anime, and how here hes esentially doing the same thing in helping him win the war, parallels babeyy. ooo and talking of dynaimcs, big yes to tsukki who is bold enough to snark the king + iwa and tsukki wordless communication - makes them feel real with actual histories!!
!! i'm happy you picked out the parallels because even though it's an AU i still tried to mirror the parallels in character relationships and character growth! tsukki snarking the king was something i added in on a whim like,, the plot wouldn't suffer if tsukki wasn't there and didn't do that but i Just Had To i saw a chance and ran with it 😌✌
yachi all but saying she would have made a great queen, and then yn kissing kiyokos hand like she did with kags ahhhh these 3... their relationship is so pure and strong, probably one of my fav parts of this series so far... i love how supportive yachi, and kiyoko, are of her, that loyalty even through things they dont like 💕😭 "The heavy fur coat pinned at his shoulders... where your own, feathered down and almost insubstantial" I see you. i see what you did there 😗👌
yachi and reader endgame listen i love the haikyuu girls with all my heart and i think it really shows :") + yes <3 you see 👀 me 🤩